With all the disparate little elements on those rollers, cutting sections out after the roll really mixes bases up to look different to one another. Adding simple sand/rock texture sections really accentuates the decking sections you left in. Adding dusting/drifts of baking soda will really help my terraforming shake and bake colony setting for the mass of multipart Aliens (AvP1.0) models in my shame pile. Still need a dramatic painting approach for masses of Gieger xenos tho so I can finally skirmish/battle with them on the tabletop.
@@52Miniatures They shine used as a foundation as you showed, I've tended to cover the base with it instead (I started with the cobbles roller) and it works so much better this way than all over
Amazing how something as simple as removing a section and switching the texture makes the base so much better. Another great video! Thank you for sharing and please stay safe.
Thanks D! I was hoping do find more variable locations. But flying with a drone is in theory pretty heavily regulated here, and I follow the rules... so I had to do whit what I could find without other people about.
i find basing to be so important (and have often seen mediocre paint jobs elevated by great basing) and it's been a delight to see you get more into sf.
I remember thinking this would be useful if I needed that sort of thing at the time, but now I need to base my new kill team - in a way that fits all the killzones - and this video delivers. Thanks Past!Alex!
I find working on bases very liberating - I am always on the lookout for any "garbage" piece of plastic or electronic, or any tiny interesting thing which will fit the scale. There's no mistakes, instead almost exclusively "happy accidents" that manifest as you convert junk into ... usually junk again, but this time in scale! and in the form of art :) Love the video, and love your channel - I hope content creation is as satisfying for you as watching your videos for me
what I've done recently with "medium", the more runny version to extend acrylics... I layer a drop (let it dry-flatten) and layer more drops over and over making unusual bubbling mud-flats style bases.
@@52Miniatures I really like your creativity when it comes to minis and painting and it's only amplified with bases. Love what you did with these. Very industrial, eye catching and yet not over the top so they won't take away from your miniatures. I'm so copying you in the near future! :D
@@acidcoen Oh please do! I think they are fun and different enough to be unnoticeable :) That kind of doesn't make sense.. but I feel that when they are all a little individual, it just feels more like a "natural environment". And even though they make everything look nice, don't steal to much attention from the mini. Bases that are all the same, and I start seeing weird patterns on the table.. and for me that steals to much attention.
One of my New Year's hobby resolutions was to up my basing game. Haven't gone as far as getting a GSW rolling pin yet (mainly cause I dislike working with putties), but I may have to do that at some point...
Wow, truly impressive. The final product looked much different than I anticipated. Dana Howl has a few videos involving rolling pin bases that you may have seen. I'm definitely "stealing" some of these ideas for future projects. Keep up the great content!
Well, this showed up in my feed and I have been looking for something to base my 1st edition Genestealers with. The production quality and instruction of this video is amazing! Thanks for posting this!
I'm always embarrassed it's in the hobby supplies, but water based lubricant works really well for keeping the rolling pin from sticking to the green stuff when making bases and it cleans up easily.
I've spent £140 at Green Stuff World since I discovered them (about a month ago) and you've made me want to buy even more stuff! They should give you a sponsorship :)
@@52Miniatures that's a shame! They could probably sell me a lot more stuff if I saw it being used. I find the website quite inspiring and I've even spent some time thinking about how I can use the packing peanuts as basing materials, if you tear it apart you can get something that could make really nice foam which may work quite nicely for a sci-fi base :)
Hey, I don't know if this will help but I put my baking soda into an extra dropper bottle I had. The single dropper hole makes for very nice precision baking soda applications. You may want to roll a small paper cone to pour it in the bottle if you try this.
If you do forget to clean your rolling pin and those tiny bits of putty are giving you a hard time, I suggest letting it soak in IPA for a bit. From stripping mini's I know that greenstuff will be easy to remove afterwards.
Have you tried it? I used something we call "red-spirit" once. It's a very cheap but horrible mixture between Ethanol, Propanol and a hint of acetone. Great for cleaning stuff... only the rolling pin cracked... so I'm kind of scared to use alcohol.
