All the base belong to us

A month or so back, I was discussing on our Discord the importance of basing, and how we can use it as a key storytelling element in our miniatures. Alongside my own critique of my work in that I feel I can improve upon that element as well. Too often I’m thinking about painting the subject, with getting it prepped and painting it right away. Sure I have an idea of the setting and the general colour palette surrounding him, but I want the scene to do more. And to get more involved, I’ve decided to go in a reverse order to what I normally do. That is to build the scene, paint it completely, and then paint the subject to harmonize with it. Honestly I’m not entirely sure of the results, or if it’s advantages or disadvantages. Rather this is just going to be a different approach to shake things up, and learn more about the process. With the usual recording of the process, and to share my notes with all of you here.

The base itself is sculpted out of Milliput over a rough cut block of insulation foam. You can crumple tin foil or place something underneath it to give an initial volume to the land. This is just so that you’re not using an entire brick of milliput to save material! I’ve had cut out a few Eldar scenery pieces to stick into the rock ruins, which with some paint it’ll make more sense ;) more of that to come.

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