Bases

[SireScott]

Hi all,

For my order armies I have a vision for what I want my bases to look like, but its not quite working out.

The concept I had was of land breaking and underneath blue magic/light streaming out, as in the first picture.

But the bases just don't quite seem to capture it, as seen in 2nd picture.

Does anyone have any ideas for how to make this work better? 

Also at the last GT I couldnt help but notice that the nicest bases tended to have an additional '3d' element, such as mini trees or resin bases.

Any thoughts what could work well here?

Regards

 

 

[ten ball]

You could try this style. I painted the cracks in glowing red but it could be substituted to blues? It's a simple base to sculpt out of milliput.

 

[Kramer]

I think something like @ten ball posted could work well. If you want some height in the basing you could also give some bases a bit more hight but crumbling down edges. Like they are walking on collapsing ground. 

Thats were the depth of view comes from in the picture

 

[Ragnar Alpaca]

Try cork on the bases. 

[XReN]

There is an cool technique I saw: you paint your base the color you want to show through and cover it with Agrellan Earth texture paint, as it cracks you will have a very neat effect


 

[sainted75]

With the texture base paints like agrellan earth I would also advise sealing them with something like a varnish, the large bits can chip off quite easily.

[Retro]

@SireScott out of curiosity, what techniques did you try?

I will second the vote on crackle paints, they can get expensive though if you are basing your whole army with it.

[Kyriakin]

On 3/19/2019 at 4:02 PM, sainted75 said:

With the texture base paints like agrellan earth I would also advise sealing them with something like a varnish, the large bits can chip off quite easily.

PVA glue (I think it is called Elmer's Glue in the United States) mixed with water works well too.