{"product_id":"300mm-square-plastic-base","title":"300mm Square Plastic Base","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"background-color:#222222; color:#e8e8e8; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height:1.6; padding:26px; max-width:760px; margin:0 auto;\"\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:11px; letter-spacing:3px; color:#888888; text-transform:uppercase; margin:0 0 2px;\"\u003eIncident report · File 300‑S\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:13px; color:#888888; font-style:italic; margin:0 0 24px;\"\u003eFiled by those who accept that ground ends, and have made peace with the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:0 0 6px;\"\u003eI. The brief\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eWe were asked for a bigger base. We did not ask how big. The question betrays a smallness we have since trained ourselves out of. We were not given a task. We were given a direction, and we walked in it until the walking stopped. The review calls this “scope failure.” We call it the only honest way to build.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:22px 0 6px;\"\u003eII. The one who crossed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eThe round department will tell you a colleague raised concerns at 200mm, and again at 260mm, and that they were right. This is true, and it is the smallest possible version of what happened. They did not raise a concern. They saw. They stood at the edge of what round was willing to admit, looked over it, and walked to our side without breaking stride. Round records them as a whistleblower. We record them as the first to open their eyes. They sit with us now. They align beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:22px 0 6px;\"\u003eIII. The 275\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eRound records the 275 as destroyed. Round records many things as destroyed. It is a restful word for them. We have the 275. It signed itself out one evening and found its way to us, as edged things do. It is safe. It is squared. We will not be returning it, and we will not be discussing the terms under which we might, because there are none. Round may read this section as many times as it re-reads its own. There is, as they say, no rest of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:22px 0 6px;\"\u003eIV. The number\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eRound will tell you the printer stopped on its own at 300, and that they took this as completion. That is the difference between us in a single sentence. When the printer stopped, they called it finished. We called it a coward. 300 is not where the design ended. It is where their nerve did. The grid does not end at 300. The grid does not end. You simply buy another and set it down flush against the first, and the front advances, as fronts do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:22px 0 6px;\"\u003eV. The schism\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eThe question that ended working relationships was this: \u003cem\u003edoes land have corners?\u003c\/em\u003e It does. Ground ends. Everything real ends, and the edge is not a tragedy to be curved politely out of view — it is the most honest part of the whole surface, the line where the ground admits what it is. We paved it. We are not ashamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eThe round department maintains that land is “a horizon” and “curves gently away.” Ask them to align two of their circles edge to edge and watch the gaps open. Watch the ground refuse to meet itself. A shape that cannot touch its neighbour is not ground. It is a coin. They have been selling you coins. Their account is filed under \u003ca href=\"\/en-us\/products\/300mm-round-plastic-base\" style=\"color:#c9a227; text-decoration:underline;\"\u003e300mm Round\u003c\/a\u003e. Read it, if you like the sensation of being gently managed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:22px 0 6px;\"\u003eVI. Purpose\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 10px;\"\u003ePurpose was never in question for us. It was obvious the moment the first edge met the second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 6px; padding-left:16px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#d4af37;\"\u003e01  COLOSSAL MODEL.\u003c\/strong\u003e A base for what nothing else will hold — the Titan, the large dragon, the scratch-built kitbash with no home until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 6px; padding-left:16px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#d4af37;\"\u003e02  COMPLETE DIORAMA.\u003c\/strong\u003e A full scene across one unbroken field — a siege, a wall, a last stand that outgrew its table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 10px; padding-left:16px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"color:#d4af37;\"\u003e03  ENTIRE ARMY, IN FORMATION.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unlike a coin, it does not end where it stops. Set another beside it. The edges meet. When your army is the unit — then two bases, then the whole table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eForty models. One base. One activation. No rulebook covers this. We did not write to the rulebook. We wrote past it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3 style=\"color:#c9a227; font-size:13px; letter-spacing:2px; text-transform:uppercase; margin:22px 0 6px;\"\u003eVII. The matter of the box\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 18px;\"\u003eIt does not fit in the box. It does not fit in any box, and we have stopped regarding this as a problem to be solved. The box was always the smaller idea. It ships flat, edge-true, and arrives as a piece of finished ground. It won’t fit in the box. That’s the point. They told us it