"Basing question and 'honour' based pics" Topic

Ive had some 10mm GHQ figures painted up for some time now but couldnt decide what to do with them.

Ive decided to throw my lot in with Sam Mustafa's 'Honour' system. sammustafa.com/honour

Im confident these will be good if not great. Anyways, the basing for this system is 'flexible' but in a more honest way than some games. By that I mean some games claim basing "wont matter" for their rules but this a bit lazy IMO. Sam's rules do have a basing system but they show you HOW to make it flexible. Infantry, artillery and cavalry are all given the same base width. Depth doesnt matter too much but should really be less than the width to look good. You then use these base widths as the games primary measurement. I think this is a good approach although best to make your own measuring sticks.

Now here is my question for today. Im basing my 10mm army DBA style. 40x20 inf 40x30 cav, artillery and limbers. As you can see Ive just added sand but no flock or paint yet. The thing is that I think the sand alone looks quite nice next to the wooden finish. Should I add paint, drybrush first or just flock it as is? Perhaps someone has other suggestions?

You can see the pics here – puxty.blogspot.com

If you like the sand as it is, just go with it.

Sand looks ok – but if they are going to fight on the same terrain as shown further down the page then probably a bit more flock is needed. You can always leave a fair bit of sand showing.

Bare sand tends to look much more flat at a distance than a dark wash and bright drybrushing. Sand will also gradually crumble away with handling. That said, it's also quite simple to replace!

I agree with fred12df though; if you stick with the sand, it could use more flock.

Actually I havnt added any flock yet. Some of these were rebased so whats there is just from the figures own base.

Think I will paint them but will stick to similar light sand colour.