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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2007 18:04:33 GMT -5
What do you guys use to decorate bases in an urban setting? I want to make them look really awesome since I made all my Guardsmen have a really badass urban camo scheme. Any ideas? Gimme all the details. I'm pretty new to 40k modeling, so please excuse all the n00b questions  |
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Post by Commissar on Oct 8, 2007 19:39:57 GMT -5
Try taking skulls, put one of those on every 5th mans base.
Paint it grey, the sand I mean, but that goes without saying.
Add chunks of concrete(sprue) to make it look more urban.
What I tried was cut a bajonet in half and glued it to the base, hand up.
A helmet looks good if you make it look like its buried in the rubble.
Discarded weapons.
Try leaving some ammo packs on the ground, a single grenade looks nice.
A water canteen.
Anything, let your imagination run wild!
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Post by Cadian 117 on Oct 8, 2007 22:47:53 GMT -5
For urban...well one of my marines is a whats it whats it......well a emperors champion standing on a rhino door with like random things under it and he stands so freakin tall. But ya just anything a dead unit would have in a urban setting.....ork guns work well if ya got em.......grenades....sandbags.....skulls.....concrete....rocks....anything really
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Post by Commissar on Oct 8, 2007 23:34:23 GMT -5
Yeah, anything!
Hell, have him standing on a kitchen sink!
Its urban aint it?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 8:35:33 GMT -5
personally, I mix some baking soda and glue, add some grey paint to the mix, then spread it thinly about the base. add bigger chunks of city stuff as needed. It makes for some pretty neat rubble/dust.
If you add just a drop of Ice Blue to the mix instead of a lot of grey, you have a crisp snowy colour, which also looks awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 13:21:54 GMT -5
I use PVA glue and pieces of our stone stairs that are falling apart lol, I get nice flakes of stone that way. I also use regular sand, small pebble stones and plastic frames that I cut inti small pieces. Imagine this base being painted in grey tones and you get my cityfight bases:  (thats my bases for some eldar units as I don't have a pic of the cityfight ones on my computer) |
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Post by Mabus on Oct 9, 2007 14:14:58 GMT -5
That's a very nice base anatoli, I use a lot of slate for my urbun bases, that and a lot of tine gravel and the odd bit of imperial iconography. If you glue the odd imperial aquila or winged skull to some flat slate it looks like part of a building.
I am guessing you mean stone when you mentioned your porch anatoli. My porch is wooden and so you comment confused me a bit, it doesn't take much!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 15:13:59 GMT -5
ah lol yes, well truth to be told its not as mush a porch as it is a stone stair going up to our front door. Its made from some kind of red stone and is really weathered, so I use to go out and collect the shards and use them for my bases.  Now thats cleared up lol |
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Post by Commissar on Oct 9, 2007 15:53:53 GMT -5
Ah, real rubble for a base, interesting!
Must weigh down the models a bit eh?
Well, hell its not like their going anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 17:06:11 GMT -5
The bigger base the more weight, this one is for a wave serpent so its only good its heavy For the smaller bases I think the extra weight makes the model a bit more "balanced", greenstuffed models have more weight aswell and I like the feel, a bit heavier than plastig but still not metal heavy. |
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Post by Commissar on Oct 9, 2007 17:54:22 GMT -5
Yeah it does, it keeps it in place.
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Post by Cadian 117 on Oct 11, 2007 23:41:13 GMT -5
OMG I say do a toilet! I want to see it done!
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Now thats cleared up lol