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Hey folks, been away from modelling and painting for a while now but decided to dive back in.
I'd say my painting skills were somewhere shy of tabletop standard previously so I'm not expecting too much of myself but I've done a little learning and hope to do better now.
Got a few projects on the table now but the one I'm using to warm up is a pre-owned copy of the silver Tower I recently acquired.
The minis had been poorly cleaned and rather overglued.
First task was to slice them off their bases, clean up mould lines and do a little filling and repair before printing with an airbrush.
While that's ongoing I decided to begin making the bases for a bit of variation.

I'd seen some nice examples online where the bases were made with a theme matching the room tiles from the game and thought it looked perfect for the more tzeench styled minis and so made the majority in this style.
A few others I've done with a more traditional dungeon tile finish.

Apologies for the poor quality of pics, something else I need to develop!

Spray day!

Usually love priming up minis but the bases are tedious and don't benefit from the same beautiful finish that the figures themselves do.


Forgot to add some broken bricks but luckily the more finely detailed bases I want to work on were made with poundshop filler which is great to work with. Scalpel out the bit you want to work on and shave away, then super glue it back in.





Most of the rustic effects are inherent in the tiles I made with air drying clay so no need to worry about those.

From what I've seen from my leftovers the air dry should break nicely with scale appropriate effect just by snapping in my hand so when I make more I may take that approach.

Again, the pics don't come out so well especially with light grey primer on white filler! Really must work on my photo set up!