Late is better than never. Just got back, unwinding and finding not one but two of Alex's finest waiting on me. I take it you're liking Stargrave? Looking forward to more games myself. And back to my 600 sons. Another pair of just delightful videos, my friend. You quite definitely have a talent for this.
@@52Miniatures indeed. I'm interested in necromunda but I'm going to finish up my stargrave crew and 10 thousand other projects first. Gotta try and be a responsible hobbyist.
Such a great "recipe" :D I might have to invest in a new rolling pin, as I'm looking at potentially going for a prison colony style base for my Schaeffer's Last Chancers
I never enjoyed making bases. To me the gluing of sand and random stuff was a bit too messy and I found the natural formations it's supposed to represent a bit dull. This has changed since I got my 3D printer! I've modeled and printed out everything that goes to a base, from a single complete base topper to stuff I can scatter to bases to make them look more interesting - books, skulls, candels, piles of coins, that sort of stuff. This has made me actually enjoy the basing process, to the point where now I actually look forward to also thinking about the base and how to make it enhance the model.
Looks like you're well on your way with your Stargrave crew. Looking good there bud. Right now I'm nose deep in the manual trying to figure out exactly how I'm gonna work my own crew and make the final decisions needed before I get to building.
Thanks M! Yeah, I've decided to do the orcs as pirates, and a gang of ruffians, and then a crew. But nothing stops me from just interchanging. So if I want I can run the ruffians as a crew, or the orcs. I'm not doing minis with the exact "layout" as the specs. I mean, a sniper rifle on the sniper is nice... but it could be a "sniper hand gun" to me :)
Another great video! I love how you use books in your videos - and you have (in my opinion) good taste in fiction! I checked out Joe Abercrombie because I saw one of his books in a previous video, and I really enjoyed it. I would love to see a list of book recommendations or even a video about your favorites.
God I need to some rolling pins, those bases are incredible. I generally 3D print my bases, but It's either to samey, or just not how I'd want it, and those from the video look great, unique and fun. *off to the Green Stuff World website*
@@52Miniatures o actually don't know I went to look at your video and well I was like o wow a new video so had to look as I wanted to customise a base for a daemon Prince but thank you love your style of grim dark ♡
I'm doing exactly this with a Roman Rolling pin and some flower and shrub tufts to create a Naboo Garden feel for my STar Wars Legion ! I don't know if you tried contacting Green Stuff World, but you should, you've talked about their product a few times already and even if they don't sponsor your videos they may be able to send you products for free, you'd deserve them ! ;)
I'm really loving this series you have going do you plan to make some Scifi terrain for this as well. I'm currently deep in the terrain rabbit hole and would love to see your take! Cheers man!
Don't forget ... he said to the proud owner of two grungy, uncleaned rolling pins. Nothing a little hammer and chisel won't fix! Nice video, as always, and as a side note: I approve the working ahead on your own discord challenge
Resin is exceptionally “small moleculed”. Essentially, from what I can understand, if you get it on your skin, it can seep trough and enter your body. I’m not conspiracy talking here... I have an acquaintance that researches this stuff. Also the fumes when curing are not nice, or the dust particles when sanding. - this obviously goes for all plastics. One shouldn’t inhale plastic basically. Repeated exposure, ie the more plastic you get inside of you, the more likely you get allergies and such. A lot of people talk in videos about using gloves when handling resin, and to keep a 3D printer in well ventilated areas. But not many talk about “why”. And the good people selling these things don’t seem to want to scare people off by telling us either.
Thanks for another great video! I was just looking at those molds on GSW and now I've seen then in action I've made a purchase! I am curious to know if you edited the video to remove any shots of you super-gluing the resin parts to your fingers? I have been gluing on a number of resin cloaks & tabards recently and nearly glued every one to my fingers. I had that heart stopping moment when you imagine the nurse saying "You you where trying to glue resin fur to a space soldiers crotch?!" I've been basing my Space Wolves in a future city style as I hate seeing them with snow bases. As if they never leave home. Not much of an fighting force if they only ever stay on home, or refuse to fight on any world where tanning is a possible. I did try painting a few with sunburn, but it looked odd on 35mm scale...
