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Basing bits, Our own resin basing bits for 28mm, 27 products
Resin bases & plates, Our own resin bases and movement plates, 4 products
Movement trays, 6 products
Shop all basing bits & plates, 37 products
Buildings, 3 products
Fortifications, 1 product
Scatter & objectives, 9 products
Shop all terrain & scenery, 13 products
Paint Hive, Our own honeycomb paint racks, 5 products
Texture Rollers, Our own texture rollers for bases and terrain, 12 products
Shop all hobby accessories, 54 products
New: November release, 14 products
All miniatures, 126 products
Army bundles, 20 products
Mass battle
Grand battle
Mass battle
Classic historical
Medieval Georgia, Rus & India,
Ten Kingdoms Miniatures, 22 products
Reconquista,
Reconquer Designs, 2 products
Skirmish & detail
Medieval Georgia, Rus & India,
Ten Kingdoms Miniatures, 33 products
Reconquista & medieval life,
Reconquer Designs, 22 products
War of the Ring · 10mm fantasy
White Tree knights, Morghei orcs and trolls, war elephants and winged beasts, sculpted by Wakes Emporium. Printed to order in Perth, ready for your primer or tabletop painted by our studio.
Kabiliat Aljanubi War Elephants, Pack of 4 with 40 Crew
Painted example · Wakes Emporium · 10mm
Our own range · 28mm resin
Crystals, basalt columns, desert cacti, ferns, mushrooms, treasure, ruins and more, in themed packs we design ourselves and print to order in resin in Perth. Mix packs to build any base, from a desert outpost to a lava field.
Desert cacti
Made with Desert Cacti and Skulls & Bones
Lava field
Made with Basalt Column and Rock Clump
Mineshaft base
Made with Plank, Crystal, Battlefield Debris and Rock Clump
Crystal outcrop
Made with Basalt Column and Crystal
Dwarven ruin
Made with Dwarven Ruin and Broken Tile
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From the first rank to the last tuft on the base.
Wakes Emporium's 10mm fantasy armies: White Tree knights, Morghei orcs and trolls, war elephants and winged beasts.
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Knights, jinetes and crossbowmen of 14th-century Castile and Granada, in 28mm.
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Ten Kingdoms' medieval Georgians, 1008–1403, with the Turkic, Islamic and European armies they fought: armoured lancers, horse archers, spearmen, banners and the King himself.
13th Century European Crossbow Foot
From $70.00
13th Century European Light Armoured Crossbow Foot
From $70.00
Turkic Armoured Spear Bow Horse
From $50.00
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Reconquer Designs' 14th-century Castile and Granada: charging knights, jinetes, crossbowmen, archers, Nasrid command and famous commanders, from Henry II to Bertrand du Guesclin.
Mid-Late 14th Century Crossbowmen
From $57.00
Mid 14th Century Castilian Standard Bearer
From $9.00
Mid 14th Century Knights Set B, Charging
From $60.00
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Reconquer Designs' everyday medieval world: an inn, a blacksmith, a market, tents, a well, trees, a Mediterranean cog and villagers to fill a medieval town.
11th Century Knight Casualty
From $9.00
Mid 14th Century Mediterranean Cog
From $210.00
Trees Set B, Armatures or Dead Trees and Shrubs
From $63.00
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Ten Kingdoms' Kievan Rus: armoured noble horsemen with spear and bow, the princes' retinue and the boyars, led by their hornblower.
Rus Armoured Spear Bow Horse Set B
From $54.00
Rus Armoured Spear Bow Horse Set A
From $54.00
Rus Armoured Hornblower Horse
From $7.00
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Ten Kingdoms' medieval Indian armies, 1000–1526: armoured war elephants, javelin cavalry, archers, slingers, spearmen and swordsmen.
Medieval Indian Armoured Spear Armoured Elephant Set B
From $27.00
Medieval Indian Sling Foot
From $35.00
Medieval Indian Armoured Spear Armoured Elephant Set A
From $27.00
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Wakes Emporium's 10mm fantasy armies: White Tree knights and trebuchets, Khoru-kai pikemen, Morghei orcs and trolls, Lothloras elves and Kabiliat war elephants, plus whole elf, horse lord and goblin armies.
