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BASEWORK 101 by Osirus

 

THEORY

 

As miniature painters we are trying to paint a picture, tell someone a story

We can paint the best miniature in the world but by leaving it on a standard unpainted base the image is pretty much blown, firstly you will

be showing the 'over paint' where paint has dripped/spilled onto the base during painting but in my honest opinion you cant beat a well finished base it frames the miniature so to speak, adds a scene to a miniature, with the medium we are dealing with the scale is so small that we have to 'clutter' bases for to make them look realistic, for example on a real battle field there may be large pieces of land with only a few rocks or craters on them ....but with miniatures we need to exaggerate that ten fold and add a crater to every base ....just to tie the minis together

 

I find that doing research can also help to set a scene for a mini, looking at pictures of world wars or battlefields, two years ago I was lucky enough to go to several former battlefields in France and Belgium and I was astonished at the amount of left over battle scarring that I could 'use' as inspiration - so give it ago ....take a look into

some history books ...you'll be surprised what you can find!

 

BASIC TECHNIQUE

 

Firstly you will need a few basic materials to start with, my preferences are;

 

PVA Glue (Elmer

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Good manual, some good tips in there. Have you guys used custom dioramics before? They have some exellent stuff for making very cool bases. They have 1/35 scale bricks and stuff. Check it out. http://www.vls-vp.com/customdioramics.htm

Some useful parts as an example. statue

Grave stones

If you have some extra dough, I highly recommend it. Some things are quite cheap, like the rubble and bricks etc, the houses start to be a bit expensive..

Cheers

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It's soooooo cool that people like you osirus, puts time, effort and sweat into projects like this, to the benefit of others. Thanks to guys like yourself, this hobby (not to forget to mention this forum) is one of the best things in life, thank God for Warhammer!

 

 

ahem

 

Sorry, I'm just trying to say Great Job You are Osirus!

 

 

And godspeed

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Great job with this article.

 

Only thing i have to say is to those of us from the US, if you use Elmer's Glue then you should take the effort to put a coat of glue over the sand to hold it on to the base as i know that i have had many problems with this.

 

Other then that great job again.

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i find that if you paint the sand with black paint, the sand sticks onto the brush, and comes off

 

to counter this, water down the black paint alot, and this seconds for keeping the sand on the base when the paint dries

 

i think the best way of doing this is to actually use black ink first, as it naturally runs into the recesses, with is the only places that will stay black in the end anyway

 

just my addition to "the guide" :lol:

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nice techniques, i have a really simple method that works well too, figure i may as well share.

 

cover the base with sand, wash of black ink when dry. dry brush with bubonic brown when dry, then dry brush with bleached bone, then apply any bitz/static/flock that you wish...it looks ace, u can see it on my models at our site.

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that was barpharanges ....looks real sweet the green tea basing ....

 

as i said i am still building on this little article,but i've been up in london on business today and have only just got back and now im off to bed as it has been one hell of a long day,

 

if nobody minds i'll add the tips posted by others so far and put an acknowlegement in the bottom section,

 

if anyone doesnt want there tip posted just say and i wont put it in .....

 

Regards

Osirus

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  • 7 years later...
City/urban: Black - Shadow Grey - Fortress grey or Ghostly Grey

 

City/Urban 2: Black - Codex Grey - Fortress Grey - White (optional)

 

Anyone got any pictures of what this basing technique lookes like as a finished product? I like the idea because its simple, fast, and it sounds like something I could go back in and add 'clutter' pieces to later as I desire. Does anyone have a picture of what this roughly comes out looking like?

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