Hobby Cheating 253 - How to Make Autumn Bases 

I’m loving these themed basing videos! I’ve used the jungle basing video as a basis for my entire seraphon army.

It's always fun to watch how others do basing. And it's often possible to infer quite a bit about where somebody lives from their default basing style. For instance, if you look at my bases, you'll see lots of beige, desaturated pink, sienna, and ochre for the ground, and brown and yellowish green grasses and weeds with maybe a few flowers here and there. And lots of bare earth and stone showing through. For an autumn base, there would be virtually no green at all and mostly yellow leaves (unless I was trying for a very different look). Unsurprisingly, that reflects what I see when I go out walking (in Colorado). Some years ago, an acquaintance bought some terrain pieces for a Western game we were playing at the time, and when they arrived, they were green. Very, very green. The person who made them was from England, where that made perfect sense, but they really didn't fit very well with much of the rest of what people had.

Thank you for the inspiration. Your enthusiasm is very contagious!

This was beautiful. Love it! I have some GSW punches, and used them on actual leaves, but this is a much better idea. Thanks for sharing the coffee filter tip!

Thanks for the great tutorial! I made one of these on an oval base for a centaur mini over the weekend and am thrilled with how it turned out.

OT - I realized we were raising city boys when the first time we went hiking my youngest, who was then 4 years old, tripped on a couple tree roots in the path and in a temper tantrum, stomped his feet and stated, "Why don't they pave these things?!" >< lol re: randomizing elements on bases. Sometimes I literally throw stuff at a base and where it lands, I stick it. It helps keep me from making a pattern. Also, we just did this exact coffee filter/ink art activity in preschool :D it's one of my favorites, you can get so many cool random patterns!!

Great video! Always glad to explore more basing ideas, that's often the overlooked area

I've been wondering about those leaf punches for a minute now. Looks like I'm getting at least one of them now! Thanks for the great video.

Great tutorial, as always, Vince. Going to use some of these techniques now!

This is incredible timing! I just finished a set of dead woods/autumn 32mm bases! Didn't have your materials, but this video is packed with great ideas! Also found white tea leaves soaked and re-dried had this "fur" that takes inks or shades really well if you don't grind them too finely. Good "mulch" texture and colors.

Most excellent. I was just looking for basing ideas for my guildhall hunters guild and BOOM!! You deliver. Thanks.

I'm all about these videos. I'm here for it. Maybe one day I can figure out what I want as my base scheme for my Blood Angels. Love the content as always, Vince. You're my hobby hero.

About to start on my first real attempts at basing and this video made me a lot more confident about doing it

Very similar to my Lumineth bases, thanks for the tip on how to make leaf clutter. I always wondered what people used to make those.

Thanks for another great video! It was good to see a demonstration on the leaf cutting tool, I'll be purchasing one soon.

The Greenstuff World punches are great.

Vince! Making these leafs is crazy fun 😂! I ended up using the left over coffee filter as a stencil/mask-thing to paint through, so I have another kind of pattern on the next "generation".

Nice to see basing in action.

As always - great video! You are a one-man army in this hobby. How do you actually find time for all this?

I would love a jungle base tutorial. Like for lizardmen with maybe some ruins and tons of plants

That leaf technique is really nice. 🍂

Always wanted to grab a leaf punch from GSW. Good to see it in action

Absolutely fantastic. Love fall, used to live in NE with my ex and peeper or not it's basically a religious experience going through NH (in particular) when the leaves are changing. I was thinking of doing a Sylvaneth army (maybe when they get a better book) with a sort of "dead wood" theme. I wonder if I could use this same approach but lean in closer to that sweet spot between fall and winter (essentially the same idea but more fully decayed leaves as opposed to freshly fallen, with more desaturated tones having the last hint of orange/red as my pop colors)

Great tutorial, I really like you're style.

Autumn is my favourite month.

Wash on tufts work great, learnt that one on my own. Damn things are often way too monotone and don’t fit into the environment. A wash makes quick work of that.

Stealing this! And getting the leaf-puncher. Maybe I'll even make use of my 2-year-old's projects! Thank you!

another great video thanks! vince. Would love to see a bayou bases for mini's hobby cheating. I have a big bayou style faction coming up and really want to set the tone with them

I bought some green stuff world leaf punchers like the one in the video (when I bought them there were varying leaf sized ones and for tree leaf types) and I'm thinking of going to the park in a month or so to punch fallen leaves althogh I dunno how badly they decay though and will a sprayed on varnish coat just 'preserve them in time'. Basing is my weak point so thanks for this. I've been deliberating over how to go about my nurgle swamp bases for months, I bought a few tubs of 'swamp' basing mixture, that stuff is meant to shrink a little so a few passes is necessary, videos like these make me feel less 'chicken' about tackling these milestones.

You just gave me the best excuse to toss my real dried up leaves and use the old coffee filters instead. Also means I can make blue leaves, because why not, I like the arcane.

Thanks for showing all of those techniques. Plenty to take a way from this. Exactly what’s I was looking for as I’m starting a new army. Have you ever done like a fro zen, wintry base? I was considering a winter forest look and I can use a lot of these tips, minus the flowers, but wondering how to winterfy this. Thanks again as always!

Watching you slather the grey sand on reminds me of that episode of South Park where Randy is reduced to calling 900 numbers to get his fix on cooking shows.. if I ever lose RU-vid painting vids I’ll be doing that. “Oh you put a thick layer down? Yeah... what did you mix it with glaze medium? Mmmm... slap that layer down baby.”

