BTC – A Progress Report

I’ve always been a big advocate of the theory ‘A good base makes a good model’.

I get upset when I see a really nicely painted model with only sand on it’s base. I recently saw some beautifully painted Khador where the player had only stuck Snow on their bases *sigh*. PeteZ took enough beatings off me about his bases (he doesn’t even sand them!)

With this in mind whenever I do a new army I always try to test my limits with bases. People will notice that on my Retribution bases I used cork. Now with my Retribution bases I wanted a Thornwood style bases on them, swampy kinda foresty look. It came out ok, but not brilliant, I clearly had a lot of room for improvement.

With my trolls, I realized I had 2 weeks before I can even start painting them, so here’s my time to experiment with my bases. I knew that I wanted to stick with Cork, but I wanted a more foresty style feel to it.

I started off as usual, by cutting some small pieces of cork for the bases, I then covered large areas of the base with textured paint. I primed the base black, and painted the whole thing Charadon Granite.
I then picked areas of the base where I wanted it to be stone still, and painted these with the following colours: adeptus battlegrey, codex grey, fortress grey. I then picked out the textured areas with Orkhide shade, snot green, knarloc green, and a tiny hilight of gretchin green. Finally, I picked up some nifty clump foliage from our LGS, and glued these on in various places to make it look like vegetation.
I finished off by painting the rim of the base black.

The finished product?

Tags: Bases, Challenge, Hoarluk, Trolls