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Making Daemon Bases
I’m trying something new with the bases for my Daemons. This is something I learned from AssetDrop for making crystal growths but I’ve never tried. I’ll be painting these up to look like obsidian, as detailed below.
The first step was to save some sprue and cut out some straight sections, removing any writing or jutty outy bits. Then you take your hobby knife and shave off the corners so you have an irregular 8 sided shape. Then you bring one end to an irregular angular tip. I then cut a flat bottom on to it at the angle I want.
As you will see below, this gets very messy very fast. Plan for this, and for gods sake, don’t blow on anything like I did!
My first crystal and the base. You can see I've marked out where the feet will go so I do not put anything in the way.
Then I drill a pin hole in the bottom of each. I drilled a guide hole perpendicular to the surface, but once I'm about 1mm in I angle the drill to go alone the middle of the crystal as best as I can.
Glue some pins (Paperclips) in to the new holes
Drill holes in the base using the same method as before. Do this one at a time, dry-fitting crystals until you are happy with the arrangement
Here it is with the crystals glued on, and the Bloodthirster dry fitted for context
Some kitty litter was superglued down, and then some watery PVA was spread over the base and over the bottoms of the crystals. Fine garden dirt was then crumbled over everything. Once the glue is dry (8-24 hours) I'll go over it with even more watery PVA
It has been primed to unify everything. At this time the first coat of PVA is still wet. More PVA and probably more priming will happen later before painting begins.
Here is a second angle. The black on black wasn't helping in the previous pic
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