December 25, 2010

Base tutorial: making bases with cork



Greetings!

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make effective bases with cork.

Materials you'll need:
Cork board (you can get it in Bauhaus)
GW sand
GW static grass
PVA glue/Drvofix glue
Superglue (preferaby Loctite Super Bond liquid glue)
GW Chaos Black paint
GW Dark Flesh paint
GW Snakebite Leather paint
GW Bleached Bone paint
GW Scorched Brown paint
GW Codex Grey
GW Fortress Grey
Toothpicks
Large brushes

All right, let's begin............

1.First off, the materials:

2. Start by taking out a couple of chunks of cork from the board:

3. Assemble the chunks of cork on the base, glue them with superglue:

4. Start applying PVA glue on the base and spread the glue with a toothpick:

5. Dunk the base in sand:

6. Start gluing bitz on the base with superglue (but this is entirely optional!):

7. Paint (or spray) the whole base with black:

8. Start painting sand with Dark Flesh, then highly dryhrush with Snakebite Leather, then lightly drybrush with Bleached Bone....and voila, the sand is done:

9. Drybrush cork with Codex Grey, and paint the bitz:

10. Add small chunks of PVA glue on the base with a toothpick and then put on Static Grass:

11. Paint the edge of the base with Scorched Brown:


12. Drybrush the edges of cork with Fortress Grey to further represent the effect of rock:

13. And thats that, here are 4 more examples:

14. ......and with models glued in place:

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