Basing video! My favorites! Great as always Vince. I've been wanting to buy those punchers for a while now, but i always hesitated last minute because they look too off scale. And seeing your video and the end result of the base... yeah, they look good, and add colour variation to the fantastic composition, but to me they also look giant. Does that happen to you too? Doesn't it bother you a bit? And if so...any way to solve this other than cutting those a bit by hand into smaller pieces? (Making the puncher a bit pointless if you need then to recut them later)

Thank you for the video!!! Have you done some competition basing tutorials?

I would love seeing a video, how you handle the side walls of raised topology on a mini. The arm bracelet of a daemonette is a good example. I am having a really hard time getting a sharp line between the skin and the bracelet's side wall the because difference in height is sometimes less than a mm. This is especially annoying when both colors have a high contrast since any miniscule deviation from a perfect line immediately catches the eye.

I was looking for something lime this for a while now.

Ah. Well. Guess I'm rebasing all my mini's. Cool. Any videos on chaos/urban environments for Thousand Sons, as well as Black Templar?

U know the dumbest question I have about basing I wish you answered? When basing nature base, what color of flowers you use depending on mini colors to "elevate" the mini. I remember you once said bright pinkish flowers are hot stuff but think there's more to this.

Well, time to redo my Sylvaneth bases.

Hey Vince, thanks for another great video! Could I ask how you base your Skaven clanrats? Do you run a pin into a foot? Or do you leave some of the tab? Their feets are tiny!!

Already have a couple of punchers in my shopping basket. However, I wonder what your thoughts are on the other GSW options like leaf litter and the micro leaves mixes. They might not even be mutually exclusive so I am eager to hear what you have to say about them, and maybe you've used them all...

Looks great! A good tool to pick up the leaves with is a damp brush. Do you have much flowers during Autumn in your area or is it a bit of artistic freedom?

Great video! where are those flowers from?

Thanks for the tips, Vince! One quick question: which minis or when would you go for an autumn base? A druid figure looks like a good candidate, or people "naturally linked to Nature", I guess? Any others that would "fall into fall"?

Hey Vince, hope you are doing well! I am about to start work on a unit of Namarti Thralls that I want to go maximum effort on, any ideas of some paints to use to achieve that super pale blue/white flesh tone?

Hi Vince, thanks and great quality as always. May I request an Gloomspite like base please? Something like fluorescent extraterrestrial blue green. Thanks for your videos, are really helpful Cheers!

Vince, i noticed today that the Daler Rowney FW ink range has silver and gold. Could we get a review of these? Thanks

Vince, one question: you've used the miniature purple punch from Green Stuff World I believe here, right? Is it your favorite? What about the other ones, especially the ones with mapple tree leaves shapes? Thanks!

Question 2: tips for keeping your bases from looking like frosted cupcakes when using texture paste? Mine always look delicious when I am done.

Hey Vince. If you need an idea for another video or could help me in text form. I would love to know what your technique is for cream/tan cloaks. I paint Dark Angles and I'm always looking for a better way to do that kind of fabric. Does glazing over a zenithil highlight work for those opaque colors?

If you matte varnish a base with tufts and flowers will it look okay? Seems like it might make the flowers and tufts goopy.

Can you remind me what the thin glue is you add to firm up the cork?

I ordered similar supplies but have a question about static grass from my past. When I tried to lacquer it with dulcoat from Testors in the past it would undo the white glue. I use airbrush and matte/satin like you showed now using Ultra matte and satin. Should I do something different?

Thanks Vince, I just ordered some cork to try this type of base. I have a model i'd like to try it on but it was already glued down by the previous owner. Any idea how to remove it from the base?

I resisted the leaf punch so far because it looks to me like at 25mm or 28mm the leaves are way out of scale.

Hello , I really love your channel and content ....I have a question, which paint brand do you use the most in your collection now? I really need to get a better quality paint set money is not an issue so I am just focusing on quality .... and there are a lot of brands to choose from so any help or insight would be awesome 😃👍🏼

My anxiety was peaking when we were 20 minutes into a 22 minute video and there still wasn't wash on the tufts hahaha.

Is using the PVA or superglue pretty much interchangeable? Is there ever a time you should use one over the other?

So I've seen a number of people use super glue on near-finished paint, I'm super-paranoid about frosting from superglue. (Nearly everything I superglued in high school ended up with my fingerprints all over it in white residue.) Is going easy on the glue sufficient to prevent frosting or are there any other tricks to it?

What brand flowers do you use? They look better than most I see which tend to be an almost solid block of colour rather than a nice scatter of flowers

When I add wash to my tuffs, it gets clumpy and stick together. How can I avoid this?

which is the brand of those tufts?

How you built a "flying" bullet out of a S Marine gun/bolter? :) next video incoming?

anyone know some us shops for the leaf punches

Hi ! where can I find all of those materials D: ¡?

Hey! What is the liquid used at 2:48 ?

I recently painted up the gods from Rising Sun. I was thinking about how I was going to base them, when I thought it might be fun to make it look like they were standing on clouds. I looked it up, I couldn't find any tutorials for making a cloudy base. Do I just dip cotton balls in water/PVA glue, then arrange it onto the base?

The timing on this video is both great and awful. Great because I have six models sitting on my table waiting for me to finish their autumn forest bases. Awful because I really could have used this video before I started my Beastman army almost three years ago, as I'm not going to change my basing scheme now... I do mine a little differently, but still similar in many ways. I put down cork, branches and rocks (tree bark) before priming, then lay down some Stirland Mud, Athonian Camoshade and a drybrush while painting the model, and finally grass tufts, flowers, some GF9 autumn coloured sponge and birch seed pods as leaves after painting.