Matt Damon!
We'll be looking at how to do a Mars style base today. I usually start off by trimming
the edge of the base with a sharp knife. Just cut of any bits of flashing, to tidy the sides up
Next I take this little piece of wood to which I've glued on some sand paper and I use that
to smooth down any imperfections round the edge so it's all nice and flat.
It doesn't take long to do and it ensured you don't get any horrible marks on the side
of the base when you come to paint the rim so it's worth taking the time to do.
Mix up a bit of green stuff, and roll it into a little sausage. Place a couple on the base,
try and vary their length so they're not exactly the same.
I'm going to glue these down in place with some superglue, now you don't really need
to glue them as the greenstuff tends to act like it's own glue after a while but it makes
it easier to keep them in place while you're sculpting them.
Once those are glued on, I use a rubber sculpting tool to flatten out the edges, the effect
we're going for here is to make little undulations on the base as if some sand has been blown
into a little drift.
So just keep working the edge with your sculpting tool until it's nicely flattened out onto
the base.
Once your greenstuff has dried, put some PVA glue onto the base and push it around with
an old brush until you cover the whole surface.
Now we'll use this sand, it's a mix of various different grades of sand and I've added some
ripped up bit of cork to simulate stones or small rocks.
Just go ahead and pour that onto the base. You can see the cork pieces have clumped together
a bit on one side, but that's totally fine, it'll actually look pretty cool once we've
painted it.
I don't want quite so many rocks though so I'll use a brush to pull some of the off so
it's not quite so crowded.
Once you're happy with the look, just leave it to dry then spray it with some black primer.
I used Games workshop Chaos Black.
Then you're going to take some white and spray it down onto the base at about a 60 degree
spraying from one side only.
You can see that it's bright on one side and dark on the other, because the white paint
only hits one side of the grain it gives you that nice preshaded effect.
Take some Games workshop Scrag brown and add some water to it to make a glaze. You want
the consistency of the paint to be really quite thin, you can see on the palette that
it's about the same sort of consistency as a wash.
Load up your brush and begin to paint the base, starting at dark side. You can see I'm
using a pretty big brush for this, that's so I can get quite a lot of the glaze on the
base, you really want to ladel it on there, once it dries you'll get a nice effect because
the black and white undercoat will show through underneat, giving you an instant shade and
highlight.
So just keep drawing the paint across the base until you get close to the other side.
Wash your brush off and we'll make another glaze this time with Games Workshop Tau Light
Ochre. Again you can see just how thin that is on the palette there.
Now we'll do the same thing again but starting at the other side. Once we get close to the
edge of the scrag brown we'll begin to draw the two colours together.
So I'm just pulling the ochre into the brown and working the brush back and forth letting
the two colours mix on the surface. Do that across the width of the base, pulling
those two colours together. It really is like magic how easily you can create a transition
using this technique.
Once that dries you can see that it gives you a really awesome effect. The preshading
we did with the black and white really helps to give the base depth without messing about
with lots of washes and drybrushing.
As an optional extra we can add some more contrast by taking some Army Painter Strong
Tone and just putting some along the back edge here.
Then we'll wash the brush and with some water in the bristles we'll just feather it out
over the base.
So you basically place the brush into the edge of the wash and draw it backwards as
you sweep the brush back and forth, the wash mixes with the water in the bristles, thinning
it down, so as you draw it backwards away from the wash, it gets thinner and thinner
until all there is is water, allowing you to get a nice subtle fade effect.
It can take a while to dry but you can speed that up with a hairdryer.
To finish off we'll just paint the rim with some black.
So there's nothing difficult here, but you can see if gives you a really striking final
result, here's one I did earlier with a model attached.
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