Hobby 101 - 40k Urban Bases Painted Up

Here is the finished base.


To paint it up I started with a Black primer followed by grey base coat, see pictures below.

Next I painted the base coat of the bricks with Graveyard Earth mix as I didn't want the entire base in grey. I also painted the metal bits with Boltgun Metal, when it dried I gave it a wash of Nuln Oil.
 

Next I drybrushed Graveyard Earth over the bricks again and gave it a Dark Brown Wash. The metal bits I washed with a mix of Ogryn Flesh and Vermin Brown.

I then drybrushed everything again with the original base colours to bring out the detail.

Now I washed the sand areas with Nuln Oil followed by a Dark Brown wash, once dry a drybrush of the Grey Base colour.

It was almost done, the only thing I wanted to add was more rust effect on the metal so I carefully stippled some more Vermin Brown on and that's it, all done.

Overall it was quick and easy and the end result turned out pretty neat.


Happy basing.


Vitor

Hobby 101 - 40k Urban Bases

 
After finishing up my Dark Angels Chaplain Conversion I wanted to base him on something different to my normal GW (light brown sand with green grass) style base. I have only ever tried out one other style, a red planet, for my Silver Skulls Marine and that base didn't turn out very well.

So onto the project.

The conditions I set down for my self were that it had to be cheap, easy to make, easy to obtain the stuff used on the base and lastly it had to include left over plastic sprue.

I went rummaging around my terrain bits and pieces and found the following items to use


Plastic Sprue ( for the rubble / brickwork )
Drinking Staws ( for metal pipes )
Corrugated Card from a pizza box ( for metal sheets )
Plastic Mesh ( for wire fencing )
Modelling sand

Now all I did was cut the sprue into blocks and glue together to form a section of wall, cut off a piece of straw for the pipe sticking out of the ground and lastly cut a piece of the card sheet for the metal sheeting and arrange to suit your taste. I did not use the mesh in the end but if I was doing more than one base I would alternate between the sheet and mesh for a varied look.

 The plastic sprue was a bit thick and I cut it in half which made a nice texture on the cut side.

It was everything I set out to do and so easy to make, stay tuned for the painted up version.


Hope you enjoy making your own.

Vitor

Terrain Focus - 40k Fence - On the workbench

The next part of this series is about making a fence 40k style. These are the items you will need : a base of hard board cut to size and shape, some plastic mesh, toothpicks, pieces of high density insulation foam, bits of tree bark, a piece of pizza box card and some plastic sprue.

Start off by cutting off the ends of the toothpicks and threading them through your plastic mesh, once that's done secure the fence to the base, I have used greenstuff here but a hot glue gun will work also.
 

Next cut up your fence to make it look like its in a war zone, complete the ground as I have here with poly filler ( see my previous posts for details ) or use white glue and sand. Arrange your debris pieces to your liking and wait to dry.

 

 Once dry prime and paint black.
 

 

Next I paint the ground starting with Scorched Brow then dry brush with Bestial Brown, Bubonic Brown and ending with Bleached Bone,

 Next paint up your metals with Boltgun Metal and debris with Codex Grey.
 

Apply the details, wash the metals with Badab Black, after that's dry wash with Devland mud in selected areas ending with a wash of rust ( I mixed my own seen here ). The debris also get the same treatment without the rust effect.


Almost done so stay tuned for the final part.

Vitor

Hobby 101 - Necron Warrior

 

As part of this hobby post it made sense to paint up a Necron Warrior to show what the base looks like with a miniature on it. I didn't own any Necrons but a mate of mine had a spare one lying around that he kindly gave me for this post, it had the green plastic tube for the weapon missing but no worries, I used the base of a banner pole with the end drilled out to look like the barrel.

I went for the standard GW paint scheme here, starting with a black base coat and a metal finish, with the exception of the weapon which I painted up in an antique bronze look.

Here are some more close ups

I really enjoyed doing something other than Marines and I think a few more posts like these will be making an appearance on my blog.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Vitor

Hobby 101 - Necron Crystal Bases

If you missed my guest post on From the Warp Blog then here is the full article.

With the second wave of Necrons about to hit an idea formed in my mind about how to use left over sprue to make a base with some crystals on it.

To start with take your standard base and find some left over sprue, use smaller pieces for smaller bases and bigger pieces for larger bases as this will mean less cutting for you. You can also use left over greenstuff (when I use greenstuff I press all the left overs into a square which I then cut up into little bricks, these I use in my terrain projects as rubble) for the crystals.

Next take the sprue and cut small pieces off the ends and shape into crystal like structures.

Now use PVA glue to stick your sand on.

Undercoat with black in this case Chaos Black.

I went for an 'ash waste' type world, so I used a progressively lighter shade of Chaos Black and Codex Grey to highlight the sand area.

I then painted the crystals with Dark Angels Green.

Here I used a mixture of Goblin Green and a small amount of Bubonic Brown to highlight the crystals.

To bring out the details I used the lightest mixture to hard edge the sides of the crystals. After that I mixed in some Bleached Bone and applied this in small dots to the corners of the crystals only.

I also wanted to create an area on the sand that was 'Glowing' from the reflecting light coming from the crystals. To do this I started with a heavy wash of Thraka Green.

Then once this was completely dry I drybrushed Skull White over the area concentrating more on the area closer to the crystals and fading away the further you move away. Finally another wash of Thraka Green on the furthermost edge of the 'Glow' effect and pulling it in towards the crystals to blend in the transition from light to dark.

Hope you like the idea.

Vitor

Terrain Focus - 40k Tank Traps - Finished

Here is the finished piece! For those that followed the series from the beginning you will have noticed that these tank traps are different, that's because they were made earlier using the same process. The Tank Traps in the first two posts are part of a larger piece that will get its own series so keep an eye out for that, it will be worth it.

So how did I finish off the piece? The traps themselves were washed with a Badab Black wash then drybrushed lightly again with Codex Grey followed by another wash of Devland Mud, a fine detail wash of Thraka Green was also applied in places near the base.

The ground was washed with Devland Mud and highlighted with a dry brush of Bleached Bone. Static grass was then glued on to finish the piece. You will notice that I have used some sprue to represent steel beams and debris, an easy touch to add to your terrain pieces.
 

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.

Vitor