Great video! Now I need to consider if I will redo my bases or stick with the once I make (a few weeks ago) Btw, I went to Alphaspel some ago and saw your displayed minis there. Fun to see them in person. And I must add it is a lovely store.
Some great looking bases :) Something that I don't ever see mentioned though, is... how do you attach plastic minis to this? Normally, I use plastic cement to attach the plastic mini to the plastic of the base because it de- and re-bonds the plastic chemically. But when you have bases like this, you've covered it with putty, resin, baking soda, cyanoacrylate etc. - and so plastic cement has no power here. I've not had good experiences with super-gluing model feet, because I find it goes quite brittle and "snaps off" easily eg. when knocked. What do you do?
Very true D! I “pin”, and use super glue. So I drill a hole in the base, and under the foot of the mini. Stick a thin metal wire in the hole and together with superglue this is enough to hold everything together.
@@52Miniatures Will do ;) I'm battered from a couple of hard weeks back at work (such a shock to the system after nearly a year out of action). I'm sat here editing now, as it's all I have energy for. VO later if I don't flake out with a movie...
Great work! Glad to see your channel getting well deserved momentum! May I ask what do you do for a living? Your place is so well designed I'm guessing you are an Architect?
Yeah! I was actually looking around for some, but I seem to have a lack of trashed electronics around the house. I'm thinking bass strings would make cool "tubes".
@@52Miniatures just curious, have you ever tried coffee stirrers, straw kind, for pipes? They work well enough for me, but definitely not as solid as uv resin ones. One time I was in a coffee shop that has some oddly shaped stirrers. I'm not ashamed to say I swiped a few. I needed lots of stirrers for that coffee I just bought, you know :-). I've also used 1mm/3mm food grade silicone tubing. They work really well as pipes or if I need a clear energy conduit. Stick a florescent/white painted copper wire inside for the "energy". Once again, I salvaged the copper wire from old cables. I recently found that there's a coil of extremely thin copper wire in one of those solar powered dancing ornament, in case you have an old one of those and no cable. Anyway I like making bases. I fully agree with your sentiment on them. Thanks this video. Cheers.
Now I have a desire to see the space pirate rum bar on my table (off to plan it out . . .) Check out Spiral Arm studios - they have some awesome sci-fi minis that would work in Stargrave and sci-fi terrain sprues (full of sci-fi bits for terrain)
Hi Alex. A very specific question. How do you put the minis on the base? Why the question? I understand that the base you have prepared is not completely flat and irregular, so I wound like to know if you pin the mini or just with superglue is it enough? About the integration: If you glue it, wouldn't part of the feet of the minis be a little floating in the air? (same for pinning). This is the reason because I always make the base at the end with the mini already painted, so I can integrate the floor to the feet. Certainly if I make the base separately, it is much easier to paint the details, but this is my doub. Man, you really make really good videos.
Hey Leandro, I pin and superglue. I have had no issue with the minis look like they are "floating". But I make sure to push them down properly. If one is into details, there is always the posibility to pin and glue the mini before the putty has fully cured. Then one can push it down a bit further. Sometimes I attach the mini before I ad the sodium bicarbonate "dust". That way I can ad some dirt to the boots as well, tying everything together.
Space Pirate Rum? Sign me up!
You're only aloud to drive the space ship after passing the Space Pirate Rum test. What's the fun in driving trough space otherwise?
Yess, there is nothing like seeing a new 52 Miniatures video drop on my feed.
Nice! Hope you liked it :)
Love the amount of content you are turning out as of late. High quality, entertaining and educational. Just the way I like it!
Thanks M! I was on a bit of a roll there, I'm sure there is an impending stumble 😂
@@52Miniatures I do hope not! Keep up the great work! Also looking forward to how the new AoS 3.0 models will fit into your Ninja army.
With all the disparate little elements on those rollers, cutting sections out after the roll really mixes bases up to look different to one another. Adding simple sand/rock texture sections really accentuates the decking sections you left in.
