Snow Base ideas

[lowlygaunt]

Ok I have been doing snow bases using the baking soda method, it looks pretty good if you mix it 50/50 with pva. My real question is what color to outline the base with. The little circle of plastic showing below the snow base. I was thinking a good light grey would be fine. What do you all think? Leave whit? Paint grey? Here is a picture to show them as left white.

I started to paint my roughriders around the base with nordsk blue, which is a grey/blue color and I am not sure I am happy with it, any input would be great!
(The funny thing about this whole snowbased army, is I have no snow borad terrain! i have 3 sets of terrain boards, and no snow one, which is probably the easiest to make.)

[Koyori]

Well it may be just me, but I'm kinda bored with people who dun go any further then that with the base. Personally I have started to paint my bases in the same way I paint the carapace on my nids.
Not it may not work on your figures, but why stay at 1 color? make em camo painted or something.

[tyranidnz]

when doing snow just recently I used putty and tried having static grass and sand on the sides. It doesn't look too bad I can post pics if you guys want

[lowlygaunt]

I wouldnt mind seeing what you mean tyranidz, I need all the ideas I can get. Currently I am just painting the"ring" portion of the base a nuetral grey, the portion between the ground and the flat part the snow is modelled on (if I leave it white it looks like I just primered it and forgot that part).