Custom Bases

Greetings fellow wargamers!  We all know the value of sand as a basing solution for our miniatures. Most veteran painters will tell you to glue sand to your base before painting so that you paint the sand too.  A common technique is to glue sand down, glop on some black and spread it around, then […]

Checkout the latest from Secret Weapon Minis? For all you Zombie / Nurgle enthusiasts out there they have a great new product called the Sack O’ Corpses! These great parts will help you spread undead love around the table top, as well as some great new colored “fallen leaves“ to set the right mood for your models’ […]

Hey everyone, it’s CJ again. Since having done the tutorial for a Krootichan there was something I noticed that isn’t out there on the internet too much, and I want to rectify it. Recently here we built a Tyranid army and we started with a set of alien invasion shale bases which went off the market mid build. […]

Back in July I bought the brand new Ork Flyer while I was in the States on leave from deployment, boxed it up and shipped it back to the desert.  When it got to me I wasted no time in building it as a Dakka Jet. Then Hobby ADD kicked in and it got put […]

I’ve been doing a lot of lava theme basing for my Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 Chaos models recently. I’ve shown some here in previous articles, but I’ve as yet never done a full description on how to do the actual painting. This article will focus on painting lava step-by-step. And what better model to use […]

Step 2 Recently I talked about how to batch paint Plaguebearers relatively quickly. This follow-up article is about how to do the toxic swamp basing shown on those models. Nurgle Daemons are disgusting both in appearance and in background concept so a little bit of vileness on their basing should help showcase them nicely. Some […]

Greetings fellow Wargamers!  For your amusement this week are some specialty bike bases I painted up using chalkboard paint. If you’re unfamiliar with this stuff, then the gist of it is:  it’s a paint you can apply to any surface to achieve a chalkboard like finish. When dry you can actually use chalk on the […]

Checkout this great article on how to make custom bases by Red Stick Studios! Building Wood Plank Bases Ever wanted to have wood plank bases, kind of like what you think an old tavern’s floors would look like, the decks of a ship or just what you want for themed bases? Here’s a quick and dirty guide […]

Check out this sweet Diorama base my buddy Josh made for his Tzeentch Daemon prince. It’s pretty much all scratch built with a ton a green stuff. The premise for the scene is the Tzeentchy Daemon Prince shredded open an Ork Trukk, and after growing bored toying with the Nob, has banished him to kicking and screaming […]

Well it was a long week, but I managed to get the bases all painted up and the Nobz mounted on them. Here are the bases, all finished up and flocked.  As you can see I trimmed some of the scrap bits down from the original design to make the overall base more streamlined. Some […]

The other day I saw some painted Ork Nob bikers on e-Bay with some pretty sweet converted bases. Seeing how my ladz were conveniently without bases, and therefore less cooler than the models I saw for up auction felt I had to act. The main problem I ran into was that I wanted to have […]