Adding dusting/drifts of baking soda will really help my terraforming shake and bake colony setting for the mass of multipart Aliens (AvP1.0) models in my shame pile. Still need a dramatic painting approach for masses of Gieger xenos tho so I can finally skirmish/battle with them on the tabletop.
Yeah, I really like the rollers, as a foundation. Like a unifying texture that one can build upon. Thanks Allwyn!
@@52Miniatures They shine used as a foundation as you showed, I've tended to cover the base with it instead (I started with the cobbles roller) and it works so much better this way than all over
The Expanse! Best sci-fi series around.
Agreed! :)
Amazing how something as simple as removing a section and switching the texture makes the base so much better. Another great video! Thank you for sharing and please stay safe.
Thanks Rob! This would work for other rolling pin "textures" as well I think. Just the little changes in elevation does so much.
Very much appreciate the attempt to inspire, rather than documenting a specific process with specific colors and specific manufacturers.
Thanks G! I hope to :)
I love the attention to efficiency that the space pirates have with their rumlines.
One can't go without rum, not if one is a pirate :)
The initial shots you did from above of you walking different places were really cool! Gives an interesting perspective on basing.
Thanks D! I was hoping do find more variable locations. But flying with a drone is in theory pretty heavily regulated here, and I follow the rules... so I had to do whit what I could find without other people about.
i find basing to be so important (and have often seen mediocre paint jobs elevated by great basing) and it's been a delight to see you get more into sf.
Thanks D! I really like the base bit. It's another hobby aspect that is nice to do every now and again when one needs a rest from painting.
I remember thinking this would be useful if I needed that sort of thing at the time, but now I need to base my new kill team - in a way that fits all the killzones - and this video delivers. Thanks Past!Alex!
My pleasure future viewer
I find working on bases very liberating - I am always on the lookout for any "garbage" piece of plastic or electronic, or any tiny interesting thing which will fit the scale. There's no mistakes, instead almost exclusively "happy accidents" that manifest as you convert junk into ... usually junk again, but this time in scale! and in the form of art :)
Love the video, and love your channel - I hope content creation is as satisfying for you as watching your videos for me
Thank you A. I really like doing bases as well. It's like, crafting on a manageable scale :)
Yeah Expanse! Great show, even better books!
Thanks O! Haven't read the books, stuck mainly in the fantasy hole. But I'm definitely going to read more sci-fi.
Your videos are a treasure to the hobby.
Well thank you, as always Florian!
what I've done recently with "medium", the more runny version to extend acrylics... I layer a drop (let it dry-flatten) and layer more drops over and over making unusual bubbling mud-flats style bases.
Sounds cool and timeconsuming :) Nice one
A rum pipeline...the future isn't all grimdark after all. ;-)
Wait until you try the rum...
So long as it isn't Grog or Rot Gut, you should be okay 🏴☠️
The colour scheme you chose looks uncannily similar to the scheme used in the Lego theme Rock Raiders
I had to google that! Seems I did a pretty good match :)
Thinking of doing all my beadbot bases soon, this was very helpful thanks.
Thanks Bill! You’re a handy fellow though. Maybe you can make your own roller?
@@52Miniatures maybe...
I really like all the thought put into the narrative behind the bases. I feel it really completes their nice look!
Thank you!!
I always love the care you put into shot composition.
Thank you D, I appreciate it :)
Thanks for taking me on your journey friend 👏👍
My pleasure Mark!
It's all about that base, innit? Also, big props for The Expanse :D My favorite show these days.
I like bases.. what can I say :) The Expanse is great!
@@52Miniatures I really like your creativity when it comes to minis and painting and it's only amplified with bases. Love what you did with these. Very industrial, eye catching and yet not over the top so they won't take away from your miniatures. I'm so copying you in the near future! :D
@@acidcoen Oh please do! I think they are fun and different enough to be unnoticeable :) That kind of doesn't make sense.. but I feel that when they are all a little individual, it just feels more like a "natural environment". And even though they make everything look nice, don't steal to much attention from the mini. Bases that are all the same, and I start seeing weird patterns on the table.. and for me that steals to much attention.
