Basing and Life Tips

Finishing the Base

Finishing this thing up finally. I wasn’t able to get back down here yesterday. I’ve got my glue in the busted up palette—don’t need that much, just a little bit.

If this was a piece of terrain or a figure that would see a lot of table time, I would cover the whole thing in watered down glue. But for what this is going to do, there’s no need to really lock it in like that.

I finished my first pen cartridge of the year, so I’m going to use this as my paintbrush now. I’m just going to sprinkle this around, flatten it out. Any stuff that comes up and gets mixed in is okay—anything on top of this green will suck into it and lock down.

Testing Cherry Blossom Tufts

I’ve got some cherry blossom tufts for the Ice King’s commission, and I want to put a few on here to test how they work before trying them on his real bases. Just a pinch or two—I don’t want to actually use it, just test it out.

This is Huge Miniatures 4-in-one scatter. It’s got wood chips and stuff in it—like actual flock consistency mixed with static grass. Very cool. I’ll probably build a static grass applicator because the one I have is very old and I don’t think it works anymore.

I’m just testing to make sure it soaks up the glue well. Sometimes stuff sucks it up and gets a weird shine or satin finish. But there we go—the pink on the base looks cool.

Two Models Done

That’s two miniatures painted for the year. Looks awesome. Got all the excess knocked off. This one is done-done—someday I’ll have a better photo booth.

When Life Gets Hectic

Today got crazy. I got hit with a bunch of work stuff, had to run errands I wasn’t planning on, had to help some people I wasn’t planning on helping—which is great. It’s cool to have people to help and people that can depend on you.

At first, I was panicking: how am I going to fit everything in the day now? Then I thought, you know what? I’m going to take a breath. I’m going to chill. I’m going to set a timer for 10 minutes. I’m going to paint for 10 minutes. I’m going to get my daily brush on the model.

And then I relaxed. There’s no actual problem. I’m going to spend an hour banging out work, go do the things I need to help some people, come back and bang out more work, and get everything else done. It’s going to be a great day.

The Takeaway

I’ve painted. I’m making a video sharing it with you right now. Hopefully giving you that cool lesson to just take a breath for 10 minutes and it doesn’t seem that bad.

I’ll see you tomorrow. This was day 118.

Transcript

All right, finishing finishing this thing up finally. I wasn’t able to get back down here yesterday. So, I’ve got I’ve got my glue again in the in the busted up palette. I’m not going to need that much. Just get a little bit.

And uh and if this if this was like a piece of terrain or a figure that would see a lot of table time, I would cover this whole thing in that like watered down glue. But for what uh what this is going to do, there’s no need to really lock it in like that. And I I finished my first my first pen cartridge of the year. So, I’m going to use this uh as my paint brush now. And what I’m going to do is just kind of sprinkle this around.

And we don’t want it globbed up. Hopefully, you can see what I’m doing. I’m flattening it out. And the other stuff is going to come up and it’s going to get mixed in with this. And that’s okay.

Any anything that is on top of this green, it’ll suck into it and like lock it down. So, it’s only going to help having more glue on the top. But what we’re going to do is come back in with that lighter color. And like honestly, we could just sprinkle it over all the top of it and then put the glue on top, but I don’t want to I don’t want to go that far. So, I’m just trying to make some organic shapes here of where there would be just different colors in the grass.

And I’m actually I’ve got some cherry blossom toughs for for the ice kings commission and I just want to put a few on here to test how they work just before I try to actually do it on his real basis. And I like literally just going to put like a pinch or one or two cuz I don’t want to use I don’t want to actually use it. I just want to test it out to get used to it. Uh okay. So it’s almost like a static grass.

What What brand is this? This is huge miniatures 4 in one scatter. Oh, that’s that’s cool. So it’s got like wood chips and stuff in it. Very interesting.

Yeah. So, this is just like actual flock consistency mixed in with static grass. Uh, very cool. Let’s get just a little bit more glue on the jump palette. And we’ll just put one like here.

And really, I’m just testing now that I know that there’s static grass in here. I’m going to get a static grass. I’ll probably build a static grass applicator because the one I have is very old and I don’t think it works anymore. So, just like two pinches of this into the glue. And I’m I’m assuming it’s just going to soak the glue up, but I just want to be sure before I mess up a bunch of real bases.

Oh Don’t want to put glue on that. I messed up a bunch of real bases for that commission because this will be like the basing material for the commission. And I just want to see like usually stuff just kind of soaks up the glue and you don’t really know it’s glued. But sometimes it also sucks it up and then it gets like a shine like a matte or a a satin finish to it cuz it it just acts weird with the glue. But there we go.

So, just and I’ll and I’ll buy more obviously too if uh if I need it. Ice King, if you’re watching, but there we go. Putting the pink on the base with our top just looks cool. So, I’m just pushing that all in and then just making sure it’s on there. This is good to go.

We’ll matt seal it. Call it a day. Pretty cool project. pretty fun one. Uh that’s two miniatures painted for the year.

All right, guys. This is going to be this turned into a quick one. Uh so I I did a base. Finished the base. Finished a model today.

Like finished finished. Uh like finished finished. Looks awesome. I got all the excess knocked off. This one is like done done.

Uh someday I’ll have a better photo booth. I’ll take pictures of it. Um but today it got crazy. I had I got hit with a bunch of work stuff. Got hit with uh like just got to run some errands that I wasn’t planning on having to do.

got to help some people. I wasn’t planning on having to help, which is great. It’s cool to have people to help, you know, and people that can depend on you. And at first, I was just kind of panicking like, how am I gonna fit everything in the day now? And I was like, you know what?

I’m going to take a breath. I’m going to chill. I’m going to set a timer for 10 minutes. I’m going to paint for 10 minutes. I’m going to get my daily brush on the model.

Uh, and then I just relax and chill. Like, there’s no actual problem. I’m going to go I’m going to spend an hour banging out work. Uh, going to go do the things I need to do to help some people. And then I’m gonna come back in and bang out more work and get everything else done that I need to do.

And it’s going to be a great day. I’ve painted. Uh I’m making a video sharing it with you all right now. Hopefully giving you that cool lesson to just take a breath for 10 minutes and it doesn’t seem that bad. I’ll see you tomorrow.

This was day 117. No, this was day 118. See you tomorrow.