Seldon9 is Painting Conquest - The Old Dominion

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Basing for the Look

December 3, 2023

The Old Dominion is a blasted hell scape ruined by the mad god Hazlia newly allied with death. There’s nothing alive there except for some very driven individuals inspired by Hazlia searching for bodies and materials to animate for Hazlia’s undead army.

So the basing won’t be too labourious. I plan to give character stands an individual, scenic base but I’ll detail those individually. For now, I need a quick, general scheme.

It’s an old favourite. Spread dark, basing paste on all the bases. I use Vallejo but it doesn’t really matter. Let that dry then I apply three sets of Vallejo pigments roughly. On the square ranking bases I do the following:

First Vallejo Burnt Umber (73.110) over about 3/4 of the base leaving the front right corner clear.
Second I go over most of the base with Dark Red Ocher (73.107).
Finally I use Rust (73.117) on the half of the base with one corner clear of the first pigment.

The individual, circular bases get a similar spread though they tend to be more of a jumble.

Once the pigments are done I drip airbrush thinner over the pigments to use as a fixative. When that’s dried I apply matt varnish to finish.

I never apply gloss varnish over raw pigments. Any glossing is done before pigments. Pigments just look weird under gloss.