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I tried snow for the first time recently and i loved it

Some brown sands first, then I scatter some burnt grass on it, like a scorched ground effect on cities I guess.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Green/Scorched Grass for my WHFB models (except for the dark elves who are based with snow)

And sand for 40K models.

ash or sand desserts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I do a mix of dead grass, small stones, and dirt.

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.

Bare. I happen to like plain old black.

My IG has grass/sand while my Salamanders have a black sand with purple alien crystal.

I'm new and I just use a dirt base color cote and that's until I get dirt and gravel.

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.

Urban - ish, jagged rocks, skulls, guns + bits, and charred ground...

Scorched Brown paint, GW sand and pebbles, mixed colors of static grass with some flock mixed in.

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

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:

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.

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...

cool but why are you using clear baces?is it to give the impereassion that they are standing up by them selfs?

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...

That does look pretty cool Panic - its a good idea.