Pedro here,
While putting together the new 2 Player Warmachine Box Set I have also started to toy with creating some different bases. After reading a wonderful stage by stage walkthrough for painting Protectorate on brushthralls that also describes an interesting basing technique for cracked earth, I thought I would give it a go.
Step 1: Take a common Warmachine base and cover it up to the crease with Green Stuff. Make sure that you carve out enough time to finish this project before the Green Stuff cures.
Step 2: With a putty tool or toothpick begin to carve out lines in the shape of cracked earth. I used a hexagonal pattern blended with a square pattern. Don't feel like you have to get it symmetric, in fact if it is too symmetric it wont look real!
Step 3: Once the Green Stuff has dried paint the entire surface with Bestial Brown, making sure that you get the paint inside all of the creases.
Step 4: Once the layer of Bestial Brown has dryed, then apply a wash of Delvan Mud. Then apply highlights of 1:3 mix of Bestial Brown and Bleached Bone (I used Privateer Press Menoth White Base but they are basically the same). Make sure when applying highlights that you pick a side of your base that will be the direction of your light source and paint your highlights on the same edge as that source.
And there you have it, paint time was extremely short...about 15 mins and you get a really cool base effect!
Pedro
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