The project formerly known as 'Prepping Maggie for Battle'

So, I started off by filling up the edge with some grey stuff. In hindsight I could have done this neater, but at the moment it didn’t occur to me that I could have used a pen or something to make the new edges straight(ish). Ah well, it’s not messy; it’s playful?

So, I wanted to try something new (for me, at least) and decided to try and give the base a simple desert look. Yes, I have only recently started properly painting miniatures, their bases and flocking the latter, so this is in fact new territory for me…

Anyway, I first thought about just putting some PVA glue on the base and chucking some sand on. I worried that the sand might rub off from your standard wear and tear, though, and so wanted to go a different route. I found a video of a guy who mixed the sand with some paint and PVA glue and thought I’d try that.

I have a few big bottles of PVA glue left from when I was laying down the wooden floor in our living room and used sand from a bag in the garage, which I periodically broom between the tiles in the back yard. No worries: I did actually use proper paint; a mix of mainly Basilisk Brown with a bit of Matt White and Chaos Black.

The result looked interesting and was quite difficult to spread out over the base (not as easy as the guy in the video made it look!).

I made sure to make enough to also base my other painted Haqqislam minis, who had been going through live on bare black bases until then.

Well, it turned out I made way too much, so I just threw the rest on a piece of cardboard. Maybe I’ll turn it into a terrain piece at some point. Quicksand maybe?

After it had dried I was not too sure about the result. I felt like I had made a 1:1 scale replica of a biscuit (a kletskop to be precise), rather than a piece of desert terrain.

Hope was somewhat restored after a drybrush of Ushabti Bone. Not too sure about all the holes that have appeared after drying. Perhaps due to air bubbles? The result is not as sandy as I intended at first, but I am liking the more stone like look.