Those who have followed the Getting Started in Warmachine Guide will remember the tutorial I gave on basing. From that I added a tutorial on adding gears to your bases. Today we expand our basing knowledge a bit further and makes some snow bases. I used this technique for simple bases for my Khador models that I painted during the Journeyman’s League.
Those who have followed the Getting Started in Warmachine Guide will remember the tutorial I gave on basing. Todays article is a quick way to add gears to your bases, giving the appearance of a battlefield strewn with warjack parts and battle engine debris.
To start you will need metal gears. A great source of these is old watch parts. You can get a good mix of pieces on eBay from a variety of sellers. I mainly used the gears, but as you’ll see I also made use of some the other miscellaneous parts that were included such as the wind-up knobs and threaded rods.
Bases provide a great way to accentuate your models. They can also be used to add a theme or tie a group of models together. Making your own bases is one option, but for those less inclined to break out the modeling tools and putty, here is a quick review of three ways to get great looking bases.
Note that I purchased these bases for my personal use, they were not given to me for review purposes.
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This article will focus less on the how to side and focuses more on what sort of things you can do to a base when you let your imagination run wild.
Aside from a well painted miniature a finished base can add a sense of completeness to a miniature. When one is basing a large army with tons of miniatures it can sometimes feel like wasted effort to embellish the bases but it takes little time or effort to add even small items to the bases of your miniatures to make them stand out. For the more adventurous hobbyist however I encourage you to put the extra time and effort into your bases. If you are playing one of the newer skirmish games going all out on a fully customized base can be very rewarding and bring out a whole new feeling for your force.
For this article I will be using the miniatures from the MERCS miniatures game. I will be using models from the CCC, USCR, Kemvar, Sefadu, and FCC Megacorps. Aside from this the other materials used in the assembly of the bases are as listed bellow.
So now that we have our list of supplies used lets take a look at the various bases I worked on and ill explain a bit about each set. As we look at the sets I will talk a little bit about each on in the order they appear.
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