Civs Foray into Frostgrave
Getting the basing ready
Getting the bits readyFor anyone who doesnt know Frostgrave is set in a cold, wintery ruined city. I wanted to capture this on the models basing (plus i love a good snow base).
I bought some rollers from greenstuff world a little while back, and whilst i had a chance to use the plank effect one on my royal marines i had yet to try out the cobblestone one i bought. I had also purchased the height adjusters for the rollers as this really helps get a consistent(ish) finish to the bases.
I bought some milliput to use as the basing material and started rolling. I first used water to stop the milliput sticking to the roller (being used to greenstuff i thought this was a good idea). It turns out this just makes it so much worse, DO NOT USE WATER!
After cleaning up the roller and washing off the sticky milliput i went the other way and put some talc powder over the roller and the milliput. This is the way i am going to keep doing this as it worked a charm. The overlap from pressing the milliput was sliced off using a sharp scalple which was also easier than i thought.
Using up all the milli put i had mixed i managed to get 17 bases covered (some not quite completely). Im very pleased with the result and now i have the technique refined i can keep producing these bases or elements of on my other projects.
Once painted up i am going to add some snow effect to the bases to really tie them into the eternal city of winter that is frostgrave.
Finished bases
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