gianlucafiorentini123 wrote: I was looking for some ideas for bases, I'm aiming for something a bit more advanced than just sand and flock.
Thanks.
well, there's a lot you can do. You can try getting your hands on some shale, breaking it up and using the pieces that way. You could use wood chips, the wide flat ones, i want to be clear that you don't want to use mulch. Then you can also take the left over sprues and chop them up into brick shapes, and do an urban feel. You can use corck-board (heck, even bottle cork, assuming it is cork, and not plastic/foam), ripping off chunks to make interesting terrain effects, and you can also use extruded polystyrene to carve out rocks and things, or ancient stone ruins. You could use arts-and-crafts foam sheets, cut them up into squares and glue those down as tiles, you can grab strips of styrene and styrene straws, glue them down to make a bit of a spaceship feel, adding whatever diamondplate patterns or grating to stand on... you could grab moss and small plant stuff (if you are lucky and know someone with orchids, especially spider orchids, you could even add those folwers--once dried-- to the base, though they're brittle and break easy) to create a swampy feel. I've taken bush roots from the plants that died, and cut lengths of them, soaked them in green ink/heavily watered green paint to make them springy and green, and while they were pliable made vines. You could also grab yourself some deer moss to add wee bushes to your bases.....
Really, everything you can lay your hands on can be used, the question really is, what feel are you going for? I got one commissar i made that didn't turn out right, so I took a piece of rhino top-doors, sliced it at an angle, and made my commisar running up a piece of debris.... tell us what you want and we can go from there.
