How to Make Sand and Water Bases for Your Miniatures (Idoneth Deepkin)
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
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In this video I'll show you how to make sand and water bases for your miniatures (for example ocean bases or beach themed bases for Idoneth Deepkin), for wargames, warhammer, Games Workshop, Warmachine/Hordes and more.
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Citadel Ironrach Skin (for alt can use a bone color)
Scale75 Caribbean Blue (could use P3 Arcane Blue or Citadel Temple Guard Blue)
Vallejo Air Ultramarine (can honestly use any medium blue you like!)
Vallejo Ground Texture Grey Sand (also called Sandy Paste):
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Woodland Scenics (could use Vallejo Water transparent or any other "water effects" product that allows you to shape it (not still/standing water).
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Stumbled on this and I had the exact same issue. I wanted this theme. Perfect and awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Yes! I was looking everywhere for inspiration on a quick way to make consistent calm waves using water texture and the toothpick method is a winner!
I'm making an Iron Snakes themed Space Marine army, and their whole gimmick is they're like Greek Hoplite Space Marines, so I've been looking for beach themed bases and this is the best video I've found to help me make that a reality. Though I'm going to swap out the Atlantic Blue for Vallejo's Mediterranean Blue.
Fantastic tutorial! Will definitely be using this method to base my Deepkin.
You are far more confident in your ability to avoid overspray than I. Great tutorial!
The moment i saw the Deepkin i knew i had to try making some water bases and i just dont have the confidence to try anything in resin yet at my level of experience but this is a really solid look for what i was thinking of, great job!
Great to hear that! :)
Great bases and great production value in your video!
Man. Thanks for that video. It helps me a lot today. I'm not playing Idoneth (yet, because, yes I want to someday), right now I'm doing bases for Warmachine Brineblood Marauders and I wanted bases somewhat like that. And your video is a GREAT help !
Older video, but spot on! Thanks for making and sharing this with us all
Awesome video. Very helpful. Gonna try this myself
Those are nice looking bases but shouldn't they come out of the water rather than facing it? Well they are blind so that could play into it.
hah :) Yeah, that's fair - either way works for sure. You could probably reverse the sides (sand/water) to have them coming from the water without much trouble.
They can actual summon waves, mini oceans, etc. So it works either way.
Great effect, moreover looks quite straightforward to do!
These look great! Thank you for the video!
Going to use this technique on a Cthulhu model, thanks a lot!
Amazing bases. Fantastic video. will defiantly be using this
Nick George awesome!
Shore troopers for legion
& Deathtroopers! 🤩
impressive result!
Thank you!
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Thank you very much :)
Subscribed ! Fantastic work !
Warmonger thank you!
So fresh! thx u
Brilliant!
Simple technique, well stated with examples. Well played good sir...well played!
Great job!!! New subscriber
Your mini's are gorgeous. You should do a showcase video of all of your stuff.
Grugknuckle thanks, I might do that at some point!
Looks like i need to do some shopping. Im doing corsairs and i want this kind of base
So cool
Can’t wait to use this technique on my orky freebooter pirates
Very cool quick tutorial and great looking Idoneth !
Did you also make a video with a full water covered base, with waves and such ? I am looking for something of that sorts
Myrdin nope just this
Thanks for this great tutorial! Do you always base after painting your miniatures?
I had a hard time finding the Ground Texture but it also seems to go as "sandy paste". It has the same product code (or however it's called in English) as the one on your bottle. The german website even has it listed as "sandy paste" with a picture that says "grey sand", so I'm pretty sure it's just the same stuff!
Ah, excellent tip I was wondering why it's so hard to find online lol :)
Any recommendations for the foam at all
Hey, would you mind sharing how you mixed the last part to make the white part of the waves? Like how much paint to the water effect? I am struggling a bit with the white parts of my waves. thanks!
Alexandre Zambeaux I definitely wing that part. If I had to guess I’d say I added a small drop of paint to roughly a nickel sized blob of water Effect.
Great tutorial. Where did you get that mini shell?
Florent Arlandis thanks! The Idoneth miniatures come with some little fish, coral and shells.
I just found the basing for the Greyjoys army.
what color did you use for their skins ?
Where did you get the small shells from they’re great
I believe they are just included on the sprues.
What would you say are the main differences are between Vallejo sand texture and the dark earth?
Dark earth is thicker. Sand is smoother and more moisture in it I find.
Did you let the water texture dry before applying the foam effect?
Yep!
I have the complete inability to paint bases without getting whatever it is I am using all over the minis feet, so I have to paint bases first and then pin their feet down to the completed base.
If you have ideas for other games/miniatures where this technique would look great, share below in a comment!
Hello. I just discovered the channel with this tutorial. Very good job and exactly the effect I was searching for. I intend to use it on a tropical beach terrain for a game called Briskars (skirmish 54mm with anthropomorphian pirates animals :p). I already glued PVA and sand on my table so I don't know if I should use Vallejo Sandy Paste al over it or simply paint on the sand with an apporoaching colour. Any advice on that matter ? Thank you for your help
I'm planning on using this technique for my SAGA Jomsviking Warband! Great video, thank you!
Where did you get the tiny seashells!?!?
CrazyTaco24 they come in the box
Any good seraphon bases ideas?
Rui Pereira not at the moment but maybe eventually!
This video actually inspired me to try something with my skink bases. I think I'm going to try to have them coming out of a jungle river into some heavy foliage. Might be tricky on a 25mm base though.
Very cool bases! ...but for variety reasons, and realism, I wouldn't make my WHOLE army stand on the exact same edge of the water :P . I would make some bases 100% sand, others 75% water, others 80% sand, etc.
Yep for sure :)
Is this effect also possible with GW paint?
Cheer not exactly, no. I think the key here is the water texture and this particular shade of sand texture. You could of course do a base that is half sand half water (not sure which paints you’d use) but it would be fairly different colours in the end.
Thank you very much for the info.
No problem, sorry I don't have a better suggestion in this case :)
Cheer I managed to make a decent wave effect with liquid green stuff though, it looks cheaper than in this video but for me it looks pretty good
Is there a way to do this with only Citadel paints?
Are you the guy that plays on rerolling one with his deepkin??
Liam Alford nope
Very nice. Simple but effective. *stolen* lol
Good, I want it stolen :D