I'll post pics as they come up of my crazy water base plan Test fit These bases are the small 20 mm bases and will be used for my chameleon skinks to make it look like they are slogging their way through a river. although the stalker and oxyotl might be walking on a rock jutting out of the water. one question do you think I should glue the skink to the plasticard before or after I lay down my flock and basing grit? oh and what do you reccomend for making them look wet, would just citadel varnish do or is there another brand that you reccomend that wont mess with paint lol. I'll post my next pics soon I hope, and maybe even the after math pics of my fingers from using a brand new xacto blade to do this...owwie
Personally, I'd glue the guy down then grit around him. Otherwise, I think it'd be hard to glue him to the grit itself or do something to remove the grit where his feet go... --DF2K
You should really test run a smaller amount of everything. Putting basing materials down first and then putting the water in might change the characteristics of one or all the items. Going to a hobby store and using the water they sell for trains would work great. I'm interested to hear how it fares; good luck!
yea I went nuts when I got to that hobby store got realistic water from woodland scenics plus the water effects to make ripples some medium gren high grash and some medium green bushes XD plus I got 10 of those bases from my game store and currently only seven chameleons well 8 counting oxyotl.
I usually use a small cube of plastic card to raise the mini then base the area and it looks seamless.
first test run...pouring this into a 20 mm base is a pain...time to find a squeeze bottle some of the glue is still visible the bigger rocks left a place for an air bubble to form and push up the base but if I just might be able to pull this off lol still adding layers to it, not sure if I should add color to the mix next time. though I do have one crazy plan I want to try, imo without the shield the skink chief with the sickle and heart looks more like a priest so thinking of having him be my priest standing on a rock in water and having the blood run into the water, thinking best way to do that is pour in water then while it's wet run some baal red was through it.
next one this one I might actually use trying a new technique I used some white medical tape that I will pill up so the walls stay clean the black part is where the skink chief with the sickle will go and he will be my priest. trying not to bump continually so first test is finished