where has all the basing gone you ask well here it is
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle now is it any secret that i love basing i presented
the jury exhibit a a playlist of 80 count 'em 80 basing videos but i haven't gotten to do a
lot of basing recently what with all the other projects i've gotten up to it's gotten away from
me but this video will make up for it all and then some but i miss basing i get to do it every now
and again when i finish a model but i haven't had a project where i really get to sink my
teeth into pacing but i think i have the perfect opportunity to get some done i've been saving up
all my basing tokens to cash them in on this video let me introduce you to my star wars legion army
what you see here is a full star wars legion rebel alliance army this is equivalent of about
a 1500 to 2 000 point 40k army it consists of a bunch of troops and a few vehicle options and a
commander and it has enough stuff where i can take a full force and i even have a couple of
options to switch in and out now i bring up the 40k points equivalent because i want to
do a little bit of comparison i don't often like to do this think about price but it is for science
this army is a smattering of troops elites and vehicles and it costs about 225.95
retail now this is a full army so let me introduce you to another full army
this is a 1 500 point space marine black templar army it consists of 43 miniatures
and also contains a selection of troops elites and vehicles and if you remember that this army
came in at about 210 bucks retail what do you think this one's gonna cost well i did the math
and this army retail would cost five hundred and ten dollars that's right this army costs
fifty percent more than this army to put together and they're very comparable armies for very fun
war games now it's not a perfect comparison because star wars legion i did use the starter box
to put this together and it does come with a lot of models for a good price and i didn't use any of
the start collecting boxes to put together this 40k army but i don't think the price would have
come down that dramatically if i did star wars legion is the clear winner on price although it
is completely subjective which models are cooler and more interesting to look at hint hint star
wars legion's really fun i have purposely saved all the bases so i could do them all at once this
should give me the best possible chance of them looking uniform and i can do lots of operations
that would take a lot of time to do over and over every time i finished a minute or model but
all at once it's no big deal now i agonized over what to do next there are so many cool star wars
locations planets biomes how do i pick just one do i want a technicolor dream like felucia do i do a
classic hoth from empire strikes back tatooine and its deserts are synonymous with star wars
and i could even do a lava world like mustafar well i decided to pick the perfect planet for the
rebels the famous forest moon of endor that hid the shield generator for the second death star now
four spaces are tricky because it's not just sand and glue i have to represent dirt leaves ground
cover trees plants let's see what i can do with it i also have a secret weapon ewoks nick printed
me up a ton of ewoks so that i could paint them up and sprinkle them throughout the bases that
way there is no way it'll not look like endor now it's time to do some serious basing and i'm super
excited i love my rebels i got them done quick too i painted my first rebel in june and now it's
october and i have finished 800 point army this is a basic video on steroids and i need my tools
all right it's time to get started and i can't have my base flat as a pancake i need to apply
a little bit of texture milliput is good stuff it's a two-part epoxy that dries rock hard and
these bases are tiny hard to fit something like crayola model magic soft squishy modeling material
and sticky enough to stick right down to the bases no glue needed i cut off the two equal halves and
squished them together then i began making small balls and crushing them down onto the bases
a few dots here and there should make these bases look like a regular natural ground instead of
perfectly smooth parking lots like they were standing on before and on these larger bases i
really loaded them up these big bases gave me some room to explore it would have been a huge pain in
the butt to mix up milliput every single time i finished a model but doing it all at once is
no big deal it's a one and done the milliput has had a couple of hours to dry and it actually looks
kinda cool as is definitely not a final product but it gets my basin juices flowing but now it
is time to add a little bit of decoration to do the sand i brought out my typical basing supplies
three grits of sand and because this is a forest some dry twigs i began by squirting out some of
my favorite sand sticker wood glue i took an old synthetic brush and spread it all over the base
then i put on a twig a pebble or two a sprinkling of medium grit sand and finally a dousing of
fine grain sand this will give my forest floor some texture super easy barely an inconvenience
and now to do it on the other 35 minis oh my goodness my desk is completely covered in sand
but it's already looking kind of neat and i cannot wait for it to dry so i can start putting on a
little bit of paint for paint i made myself three very watery colors brown light brown and a light
green these will make up my forest floor on each base i did several large patches of light brown
some smaller patches of brown and then some final touches of green remember to keep the paint really
watery but not too watery if it's too watery all the paint will not be very vibrant once it's dry
it's a little bit of a watercolor effect working with three really really runny paints at the same
time the colors want to blend themselves but it is going to be ridiculous to try to wash this brush
every single time between every single color on every single base so and be working with
three brushes at the exact same time this again took a little while but i was very satisfied with
the results now i need to take a break while those colors dry so it's patreon time if you like the
videos we make and you want more the best way to support us is by becoming a member of our patreon
over there you'll gain access to some behind the scenes voting on the models i paint live here
on youtube a live hobby hangouts every week some terrain stls and more with that said these bases
still aren't dry so it's ewok time these ewoks are adorable just like in the movie i stuck them
down to my preferred paint handles little cubes of wood with double stick tape i primed these
suckers black and then gave them a xenothon so that painting would be a breeze now i have lots
of teddy bears to paint so i made use of lots of washes and contrast paints it helped a lot
