Hobby Cheating 238 - How to Make Jungle Bases 

I know about your desert and icesheet videos. this could be a nice series...

@ I second this, basing is what I most love about the hobby

Yes please! Different ideas is so interesting to watch come to life.

Agreed. Basing is the hardest part for me.

I have a lot of different basing videos, sounds like a playlist is in order.

Absolutely, I didn't do much in the way of big flowers with this army, but that would be absolutely doable and look great.

Good stuff for sure and more good options, love it.

Noted!

@@VinceVenturella I definitely echo OPs comment: the stone coloration and mossy wash combo is great and a look that I would love to replicate on some smaller jungle pieces!

Thank you, that means a great deal and I am always happy to help.

Excellent, always happy to help.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah, there are so many different uses of textures and types of teas that make it wonderful as a basing material for all sorts of purposes.

Awesome, happy to help. :)

Glad you like them! Glad to have you on the hobby journey and always happy to help. :)

Great idea, I will add it to the list. :)

Happy to help!

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent, happy to help as always. :)

Absolutely!

Glad it was helpful!

Happy to help as always. :)

Thank you, happy to help as always. :)

Happy to help!

Awesome, you're going to have a great time. :)

Sounds very handy, do you have a rough guide on how many parts per ingredient or tips on how to gauge the consistency when mixing it up? =)

​@@PatchedUpMusic Luke Towan AKA Boulder Creek Railroad should have that info on his channel somewhere. If I remember correctly his scenic glue mix, which is 1 part glue, 3-4 parts water, and a few drops of dish soap.

Nice, I'll give that mix a try. :)

@@PatchedUpMusic I used 1:1:1, I don't think it matters much

@@VinceVenturella The original comment is close to what train modelers use. They use the same PVA and water mixture, but first they use a thing called wet water which is 50/50 Water and alcohol. By using this first it breaks the surface tension so you don't pickup rocks and whatnot when put on the glue. Also speeds up the drying time a lot.

Excellent, happy to help as always. :)

Glad you like them! :)

That’s the goal! :)

Glad it helped!

Thank you, always happy to help. :)

That's awesome! Always happy to help.

Thank you, these are wonderful fun to do. I will add the alien landscape to the list.

Glad you like them!

Thanks for watching! Always happy to help.

Always happy to help. :)

You’re welcome 😊

Excellent, I will add that to the list, great idea.

Go for it!

Glad to help!

No problem 👍

Awesome, it's a lot of fun to make these bases honestly. Glad it was inspiring. :)

Interested too. They look great!

It was pretty simple honestly, just a bunch of wet blending with ivory, browns and whites, then some stippling over the top. The key with stones and items like that is to create a direction to the lighting for visual interest and just be fairly random. I honestly just slap paint, stippling, glazing, washing, stippling again until it looks how I want it to look.

Thank you!

Fantastic! Always happy to help. :)

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful!

Basically straight out of the packet (or tin), once it's primed, painted and varnished, it's pretty much sealed and you're good.

Well you're in luck - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bMHTPfAvi_M.html Also, I have a playlist dedicated to bases - ru-vid.com/group/PLcdsbwBroEmCHEnhbqM2E-TmREz12mEF2

@@VinceVenturella Hey thanks Vince! I was actually going through your page to find more bases after watching this video and got side tracked by one of your other videos. The links will be very helpful...you have so much great info to watch!

They came from Gamer's Grass, great source of cool basing supplies.

@@VinceVenturella thanks you)

Yes it will, that's why you want to be careful with it. It adds contrast of color (hue) and that can often be just as important as contrast of value.

Awesome, always happy to help. :)

Wonderful! Always happy to help and glad to have you along on the hobby journey. :)

It's tough, if we're talking about moss, then just PVA glue and some green sprinkle ground cover (like for train boards). If you're talking the mushrooms, that's tougher, as I'm not sure how I would recreate those, but I believe that you can buy them in pre-fabricated packs.

I dig that, if I could have it in the actual background I would, but the copyright bots would be all over me. :)

Thank you, happy to help as always. :)

Yes it does! I have raided the herb cabinet a few times as well.

Check out Bad Squiddo Games and Gamer's Grass, they both have some really excellent tufts.

Also instant sub :D

Glad you enjoyed it! And glad to have you along on the hobby journey. :)

Yep, it's a great source. :)

Glad it was helpful!

Yep, these were from Gamer's Grass, they have some great tufts.

