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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 06:03:25
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Death-Dealing Devastator
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I tried snow for the first time recently and i loved it
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we may be few, but even though we are near destruction. we the shadow wolves survive and move on to get our vengence on the tyrinids! |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 06:12:16
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Hard-Wired Sentinel Pilot
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Some brown sands first, then I scatter some burnt grass on it, like a scorched ground effect on cities I guess.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 06:22:59
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Deadly Dire Avenger
WI
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I use desert sand with rocks here and there for my Ulthwe Eldar. Striking contrast to the black. Then my Thousand Sons are just a rough ash black sanded basing.
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As long as it’s not the Imperium... |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 09:20:37
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Stubborn Dark Angels Veteran Sergeant
Behind you
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My IG use an ash wastes look. My GK's are based with a bloodtide look and my DA have a dungeon floor look.
Warhammer elves and WOTR elves have a static grass flock.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 12:02:54
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Student Curious About Xenos
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Shards of slate from the garden i break up cave man style on a larger rock ^^
Then add sand, paint up from a chaos black undercoat with snakebite leather base, then keep adding skull white until the desired affect.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 19:17:07
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Stubborn White Lion
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Glued on citedel sandy stuff, painted scorched brown, dry brushed snake bite leather, then dry brushed bleached bone. Then I glue on patches of citadel dead grass.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 20:25:57
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Never-Miss Nightwing Pilot
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Green/Scorched Grass for my WHFB models (except for the dark elves who are based with snow)
And sand for 40K models.
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"The stars themselves once lived and died at our command yet you still dare oppose our will. "-Farseer Mirehn Biellann
Armies at 'The Stand-still Point':
Cap'n Waaagggh's warband (Fantasy Orcs) 2250pts. Waaagghhh! in full flow... W-D-L=10-3-3
Hive Fleet Leviathan Strand 1500pts. W-D-L=7-1-2 Nom.
Eldar armies of various sizes W-D-L 26-6-3
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/03 21:12:17
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Fresh-Faced New User
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ash or sand desserts
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son of sanguinius |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 05:19:30
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Stealthy Dark Angels Scout with Shotgun
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My Dark Angels were the first army I made, so they have green flock/grass. I'm a better modeler than that now, but the army is done up like that, and it's a pain to redo it. My Eldar are going to be sand painted in grey wasteland/desert.
My WHFB Empire will be brown with maybe static grass and my Dark Elves will be on snow terrain.
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Repent. For tomorrow you die. (All is dust...all is dust...all is dust...)
40K:
- 3500 pts
- 2500 pts
- 2000 pts |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 08:48:45
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Yellin' Yoof
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My Orks have a desert thing going on, so yellow sand there, and the Tomb Kings I'm building now get a grasslands/mountain base with grey paints and Citadel Glade Grass.
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- Let the good dice roll - |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 09:28:23
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Devastating Dark Reaper
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my eldar have red moon desert (mars?) bases
typical sand stuff then a 3:1 mix of ogryn flesh and vermin brown painted over the top, followed by a quick drybrush of blazing orange.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 13:56:47
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Sinister Chaos Marine
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I use sugar.......seriuously. A guy that used to be in our gaming group suggested it and like all good ideas the rest of us ripped it off. Pva glue it on to a base and paint grey to give the impression of rubble.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 14:11:01
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Fighter Pilot
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Urban for my IG, bought some sidewalk like plasticard from a hobby store, add in a bit of stone and every 1/4 or some some cut up sprue and what not as rubble. They have a sorta urban cammo/city fight theme. Alot of grey, most likely to much but it works well enough.
For the tanith guys I'm working on, thinking a mud and debris theme. My eldar just all got stripped so nothing planned for them as still debating selling em off.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 14:34:40
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Flashy Flashgitz
Underneath your painting desk
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I base my orks in a dark brown, somewhat muddy dirt, with bright grey rocks and boulders scattered around, then tufts and patches of winter grass.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 17:29:34
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Fresh-Faced New User
South Jersey
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ergotoxin wrote: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  ).

