How To: Elfy Bases

Time for another basing tutorial!  This will take a lot less painting than the lava bases and can serve as a nice 'basing for beginners' type of how to.  For this you will need glue (super glue and PVA or elmers), paint, two different colors of flock and some flowers or clump flock.

For the elves I've been starting with the super easy to use mantic bases.  These are for a horde of tallspears but I want to be able to take them down to regiment and or troop level so I've split it in half and then in half one more time.  Next take some super glue and glue down bits of cork to make a more varied surface.

To add a little more variety to the bases I've used super glue (although PVA or elmers will work) to glue down some more coarse rocks around the cork.

Fore these bases I've primed the whole thing white though if you want a darker base you can prime black and drybrush your colors over it rather than the wash we will do on the next step.  

Now its time to take our least expensive paint (ie craft paint) and water it down.  I've used a basic brown paint and water it down to a 25% water 75% paint.  This will create a little variance and help to cover the cracks in the cork as well.  Slop all that paint on so that it covers up the primer.

Let it dry completely before this next step.  Next up we will take the brown we used earlier and add a good bit of white into the mix.  This will be drybrushed all over the place (no picture sadly).  After that dries take a nice bright green static grass or flock and glue it onto the base in spots.

I like to use super glue because it keeps it from falling off later during play.  Just make spots of glue at random all over the place and sprinkle your flock on. If you are using super glue instead of PVA make sure to do it in sections so that the glue doesn't dry before the flock hits it.

Next I do the same thing with a slightly darker flock.  This time it is in small spots and with much less flock covering everything.  Again this is to provide some more variance and color.

Next I've taken some 'flowers' (ie clump flock) and placed them sporadically around the area.

After painting the edges of the base (make sure to wait for the glue to dry before this!) we can finally put a set of demon elf models onto the base!  Yay for being done!