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Woohoo picture time!

I have 3 guys completed and waiting for basing and 7 guys to XHL now! So for now I shall give you pics of some of the crew!

C&C as always is welcome, and if you got idea's for basing then i'm all ears chaps

Regards

Basing? I say stick with the cool chinese restaurant them you have going on in the last pic

What ever you go with don't use static flock! so cliche.

What did you decide on for a planet type?

Ruined temple?

There is a great eldar army which the creator has a basing tutorial in the tutorial section for creating really amazing "lost paradise" style temple/city bases. I think that might look pretty cool.

You will have to de-base then re-base all your models to do it though, but that should be relatively easy with a sharp enough knife.

Link: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/277121.page

LOL that chinese was good! As you can probably tell my model workboard gets all kinds of scribbles! Its what I call customisation

Also as you can see in the background Blackhand, I have static grass lol however that said it is only for slight grass crops not a whole base of grass. As that would look far out pathetic!!

As for the planet type I'm still kinda thinkin on that one.

Kind of thinking former planet reappearing from the warp and the imperium having been sent to mop it up! At which point the 2 regiments sent get near on obliterated but successfully complete the task at hand! Due to suffering severe casualties they get given the planet to guard/defend and recruit from! So has to have's:

a chaos setting!

unfriendly atmosphere - hence the gas masks - kind of want something along lines of coloured zones set up for contaminated areas. i.e Red Zone - bad, Green Zone - good etc!

thats all the brain is capable of thinkin so far! I need more Tea

Silver - de basing the mods are not an issue as they are only tacked on in 1 spot Have you got a linky to that basing tut?

Regards

Link added to my last post.

You could probably trade the lush green and sparkling blue for yellows, browns and dirty greens for a polluted garden world, gone to chaos?

If you check out the guy's army, you can see more of his bases. I seem to remember some of them are really cool - plus they work well if you ever want to make a display base, as they would fit right in.

SilverMK2 - Many thanks for that one shall take a ganders soon dear chap

Regards

I have some of that plasticard!

I think a mix of tiles, rock and broken statuary would give the feel of a recovered daemon world pretty well.

I have seen a guy use a bunch of statue molds with plaster, then smash the statues and use the pieces on his bases.

Sorry can't think of where I saw it though

WOW those bases are impressive!! One has to try out that water effect soon Thanks for the link. That is some bases right there!

Regards

No worries. I'm sure I've seen the broken statue bases around somewhere as well - they looked pretty cool.

I know maelstrom games (yes, yes, I know they are the enemy for you ) has some basing kits which contain bits of broken statues (can't remember the company that makes them though at the moment) if you didn't want to go and find somewhere to buy the right scale statue moulds/plaster/etc.

LOL Commisar this man speaks Blasphemy!!!!!!

Shhhhh I'll check it out lol

scibor miniatures does the resin statue bits, but as much as I like them I think you need more variety, bits of masonry and stone block as well as statue bits, just my 2cents

I would agree with Blackhand - broken masonry, toppled walls etc would really kick things up a notch.

Hirst Arts do all sorts of fun moulds that can provide you with neat little details too, but sadly there are few UK retailers of their moulds

Subscribed, your flocking them, right?

Finch Claw - As far as flocking goes, the bases will have a few strands of electrostatic grass applied yes! However, the rest of the base will be custom made with plasticard and good old greenstuff thrown in for good measure plus some other bits of odd stuff one can get his hands on!!

Hmmmmmm Hirst Arts. Will have my colleague look into this!

Regards

So have you decided on the planet backround yet? You can have the planet i talked to you about and come up with any planet info you like!

Knocked together a quick base!! Which is still WIP! Pic attached!!

Indiana - I still dont know what I am goin to call the planet, or any of the background other than what I have already typed on this blog so far!

Interesting

The base looks good! Is the water green stuff or water effects?

So got a rushed base sorted as you all can see above! Now I got the rushed base painted up, and must say its horrendous!! I admit now I cant base to save my life!!

See attached pic! Indiana the water is greenstuff!

It's... OK. But I think you might need to put a bit more time and planning into your bases

It also looks quite thick.

Try adding some brush on gloss varnish to the water to give it a bit more "wetness".

Is the "land" concrete paving slabs? I was not quite sure.

If you don't want to use plasticard, good quality paper card can be used to make pretty good tiles/slabs.

I have thrown the base lol. Basing is not my forte so I will just add some basing sand and drybrush and maybe add a few bits and pieces here and there!!

Pft.

The only way to improve is to practice

Well i thought it was good but oh well. Can't wait to see more models like the valkyrie you can only see the cockpit of on the army photo!

Detail is your fiend when basing! thats why the pre-patterned polasticard is so good, it only needs a coat of codex grey and a wash to make it look like weathered stone

Blackhand - I guess I will look into grabbing some of this plasticard on order today

Anyways, attention back to the 1st squad. I have 8 completely finished (minus a few custom things to be added - Like ammo clips and 'nades etc) and flocked and 2 left to HL and flock! My next question is though this - What damn colours to use to paint these bases? I have 1 base thats basecoated with Adeptus Battlegrey and was thinking maybe drybrush with Codex Grey followed by very light dusting of Bleached Bone? Yes or No?

Anyways I'm chuffed with how this squad has turned out really and each has their own dynamic pose! Nothing worse than the same pose for a whole army!?

Will get some pics attached to this message in half an hour, I just wanted to get some text down and out of the way first

Regards

Id say yes with the drybrush of codex but see what it looks like before bleached bone!

Well, if you have a ruined/daemon world returned to real space, you could probably add in some reds or greens? Certainly a bit of brown mud/dirt.

The general concrete style base you described sounds good, just have to be careful not to make it too boring

I was kinda thinking maybe throw in some dashing of snow as well?

I know I want it to look like a ruined daemon world returned to space but I thought the winter warp storm setting would be great?

This involves lots of concretes, muds, grass and snow! With possibly the odd chaos stuff thrown on for good measure!!

Thoughts?

Regards

Might be hard to tie it all together without it looking like your models were caught in an explosion in a basing supplies shop

You also need something which fits in with your model colours too. The green and bone colours of their armour/fatigues would go well with several colours of base I think, but you may need to be selective as to which environments are represented in each base.

It might be an idea to rather than base them all as individuals, to imagine them actually on some kind of battlefield (perhaps sketch one out on some paper?) which has all the different terrain features on it that you want to be reflected in your bases.

These look really nice, I especially like the gun style!
Unfortunately i don't like the colour scheme, looks too much like the cadian 8th and they are used too much. they're the UM of guard!

Imp. Monkey