Great video and Love the Expanse plug!
Thanks C! Lovely show.
Your intro and your voice are just so soothing to me. love the videos. Also, The Expanse on screen is awesome. Love the show and the books.
Thank you Jacob! It sure is a good series!
I too would like Space-Pirate Rum piped in!
Sounds pretty rad huh? :)
Sweet glad to see you make Bases and they look awesome my friend
Nice! Thank you Matt
Those are some amazing bases. I really need to get some of those rollers.
Thanks B! I find them very handy :)
This is really incredible. Thank you for sharing the magic!
My pleasure Kevin, and thank you.
One of my New Year's hobby resolutions was to up my basing game. Haven't gone as far as getting a GSW rolling pin yet (mainly cause I dislike working with putties), but I may have to do that at some point...
I find them very helpful. Nice, efficient results :)
A 50/50 mix of GS and M-put? What kind of dark sorcery is this??!
Alchemy at it's best! :)
Excellent work, as always.
Thank you guys :)
Wow they look superb! I love nice simple base building like this. Excellent work Alex, great video!
Thanks mate! They where fun and easy to do. And for my project at least, look just right :)
Wow, truly impressive. The final product looked much different than I anticipated. Dana Howl has a few videos involving rolling pin bases that you may have seen. I'm definitely "stealing" some of these ideas for future projects. Keep up the great content!
Great to hear and thank you! :)
Yes! The Expanse! You win 1000 geek points :D
Yay! I'll spend them on mini's :)
The second I wake up there's a new video! Great timing
Good morning!
Well, this showed up in my feed and I have been looking for something to base my 1st edition Genestealers with. The production quality and instruction of this video is amazing! Thanks for posting this!
My pleasure C! Thank you
I'm always embarrassed it's in the hobby supplies, but water based lubricant works really well for keeping the rolling pin from sticking to the green stuff when making bases and it cleans up easily.
Gotacha! Good tip. Thanks C
Great stuff mate, they look spot on
Thank Tom!
I've spent £140 at Green Stuff World since I discovered them (about a month ago) and you've made me want to buy even more stuff! They should give you a sponsorship :)
They used to send me some stuff every now and again, but haven't for quite some time 🤷♀️
@@52Miniatures that's a shame! They could probably sell me a lot more stuff if I saw it being used.
I find the website quite inspiring and I've even spent some time thinking about how I can use the packing peanuts as basing materials, if you tear it apart you can get something that could make really nice foam which may work quite nicely for a sci-fi base :)
@@BurnsidesAP Hah! yeah! I'd forgotten about the peanuts.
Hey, I don't know if this will help but I put my baking soda into an extra dropper bottle I had. The single dropper hole makes for very nice precision baking soda applications.
You may want to roll a small paper cone to pour it in the bottle if you try this.
That's very smart J! Thank you!
@@52Miniatures you bet 👍
Beautiful bases, entertaining video, great narration and some educational tips - makes for a great start of the day! Thanks a lot for that!
Thanks C, glad you like the video.
Fantastic video as always
Thank you as always :)
Another excellent video, Alex. I really enjoy your video style. Keep them coming. I learn so much from you.
Thank you C! I appreciate it.
I love the explanation. Thanks! It looks great.
My pleasure Jason!
If you do forget to clean your rolling pin and those tiny bits of putty are giving you a hard time, I suggest letting it soak in IPA for a bit. From stripping mini's I know that greenstuff will be easy to remove afterwards.
Have you tried it? I used something we call "red-spirit" once. It's a very cheap but horrible mixture between Ethanol, Propanol and a hint of acetone. Great for cleaning stuff... only the rolling pin cracked... so I'm kind of scared to use alcohol.
Snyggt Jobbat! looks like we use the same approach when doing sci-fi industrial bases. I might have to cave a buy the GSW rolling pin.
Tack, I'm glad to hear it. I really like the rollers for "simple" bases like these.
Late is better than never. Just got back, unwinding and finding not one but two of Alex's finest waiting on me. I take it you're liking Stargrave? Looking forward to more games myself. And back to my 600 sons. Another pair of just delightful videos, my friend. You quite definitely have a talent for this.
