Hi folks,
I wanted to show off some of the flying bases I've made for
different flyers. I used them as a way to exemplify the theme of the army's
basing, which at the same time allowed me to disguise the flying stem somewhat.
Crimson Fists stormwing - the CFs have a rocky, grey basing
theme and so the obvious bits of scenery to use were big rocks. I took some of
the spare scenery rocks we have and cut them to a more suitable size. They were
attached to the oval base with PVA and textured using paint/filler. Once
everything was dry I cut down the flying stems to the right height to embed
them in the rocks about 15mm then proceeded to cut out the cross shaped section
from the polystyrene with a knife. Once this was done I sprayed the whole thing
minus the transparent stem black. When dry I used PVA to place the transparent
stem in the slot and, when that was dry, mixed some decorating filler with
abaddon black and used it to fill any gaps between the stems and rocks. Once I
had filled the gaps I used an old toothbrush to add texture to the filler so it
would blend with the rest of the rock. Once all was dry I touched up any areas
needing it with abaddon black, drybrushed eshin
grey, dawnstone and then administratum grey around the edges. I finished
off with removing any excess filler from the transparent stem and painting the
base rim rhinox hide. Magic.
Whitescars Stormtalon - This was simply a case of adding a small amount of texture to the base then attaching aquarium plants.
Eldar Crimson Hunter - The base was covered in greenstuff
which was shaped and cut to form curved patterns. I then added a piece of
foamcard cut to resemble a webway gate, which had sime greenstuff blobs (AKA
gems) and guitar wire added for texture. A few bits of debris, an old paint lid
cut in half and the end of a wraithcannon added to the base before painting.
Lastly, the ventral flyer was adapted to take an inverted standard flying base
stem, which was inserted into the top of the gate.
Dark Angel Nephilim - this base was simply made by adding
trees to camouflage the stem and then the base was decorated with static grass.
I have several other flying bases and aim to modify them as
below:
Blood Angels - grass theme - add a tree to conceal stem
Tau - desert theme - add a stack of rocks to hold the flying
base
CSM - There is a wrecked dreadnought sarcophagus on the base
- add smoke effect with cotton wool to hide stem
Grey Knights - wrecked cityscape - use building corner to
hide stem
Orks - swamp - add in diseased trees overgrown with
climbers.
These bases are really good fun to build and I'd highly
recommend people to have a go as they're the only/largest bases in your army
that can be entirely dedicated to scenery without obscuring any models. Cheers.
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