"Basing Tutorial" Topic

Hi Folks,

I've added a tutorial to my site that shows how I base units for Impetus. Elementary for many but perhaps helpful for some – link

JET

Jason

Handy hints, thanks. I like to read such thoughts as they are useful for my 28mm as well. Left over corks from wine/champagne bottles (broken up) are options for rocks, have been painting them various shades of grey as you have done.

One difference, I apply my PVA undiluted, which works for 28s and then a sepia wash on the sand after it has cured.

I am planning to use a smoother polyfilla/PVA/paint mix to add some variation – especially for the larger bases like elephants.

Cheers

Garry

As one of the two who asked! Thanks for that Jason. The bark for rock is one of the things I wanted to know.

I use a mix of fine(60%), medium(30%), coarse(10%) railway modeling ballast for my 15s and have been happy with the result.

I shall be descending on the nearby woods in search of bark very soon!

Cheers

Andy

Helpful info. Its alwasy good to see how someone else does it so I can pick up new hints and tricks. :-)

Thank you for your article. I intend on using some of the tricks for basing. Also, I am building "drop in" scenery of say 2x8 inches (for roads) or full field or hamlet sizes. These will be based on hardboard painted with an oil and then latex paint and the thinned-glue/sand/flocking is the sort of thing for most of the area.

Just a note is that I have found the following works well instead of flocking and even looks better. I take old teabags (American style tea inside of paper gauze), dry them, tear out the tea, mix with some brown or green food coloring or fabric dye,,,, dry it and sprinkle this onto the base. The size and texture looks much better than flocking.

Glad to hear that someone benefited from it. I may try that teabag thing. God knows I drink enough tea ;)

J

I'd be interested in an article that covers basing for different terrain types – we seem to have reached a sort of industry standard look for basing which is aesthetically brilliant but doesn't account for variation in sand/snow/mud/grassy plains/jungle/steppe/etc.

My Finns are based on snow, which unfortunatly just looks like I forgot to finish the base… And my Germans are based on mud which gives quite a messy look the overall presentation.

You can also use the tea bag "innards" as "forest" flooring for copses, woods etc. Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.