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This is very quick and easy, I painted the base in less than 20 minutes because of drying time, and I sculpted it in 5. I didn't spend much time painting because I wanted to quickly show the blood effect. Without further rambling, here it is. Enjoy!

First, get model magic/gs, a base, and sculpting tools, in my case a knife and a pin.

Next, flatten the gs on the base.


Use water and your finger to smooth out the finger prints.


Use the knife to make vertical slits, depending on how wide you want the cobblestone to be.

Make horizontal slits to make the stones. You can make them random or sequenced.

Use the pin to make cracks in the stone.
This step is optional, but get a base with large grains of sand on it and press lightly on it on the cobblestone. This allows the stone to be drybrushed.


Prime black.

Wash with shadow grey.

Drybrush with codex grey.

Drybrush with fortress grey.

Wash with shadow grey.

Thin wash of chaos black.

This is how to get good looking cobblestone easily.
If you want blood effects read on.
First stipple a little scab red on the base.

Stipple blood red in 1 or 2 small places.

Put gloss varnish where the blood red is.

This is a quick paint. If you want to paint in more detail, go ahead, it will work on your new homemade cobblestone!
I have included some pictures of a base with cobblestone on cork in lava to make it look crumbling. I hope this tutorial helped!

Comments? If you want, you can add to this in your comment.

I like how you go from "making cobblestones" to "DIE, ELDAR, DIE!"

I think that's an awesome effect.

THe eldar base was the best example I had. You can also make it so it is smooth. It can be black and white tiles.

That looks pretty cool. I might use it in the future.

malfred wrote:I like how you go from "making cobblestones" to "DIE, ELDAR, DIE!"

Seconded. Didn't see that last pic coming! Looks great, though. Always on the lookout for more sculpting tips (because I suck at it)!

I just tried this (The Making bit at least) and it works really well! Thanks for the Tutorial!

malfred wrote:I like how you go from "making cobblestones" to "DIE, ELDAR, DIE!"

Because everyone hates Eldar? I mean, don't Eldar players even secretly hate themselves for playing them? I think it's a requirement, because I'm pretty sure that the Eldar hate themselves.

is there a pic for this step?

This step is optional, but get a base with large grains of sand on it and press lightly on it on the cobblestone. This allows the stone to be drybrushed.

Yeah I'll post it. It messed up when I uploaded it. Thanks for the positive comments.

Sorry for taking so long. I updated the pics.

That is a handy effect... I might have to use it when I get around to basing my Sisters instead of buying pre-made bases.

Can anyone see my pictures still? Because I can't. It may be my computer, but I used to be able to see them.

I can.

Yeah I can too now. I don't know what happened.

As a modeler, I give you kudos

as an eldar player, I am appalled!!

but very funny. Good job!

I play eldar. It was just the only model that had a torso that I hadn't used. Thanks for the compliment.

I like the was you used the other base for the texture on the cobbles. quick and easy, very nice.

Threadomancy!

that is a really awesome basing technique. wicked.

Looks great. Would go nice with my beserkers

malfred wrote:I like how you go from "making cobblestones" to "DIE, ELDAR, DIE!"

Laughing my Ass off :p

STOP THE THREADROMANCY!!!