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I've got some warmachine armies that need painting and bases, but wanted to do something different with the bases. I decided to exercise some of my traditional painting skills and paint on some textures right onto the surface of the base, mimicking 3D in 2D.
The first problem I ran into was getting the slot in the bases filled in smoothly. After some trouble with the green stuff, I said screw it and instead picked up a bunch of custom cut bases that fit exactly inside the lip of the 30mm warmachine base. This gave me a perfectly flat, smooth, raised platform to paint on.
After that, it was a matter of painting. I have a first test paint with slightly less detail than I planned, but there isn't going to be much more detail since painting that small with acrylics isn't my forte.
