Painting this Base

[hiveovermind]

Hello,

Does anyone have a painting scheme or suggestions on how to paint these?

Thanks!

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[spacelord]

Nice. I have the same. Havent painted it yet but Im thinking of experimenting with 2 color schemes. On is all greys and bone color. The other will be pinks and reds, especially bright on the "egg sacks".
I'll post some pics when I paint them.

[hiveovermind]

Apr 23, 2015 11:22:01 GMT spacelord said:

Nice. I have the same. Havent painted it yet but Im thinking of experimenting with 2 color schemes. On is all greys and bone color. The other will be pinks and reds, especially bright on the "egg sacks".
I'll post some pics when I paint them.

Cool, thanks! I'd love to see the result.

[hiveovermind]

Does anyone know how to attach a model to these bases? It's way too small contact area to paste the model onto it. Would you use green stuff or what else? Thanks!

[spacelord]

What are you putting on that base?
Usually you would want to "pin" the model. Drill a tiny hole in the bottom of your miniature's foot, then glue in a pin. Then drill a tiny hole in the base and glue it in. Your local hobby shop or gamestore will have something called a pin vise, it's a tiny set of drill bits and a hand drill and probably the pins too.
I like to use bits of old guitar strings as the pin material. I super glue one end of the string into the model first, then I snip the string to whatever length and glue the other end into the base.

[spacelord]

That base is the alien invasion set from secret weapon I think? My bases are steel invasion, essentially the same thing. Heres my work in progress.

[spacelord]

This Anathematic for Infinity is attached to the base using the method I described.

[hiveovermind]

Ok I taught that would be the way to go. Altough it will be hard to do it with termagaunts? They have such tiny feets. And yes, they're from secret weapon

[Remalis]

Other option would be araldyte 2 part epoxy glue with a 5 minute set time. It's *marginally* scuptable when it's near set, albeit in a very basic fashion. But in this case more to give you a better thicker contact surface that will gap fill the base under foot and provide maximum surface area contact with foot itself. It's also paintable once dried or add clear, colored ink to it when mixing for water/slime effect which might compliment the base.

[hiveovermind]

Thanks guys, I'm going to try to use the small pins let's hope it works

[spacelord]

Yeah I've seen people use epoxy putty or green stuff and sculpt a rock around a gaunt's feet just to give 'em something to attach to the base though. The oly reason I would ever do that is if the part of the gaunt that fits in the slotta base was broken off.
Then again it would be very difficult to drill into the tiny feet, but it's been done so just give it a try.
Are you seriously putting guants on those bases? Or this a one off?

[hiveovermind]

I'm putting my gaunts on that yes. My whole army in fact. Now am I am doubting between green stuff or small pins.