Dark Elf wooden base - a blood bowl story
How to
Step 1 - The lollipop stick, bask in it's majesty
Step 2 - cut 3 strips to cover the base
Step 3 - Glue to the base, super glue is my friend
Step 4 - drill the ball hole, start from the back
Step 5 - trim the edges, do it from the back (it's easier)
Step 6 - light sanding and maybe a little scouring of the surfaceNow I could tell you how to paint it but there are bucket loads of how to paint wood on the interwebs. Do I will just summarise. For mine I used the wood set from scale 75 and just went from dark to light using a semi-drybrush method. I left the middle darker than the outside. Then I used some washes from army painter, highlighted the edges and gloss coat. The blood was paint and inks mixed, it works but is not brilliant so having a better paint for this is probably going to help. Then some of them received a painted line.
The white lines – lollipop to the rescue
Paint white on the edge of a lollipop stick, press onto base and magic happens! It’s not perfectly solid white line but that’s what we are after.
Acceptance – don’t panic, embrace chaos
Lollipop sticks are weak, they will chip in places, just embrace this and treat it like natural part of a wooden thing.
Diversity – in life and miniatures
Don’t just cut 3 straight strips, make some strips out of 2 strips, maybe leave a gap – if you have two pieces butted up to each other use a small drill bit of pin to try make some holes to show the nails. Differences make things better!
Hope this is helpful to some and hope I can continue to post more, rather than 1 thing a year. Have fun!
This tip was elegant in it’s simplicity, but contained a lot of useful advice. Cheers mate and thanks