Goats, Cows, and other things that lurk in the old world forests

Starting with my classic middlehammer GW Doombull model, I quickly realised his feet aren’t exactly flat. This would be a bit of a problem when it came to basing him so I used some cork sheets cut out and stacked on top of each other with super glue to sit on top of the 50mm base.

Once dry I used a sharp knife to follow the angled edge of the plastic base to carve away the cork to create a nice topper. Chunks were then cut in and out of the cork to add some natural randomness to it.

I then positioned the Doombull on the cork and used a sharp to draw around his feet so I had an idea where I needed to build up the base.

With the pen marks as a guide the offcuts of cork were added to create some height for the left foot to stand on and for the back of the right to make contact with. All of the cork was then brushed with a watered down PVA glue solution to help fix it in place and reduce the absorption rate of the cork when I come to paint it.

With the PVA drying I moved onto my other bases. I arranged 35x 25mm bases into one of my movement trays (because I still need to build command models to go with the 30 gor warriors) and the 3x 50mm minotaur trays into another.

The plain bases were then coated in an AK-Interactive Muddy Ground texture paste. Whilst the paste was wet I liberally sprinkled over some Forest Floor “Instant Base Scatter mix from Rival Crafts https://www.rivalcrafts.co.uk/store/Instant-Base-Scatter-c49671987. This mix contains all sorts of debris perfect for adding some randomness and natural feeling to the base. Finally, I used a blunt tool to scrape in between all of the ranked up bases to remove any overspill.

This process continued with the Minotaur bases and the Dragon Ogres, first using the texture paste then the forest scatter.

We the PVA dry on the Doombull’s base this was also given a work over with the paste to help smooth out and fill in the contours of the cork where it needed to be risen up.

And that is the first batch of bases done. The models were then glued to the bases ready for priming. The forest scatter will get painted with the primer but this is fine as it will become the undergrowth, with a final finishing layer of scatter applied at the end to add some natural look again.