Tonight was a fabulous frenzy of basing. A lot of my figures are on 3mm thick mdf bases, whilst my newer figures are on 1.8 or 2mm thick low profile bases, which I prefer. A big assed packing knife and sandpaper, a little thinned weldbond pva glue to seal the bottoms (and stop them pilling) and a fresh paint job here and there, and a whole slew of minis where rendered a bit gooderer.
I had a couple of tubs of minis that I had been putting off because of this, but now I have the technique of shaving the bases down to an art, and the fact they where quick to paint- they lept up the paint queue to tonight.
Among these where early citadel dire wolves and hogs, a host of farmyard animals from Megaminis and Hasslefrees excellent baby maws... (perfect little buggers for slaanesh warbands- I must get more of these and some adults too!) Oh... and dogs.
Lots of dogs.
Why I have so many I really don't know... blink dogs, ratter from citadels rare villagers set, more megaminis, chaos hounds and armored war dogs from Ral Partha. Strangely I do not think this is enough though, as I felt the urge to start putting these on the bases with their masters.
Oh, and I rebased the chaos dogzoat spawn to a large renedra round base to give him an epic feel and protect his wings in gameplay.
I figured I would leave you with a picture... here is one of the whacky chaos spawn I threw together after Steve posted all those lovely John Blanche pictures a while ago. I noticed a huge mold line on the arm so I will have to address that before I continue. I think he needs a stupidly sized, moss covered banner ala 80's blanche.
So that's my night. Yawn. G'night all.
Dave, that spawn is the absolute mutts nuts. It could have been converted and painted by THE MASTER himself. Stunning. What are the component parts?
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve- high praise indeed! He is made from two Reaper minis- a hook horror and a troll. He needs shrooms. :)
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