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heya,

I got a few questions on other fora on how I do my rock/slate bases. And today I took the time to make a quick tutorial on it. I thought I might as well post it here.
so here it goes


Materials I use:

Milliput standard yellow-grey (any type of milliput will do)
A smooth subject (cd case or something)
Hobby knife
Old brush
PVA glue
Sand


First step is mixing a decent amount of milliput, knead it well, and then roll a sausage of it.

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Then I use a good amount of water and my old brush to flatten the sausage out. I keep the flat piece around 1-2 mm. After you have flattened it out, you can add some texture by using a little stone and gently press it or roll it over the milliput. After this it's time to let it dry.

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After it has dried (I use to let it dry overnight or a couple of hours in the sun) you can easily get it off the cd case.

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And then use a plier or just your finger to break it. I prefer to break it into pieces that are a bit larger at first. I can always make them smaller.

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To make a piece more realistic, I use a hobby knife to create some cracks and different levels.

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After I've done that to multiple pieces I test different parts on the base to come up with a nice looking scene. And then it's just a glueing them on with pva glue.

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Glue on the sand on the spots where there isn't any milliput. And you're basically done. I often add some spots of sand on the milliput to get a more realistic look and I used a bigger stone in this example to break all the sand up a bit.

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Some examples:

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I will write up a tutorial on how I paint them too in the near future (now I had to let the base dry )

Hope it helps

Nice tutorial, useful information, thanks for sharing

useful indeed, almost as good as brushthralls' tutorial
well done Pecker!

Brushthralls has better and more pics

thanx

A bit like Brushthralls indeed but much nicer as they are pro's and you showed that everybody can do it!:)

if You claim ToMaZ isn't pro I'll have beat You up to make You change Your mind...

Sorry Demi! I think ToMaZ knows what I mean...

he probably knows...
but I don't!

Ok I painted one of the bases. I went for a warm nature look. Like forest ground or something.

Started of with a basecoat of Ivory (bleached bone or white will do just fine)

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Then I did two washes of fortress grey

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I added some german grey to the fortress grey (it's a very dark grey but any darker grey will do)

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Increasing the amount of German grey up to pure german grey in the next steps:

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I used Burnt umber for adding brown areas to the rock. (any darker brown will do)

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Made a mix of Dark angels green and a dark brown (in my case smoke) to add greenish areas.

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A lot has happened is this step. The base is finished. I think that everybody knows how to paint sand, so I'm not gonna explain that. I also did a very light edging of the rock with white and very lightly drybrushed the top. to pick out the crack. VERY LIGHTLY!! you don't want white stripes on it.
I kept the green brown mix and added some spots on the sand with it.
Added flock and grass, also some oregano for leaves. Not really convincing but that's all I have atm. ( ) Also some bristels of a broom. (painted with various greens and browns)

Voila finished except for the black rim

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I think this took me 30 mins (with a hairdryer). This is for my Hordes gaming army. I would take more time for a showcase piece.

I think it looks very good. Very apart from the way I normally do my bases.