Well thank you Jesse, I appreciate it :) I'm still working on the Stargrave minis, but I'm in no rush :)
Brilliant, great method 👍
Thank you Phil!
These are great bases and tips! I got into stargrave because of your first video and now I have a few really good ideas for bases! Thank you
Thank you! Pretty "necromunda-ish" as well :)
@@52Miniatures indeed. I'm interested in necromunda but I'm going to finish up my stargrave crew and 10 thousand other projects first. Gotta try and be a responsible hobbyist.
@@SugarCandyMiniatures I'm trying to tell myself the same thing :)
Bloody good books in this video
So inspiring, great content as usual!
Thank E, I'm glad you liked the video :)
Such a great "recipe" :D I might have to invest in a new rolling pin, as I'm looking at potentially going for a prison colony style base for my Schaeffer's Last Chancers
Nice! These would work nice for prison colony!
Those bases are looking great Alex! Really need to get myself a rolling pin, you’ve convinced me haha.
I'm sorry Luke :) They are very handy in my opinion.
I never enjoyed making bases. To me the gluing of sand and random stuff was a bit too messy and I found the natural formations it's supposed to represent a bit dull.
This has changed since I got my 3D printer! I've modeled and printed out everything that goes to a base, from a single complete base topper to stuff I can scatter to bases to make them look more interesting - books, skulls, candels, piles of coins, that sort of stuff. This has made me actually enjoy the basing process, to the point where now I actually look forward to also thinking about the base and how to make it enhance the model.
That's very cool. What program do you use for modelling?
They look awesome dude 😎
Thanks XD!
I’ve been using WD40 on the rolling pins. The putty comes clean off it with no need for cleanup after.
Pretty smart! And smells nice :)
Looks like you're well on your way with your Stargrave crew. Looking good there bud. Right now I'm nose deep in the manual trying to figure out exactly how I'm gonna work my own crew and make the final decisions needed before I get to building.
Thanks M! Yeah, I've decided to do the orcs as pirates, and a gang of ruffians, and then a crew. But nothing stops me from just interchanging. So if I want I can run the ruffians as a crew, or the orcs. I'm not doing minis with the exact "layout" as the specs. I mean, a sniper rifle on the sniper is nice... but it could be a "sniper hand gun" to me :)
Another great video! I love how you use books in your videos - and you have (in my opinion) good taste in fiction! I checked out Joe Abercrombie because I saw one of his books in a previous video, and I really enjoyed it. I would love to see a list of book recommendations or even a video about your favorites.
That might be a thing. We'll see... I at least I figured I would start posting books on Instagram every now and again.
And so continue your videos to make me happy :D
Ah! Great to hear Marek :) Have a nice weekend
BASS! we need BASS! BASS-cough-cough-BASE! we need BASE!!! That’s for rolling out another great video A-dawg!
Well my pleasure Juston!
I gotta get me one of those rolling pins
God I need to some rolling pins, those bases are incredible.
I generally 3D print my bases, but It's either to samey, or just not how I'd want it, and those from the video look great, unique and fun.
*off to the Green Stuff World website*
Thank you S! Yeah I like doing bases like this. Not a single on turns out the same as the other.
Thank you for this and the black cutting board look fantastic new sub to your page
Thank K! This video hasn't actually gone public yet. How You've managed to find it, I don't know 😂 Some kind of UA-cam bug.
@@52Miniatures o actually don't know I went to look at your video and well I was like o wow a new video so had to look as I wanted to customise a base for a daemon Prince but thank you love your style of grim dark ♡
Hard to be first comment when that happens lol
@@jordydavis6642 very much so!
I'm doing exactly this with a Roman Rolling pin and some flower and shrub tufts to create a Naboo Garden feel for my STar Wars Legion ! I don't know if you tried contacting Green Stuff World, but you should, you've talked about their product a few times already and even if they don't sponsor your videos they may be able to send you products for free, you'd deserve them ! ;)
Thank you! Yes we used to have more contact in the past. GDW used to send me stuff every now and again, but it's been a while. Don't know why :)
I'm really loving this series you have going do you plan to make some Scifi terrain for this as well. I'm currently deep in the terrain rabbit hole and would love to see your take! Cheers man!
