Lenny Craft-it

Hi there, A lot of people ask about the bases of my Iron Templars. So i decided to make a tutorial on it. Good luck and happy crafting.

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Martian Base 

Glue the detail on the base. I greenstuffworld gear and mushrooms, got a GW skull and some small stones. Mark down where the model is going to stand.




Make a mix of talcum powder, find sand or like me green grains you normally use for grass and PVA glue. Yes it looks like some Nurgle gift.




Make some random piles on the base and strike them next to the other details. After it dries it needs to look like this.




Paint the base with Mournfang Brown. Then paint the stones with Skavenblight Dinge. Paint the gear with Typhus Corrosion and dry brush with Leadbelcher. Paint the mushroom with Averland Sunset.




Citadel Mournfang Brown

Citadel Skavenblight Dinge

Citadel Typhus Corrosion

Citadel Leadbelcher

Citadel  Averland Sunset

Hightlight the stones with Stormvermin Fur and then make a fine highlight with Karak Stone. Paint the skull and the stems of the mushrooms with Karak Stone. Shade the hole base with Agrax Earthshade.




Citadel Stormvermin Fur

Citadel Karak Stone

Citadel  Agrax Earthshade

Paint a line pattern on the mushrooms with Yriel Yellow. Then again with Flash Gitz Yellow and Dorn Yellow but keep working to the top. Highlight the skull and the mushroom stems with Karak Stone. Paint a fine highlight with Screaming Skull on the skull. Make a line pattern on the mushroom stems with a wet White Scar. Glue two yellow tufts on the base.




Citadel Yriel Yellow

Citadel Flash Gitz Yellow

Citadel Dorn Yellow

Citadel Screaming Skull

Mix Pigment Binder with Grange Rust from forgeworld (or just orange pigment powder). Mix it until it's as thin as paint. Paint this all over the base and also in the edges of the stones and the tufts.




To make it look even more dusty I make a mix of just water and the pigment and paint it again. You lose some contrast so the pictures looks not so good but in real life this looks amazing.




Glue the mini on the base. Paint the edges around the boots with a mix of just water and the pigment. This make it looks like the sand/dust is in there. Paint the edge of the base with Abaddon Black




Tutorial

Martian Base

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