The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Ponderous planning

I'm wondering firstly about suggested LED colors and secondly about basing.

Now, let's talk about LEDs off the bat - there's going to be 3, as far as I can figure, all attached to the head. Two will be behind the eyes (one for each) and one on the underside of the jaw to light the grotpit. With that said, I'm trying to figure out what color LEDs I should use in order to come up with the appropriate voltage I'll need (certain colors require more juice than others). Keep in mind that I'll be painting the gargant a combination of faded red (red goes fasta!) and rusted metal.. so the eyes should be a suitable color. I don't think red eyes would compliment red armor well, but bright green might be an option. (As well as orange and such). I don't like the thought of blue LEDs for the eyes, though, as green seems more sinister. Yellow or orange could always be an option as the eyes are going to double as zzap cannons (Gaze of Gork) but I'm not certain.

I'm considering an LED that lights up the grotpit as well. I think I'm going to put it just underneath the head so it will illuminate properly, but I don't know if yellow is going to look silly or not. Red down in the grotpit might actually be appropriate (consider emergency lights or when they go to red alert in combat) I could always go with white, as well, but I don't know if that'd be too bright.

Secondly, I wanted to discuss the base. I'm having a few complications as I'm thinking here - I can either make the base a small size, or a larger display size. Seeing as I'd like to play with the gargant, and as the flavor of the next few months is going to be cityfighting, part of me doesn't want the base to be more than 6" wide (to fit down some city streets and alleys). The gargant looks a little tight and restricted on a 6" base, though, and I can't add some of the things I was thinking of originally, such as a footprint with the flattened grot in it and an imperial guardsman fleeing for his life. Now, I could add all those on a base, but then it would start to get to be like a diorama and impactical for gaming.. I'm not sure what to do.

Here's some pictures to show you the scale of things in base-terms.

The last option I have is to make a diorama base with a hole in it large enough to fit the 6" base of the gargant.. so that I could place the gargant in the slot and have it on a display base. I like this idea, but I don't know how to make the rubble look relatively seamless between the two pieces (gargant base and diorama base).

Still, onward!