<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base?
Just after some advice on how i could go about making a particular style of base. I am thinking of making it appear so though my miniatures are standing atop floating icebergs or on a drifting glacier with water underneath.

Now how i was thinking about doing it was:

- Getting a regular base and removing the top, gluing the base to some plasticard to make it hollowed and sealed.
- Then using corkboard with smaller pieces at the base and increasing in size as height increases, covering that in spackle and shaping it be similar to a drifting peice of ice.
- Then doing a water effect of some kind around the base.

The advice i was after is:

1. Creating the actual 'iceberg' itself, do you think my method would work? Or is there another method you would suggest looking at?
2. How would i go about the water effect, i want the water to look icy and kind of deep water but to still have that water look to it.
3. Finally how would you paint the thing to look realistic?

Thanks guys.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065574.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065574.page GMT Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base? Cut foam block to look like tip of ice burg , apply PVA glue on it , and paint it white .

Mix 2 part blue ink to 1 part green ink , with lots of water ,
apply it all over the ice burg .

Dry brush white on the ice burg , whiter and more intense as it leaves the water line.

Water Part:
Necron Abyss blue coat
mordian blue dry brush
green wash + water
apply gloss varnish on the whole thing.

If not shiny enough , apply epoxy resin]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065590.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065590.page GMT Re:Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065592.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065592.page GMT Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base?
Was just looking for some good tutorials on using water effects to produce bases, i kind of want to be able able to see the "ice" through the water but for it to still have a watery effect.

Any more advice on possible paint schemes would be appreciated too ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065660.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065660.page GMT Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065899.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1065899.page GMT Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1066499.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1066499.page GMT Re:Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1067527.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1067527.page GMT Re:Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base?
Morgrim wrote:Instead of doing a complicated 'cut out base, glue plasicard in, fill' type method, wouldn't it be simple to turn the non-slot bases upside down? The tapering would be different, true, but if you sprayed the thing white both sides then painted the 'base' (if it was a cup, the inside bottom) with your deepest shade colour, it could look good. Make it easier to control the water effects too.


Pretty much what I was going to suggest, but I added a layer of sand, painted ice blue with a blue wash, and used a scrap of old floor tile for the ice (couldn't finish it tho, no water effects).

This is what I came up with (tested the idea before posting a suggestion) :


My theory is that the painted sand under the water effects might help imply depth.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1067785.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1067785.page GMT Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base?

Thanks alot for trialling it ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1068247.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1068247.page GMT Re:Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base? ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1068348.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1068348.page GMT Ideas on how to make a glacier/iceberg style base?

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Might be a long shot, but does anyone know what products i could use that are available in australia to create water effects and tint them as i need?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1068673.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/262417/1068673.page GMT