Manda (Amachan) goes to the Eastern Front

But a very busy one…. Anyway, more basing tests today. Here are the results with the basing paste mix from last post. I am really liking the result.

I am thinking about buying new MDF bases for everything so that I can also base my vehicle and not have the vehicle bases look different. So for that it would be great if I can just hide the bases moulded on the models in the texture of the basing, that would be great. So I glued 2 of the filler caps for the Battlefront bases on one of my test bases to see how this is going to turn out. I don’t want to see a rim of the bases through my basing.

In order to make tire tracks more consistently I made a little tool. I used 2 spare road wheel I had from the PaK36/Nebelwerfer kit, drilled some holes into them and glued them to a bit of a brass rod in order to make a tire track tool. I don’t have any spare tracks to do the same for tanks, but they differ per tank anyway, so I’ll just press the tank in.

Top Left: This is the basing paste mix over the 2 filler caps.
Top Middle: The basing paste mix where I pressed a tank in, but it just kept sticking to the tank and couldn’t get a good impression.
Top Right: More of the basing paste mix but I tried to roll the tires through it, you can barely see a thing.
Bottom Left: Just pure AK Interactive Diorama Terrains Muddy Ground (AK8017) I pressed the tank in after wetting the tracks a bit and then rolled the wheels through it.
Bottom Middle: The same process but that with just the structure paste.
Bottom Right: Again the same process but with the basing paste mix.

So from this I am concluding that putting the the texture in the the muddy ground or in the structure paste is fine, but once you mix them together is goes wrong and can’t hold the structure. I’ll have see after it has all dried, but this is going to require more testing.