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Made in au
Dipping With Wood Stain






Brisbane, Australia

Hey everyone! Here's a step by step on how to make your own custom street bases out of plasticard!

1.


The pavement/sidewalk area beside the street is made by layering two pieces of plasticard - a larger one on the bottom for the gutter, and a smaller one on top, cut into sections, to show the kerb/pavement.

For this I'm using plasticard that's about 1mm thick. Roughly cut out a circle or two that's about the size of your base - for this one I've only used one circle, since the street area will take up almost half the base. For bases where you want less street and more pavement, you'll probably need to use two circles since the smaller part of the circle won't be enough for the pavement/sidewalk area.

2.


Cut out any grill work for drains etc. from the gutter piece, and cut the pavement piece into sections. Using a knife and/or sandpaper, round off the top edges of the pavement sections, and also the bars in the drain.

Then glue the gutter layer into place on the base. Don't worry if the piece overhangs the edges of the base a bit - once the glue's dry, you can trim the excess off.

3.


Glue the kerb piece into place, then glue the pavement sections on. I've also roughly cut one corner of a pavement section off to show a bit of cracked cement.

4.


Again, don't worry about overhang, just trim off any excess afterwards once the glue's fully dried. You can also use sandpaper to help smooth out the edges.

5.


This part is optional! For this particular street, I wanted a build-up of mud and gravel and such, so here I've used some Agrellan Earth, heaping it on thicker where I want larger/deeper cracks. You could also use any other texture paint or just plain gravel for the road surface.

6.


For this base, I've also used watered-down PVA glue to add some fine gravel, then coated the whole thing with a thin layer of watered-down PVA glue to help seal the Agrellan Earth and hold all the gravel in place.

7.


Once everything is dry, spray primer the base. The spray primer will also help seal down any still-loose bits of gravel that the glue may not be quite holding.

8.


Finally, paint it! I didn’t step-by-step this part, I mostly just used drybrushing of lighter grey/browns over a dark grey base, stippled on some yellow to get the road line, used a bit of bronze for the drain bars, hit the whole thing with a few washes of Agrax and Sepia, then a bit more drybrushing of light brown/bone afterwards.

(And then of course tidy up the base rim with black, which I haven’t done yet here, oops.)

I hope this is helpful, and let me know what you think!

   
Made in ca
Death-Dealing Devastator






Epic. Stolen Sorry.

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Made in au
Dipping With Wood Stain






Brisbane, Australia

@ForceChoke lol no need to be sorry! XD I posted it so people COULD use it, after all!

   
Made in za
Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle





South Africa

This base is beautiful, defitely need to try this pity ive half based my whole army...

Facts are chains that bind perception and fetter truth. For a man can remake the world if he has a dream and no facts to cloud his mind. 
   
Made in gb
Dakka Veteran





I'm very impressed with this. Tried a similar thing but didn't get anywhere near as good a result as you have.
I think the paint scheme is what really brought it to life

I've been playing a while, my first model was a lead marine and my first White Dwarf was bound with staples 
   
Made in gb
Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot





Coventry

Awesome tutorial. Consider it excellent enough to be pinched by EVERYONE.
   
 
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