Basing recipe

Got some questions how I did my bases in the previous posts, so here's the 'secret':

The process is simple (and nicked from others)

(1) Apply polyfiller or equivalent to even out the bases
(2) paint dark green, quick highlight light green
(3) attach patches of silfor static grass (comes on sheet)
(3) paint the base with PVA glue diluted to thick milky substance, and scatter with a mix of light green and dark green fine turf
(4) Allow glue to dry, then wash with thinner PVA glue to fix the turf
(5) Apply coarse turf: burnt grass and the multi-coloured coarse turf I used for the wildflowers. Unfortunately there is no label on that bag and I can't for the life of me find it on the website...
(6) Allow glue to dry, then wash with thinner PVA glue to fix the coarse turf
(7) Matte varnish - the PVA glue dries to a really high shine and looks very silly as a result.

For the various turfs and such, see: Antenociti's Workshop

Finally finished the basing!

I finally got my act together and wrapped up the basing of some generals and the first 2 battalions of landwehr that I had been rebasing. The bases of the remaining 4 battalions are near completion as well.

I've taken some pictures of the ones I got finished. First of all here's Von Jagow with an ADC. Pretty pleased with how the bases turned out, and love the AB generals, really nice figures!

 

Then there's the landwehr battalions. Unfortunately completely crap troop (Westphalian landwehr in 1815, about as bad as they can get), but amongst the nicer figures made by (then) Chariot Miniatures. These were the first actual units based with my new basing technique, so it was a bit of an experiment for me. Slightly more labour intensive than I had hoped, but not bad overall.

 

 

 

 

Trying out some new methods of finishing bases. A sizeable order of basing stuff just arrived from Antenociti's Workshop today, and I had to try it out, in particular the silfor bi-color static grass clumps.

Right now I still have too much shine from the glue underneath. I used the wrong type of glue though, going to try some more with diluted PVA, tomorrow.

Also going to try and wash this base with diluted acrylic matte varnish, and see if that gets rid of the shine.