Over the past 25+ years I have always based my ships on mat board/or plastic and then painted the bases, and wakes. So over the course of all those years I have ended up with many different colored oceans, and bases. Due to a recent move to Germany my age of sail ships looked like they went through a hurricane and need to be rerigged, and rebased. I had started a project with my WWI ships and had started to convert them to clear bases, which I like since with the great new ocean mats out there. I like that the ship always appears to be on that ocean, and not floating on its own colored piece of water. So to make a long story short, what do people feel like with labels on the bases? I never have done that, always just wrote on the underside of the base. But with clear bases that is not an option. So is there a preference for subdued (ie..Black label with ship names) or go with a flag and the ships name? Or no label at all.
