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How do you base most of your models?
I dont paint
Leave them plain
Snow
Green Grass
Urban debris
Plain Dirt
Yellow Grass
Lava
Alien crystal
Alien hive look
Water
Jungle
All Skulls
Cobblestone
Ruins
Small Stones
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

As suggested by krazynadechukr

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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot






Inboud...

Urban Debris. 2/3 of my armies use this style. It fits my gameboard, my IG's camoflague, and I like the 'gritty' feel to it. The Kommodoes have the standard green railway flockcommon to most beginner armies. I may re-do them in a scorched brown/static grass scheme if I ever feel the need to dig them out of storage.

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Towering Hierophant Bio-Titan





Fareham

Other: Pure goblin green tops and sides all the way

   
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman





Mostly small stones because it's easy. I just glue on some gravel from the driveway occasionally however if I'm feeling like doing something fancy I'll put on city debris, but that's only for a single squad of Seraphim and a Vindicair so far.


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Swift Swooping Hawk





Statesville NC USA

Used to do "ash waste" with a little static grass... It was easy.
Since I've started resin casting; all my minis have custom bases. Now to go back and re-base all the others!

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Lord Commander in a Plush Chair





Beijing

"Other" I suppose. It depends upon the army/models, but I choose a theme and stick to it. Usually I put a colour of gravel on first and then add tufts of grass of some variety to make it look a bit more mixed. When I did my Dogs of War I did light brown base edges with sand with green tufts on top to make it look like the Med, when I did undead and chaos I went for green base edges with black gravel and green tufts. When I finish my zombie pirates they will have pale sandy base edges with light sand on top to look beach-like, then I might put the odd tuft or jungle leafy plant on and maybe driftwood.

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






UK

I don't tend to paint, but when I do I just leave the bases plain. if i've gotten as far as basing my model, then i'm not going to risk ruining it (so as it stands, only about 3 models are based, all with modelling sand).

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Jinking Ravenwing Land Speeder Pilot






Dirt and grass, forest-type for the marines. Tau are going to be based for a snow world.

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Newcastle, OZ

Sand, paint, a little grass flocking.

Vehicles just get sand and paint.
Yes, I base my vehicles, too. I know I don't have to, but it helps when I use them in other games (where the owners of those properties don't actually care WHOSE stuff is used).

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My basing is pretty mundane... just some gravel, grass, and (mostly because my based stuff is Khador) snow.


ugh... as I type this, I just realized that I forgot about my idea to use scenic bases on some Steel Legion Models.
   
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Wicked Warp Spider





The Webway Gate in California

So far I have used fine sand to base my models. I did buy some flock and gravel for basing but haven't used it yet.

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Denmark, Vejen

On my guard units i paint the base completely black and glue semi transparent sand onto it. It gives it a weird looking effect that I like

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Chaplain with Hate to Spare






Just started basing in urban debris as i wish to get into City of death, I used to base with sand and brybrush the old lighter greys but i've just branched out and bought resin sculpted bases from Back to base-ix they are great quality and really will take my army to hopefully an excellent table top quality one!

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Ghastly Grave Guard





The cold reaches of space

I usually go with urban grey sand/rocks/debris... but I'd like to start going with resin bases... and not entirely sure how this will work having urban-based Eldar with FW Specters on large jutting rock formations...

 
   
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Freaky Flayed One






Since I just started my first squad I don't have many to comment on, but 8 of them are sand and alien crystal and one is sand and a missile pod.


 
   
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East Yorkshire

Sand and small, i mean small rocks, so a desert look.

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Foxy Wildborne







Sure, put in options for skulls, crystals and alien hive, but not sand.

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Gargantuan Gargant





Binghamton, NY

I've only based a few of my Orks, so far. They're getting coarse sand basing, drybrushed up in grays to stand as gravel. Still undecided about how I'll base my marines.

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Ireland

I just leave it blank,nobody I know really cares about it.

 
   
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Chicago

Really depends on the army.

My orks are based as a desert force, rocks, no foliage, some battlefield debris from time to time.

My eldar are based in a city-fight scheme, black and grays with citiesque stuff. They're a very colourful army, so muted tones on the base stand to make them pop more.

Most of my Imperial forces are based on a mix of mud and grass. Just how I learned to do it first.

My Emperor's Children are done in a snow theme, because the white looks good offsetting their purple.

My Slaanesh daemons are the same as the Emperor's Children, in case they need to mix. My nurgle daemons are in a marsh, my khorne daemons are on skull bases, and my tzeentch daemons are based as if they're in the warp, with minor warp spirits floating around them.

   
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Dangerous Outrider






I use tea leaf and scorched brown. I guess it is wasteland/jungle to a degree. Haven't quite decided if I am going to add anything like static grass or lichen yet. But I have experimented with various stuff, need to settle on something I like and works with my armies.

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Parma, OH

I usually use a mix of mud and mixed grasses.

 
   
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Mesa, AZ

I generally vary based on either my mood when I am finishing the piece I am working on, but I tend to stick to stone work, rocky terrain, or grasses.

   
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Serious Squig Herder






Kind of a rocky/grassland type tjhing for most of them. Though I have done some snow themes too. But GW modelling snow is gakky, so Ive ended up just using white paint on my Ogres.
   
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Buzzard's Knob

A mix of green/brown flock and cheap clay cat litter. (Not used, I'm no longer a disciple of Nurgle.)

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Stabbin' Skarboy






Czech Republic

I use decorative dirt (I had the luck of buying 500 g for just 1 euro) painted calthan brown to give it muddy look, and GF9 grass... and an occasional lost equipment (or ork arms ).

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I base my Daemons with a mixed bag of several different ballast stones. Then Paint Codex Gray, wash with Badab Black, and drybrush Space Wolves Grey. Then I mix in some dead looking static grass, and some small rubble, and it looks like a ruined planet.
   
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I use resin sand and add some gw sand flock and gf9 sand flock to add texture then after it drys pain scorched brown over then dry brush bestail brown then drybrush bleached bone over that

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wichita, KS

i use playground sand. it has sand + small stones that i paint to look like an alien desert-type thing. (black ink, scolfurious brown, drybrush dheneb stone. ((may be spelled wrong, dont have the paints with me ATM)) and then some bleached bone too) they fit with the Tau fire warriors that i use it on. they from the Tau home world.

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I don't know!

I just use sand.

   
 
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