"Renaissance Ink basing gel... advice needed" Topic

Okay, so I'm doing my first Renaissance figures, and it's only fitting that I'm also using "Renaissance Ink's" basing gel (Medium.) While it was wet I took the liberty of sticking in some little "rocks" here and there, and the odd tuft of static grass.

Now the stuff is dry, and it looks way too shiny to be "real" rocks, so I'm going to have to paint it, obviously.

Any suggestions for me, regarding where to go from here? Should I wash it in black first, then drybrush a grey stone color over it... and then go back again and do patches of dirt and flocking?

How do you guys do it?

Have you hit it with a flatcoat yet? I've had bases before come out really shiny a good shot of testors flatcoat took care of the problem nicely.

I add the acrylic terrain color I want before

I terrained my NK Egyptian bases with a mix of medium and fine flocking gels. I mixed in enough Ceramcote Golden Brown to dye it completely, and then spread it with an old shabby brush. When dry, I drybrushed with a sand color, and glued pebbles to it with your standard MArk I elmer's glue.

I usually paint it with a very wet brush and a dark colour.

For grey-ish looking ground I use Cell Vinyls Grey 30 and high light it from there with Grey 20, Grey 10, Grey 5 and then finally a quick dry brush of Grey 1.

For desert looking bases I use Burnt Umber and highlight with GW's Bestial Brown and then CV's tan and then the tan mixed with cream.

For dirt colours I would use the burnt umber then mud grey and then mud grey mixed with cream.

Not used RI gels recently, though I have done a while ago. Simple mixing of acrylic paint into the gel mix worked very well and easily The gels are pretty thick, so a bit of thinning with a normal strength acrylic (I think at the time I was using Colour Party) made an instant green gel, or brown gel or whatever you need. Simple drybrush and instant base done!

Only reason I don't use them now is that I have grown progressively lazier, and whilst I still prefer to paint my own figures I get someone else to do all my basing :-)