John here with another update on my Dire Avengers Shrine: The Sable Helm. Now if you haven't read the earlier parts go see them (Stripping & Shrine). So today's update is all about the bases and showing off the colour scheme on a model. So lets get started.
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For this project I started off with 15 fleshly stripped, 25mm bases. Basically the ones with models. I also had a sheet of cork tiling, broken into roughly stone shapes. PVA glue and some brown paint. The corking, pva and paint all came from a dollar store (costing less than $5) and I have enough supplies now for my entire army.
As far as basing goes it's pretty straight forward:
- Pick pieces of cork for your 15 bases.
- Stick them on the base with PVA glue.
- Once dried, paint them brown.
- Finished....for now.
For my own project I'm going for a ruined landscape feel, either a rocky world or world of ruins (think Osgiliath). But this also works well for concrete or lava rocks or swamp basing.
So here are the basic bases. So all I need to do is finish them and stick the guardians on.
Whilst these ones (with the gaps) are for the metal Avengers. The idea being I can use the tabs for extra support!
I feel they work well. Just need to put some filler in to smooth them out.
Test Model
So now onto the test model. I choose the Exarch as a test model, as he had the most opportunity for colours. Having now took photographs of the model, I see I need to do some more white highlighting and another highlight on the yellow plume. But I'm liking how the base looks and can see real potential.
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So what do you think? Let me know below and hopefully I can get a squad finished by tonight.