"Finishing Bases for Dungeon Delves" Topic

I've been a historical gamer and finished my bases for years with sand, grit, ballast, flock, spackling, and static grass. Now I am stumped on how to finish bases for figures used in dungeon delves. No grass in most underground settings,so…?

Currently leaving them painted black, although considering grey as well. No texture or sparkling, so the bases are ugly!

Suggestions?

I use the aforementioned ingredients, in shades of brown and gray. There are pre-made dungeon-floor-like bases, as well. Some folks make bases with grid patterns, to mimic the typical dungeon grid work. I went with the shades of tan and gray to make the bases more flexible as I will be using them for both dungeons and caverns, so the tans and grays will work for both environs. Cheers!

After years of having all kinds of different colors and textured bases. I am switching over to clear transparent bases from Litko. Check out these Pulp Figures posted in a news story.

TMP link

thanks
Duane

For metal figures I just started using Sculpy on the base. I carve cobbles, bricks, or whatever into the clay and then bake it. Works well for me.

I did a write up on my blog on making a texture stamper for bases.

Here's the stamper

Stamping the pattern in 2 part epoxy

Some figures with Stamped bases.

Here's the "how to" write up my blog:
link

Xin

There is another method I use,

Use gel medium to give the base texture and hide slotta bases or molded on bases. Then just dry brush dark to light grey on the bases. In the last picture above, you can see examples of both methods and one base where I forgot to do anything.

Xin

One idea is to make a mold of the base and just make casts of the whole base. Might be easier.