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Hey, I was wondering if anyone had good WIPs/Tutorials for making volcanic bases.

Alternatively, if anyone has any good ideas as to where I could buy convincing looking volcanic bases.

Most resin bases seem to offer a "Rock floating on a lake of lava" look, while I'm wanting more of a "Planet cracking and beginning to come apart" look. If that makes any sense to anyone besides myself. I've been considering the Ice World bases from Dragonforge, but I don't have any idea how they'd look as blackened rock rather than ice formations.

Any advice?

Look at Forgecrafts lava bases.

Hi are you looking for somethimg like this..??

Catyrpelius: The Forgecraft bases look a little too much like a volcanic plane--with the lava flowing rather than coming through cracks in the ground. They don't look like there's much tectonic activity, y'know?

Bully, That's closer to what I have in mind, even if there is a little more lava than I was thinking. How'd you do that?

Corkboard is your friend.
Break off a chunk large enough to set your model on. Make sure you break away any strait edges.
PVA glue it to your base.
Prime white.
Start with the litest/brightest colors and work your way darker.
White, Sunburst yellow, Orange, Red, brown, black. Drybrush each layer lighter and lighter.
CA and PVA don't work well glueing plastic (or metal) to cork. I found a product called Liquid Nails at the local home inprovement stores (Home Despot, Lowes, Ace, etc). A small dab on the models feet and it holds great. It's also easy to cut off the model from the base with a razor-knife in case you want to repaint or rebase later.

I love all of these Lava effects you guys pull off. Everybody has a different way of doing it.

I'd suggest going to a craft/home improvement store and picking yourself up a sheet of cork board, as others have recommended. It's great for emulating broken earth and stone, and by going DIY, you get to choose exactly how fine you want your cracks. After that, it's a simple matter of painting as dkellyj says - bright depths to dark peaks.

If you wanted to do really fine channels (like, rivulets of lava on the surface instead of pools or streams), you could even just rough some grooves into the cork with a knife/rotary tool and smooth a bead of putty/filler therein for the lava.

That corkboard advice is great, thanks guys!

If you want to buy them pre-made, try the DarkArts Miniatures ones:

http://www.darkartstore.darkartminiatures.com/categories.php?category=THEMED-BASING/Lava

Cheers,


IK-Painter