I base similarly, but my dirt/mud is lighter and I use smaller patches of grass.
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Dirty Jersey |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 19:53:39
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Shrieking Guardian Jetbiker
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I do a mix of dead grass, small stones, and dirt.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 22:02:27
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Annoyed Blood Angel Devastator
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Desert should really be added on the list imo. Or wasteland or something to that extent. I use that myself for my Blood Angels to simulate the planet Baal.
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3rd Edition Blood Angel player, brought back to the game...
2500 pts |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/04 22:09:12
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Napoleonics Obsesser
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Bare. I happen to like plain old black.
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If only ZUN!bar were here... |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/05 11:17:21
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Calm Celestian
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My IG has grass/sand while my Salamanders have a black sand with purple alien crystal.
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My Sisters of Battle Thread
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/783053.page
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/05 18:40:07
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Fighter Pilot
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I'm new and I just use a dirt base color cote and that's until I get dirt and gravel.
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Yarrr... |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/05 18:43:07
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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For larger bases, like heavy weapon bases I try to match them a bit with the figures on it, but mostly some earth with patches of grass, stones, and some other rubbish like jerry cans and fuel drums.
But the infantry bases I mostly leave just plain, but that's actually because I don't feel like basing ALL those figures.
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''compromise is surrender''
read my imperial guard blog:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/370393.page |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/05 19:53:51
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Blood Sacrifice to Khorne
England
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Urban - ish, jagged rocks, skulls, guns + bits, and charred ground...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/05 21:25:58
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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Scorched Brown paint, GW sand and pebbles, mixed colors of static grass with some flock mixed in.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 00:44:17
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Stalwart Veteran Guard Sergeant
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I do an urban debris style, as I prefer to mix old unusable bits into my basing 'solution'. This also is generic enough to fit my varied color schemes.
UG
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 07:09:26
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Morphing Obliterator
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Unluckyguardsman wrote:I do an urban debris style, as I prefer to mix old unusable bits into my basing 'solution'. This also is generic enough to fit my varied color schemes.
UG
This.
I use a sparse urban grey style, but mix in odd bits and add rocks and rust etc to get a 'rubble' feel.
I also have a few pre-made bases from back-to-base-ix and paint them in the same style:
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 10:12:02
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Utilizing Careful Highlighting
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Im still using the small stones from blackreach, even though im now at 3x tac squads, 10 tactical terms and 10 assault terms, 6 sternguard and loads of devs. I add little tufts of green grass to break it up.
For characters they either get chips of shale built into a rock formation or resin base, although leaning away from resin in future.
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Aurora SMs in 5th Ed (18 wins, 3 draws, 13 losses)
1st in Lords of Terra Open (Sydney) 2012
Aurora SMs in 6th Ed (3 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses))
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 14:53:53
Subject: Re:How do you base most of your models?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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yeah,
My new DarkEldar army will be mostly on clear flight stands, hellions and venoms.
So to make the guys on foot match the rest of the army, I'm using clear bases for them.
You can check out progress in my blog Purple Rain
I'm also starting to see the benifits of this style of base as they will match any table they play on... I might never switch back!
Panic...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 16:29:33
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Scarred Ultramarine Tyrannic War Veteran
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cool but why are you using clear baces?is it to give the impereassion that they are standing up by them selfs?
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 16:42:57
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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yeah, HAZZER wrote:cool but why are you using clear baces?
dude read the post! Panic wrote:...My new DarkEldar army will be mostly on clear flight stands, hellions and venoms.
So to make the guys on foot match the rest of the army, I'm using clear bases for them.
It's so the army has a matching base scheme. but it has benifits, they now match all tables urban/ashwaste/green/red...
Also I'm likeing how quick they are to base
Panic...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2011/04/06 23:29:21
Subject: How do you base most of your models?
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Morphing Obliterator
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That does look pretty cool Panic - its a good idea.
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