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In this post I'm gonna show you how to make a trench scenic base.

You will need PVA glue, a popsicle stick, sand, a pair if scissors or a pair of cutters and your base.


Cut up the popsicle stick with the cutters.


Add some PVA to the base.


Spread out the PVA with a piece of the popsicle stick.


Add your popsicle stick pieces to the base.


Add sand.


Shake of the excess.


Let it dry and you're done!

How does the mini stay on without falling off constantly?

LunaHound wrote:How does the mini stay on without falling off constantly?

I've tried it on my models and they don't fall of. But its best to let the base dry overnight and then glue on the mini. But I guess it depends on what type of mini you have.

Give us pictures of the finished product as well, we wantz it yezzzz!

God Jul!

Finished.

Most bases look kinda wierd, my friend glues tiny stones on his, i prefer not to at all, but these look great!! this makes me want to try it out!

Nice way to simulate guard fighting on duckboarded trench environments. Something else to think about for my own models.

nice, but what's with the sergeant's head?

r3n3g8b0y wrote:nice, but what's with the sergeant's head?

He wasn't really finished yet.

If you do have problems with the model coming off the base you can always pin the base through the foot of the model for added strength.

Have you got a tutorial for that but bigger, so that it gives the model elevated height (something like it standing on a big rock)??. I will be converting a SM dread into a deff dread soon, and i wanted to make it look bigger, since a SM dread isn't that much bigger than a kan, and i dont want to buy a venerable one!

Those are cool bases , but i like the way i make mine... but im going too add ur style into them now..

Here how i make mine.... Get some Joint compound, and a food storage contian( from glad or something that can be used again)


I put down a nice layer of compound down( about 3/4 inche).. let it dry for a few days. Then i throw it on the ground to break it up to large pieces.
Then i take a set of Dikes( or you pylers) and break it up too smaller chunks.)
Then i add a mixture of gravel/ fine flocking / ballast that i mixed up in a huge containter.
spray paint it black( the only time i like using black primer.) let it dry.

I use apple barrel paints here ,

Dark brown ( hvy dry brushed), then a light brown( meduim to light dryed brushed), then a light grey lighlty dryed brushed)

Then i flock the bases with a gras mixture I made up....

I usually just bases in a day( and i do all my bases at the same time its a day process to make paint to flock)

nice stuff

You should put that tutorial in the article section, very good.

wow good tutorial stargate
i am going to try that
it is really nice

Lint wrote:You should put that tutorial in the article section, very good.

I've done it now it's here http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/How_to_make_trench_scenic_bases