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Friday, August 29, 2014

WIP: Display Bases - Ground Work Part 1

First we should protect those nicely stained bases then start building up the details...


Giant squig base is going to be big, really big!
 By contrast the Dwarf bases will be small, but hey, they're small. Rocky shores of NZ, mean streets of TO and The Dock Of The Bay...
The RT era base is going to be a blasted wasteland of the second war for Armageddon...
 A tip for working with cork: waste not want not.
That will all come in handy as various sizes of ballast later :)  You can also make terrain features like stalactites and stalagmites of out assorted cork stoppers and toothpicks...
Time to start smoothing some of the corky texture away or else it looks like cork a bit too much. Cue the lightweight polyfilla!
While I wait for the first layer of that to dry I figured I would sculpt the water for the rocky shore base...
Okay, now I was out of room once again waiting for stuff to dry so I went and collected a few items for future details. A little gardening got me some roots, rocks and sticks for the cave of the giant squig.
 Also, a recent family trip to the beach  got me some nice sand with a cool texture and this pretty rock that The Agent of Chaos likes so I may have to make it into a necklace or some such - it's not all grimdark and monsters here o_O
Well, even the sand has to dry so I think this is a good place to stop.

Next Post: Adding more detail to suggest scale and sculpting mushrooms.  Thanks coming by. Hit me up in the comments and remember, you can't spell paint with out a little pain :)