Been a bit since my last article, and I thought I would add to the knowledge base here with a couple of things that I have learned (mostly through trial and error) in my time over here.
You've got your minis to the point of art  and now, you want to add some basing.
Before we go any further, I would like to point out that I paint primarily to game, so I'm not really going to go into large display bases, but rather a quick, down and dirty method for basing for gaming.
Anyone who plays Warhammer or 40k has at one time or another read the articles included by GW in the books about working on your minis. In those articles, they talk about basing by simply spreading some white glue/pva on the base of the mini, a quick dip in flock or sand, and viola a gaming ready base. To me, after putting in hours or days on a figure, what you get by this process is, well, unprintable. The sand or flock is two thin, and the base shows through.
I use a similar method however, with one change - multiple layers.
First step is to gather together your basing materials - for gameing figures I use primarily sand, flock, small rocks, and static grass. The sand I use 
was custom delivered to my location by airmail about 2 years ago 
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