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So... I wanna do something "different" for my necron bases. Here's what they look like now...


For those squares, I bought a hirst arts mold for floor tiles, and I liked them at first but now they're just kinda starting to look boring together... and I only have a whole 13 models done. I don't really want to do the same old dirt & grass bases I always do. I did spackle bases once for my tomb kings and that was cool, but I don't wanna go that route this time. Models fell off so easy since the spackle wasn't strong enough.

So, I was looking at Scibor and Micro Art studios. Like the temple bases from Micro art but was kinda turned off because for the large round bases they just have 1. I planned to use that size for my destroyers, and it'll look dumb if they all have the same exact base. Not to mention, to get those custom bases for all the models I have done and ready to build, that's like $100. However, I do love the big oval temple base from Micro Art, if I ever got a tomb stalker I'd love to use that.

I just want to do something different, no dirt or sand or COD bitz. Something that says "yeah, we've been in this tomb for a bazillion years and now we're all rusty"

So... Anyone have any good ideas for bases? photos welcome

Keep the bases as they are, but add other basing elements. Add moss, damage, broken stones, etc. Have vines dangling from the necrons themselves, have models missing body parts, have models with necron parts on the floor.

Alternatively, make the floor mechanical of some sort. Fill the slits between the stones with an eerie green glow.

I thought about adding some moss and things like that to the bases. I think what's turning me off is the height on the blocks.

My original plan was to do them in units of 12, and if you rank them up in a block the bases will have a design to them, like a big crop circle pattern or something like that, just painted on. But, as usual, I got lazy.

I like the idea of the green glow in the cracks. maybe I could just do some little plasticard squares and glue them into my own tile patterns and try to mimic something the sides of a monolith. And then, when I get a monolith eventually I could paint it like the plates on the bases...

Perhaps you could remove the plastic base and make the blocks more circular (file or cut off the corners). Add some cogs, pipes and wires. Then finish with rust stains.

maybe put some non drying clay in the corners of your hirst mold to make them more circular.

Well, I wanted to keep the round base under the square blocks, so the models would technically still be on their "proper" base, and the blocks are slightly larger than the round base itself.

Breaking off the corners of the blocks could work too, but the thickness makes it kind of a pain. Maybe it would have been better if I just poured a teeny bit of resin in each square, but then it would have been too hard to get them to all be the right thickness.

I wish they made good circle drill bit saw blades for dremels. I found a guy on ebay selling monolith bits, $12 for all 4 sides. I could just cut out little circles for each one. I know I can get a 1" saw bit for a normal drill, I guess I could give that a shot...

Get a piece of angle iron, cut into 1" squares. Drop into salt water until they're corroded. Pull them out, add any other elements (necron bitz, bones, etc) then shellac the entire assembly.

I was googling around for some pics of bases and stuff.. I think what I'm gonna do is get some of those little sheets of cork for bulletin boards and go for a rocky desert moon kinda base.

I don't really have too many spare bitz at the moment. I have exactly 40 warriors for 4 units of 10, 3 destroyers, 1 lord and a bunch of scarabs. I was thinking about using scarabs to decorate some of the bases too, I was thinking of sawing them in half on an angle and them gluing the flat part down to the base so it will look like it's crawling out of the sand.

I like the look of the 'stone' bases, but agree the thick square blocks are less attractive. Personally I'd keep the stone idea, but do it with textured plasticard (or cut your own flagstones from plain plasticard and add some stone texture yourself) glued onto normal bases.