NGArtStudios
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Looks great, I especially like the way the axe and shield came out.
Khorne Champion.
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Brother Captain
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Looking great! I particularly like the oxidised metal on the axe and the base. Maybe a tutorial for the base won\'t go amiss. 
Joek
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Originally posted by Brother Captain
Maybe a tutorial for the base won\'t go amiss.
The good thing is that the base is really easy to do! You can get big old bags of cork \'boulders\' from various hobby stores. There\'s alwasy some which form a great basis for a nice rock for the mini to stand on. What you may well have to do is slice the top a bit, so that it\'s flat enough for a figure to stand on, and I do tend to carve the sides slightly inwards (sometimes it\'s almost looking like the stone\'s growing from the base!).
If it\'s plastic figure you don\'t tend to need to do this, but because the figure is metal, the cork simply would hold a weighty figure, so I tend to put a layer of milliput (no GS though, as it\'s a bit too rubbery for this) on the top. You can shape it a little bit (or at least roughen it up a little to carry on the stone effect), and when it\'s dry you have a good base to drill a couple of holes so you can pin the figure on.
After that, undercoat it black, put a little sand on the base for smaller rubble, and start working up the colours - as you can see the basic shades are greys - and you can really go wild with the highlights (drybrushing is all I do - use a big brush though!).
You could leave it like that, but rocks tend not to be so boring as to be just grey, so you can also have fun putting on various colour washes in the recesses - I used purples, blues, greens - anything to give it a little variety.
Finally - and this is my fave part - take some pastels (or the weathering kits you can buy), shave off a bit of colour, and dab onto the rock (randomly!). It\'s fun to use really contrasting colours for this (well, I think
). Use a dry brush and gently work this colour into the rock. You should have an interesting coloured base! Add a little static grass in (very) small amounts here and there, and the job\'s a good \'un!
Brother Captain
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Thanks a lot Joek! That was very informative. Double thanks for the fast reply.
By the way you know of any hobby shops in the UK that sell cork boulders?
By the way you know of any hobby shops in the UK that sell cork boulders?
Joek
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Antenociti - for everything you need!
Brother Captain
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I\'ve bought so many times from Antenocity and I missed the fact that they sell cork...
You\'re free to make fun of me! lol
