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Video How to make a background for miniaturesPainting miniatures is just part of our nightingale hobby. One of the others is based on your thumbnail. There are many ways and materials that you can use to background your miniatures. Today I will show you how to make a simple base for miniatures with household items that probably all of us have on hand.

Materials and Tools

Contents

The list below contains all the materials needed and some options for today’s project. See what you’ll need: Read: how to make a background for miniatures

Corks (wine bottles or coasters are fine)
Sand
Small stones or pebbles (optional)
PVA glue (aka white glue)
super glue
x-acto . knife
cutter / cutter
protective glasses
work gloves
bits from your bitzbox (optional)

As always, safety comes first, so don’t be surprised to see goggles and work gloves on the list Please note that’s the bare minimum you’ll need to make a simple base without I will introduce you today. If you have other documents and bits that you want to use, go ahead and use them. You may have noticed that some materials have an ‘options’ mark next to them. Depending on your projects, you may or may not need them, which is why they are listed as ‘optional’.Not all of the material visible here will be used today.

Step one – choose our base and start working with cork

Different sizes of miniature base. Take a look at what the miniature needs to be based on, and double check the base size you need for that particular model. Also, think about whether you plan to use this miniature in a tray as it may require a bit more planning, as you don’t want to create a base that won’t fit the tray ????Read More : How to see the god face Once you have the basic size, you need to prepare a cork sheet (one from a wine bottle will work), superglue and a trimmer. Grab your trimmer and start cutting or better yet say ‘crush’ the cork. The idea here is to get smaller pieces of cork with irregular shapes on each edge of the small cork piece.Remember, safety first when working with tools ????Once you are satisfied with your cork pieces, you can start arranging them on your base. Once you’re happy with the overall look of the base, start gluing the pieces into place with super glue.A tiny drop.

Step two – it’s time for sand and gravel

Prepare PVA glue (white glue), a container with sand and some small stones. Instead of ice, I’ll use cork from GaleForce9. However, you can use a variety of household items, for example, whole black pepper (without surround)Put some PVA glue on your base and add sand and gravel. I tend to ‘flood’ the base with glue in my sandbox I’m a sloth

Step three – details of the demon

Read more: decaying state 2 ways to recruit enclaves Now is the time to unleash your inner creativity. If you want to add some bitz, skull, bone and any other bitz that will make your base special then now is the time to do it. I will be using some skulls from ORZOL Studio which you can see in the article ‘How to draw miniatures’. Please note that static grass and tufts of grass can be added after applying the base coatI also have other bitz from ORZOL Studio, but I have an idea for a small diorama project. I simply intend to use all the swords, skulls and undead knights/possessed (?) for it ????

That’s it! You have finished building your base!

Congratulations! You have finished building your miniature base! Now all you need to do is paint the base, add some static grass or grass tufts and paint the model. That’s all

How about adding some paint?

We will cover this step in another article dedicated to base art. Remember that materials such as static grass, tufted grass can be added after the base coat is completely painted. Next time I’ll show you how to add some grass tufts and maybe some foam flock models. Read more: how to keep takeaway food warm in the carYay or Nay? Do you like how they look on my new base?