Thanks T! and oh.. yeah.. I have a pretty big terrain plan. But that's going to take a while :)
When will you paint a potato powered stepper box?
Hah! "scribbling down note.." :)
Don't forget ... he said to the proud owner of two grungy, uncleaned rolling pins. Nothing a little hammer and chisel won't fix! Nice video, as always, and as a side note: I approve the working ahead on your own discord challenge
Of course you would your bases were finished 5 minutes after the challenge was implemented lol! They do look fantastic though
They can easily get a little "green"... So anyway, now where both done with the challenge yes?
What do you mean about the plastic allergy? I’ve never heard of this and can’t find any causes online. Very useful video!
Resin is exceptionally “small moleculed”. Essentially, from what I can understand, if you get it on your skin, it can seep trough and enter your body. I’m not conspiracy talking here... I have an acquaintance that researches this stuff. Also the fumes when curing are not nice, or the dust particles when sanding. - this obviously goes for all plastics. One shouldn’t inhale plastic basically. Repeated exposure, ie the more plastic you get inside of you, the more likely you get allergies and such. A lot of people talk in videos about using gloves when handling resin, and to keep a 3D printer in well ventilated areas. But not many talk about “why”. And the good people selling these things don’t seem to want to scare people off by telling us either.
@@52Miniatures thanks so much!
Thanks for another great video! I was just looking at those molds on GSW and now I've seen then in action I've made a purchase! I am curious to know if you edited the video to remove any shots of you super-gluing the resin parts to your fingers? I have been gluing on a number of resin cloaks & tabards recently and nearly glued every one to my fingers. I had that heart stopping moment when you imagine the nurse saying "You you where trying to glue resin fur to a space soldiers crotch?!" I've been basing my Space Wolves in a future city style as I hate seeing them with snow bases. As if they never leave home. Not much of an fighting force if they only ever stay on home, or refuse to fight on any world where tanning is a possible. I did try painting a few with sunburn, but it looked odd on 35mm scale...
Hah. Thanks Rob! Most of the time I just cover my fingers in a rough layer of superglue and sodium bicarbonate....
Great video! Now I need to consider if I will redo my bases or stick with the once I make (a few weeks ago)
Btw, I went to Alphaspel some ago and saw your displayed minis there. Fun to see them in person. And I must add it is a lovely store.
Nice Erik! I hope they didn't empty your wallet completely :) It is a very nice place to spend some hours browsing. Nice that you saw the minis!
@@52Miniatures I got some of the new AK gen3 paints to try them out. Always fun to try new paint.
Not totally broke ;)
@@wurgat I've heard good things about them!
Good how-to video.
Thanks T! :)
Which miniature are you planning to put on them ?
These are for all the minis I’m working on for Stargrave. So Orcs and aliens and sci fi people :)
@@52Miniatures Cool! I'm looking for some female orcen space raiders myself. Orcen valcory theme. I've got some cool ideas from your clip for bases.
@@janwillemgunneman2235 lovely!
Some great looking bases :) Something that I don't ever see mentioned though, is... how do you attach plastic minis to this? Normally, I use plastic cement to attach the plastic mini to the plastic of the base because it de- and re-bonds the plastic chemically. But when you have bases like this, you've covered it with putty, resin, baking soda, cyanoacrylate etc. - and so plastic cement has no power here. I've not had good experiences with super-gluing model feet, because I find it goes quite brittle and "snaps off" easily eg. when knocked. What do you do?
Very true D! I “pin”, and use super glue. So I drill a hole in the base, and under the foot of the mini. Stick a thin metal wire in the hole and together with superglue this is enough to hold everything together.
Nice, another video to enjoy after a hard day of work ^^
Those bases look amazing =D
Thank you B! I appreciate it
I see a Terry Pratchett book....I subscribe.