i used a different combination of my paints on each care bear and it did most of the work for me
i did not feel like highlighting and shading every teddy graham so i let the paint work its magic
these guys are great and they're bringing me right back to star wars battlefront 2. the real star
wars battlefront 2 from 2005. in that game the map endor was probably one of the most difficult
and the biggest map in the game and it was almost impossible for the empire to win that map because
of the ewoks on that map the rebels had the ewok helpers which was super cute and super thematic
but it made that map almost unplayable as the empire because the horrible ai wouldn't know
to aim a little bit down when firing an ewoks and so the ewoks would just cut through your
stormtroopers and usually you were expected to be carrying your team and so you should
explain to get about 50 of your total team's kills but on that map to beat that map you have
to be getting like 75 of your team's kills it is a wildly difficult map i love it and i'm enjoying
painting these ewoks then i did a little dry brushing over the contrast and my ewoks were 80
done the only real work i did on these ewoks was painting their faces i gave them all some whiskers
painted their lips and noses and i painted all the eyes with some black paint every eye was black
with a tiny reflective dot right in the middle the dot of white helps them look watery i have been
painting ewoks for hours and i have just about finished all of their cold dead unblinking eyes
and now i can get back to what i really was trying to do which was base my entire rebel army
i prepared some green stuff squish the two halves together and stuck some small balls under the feet
of the ewoks i did this to make sure my furry friends would have lots of purchase on the sand
covered bases the green stuff will squish into the sand and hold tight i also used lots and
lots of super glue they worked out great on the big bases and they worked on the small bases too
before i had applied my ewoks i was pretty sure i was gonna hate it because it would cover up so
much my paint job but now that they're on i kinda love it it is super super silly and even though
they're a little bit cramped on the small bases i kind of love it and it makes my army very unique
now that all my models are on their bases i prepared some final decorations some green flock
i took some dark green and hacked it apart i want small little clumps i dumped that into a cup and
then did the same thing with some light green foam i had lying around then i took out my patented
binder i have a video on how it's made but it's basically watery glue i spread this all over every
base and i gave them a sprinkling of foam chunks then after that another drizzling of scale leaves
these will be what really makes my forest floor look like a forest floor how many steps was this
milliput glue sand twigs ewoks painting more glue tiny trees green foam flock i would not want to
do this every time i finished a ravel but all at once is fine and just like that my rebels are done
my rebel scum have landed on the forest moon of endor look at this army she may not look like
much but she's got it where it counts all i can say is it's pretty wizard with my army now done
i can't wait to get these back on the gaming table they may not always win but never tell me the odds
they look so good i've been staring at these guys and their unpainted red bases for too long now the
bases are done i think that they look proper and finished i was kind of worried about the ewoks
they're pretty big and i was thinking in the back of my mind that i might yank them off of the bases
once this video was over but now that i see them in place i really like them they're funny and i
think they add a lot the star wars rebel army might not be the most interesting army in star
wars legion you got the white clad storm troopers the cream-colored battle droids the super cool
clone legions and then the rebels are just dudes in green but i think they're really cool and i
think the ewoks add a ton i might need to get some more and i might get my wish the folks at star
wars legion have said that ewoks will be coming to the game and when they do my army may become
the ewok and rebel army i will be sure to set my calendar and wait patiently for pre-order day
in 2023 well i'll have plenty of time to wait and in the meantime i might 3d print some more
really fill up those bases my star wars legion army is now complete when i started legion i
was but a learner now i am the master now that i have this rebel stuff painted i suppose i am
done with legion i have a full force is star wars legion the best game ever i don't know but it's
pretty good and now my army is complete it is time to move on to something else
what have i done what have i gotten myself into it's a trap i know i haven't done many basic
videos lately and i think some star wars ones would be pretty cool i have at least three more
armies to build in star wars legion so let me know what star wars basing schemes or any basic schemes
you'd like to see me do put those in the comments below but now it's time for the real star of the
show this week's eob complete submissions we put out a challenge to our community to send us before
and after photos of their recently finished models to be immortalized in our videos
if you want to join in the fun you can submit a before and after photo of your painted mini
to our discord server which you can find in the description below or you can post it to instagram
with the hashtag eobcomplete without further ado let's look at and get inspired by what the
folks have finished this week a blood bowl undead team by harry gorilla escort back destroyer lord
by gremlins e2 a great unclean one by snikrot boss a ceraptek heavy construct by cheggs jpeg
an orc warrior by emo wing666 some iron warrior havocs by the living paint a couple russian
soldiers by ed scar a plagued drone of nurgle by the happy heretic some veteran guardsmen by
biscuit an ultramarine by brood lapin a salamander space marine by aotl a nergal
giraffe by idit a break a boss on troggoth by sheeple master overlord a space shark suppressor
by shark some neck brown warriors by monkey the lobotomized simon a xenomite cerebnid by squid
cultist 002 some night haunt by who knows a tao riptide by ao o main a fallout power armor pop
figure by players theonen a custom jean stealer locust by coach15324 an assault intercessor by
look as a malefo minion by rhett baby a necron hexmark destroyer by brettas an orc truck by
happy grim gore and a storm cast eternal by flamer31 congratulations to everyone for a
job well done it's no small feat to get paint on minis and you all should feel really proud
nothing gets the hobby juices flowing like finishing a project and we all thank you
for sharing your work motivating us and the hobby community to paint our plastic thanks for sharing