#basing

[smegshroom]

While I havent gotten around to painting the Lord of Flies yet, I did go ahead and make him a little base at least.

[alisface]

John leggsss

My final model for the year finished and based!

Honestly a little more proud of the base than the model but I hadn't had such a clear vision for one till now.

It came togeather great but the greenery and built up area puts it in a weird spot compared to the army, which is fine because I kinda wanted it to be it's own thing/faction leader in the army.

A little bummed out I didn't complete my goal of having all my larger models based by Christmas but I'm never usually all that able to do much given the season. So I'm kinda surprised I did as much as I have.

[programmerminipainting]

Horrors - The Pink Limit

There's never a limit though, as there's always more Horrors to be had. Well, painted, as there's still a box worth in a tray. Well, constructed, as said tray doesn't have much that's glued together. But there's more! Always more.

So, Pink Horrors are the reason I started with the plastic crack. It wasn't immediate, but the pink gribblies in Relic's masterpiece (though maybe less masterpiecely for the lore…) Dawn Of War. Chaos Marines were cool, because they were just psychologically broken. And Pink Horrors? Just so aligned with my brain. While the first models I painted were something else, it was Horrors that I wanted to paint lots of and made the most progress. They're still what I'm most proud of. Every time I look at them, I smile and thinking "that's what I want to achieve".

And then I look closely. Or at the base. And I feel bad again. Imperfections, bad choices and just WTFery of the ugly bases. But no more! As I let the paint-shit bug bite, I wanted to come back to these gentle, docile little creatures. Also, I have all of this basing material to actually fucking use one day. So I did.

After noticing imperfections last time I looked closely, I thought I'd poke around a little bit with some touch-ups. Gone is the horrible black smudge on the cheek, teeth have been cleaned up and all around they've just had a little polish.

And I just love the end result for the bases too much. Fixing, rather than starting from scratch, as there was at least some texture there. A bit of drybrush, a bit of wash, then the magical grass. A few attempts at sorting out the base rim colour, which is still a tiny bit rough but good enough. Can't really see the progress well though.

Should have thought of this at the same time as doing the other media here, but whatever it's here now. Now I look at them side by side, the original base work makes me shudder a bit. No depth, not much thought, texture crap all along the rim. It'll take a bit of time to sort all of them, but the important thing is that I want to sort them.

[blanketfort44]

I think I have “enough” minis to build, prime and paint for a while.

Also I’ve started dipping my toes into basing as well.

gibbers madly

[mr-salamander40k]

Been messing with some basing and been having a great time I’ll post a vid of some more work.

[gardhoulthehermit]

Thought y'all would like to see my bases without orks in the way and with a more natural lighting!

[lewdcookies]

And thanks to this video I discovered I can get XPS foam from the hardware store up the road for a decent cost. Which is neat.

Finding grout is far more annoying. Especially brown grout. Not to mention the minimum would be 3kg bags, which is a bit more than I would ever need.

That is annoying because I really want to build something similar for a 1/72 scale armored vehicle that's waiting to get some paint on on my table. Just to make it a bit more interesting.

I could probably just use my European Mud Vallejo texture paint, but I only grabbed the smaller one and a decent piece would consume a lot of it.

Would also need some more diverse static grass than the box of Army Painter steppe grass that I have. Need something more suitable to West Europe.