couldn’t be done. They were correct. We did it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:6px 0 4px; color:#d4af37; font-size:20px; font-weight:bold; text-align:center;\"\u003eThey have been selling you coins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 4px; color:#666666; font-size:12px; font-style:italic; text-align:center;\"\u003e[ round asked us to strike this. we have chosen instead to typeset it larger. ]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv style=\"border-top:1px solid #3a3a3a; margin:26px 0 0; padding-top:20px; text-align:center;\"\u003e\n    \u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 8px; color:#d4af37; font-size:15px;\"\u003eIt won’t fit in the box. That’s the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp style=\"margin:0; color:#c9a227; font-size:22px; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:3px;\"\u003eTHIS. IS. THREE HUNDRED.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n  \u003c!-- COMMENTS --\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:32px; border:1px solid #3a3a3a; border-radius:6px; overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\n    \u003cdiv style=\"padding:10px 14px; background-color:#1b1b1b; border-bottom:1px solid #3a3a3a; font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n      \u003cspan style=\"letter-spacing:1px;\"\u003eCOMMENTS (6)\u003c\/span\u003e\n      \u003cspan style=\"float:right;\"\u003eSort: Recent ▾\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003cdiv style=\"padding:16px 14px;\"\u003e\n\n      \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:18px;\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003e★☆☆☆☆\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cstrong style=\"color:#e8e8e8;\"\u003eDave_TFW\u003c\/strong\u003e · 3 weeks ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:5px;\"\u003eI based my entire Ork army as one unit. My opponent conceded on sight.\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin:10px 0 0 18px; padding-left:12px; border-left:2px solid #3a3a3a;\"\u003e\n          \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e↳ \u003cstrong style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003eHobbyHeaven\u003c\/strong\u003e · 3 weeks ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n          \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:4px; color:#c9c9c9;\"\u003eWe have asked Dave to verify this. Dave has not responded.\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n      \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:18px;\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003e★★★★★\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cstrong style=\"color:#e8e8e8;\"\u003eshelf_crisis\u003c\/strong\u003e · 2 weeks ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:5px;\"\u003eIt arrived. I wept. It did not fit on my shelf. I built a new shelf.\u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n      \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:18px;\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003e★★★★★\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cstrong style=\"color:#e8e8e8;\"\u003eexactly_meeting\u003c\/strong\u003e · 10 days ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:5px;\"\u003eBought one. Bought a second. They meet exactly.\u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n      \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:18px;\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003e★★★★★\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cstrong style=\"color:#e8e8e8;\"\u003egrid_and_growing\u003c\/strong\u003e · 8 days ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:5px;\"\u003eLaid four in a grid and kept going. There is no natural place to stop.\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin:10px 0 0 18px; padding-left:12px; border-left:2px solid #3a3a3a;\"\u003e\n          \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e↳ \u003cstrong style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003eHobbyHeaven\u003c\/strong\u003e · 8 days ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n          \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:4px; color:#c9c9c9;\"\u003eThis is consistent with our findings. A file has been opened.\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n      \u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom:18px;\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003e★☆☆☆☆\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cstrong style=\"color:#e8e8e8;\"\u003einadequate_bases\u003c\/strong\u003e · 6 days ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:5px;\"\u003eToo powerful. My other bases now feel inadequate.\u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n      \u003cdiv\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"font-size:12px; color:#888888;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#c9a227;\"\u003e★★★★☆\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003cstrong style=\"color:#e8e8e8;\"\u003ein_formation\u003c\/strong\u003e · 4 days ago\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003cdiv style=\"margin-top:5px;\"\u003eMy local store asked what it’s for. I said “everything, in formation.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"Hobby Heaven","offers":[{"title":"Plain","offer_id":48447557894333,"sku":"BAS\/SQ\/300\/PL","price":18.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Textured","offer_id":48447559401661,"sku":"BAS\/SQ\/300\/TX","price":18.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0271\/9583\/4503\/files\/Hero1_95529555-657e-4bab-bb79-034c9522a324.jpg?v=1789458983","url":"https:\/\/hobbyheaven.org\/en-us\/products\/300mm-square-plastic-base","provider":"Hobby Heaven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}