So I've been working away on my Custodes for a while and like many armies I try and have a theme. So the theme for these guys and my Imperial Fists is meant to be defending Terra in the last few days of the Horus Heresy. I always imagined sandstone featuring heavily on the Palace walls and so there's quite a lot of sandy colours on the bases of my Imperial Fists but I couldn't recreate it very well for my Custodes so I opted for a new route. They are inside the Palace fighting all sorts and given their love of grav technology I felt a very simple base would work well.
So I started with several sheets of this stuff - available from the company in the photo. It's textured plasticard, thin enough to cut and comes in A4 sizes. It's perfect for putting a base down, cutting round it and getting the right size. Then you can file it to fit and remove the rough edges. You'll see on mine that I didn't get it perfect but it doesn't matter from the table top.
Pardon the jeans here! This is the base mounted and sprayed with a quick blast of Army Painter Uniform Grey (a staple of my early Space Wolves) but could easily use any other paint here.
Finally you just need to blast it with nuln oil. It looks cracking once it's all wet but be warned!
The base here is after one blast, it's not totally perfect and it's looking like it needs another coat. I'll probably top these up once I've gotten more progress done. Once I have a painting need I like to ride it all the way as I am not the biggest fan of painting.
WIP shot of my Custodes Contemptor-Galatus. I'm not sure how many more colours I'll add till I say he's tabletop but I do have to go back to all these guys for another detailing session.
Ignore the birthday cake - I was 32 yesterday!
So with a tiny bit of effort you can make some really cool and distinct bases, I would love to hear some of your little wins in that regard. Do you tend to go ornate and fancy and fill the base with loads of detail or do you like the plainer look?
Cheers all
-Kijamon-
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