Miniature bases, the how and why of the thing

There is a variety of way to base your miniatures. the usual methods are getting sand and stati grass from you local hobby store, or gathering other materials from you environment. theses are the simplest methods. I've ran across different methods that I will share with you here.

Here is some of what I use on average. some type of glue on average its white glue, but sometimes super-glue will be a better choice.
  Some type of sand or grass is also very useful,  I sometime use baking soda to make snow effects or with super glue to add a layered look to the base before I apply sand or grass.
  The tube in the middle is a two part epoxt clay that works for sculpting whatever you need, it is paintable and dries very hard

 This is the glues and adhesives I use on average, there is a gap filling hobby glue(purple lid), white basing glue, Average everyday super glue and finally a water effects acrylic gel that you can add pigments to or apply baking soda over to make some interesting snow and ice effects.

  These are the current materials I use for base work, the two containers in front are sand and statigrass from games workshop. the baking soda is something I just recently learned about and started  using just today. as previously stated you will need some glue. white glue doesn't discolor the materials when you apply them to it, the superglue will make it seem a bit wet looking

This is craft foam, it is 99 cents from hobby lobby. cheap and dirt way to cut or punch shapes for whatever you need. as you can see I have punched quite a few rectangles out of it that make tiny bricks for rubble piles on my mammoths base. they are paintable and absorb some of the excess super glue making them more ridgid

 This is cork board, it can be used as stone slates or any number of terrain features. I haven't use much of this but the bit I used on one of my reaper mini's does look decent.

  If you model's come with bits and bobs that you arn't planning to use then use them on bases. An example is I used left overs from praetorian and a damaged immortal with epoxy to make it look like my mammoth had accidentally killed some of his own men

   This is a few of the tools I use on average. clay sculpting tools, files, exacto knives, tweezers and a paper punch to make craft foam bricks









This post will have a follow-up displaying what each material looks like when it is applied. now I must return to the wonders that seem to leak out onto my mini's.

Don't forget to pet you pets, they really like it

Andy out