"Creating Dungeon Bases" Topic
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MiniatureReview | 12 Jul 2015 10:10 a.m. PST |
Looking for the best, least expensive way to make dungeon bases. I have green stuff putty (Kneadatite), but it seems rather expensive to do bases with. I am looking to do rock tile type dungeon bases on 25 or 30mm round bases. Any other solutions? I don't want already existing dungeon bases because that would require me to cut the miniature bases around the feet. |
abelp01 | 12 Jul 2015 10:20 a.m. PST |
Wood putty and spackle-like products work pretty good. |
Dan Beattie | 12 Jul 2015 12:08 p.m. PST |
Visit your local tile and/or linoleum store. They will have catalogs of what can be ordered if they don't have your exact need. |
Zephyr1 | 12 Jul 2015 2:32 p.m. PST |
Textured paper cut into squares & glued to base…? |
CeruLucifus | 12 Jul 2015 2:49 p.m. PST |
For my RPG figures with dungeon bases, I opted for a gravel texture as it's much faster to apply. I paint the base raw umber (medium brown). For the gravel I use Woodland Scenics white railroad ballast, fine and medium. I paint on thinned white glue, sprinkle medium ballast on one half the base, then sprinkle fine ballast on the other half. After it's dry, I do a wash of Burnt Umber (dark brown), usually a "magic wash" of paint mixed with thinned acrylic varnish instead of water. And I overbrush with medium gray, thinned to the point that it's a glaze or stain (so it seeps into the middle section of the texture leaving the deeper cracks dark and raised peaks have white showing through like a highlight). The two sections of texture look more dynamic, as if the model is moving. The gravel texture looks fine in a dungeon; there is probably lots of gravel in an underground setting. |
Marshal Mark | 12 Jul 2015 4:24 p.m. PST |
I would think air drying clay would work for this. |
Pedrobear | 12 Jul 2015 5:44 p.m. PST |
I use Wills styrene sheets for this kind of thing: link
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MiniatureReview | 12 Jul 2015 7:25 p.m. PST |
I think we have a winner. Air Drying clay. Never used it, but it's cheap and I am willing to give it a go. Nice skaven/rat troops. |
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