Terrain

Painting guide written by Klaus Teschner
 
I figured that rather than just show you how I painted the bases in our product image it would be best to cover a couple of extra alternative ways to paint your Rocky bases.  In this article I shall cover how to paint according to the climate you wish to portray.  I must state that this article is for beginners.
 
 
Moderate climate scheme
 
Stage 1
Once I cleaned my bases I primed ...

In this article I will show you how I have developed and painted the lava bases I have made for the Iron Giants army.  I've been waiting for a while to write this article because, well, someone else said they wanted to use it and they haven't contacted me to let me know any different, so here is what I've done and you get it free!
Obviously to start with you need the right materials to build a base like this.  For mine, I started with cork pot-mats you use to ...

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This is a tutorial on how to paint Verloren Eldar. First of all you will need a model plastic or super glue flock Reaper ...

At some point in our lives we all get back into bloodbowl. Its a given. Now were older though, and were allowed to play with things like power tools and saws we can go that little bit farther than we did when we were 13...

This article will give you a good idea of how to make your very own BLOODBOWL PITCH!



Before i write this article on how to build a BB pitch I want to say that i used loads of other peoples pitches as inspiration for mine. though the pitch is all my work, the ideas are taken from a whole host of other peoples sites and images found via google and the talkbloodbowl and specialist games forums. credit where credit is due.

Apologies in advance for photo quality, i'm a modeller not photographer. They will give you the general idea i hope. This is my first article on CMON, so please feedback!

The whole thing took me 6 days (on the 7th i rested) and cost about £60.


STAGE 1 - PLANNNING

I wanted my pitch to:

1) Be transportable ( therefore fairly light)
2) Be 3cm per sq (see much forum debate..)
3) Be raised, so the dugouts can be sunken.
4) Make people gasp when they see it.
5) Have all the markers, counters and stuff included

I did not want it to:

1) Fall apart in a comedy ...

Here’s a quick and simple way for painting your Tyranid swarm to what I believe to be a CMON 6.

First of all a list of things I will be using...

1 Mini Pin-Vice Paint Brushes (standard and fine detail) Flesh Wash Reaper Olive Green Reaper Volcano Brown Reaper Ruddy Flesh Reaper Orc Flesh Sawdust ...

ok so you are tired of the paint stains on your kitchen table.
you have glued your shoes to the carpet enough times. ...

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Building Osgiliath



The base ...

Scenic Squad Bases


Nothing sucks worse for a mini than to spend its life locked up in a dark claustrophobic carrying case. So why not make their lives a bit more enjoyable and give them a scenic base with some terrain on it? Here's a basic example of making a display base with all the steps detailed.

1. Start with a simple wood base. A place like Michael's Craft Stores is a good place to look for bases.

2. Put the ...