Basing done easy, done right.

I got some positive feedback on the basing of my Talos and Venom (the HQ one) and i really cannot claim any credit for it, i started experimenting in buying bases and the best one so far are probably the skull bases that i have for my wannabe succubus and the "wrack" i built from spares to get nine.

Black cat bases in demonstration. If interested, check it out

I've bought a couple of bases from black cat, and they probably have the best bases for skulls, there are different sizes, randomization and as far as i have experienced no mold slips.

It is realy easy to make them look good too, black base colour, drybrush, and nuln oil. If desired, flock. All the allure of doing Undead skeletons, but for a higher purpose, or rather.....a BASE purpose :D


*ehum* I was pretty happy with my Grey knight terminators from a way back. As you are sometimes, but when i picked them up from their foamed suspension, i started finding faults, missed highlights, large areas that were not shaded, and so forth. I doubt i am the only one who has that issue, you focus on painting something, get at it, feel finished and when you look at it the next day it is not as good as you remember it. it might the fatigue meaning that you start missing details but i prefer to think of it as your sense of self preservation lulling you into a false sense of completion so as to get you do less meaningfull stuff, like eating or sleeping.

On to the pudding.

The base foundation for is Devlan mud, you could probably get the same material cheaper if you mixed dark mud colour with fine grained sand, but i have to say that as far as the GW technical range goes, this has been a real treat to work with. In the video you are advised to not use a brush, it will obviously wear down the brush, but it also means that you get less "whorls" that give a better visual impact. So using a cut up piece of sprue to spread it out really is better.

The dawnstone is what(in my opinion) really ties it together, and if you wanted more of a winter wonderland look, then simply using dawnstone, and white scar might work better, i tried the Praxeti white (again, because i simply had it available) and it worked out prety great, if you want a more "sandy" touch, then skip it.

The new Talos i recently painted, the basing scales pretty well for larger bases, and i will definetly use it for "dreadnight" sized modells.


I followed the Walkthrough from winters SEO. It really is a great channel with good batreps, and the walkthrough is in five easy steps and with a great return on your work investment.

The link for his scheme is below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWOpNPZES1Y&list=WL&index=4