That rubble is from Gamer's Grass. :)

They are from Gamer's Grass, great rubble and stones.

Perfect for all those pigment needs. ;)

Thanks 👍

So onc the bases are done, I use Loc-Tite Ultra Control Gel Glue and I attach them on there, that glue is really strong and generally holds them without issue.

Thank you, happy to help as always. :)

Thanks! Always happy to help. :)

Just black and Ivory/white.

@@VinceVenturella Thank you!

Didn't sand these down. The ones I get from Gale Force Nine are actually pretty solid and don't have much texture. :)

Well, if you look at my realistic snow basing (I think it's like 91 or 92), you will see a mountainous scheme I did for an army. It's a matter of some verticality changes, lots of different sizes of rock grit, and working other colors into the rocks. Hope that helps and that video gives you some ideas.

@@VinceVenturella much appreciated. forgot you did an updated snow video!

I think you nailed it with in the middle. I would remove a lot of stone of the old ruins and instead I would make some small bubbling pools. I think that's your best way to go.

Absolutely, there are so many other cool items you could include. :)

Yep, this video right here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R60_DCsmxb0.html

Gamer's Grass.

Excellent, happy to help as always (and yes, it's easier without the models on there for sure).

Well, there are always future Catachans. ;)

All the Base and the Bass.

Interesting, you may just want to try a wash and drybrush, or varnish them straight, then apply the wash and drybrush.

@@VinceVenturella Thank you! I will try these :)

Gamer's Grass

Thanks :) will check them out

Glad it was helpful! These were from a pet store and fish tank decorations.

Just good old fashioned super glue, but pins for larger models.

Yep, I use the vallejo basing paste all the time, love it, I even have a review of it. :)

@@VinceVenturella gotta look for that for some additional ideas.

@@VinceVenturella I realized I made a mistake after looking at your video. I have AK Interactive, not Vallejo. You got the Grey Pumice there, which looks more stone like, which is also great, but the ones I'm talking about are basically stirland mud and battlemire, but colorless. Rough terrain and Earth. ak-interactive.com/product/neutral-texture-for-rough-terrain-250ml-base-product/ ak-interactive.com/product/terrains-neutral-texture-for-earth-250ml-base-product/ The great thing is that you can just mix the colors in before even applying it and also depending on how much water you use, you can get more muddy effect or not.

Always happy to help and I love that nickname. :)

Glad you enjoyed it :)

So the small base I was working on was a 32mm base for a single character of the size you are describing. Wht I tend to do on the small bases is have less plants, You can cover a foot or something like that and that is fine, it can feel cool. I would avoid covering any more than the lower legs. When the larger bases are mixed in, the feeling will still come across when they have more plants and biger pieces.

@@VinceVenturella Cool, then I shall continue with my bases! Thanks again Vince!

Loctite Ultra Control Gel Superglue. You sometimes get a little frosting, but I just go back and touch it up with some darker paint or pigment at the end.

No, they were just zenithaled and then I did a bunch of stippling, glazing and pigment mashing in a very random way until I had something I liked. :)

@@VinceVenturella Thanks!!

Thank you, happy to help as always. :)

Glad it was helpful!

They are from Gamer's Grass. :)

Glad you liked it! (I never worry about a thumbs down, just comes with the territory). ;)

Thank you! 😊

Stones from Gamer's Grass. Great stuff.

Randomly in a big bin at a convention for like a $1, but it's just cheap aquarium terrain from a pet store really.

Yes, German Panzer Grey and then white.

Thank you!

Fence piece is from the original warcry terrain. Rocks and pillars were resin pieces from Gamers Grass.

Yeah, it really sets it off. :)

Nope, they are already dry and after painting and varnish, they are just fine.

Thank you 👍

I answered in the other comment, but you can either use some of that color shade (for example, some blue wash) or mix some of that into the darker color like Agrax and apply to the heart of the tufts and the ground around it.

Yeah, you can mix some different washes, they will still very much feel different (for example if you have pale white tufts versus bright green, some weak agrax earthshade isn't going to change them dramatically, it's just going to draw them together). If you have very alien colors, like the pink/blue you can still use the darker shades and draw them into the earth, but you can also just combine them with some darker shades of that color (for example, using dark blue wash and getting some of that on the ground around), the key isn't just the tufts, but the ground around it to tie them together.

@@VinceVenturella thank you

Sure, you could do all this with just drybrushing, heavy dry brushing and stippling for a good effect. :)

Great minds think alike. :)