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I just started collecting my first fantasy army and I'm not quite sure what I should do for basing them. I don't really enjoy grassy bases, so I'm just looking for some interesting ideas right now. (My 40k bases are an urban rubble sort of theme, I was considering something like marble or ivory for these)

Heres a good site. Shows a lot of different basing techniques that could be slightly altered to fit all sorts of needs.

http://salmondworks.com/Tutorials/figurebasing/index.html

The sand bases with the pillar pieces and such, modified to look more foresty would be pretty sweet.

Good tutorial on that site Scotty
thanks

Marble would be good for Elvish bases Lightning.
would be easy to do. Saw a thread about marbling on Dakka but can't remember where. sorry

I marbled the base of an Anima Tactics figure, Basically painted white and drew on some line with a 0.1 and 0.5 graphics ink pen.
a few smudges and some washes/and going over again in places with the finer pen, looks okay even if I say so myself.