1. THE BASE

the red structur comes from a pepper cap. I broke a side (almost an half) then i filled it with insulation foam. i cracked the foam to make it seem like a ruined terrain then i filled the gaps with GS. i drilled a large hole into the foam then i stuffed in it a big pen cap, made the same for 2 little other tubes. i cut a alluminium mesh then i bent it slightly and ruined it on the edges, then i put it into the foam. i covered the top of the base with gs, then i flattened and smoothed it with a flat sculpting tool, then i cut it (not so good with gs sorry...) to make steel plates (they seem a little bit gummy... not so sharp but it was my first try so i was kinda satisfied ^_^). i took a piece of sprue and i modelled it with a dremel to make a small chimney. then i cut away a front rhino window to make the tiny floor stained glass. I cut a brass rod to make a broken optical cable and i glued on the base... and now...

2. THE BASE PAINTING

I started with a Chaos black coat on the texturized foam, then sprayed 3 coats of Chaos Black Spray. I started to drybrush the sand with:

-Catachan Green + Scorched Brown + Codex grey

-Adding Rotting flesh and fortress grey

-Pure fortress grey

Then i washed the whole sand with thinned catachan green mixed with Lich Purple. I painted the mesh with codex grey highlighting it with fortress grey and making little light spots on edges with Skull white and fortress grey. Then i washed it with thinned coats of Dark Flesh, then i made small rust dots with Dark flesh + Blazing orange. The big tube was painted with semi-NMM tecnique. Based it with dark flesh + scorched brown + codex grey then higlighted it with fortress grey till i reached pure Fortress grey, making a small highlight line on the edge with fortress grey + skull white. The small tubes were painted with the same style just with slight different coulors... (one with a scaly green base, the other one with a vomit brown base). The slime coming out from the big tube was painted with scaly green mixed with catachan green, highlighting it with camo green then small dots of rotting flesh, then 2 thinned coats of Gloss Varnish. The other slime drool was made with lots of coats of GW water effect (free hommage if i had to buy it... nevermind! just use vinavil...) mixed with catachan green, then Water effect mixed with camo green. I drybrushed slightly the area around the slime with catachan then camo green to obtain a sort of "dried" slime oxidation. I painted the optical cable with chaos black + scorched brown then highlighted it with vomit brown, then i painted a small OSL at the end of the cable. The small chimney and the stained glass window were painted in the same way. Chaos black + scaly green, highlighting it with hawk turquoise + fortress grey till pure fortress grey. I filled the "window" with gw water effect mixed with skull white do give a dull glass effect. The metal plates were painted with a mix of scorched brown and scaly green, highlighting them with dark flesh and fortress grey, keeping in mind i want the global light source coming from our right (then centurus' left). Small blood stains were painted with scab red and highlighted with dark flesh.

That's all for the base... we can pass to the mini!