Under-mountain Goblin Heroes
From $8.00
Kabiliat Aljanubi War Elephants, Pack of 4 with 40 Crew
From $172.00
Under-mountain Goblins Full Army
From $102.00
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Our own honeycomb paint racks, printed in grey PLA: hives, corners, risers, well inserts and a tool rack that all fit together.
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Our own texture rollers for bases and terrain: ten patterns, from cobblestones and flagstones to planks and deck plate.
Texture Roller Set
From $37.00
Cobblestones Texture Roller
From $15.00
Flagstones Texture Roller
From $15.00
Want a set in your own colours, a named character or a whole army painted to match? We airbrush the base coats and blends, then paint every detail by hand with sable-hair brushes, the only brushes we use. Tell us what you're after and we'll send a fixed quote within 1 business day.
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Guides, news from Scale Command and the history behind the miniatures we sell.
Yes. At every event whose rules we read, decorating the base your model stands on is allowed, and several say so in writing. Organisers regulate the size and shape of the base, whether it is finished, and the model itself. Here is what each rule document says, with links, and four checks to make before an event.
Basing bits are small sculpted pieces you glue to a miniature's base to give it a setting, such as rocks, skulls, mushrooms and sandbags. Scale Command designs its own in Perth, Western Australia: 27 themed resin packs for 28mm figures, 15 to 59 pieces each, from A$17 to A$31. Here is every pack, how to lay out, glue and paint them, how to theme an army, and what event rules say.
Paint dry elephant skin with layered grey strokes, build ivory texture on the tusks and highlight the cloth canopy. Follow seven steps for this 10mm Wakes Emporium war elephant, with our painting video, close-up stills and the decking and rope recipes.
A pack of basing bits in Australia costs about A$8 to A$42 before postage in November 2026, depending on the maker and where you buy it. Imported packs bought direct from the maker start under A$10, the same brands cost more on Australian shop shelves, and our own resin packs are A$16 to A$30 for 15 to 59 pieces, printed in Perth.
To start basing miniatures you need bases, PVA glue and superglue, fine sand or a texture paint, a few cheap brushes, paint for a basecoat, a wash and a drybrush, matt varnish, and some tufts or static grass. In Australia most of that comes from a hardware store, a model railway shop or your local hobby store; we sell the resin bases, basing bits, movement plates and trays and texture rollers, and nothing else on the list.
Use PVA (white glue) for sand and grit, then lock it down with a second coat of PVA watered down about half and half; use superglue for resin or plastic basing bits. Seal the finished base with primer and then matt varnish before the tufts go on, and fix pigment powder with a pigment fixer or a light coat of varnish.
Resin holds finer detail than plastic and makes whole ranges possible that would never get a plastic kit, while hard plastic is tougher, more forgiving to drop and usually cheaper per figure for popular subjects. For basing bits the same holds: resin gives sharper rock faces, crisper textures and far more variety, and plastic gives cheap, tough sprues that glue with plastic cement.
Flock is a fine scatter that lies flat like short turf or moss, static grass is loose fibres that stand upright when you apply them with static or a puff of air, and tufts are ready-made clumps of grass on a sticky backing that you press on with tweezers. For most 28mm bases, tufts are the easiest way to a good look; static grass covers big areas and small-scale stands fast, and flock suits moss and very small bases.
Black is the safe default for base rims: it frames the model, hides chips and goes with any ground. Brown, or a colour matched to the ground, blends the model into the table instead, so choose by the look you want and then use the same rim colour on every base in the army.
Our resin miniatures arrive cleaned and cured, so you don't need to wash them: prime them with any normal miniature primer, glue them with superglue (plastic cement won't touch resin), and pin any heavy joint or break. Bent spears straighten in hot, not boiling, water, and once resin is fully cured you handle it like any other hard plastic miniature, with a mask and water for sanding.
At Scale Command in Perth, a Tabletop Painted model costs its unpainted price plus painting time at $32 an hour with a 15% buffer: about $31 of painting for a 28mm figure on foot, $74 for a 28mm horse and rider and $19 for a 10mm strip. Painted orders ship within 10–15 business days, and custom jobs get a fixed quote within 1 business day. Here are real prices from the shop, the painting levels explained and how the options compare.
