Making your bases

One of the most over-sight things but "not for me".

I like to make my bases nicely and want to create a theme for my armies.

This time for Saurian Ancients i wanted to do the same. This is the final look of my 50x50mm base.

To create this look i have used the below materials and here is how i made this base.

1. Cut mdf pieces. Do you remember the army list i gave in my first thread?  i got them cut in a wood atelier ,according to model measures. Skinks in 20x20mm , tegu guards 25x25cm , Frog mage 50x50mm etc.

2. Texture paste. I aplied a texture paste on the bases. Waited all to be dried.

3. Used 2 different sand types. One of them is more sandy . One is more on rocky type. Glued them on the base. Waited for them to be dried. and stabilized.

4. I drunk tea with my wife on friday night and used the remaining tea residues on this project. It gives fantastic leaves in jungle effect.

5. I bought some stuff from hobby store, which looks like some meadows in a jungle. 

After these 5 steps, here below is how they look together.

Then i sprayed them in black.  And a bit white sprayed for lights.

They look nice now. BUT.....

I made a mistake. I realised that after glueing all these stuff on mdf material and spraying them made these nicely done bases to fold and skew little bit. Small ones are ok but the ones which i made for my carnasaur and titanapod are ruined. I dont know what to do now and looks like there is no solution to make them again.

If you dont want to experience such a thing. Either dont use mdf materials and use plastics instead or use some sticky tape before gluing anything on them.

I had to paint them but really was a long task, if you like to make nice things, you need to consume the time.

Here are my bases for Tegu Guards. 25x25mm . I needed to make 30 of them.

If anybody needs, here is how i painted them.

1. I dry brushed the surface with Vallejo grey. Any grey would work here.

2. I used thick vallejo dark green. With adding vallejo livery green each time, i lighted some areas in 3-4 seperate steps.

3. Put some black color texture paste in some spots.

4. With vallejo brown color washes i gave some brownish dirty look inside these new black areas, as well as on some other spots.

5. I dry brushed abit more with grey .

thats all. You can do better than me. I guess i can put more stuff in later, when ever i am bored painting the minis, can turn back to this part.

If you wonder how long does it take to make these bases, Well you know you need to wait those dyeing steps but in a weekend , i finished all. However i really worked hard and in patience. It is not easy when you are married with two children.

Thank you guys for reading. See you in an other thread.