A scratch-built base

[Ritual]

Here\'s a base I made a few days ago. I may fiddle a little more with the ground before painting it.

It\'s made with cork tile, milliput, stone, plasticard, fine and coarse pumice, brass pipe and some fine scale, pre-cast bolts and nuts. It was a lot of fun to build.

I thought I\'d take a few shots of it and show it, before doing anything further with it, as at this stage you can see fairly well how it\'s built just by looking at it. It may be a week or two (or even longer) before I update this, as I have some other things that need doing.

 

[ScottRadom]

Beautiful, what\'s going on it?

 

[Ritual]

Probably a Hasslefree sci-fi mini. This one:

It is 25 mm to the top of the helmet and reach up to the upper pair of nuts, approximately.

 

[GunjiNoKanrei]

Never thought about using cork to create a wall. i may have to copy that ...

Is that a Dragon Forge resin plint?

 

[Ritual]

Yeah, it\'s the small, round one from DFD.

Cork tiles are great for crumbled concrete walls. You need to coat the flat surfaces with something to get rid of the cork texture, though.

On this piece I used regular wall filler:

I\'d planned to use that this time around as well, but it had dried out in the pot, so I used milliput instead. Took a bit more effort, but I think it worked out well in the end. Hopefully it\'ll look good painted too.

 

[ScottRadom]

Where can a kid order those nuts & Bolts? They\'re great!

 

[Aliengod3]

How did you make the milliput rocks?

I am horrible at bases Write a tutorial

EDIT* I misread. I did not see the comma between milliput and rocks.

 

[AinuLainour]

What do you use to coat the cork? Looking spiffy btw

 

[freakinacage]

looks good, but it looks a little distorted on the bend in the pipe. or is it the picture?

i have a ton of grimn and look forward to seeing what you do with him as i am still not sure on what colours to go for

 

[Cleezy]

Nice base mate, should get a tutorial up though ftw

 

[Ritual]

@ScottRadom
I bought the nuts and bolts from Antenociti\'s.

@Ainu
The cork was coated with milliput with a bit of Vallejo Sandy paste for texture. By thinning the milliput with water you get a paste-like goo that you can spread out over the cork quite easily. An other option that is easier is to use regular wall filler. But mine was dried out in the pot...

@freak
Yeah, the bend in the pipe isn\'t cleaned up in the pic. I have since filed and sanded it so that it looks smoother.

I\'m glad you all seem to like it! I might do a little step-by-step on something similar later on.

 

[ScottRadom]

Ritual you son of a whatsit....

I checked out the Antenoceti\'s site....

WOW! I was wondering whast I was going to do with all my kids education money and now I know. What an incredible product range! I can\'t believe I had never stumbled across that place before. Damnit....

Their 15mm WWII range is awesome. I have never been able to get decently scaled down chaink link fence or barbed wire. How can any self respecting Orc builder not stock up on the nuts and bolts?

Everyone should pay that page a visit. Now if the loonie would just start climbing back up in value!

Thanks for the link, and my wife and kids now hate you.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by ScottRadom
Now if the loonie would just start climbing back up in value!

Don\'t sweat it the Pounds dropping.

 

[nels0nmac]

I little tip that I heard of ( although yet to try myself) when it comes to bending pipes. Supposedly if you fill the pipe with sand and then cap the ends off you can bend the pipe without it kinking. Might be worth a try if you haven\'t already.

 

[PrawnPower]

Cork tile for walls eh ?
I\'ll have to add that one to my basing options
I have some cork tile lying about

Having done a couple of base step by steps I\'d suggest you try one
I think they\'re a bit easier to do than figure guides

Look forward to seeing it with a figure

 

[QuietiManes]

Originally posted by nels0nmac
I little tip that I heard of ( although yet to try myself) when it comes to bending pipes. Supposedly if you fill the pipe with sand and then cap the ends off you can bend the pipe without it kinking. Might be worth a try if you haven\'t already.

That\'ll work, but it\'s a bit problematic in practice, you need to pack the sand/dirt in there really well and seal the ends without any air between the sand and cap, etc. Marbles, beads, ball bearings, can all be used the same way, if you happen to have some that are the same width as the inner diameter of the pipe.

Another option is to fill the pipe with water, freeze it then bend it. It works better if the ends get capped, but it\'s not needed in most instances. Works with plastic too, although I think it\'s easier to heat plastic most of the time.

 

[Ritual]

You can use a wire to stick into the pipe when bending it. Probably the easiest solution. I didn\'t do that here, as I wanted the bend to be very narrow, and I\'m not sure if I could get the same tight angle that way (I\'m going to try it out at some point...). What I did here was to cut a wedge out from the underside of the pipe and then bend it. That way the pipe doesn\'t flatten, but I got the sharp edges of the cut sticking out slightly on the sides, as you can see in the photos. I have filed these down, though, and the bend looks pretty neat now. You will see this when I post a painted version of this base at some point later on.

 

[sg2009]

cool base ritual :drunk:

when are we going to see it painted

sam

 

[Ritual]

I don\'t know when I\'ll get to paint it. Soon hopefully. I have some other things that I need to do, but I might put some paint on this one simultaneously. It will probably be a few weeks until there\'s a miniature on it, though.

 

[Mourner]

would\'nt guitar wire work for not kinking pipes, you\'d still need to get the right diameter, but i think you\'d be able to remove it more easily.
plus, i think most of us have guitar wire lying around, for conversions and stuff