To paint a lava base, paint the lava brightest where it's hottest: pale yellow in the cracks and channels, orange around them, and deep red at the edges and against the rocks. Then keep the rock dark, charcoal with grey edge highlights, and glaze orange onto the rock faces nearest the lava so they seem to glow. Here's our own lava field base, step by step, with paints from two makers.
Fourteen new sets for November: a new Medieval Rus line and 13th-century European crossbowmen from Ten Kingdoms, armoured war elephants and new infantry for Medieval India, and from Reconquer Designs a 28mm Mediterranean cog, a mounted Granada command, the second Grenadine archer set and winter trees.
Do the messy basing jobs before you paint and the tidy ones after: glue on the basing bits and the sand or texture, prime the model and base together, paint the figure, then paint the base, with the varnish, tufts and rim at the very end. If the model is already painted, or it's a big model with a busy base, build and paint the base on its own and glue the finished figure on last.
To base a 10mm or 15mm army, glue each unit's figures onto shared stands, usually 40 mm wide with a depth set by troop type, then texture, paint and flock the whole stand as one piece. Check your rule set for the frontage, the depth and how many figures go on each stand before you glue anything, because the stand, not the figure, is what the rules move and measure.
Pick a movement tray by two things: the size and shape of your bases, and the formation you rank up in. A unit of 20 on 25mm square bases needs a 5 × 4 tray for 25mm squares, about 133.5 × 108.4 mm outside, and round bases need a tray with a socket for every base or a conversion tray that turns them square.
To make cobblestone, flagstone or brick bases, roll putty or clay 2–3 mm thick, press a texture roller across it in one pass, cut out discs using the base as a template and glue them on. Air-dry clay is cheapest and easiest, Milliput is hardest and sands cleanly, and green stuff suits small patches. Here's the putty comparison, which pattern suits which army, and every step.
To base a dwarf on basalt columns, dry-fit the model on loose columns, glue them into a stepped stack, fill the gaps with texture paste, prime black and seal with matt varnish. Then drybrush grey, flow an ochre and a brown wash into the ground, drybrush again, glaze the columns blue-grey, add tufts and paint the rim. Here's every step, with frames from our own footage and the paints that give this look.
Bertrand du Guesclin (about 1320 to 1380) was a Breton knight who rose to Constable of France and helped put Henry of Trastámara on the throne of Castile. His arms are a black two-headed eagle with red beaks and claws on silver, crossed by a narrow red band, and our 28mm model wears them on his shield and his horse's caparison. Here's his story, what each part of the arms means, what history records and what is legend, and how to paint him.
Henry of Trastámara (1333/34 to 1379) was the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI of Castile who fought his half-brother King Peter I for the crown, lost to Peter and the Black Prince at Nájera in 1367, and killed Peter after Montiel in 1369 to rule as Henry II. Our 28mm models show him mounted under the castles and lions of Castile and León, and on foot with his squire. Here's the story, what is record and what is legend, his kit piece by piece, and how to paint the arms.
Nasrid Granada (1238–1492) was the last Muslim kingdom in Iberia, and the Zanata Berber horsemen who fought for it gave Spanish the word jinete. Its soldiers carried the leather adarga shield, its sultans' motto, "there is no victor but God", covers the walls of the Alhambra, and in the 1360s it backed Peter I of Castile against Henry of Trastámara. Here's that history, kit and heraldry on our 28mm jinetes, archers and armoured infantry, and how to paint them.
Medieval Georgia's golden age ran from David IV the Builder (1089–1125), who beat a Seljuk-led coalition at Didgori in 1121, to Queen Tamar (1184–1213), when Georgia was the strongest power in the Caucasus. Its armies rested on armoured noble lancers, a royal guard and Kipchak horse archers. Here's how to build and paint that army in 10mm, 15mm or 28mm.
A good paint station keeps paints upright and in view, brushes and tools within reach, and the light bright and even. Here's how to store pots and dropper bottles, light your desk, and lay out a Paint Hive rack that grows with your collection.
According to John Barbour's poem The Bruce, on 23 June 1314 Sir Henry de Bohun spotted Robert the Bruce by the crown on his helmet and charged; Bruce stood in his stirrups and killed him with one axe blow that broke the shaft. The English Vita Edwardi Secundi agrees the king killed him with an axe. Here's what the sources really say, what every detail on our 28mm model means, and how to paint both coats of arms.
