"Building up a base?" Topic

Hi guys,

I have some Perry and Wargames Factory plastics I want to glue to my mdf bases I got from Warbases. What do you guys use to build up around the miniatures since they come molded with those little plastic circles?

Cheers!

cheap ready mix wall filler, and rubber glue (unknown make but a bit copydexy..?) mixed with cheap acrylic paint all bought from poundland.. (UK dollar store equiv?)

Decorator's Filler applied with a small palate knife.

Filler with some green paint added and a bit of black added plus a pinch of coarse flock to create a texture.

This turns the mix to a sort of olive green and ensures that if the base chips, then white filler will not show through.

I apply with a palette knife, but an unusual one that is long but only about 5 millimetres wide, so that it can push the paste into all the crannies and over the top of the figure base, so that it goes around the feet of the figure.

Ronseal wood filler, comes in a range of colours.

I prefer premixed concrete patch/cement. Comes in a little plastic tub and isn't much more than wood filler. It's got a nice rough texture that takes a drybrush very well. A bit smeared over the top of the base and you'll have texture there also. Since it's also a cement you can press rocks, bark, cork or other scenic materials into it and they'll stay put, or just sprinkle a bit of sand on top if you want an even coarser texture.

Thanks gents. There's a lot of different options for me to try. I will give a couple a go. The wood filler is only a couple bucks at the local lumber yard.

Spackle and wood filler generally shrink some so you sometimes need a second coat to fill gaps and cracks. Though of course sometimes that looks great.

I also use Liquitex Modeling Paste. This is an additive to make art paint thicker; it contains emulsion and marble dust. It is about the consistency of caulk or toothpaste. It doesn't shrink, dries hard as stone, and also works as an adhesive. You can mix paint with it (about 25% paint to modeling paste) and it turns the same color as the paint, so you can mix colored filler that matches your base color.

There's also some texture mediums that have a gritty sandy texture but otherwise work the same way for this application. I think they've been renamed Stucco Medium and Resin Sand Medium. Saves texturing the base.

Yup – Liquitex modeling paste.