Some months back an article on the always excellent
From the Warp talked about painting bases first on a model, not last. Now I've always treat bases as a little bit of an afterthought - sure they need to look good, and I've always tried to make sure the figure is blended into the setting and it looks like I've made some effort there, but it's never been a focus for me. With this XV8 I wanted it to have a more interesting base, so as you can see from the previous post its striding over a load of Imperial Rubble.
Now I'm not sure that the base comes out well on the earlier pictures, but taking after Ron's suggestion I thought it may be worth tackling it first, especially the plate elements where I wanted to do a fair but of dry-brushing to get the metal effect I wanted. So a couple of hours work later, the base is mostly done, and looks like this:
I'm quite pleased with it, but comments, as ever, appreciated.
I think it looks good. I bet you'll find that the extra time you put into the base adds to the model overall in the end.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on painting my models and bases separately now. I know it might be common to do it for lots of folks, but it's new for me.
Ron, FTW
thanks :)
DeleteI think i've always shied away from anything clever on the basing in part because i always end up trying to do them last and building them around an in-place figure. which so far hasn't led to any results worth writing home about. on this guy the base was the first thing put together!