Excellent wisdom
Oh, you bugger! I have one in the can doing very much the same. :p
Go for it :)
@@52Miniatures Will do ;)
I'm battered from a couple of hard weeks back at work (such a shock to the system after nearly a year out of action). I'm sat here editing now, as it's all I have energy for. VO later if I don't flake out with a movie...
The rum is in the pipes!
Find a leak and you’ll find an orc
Great work! Glad to see your channel getting well deserved momentum! May I ask what do you do for a living? Your place is so well designed I'm guessing you are an Architect?
Thank you Mr Skull. I'm a photographer by trade. Architect would have been cool, then maybe I'd be making money 😂
@@52Miniatures Awesome! Id love to see some photo tips especially for minis! You also have a lovely house and a great aesthetic!
I also rather like actual wires (salvaged from old cables, e.g. network cables) and old guitar strings for cables on a starship
Yeah! I was actually looking around for some, but I seem to have a lack of trashed electronics around the house. I'm thinking bass strings would make cool "tubes".
@@52Miniatures just curious, have you ever tried coffee stirrers, straw kind, for pipes? They work well enough for me, but definitely not as solid as uv resin ones. One time I was in a coffee shop that has some oddly shaped stirrers. I'm not ashamed to say I swiped a few. I needed lots of stirrers for that coffee I just bought, you know :-). I've also used 1mm/3mm food grade silicone tubing. They work really well as pipes or if I need a clear energy conduit. Stick a florescent/white painted copper wire inside for the "energy". Once again, I salvaged the copper wire from old cables. I recently found that there's a coil of extremely thin copper wire in one of those solar powered dancing ornament, in case you have an old one of those and no cable.
Anyway I like making bases. I fully agree with your sentiment on them. Thanks this video. Cheers.
@@kal6351 I've used wooden coffee stirrers for crafting, and plastic straws.. anything that works.. works :)
i love the expanse
It's a very nice show :)
...and now my bases will never be the same again.
Only mesh from now on Rian? :)
Now I have a desire to see the space pirate rum bar on my table (off to plan it out . . .) Check out Spiral Arm studios - they have some awesome sci-fi minis that would work in Stargrave and sci-fi terrain sprues (full of sci-fi bits for terrain)
Every port needs a bar right? :) Thanks G!
So we know now that jabba was a mini- painter before😂
Now there's a brush licker if I ever saw one.
Hi Alex.
A very specific question. How do you put the minis on the base? Why the question?
I understand that the base you have prepared is not completely flat and irregular, so I wound like to know if you pin the mini or just with superglue is it enough?
About the integration: If you glue it, wouldn't part of the feet of the minis be a little floating in the air? (same for pinning).
This is the reason because I always make the base at the end with the mini already painted, so I can integrate the floor to the feet.
Certainly if I make the base separately, it is much easier to paint the details, but this is my doub.
Man, you really make really good videos.
Hey Leandro, I pin and superglue. I have had no issue with the minis look like they are "floating". But I make sure to push them down properly. If one is into details, there is always the posibility to pin and glue the mini before the putty has fully cured. Then one can push it down a bit further. Sometimes I attach the mini before I ad the sodium bicarbonate "dust". That way I can ad some dirt to the boots as well, tying everything together.
@@52Miniatures Perfect!!! Thanks
Haha, we got the same cheap sculpting tools off of Amazon!
Mine where actually radically overpriced in a "craft store". I can see why people shop from amazon 😂
@@52Miniatures I don't remember how much they were but it couldn't have been more than 10-15€ for the entire set.
Jättebra video, har en star wars armé som måste få fina baser!
Tack! och lycka till.
You're on a roll 52... get it? Cuz of the green stuff roller? Ok, I'll leave
Ahem... 😂
Gold
Thanks Cody!
what i need to know, is what the hell happened between 6:45 and 6:47.
Hah, the magicky painting? :)
kommentar för algoritm, men också för att säga att du göra riktigt bra saker, som i varje video.
Tack! Jag uppskattar både algoritm hjälpen och peppen :)
Definitely don't forget to clean your rolling pin.
😒
Definitely!
Sounds like you're having micro strokes every few words
I must be lucky still being alive...