Hobby Cheating 274 - How to make Alien World Bases 

Words can't express how much I appreciate your Skaven vine. It looks really healthy too; I'll have to get a cutting from you at some point. ;) In perfect seriousness though, I adore this base, and have been looking for an excuse to purchase those wonky grasses for a hot minute, so thank you!

New year, Vince still killing it! Thank you and please stay safe.

I was looking for inspiration to make a Tzeentch type base for Magnus and I knew Vince would have great video for it! And sure enough, Vince did :)

Redoing the whole thing so you can record it, that's the dedication to tutorials that we love. Thanks for everything you do, Vince.

Really cool effect! Now I'm tempted to rebase my entire Tzeentch army to use this 😅

This couldn't have come out at a better time. I'm about to start making bases for two separate armies that are supposed to be on alien worlds, an alien tundra and an alien jungle/rainforest/fungal bog respectively. You even demonstrated it using a lot of the colors I was heavily considering using, and it looks great. One piece of advice I can give back is that another way to make a cheap and weird alien plant/fungus is to use plastic coffee stirrer straws. Use a lighter or something and carefully move the stirrer towards the flame until the end starts curling, then pull it away. After it's cooled, which only takes a few moments, snip off the curled edge with a bit of extra length from the rest of the stirrer and then melt the new end, repeat this process several times. After you have a few lengths of these you can stack the non melted part of the snippings into the melted part of a different snipping. The end result is a weird, ridged, smokestack like plant/fungus. If you have ever played it, it looks a bit like the spore throwers from the game Alpha Centauri. So next time you go out and get a coffee somewhere remember to save and clean out those little plastic straws! Thanks for the video tutorial!

Time to re-do my SW:Legion army bases...these are beautiful and what I wanted to go for but didnt get it. Mine like more muddy, with some glowing plants. A bit too dark, I think

Love that base Vince. I usually tend to shy away from colorful bases as I feel like it will distract from the mini. How do you balance this with your own minis? Thanks and keep ip the awesome vids! :) PS New thumbnail is much more appealing as its cleaner. hope more people find these videos because of youtubes algorithms or just the click factor. If you really wanted to make the thumbnail irresistible you could have an “alternate title” there, like “synthwave bases” or something similarly trendy. But regardless your videos are top notch and ill watch them with whatever thumbnail :)

I love these color combinations! The Green Stuff World tentacle roller is an excellent tool for those of us who aren‘t drowning in Skaven tails but still want some tentacle action on the base. Best part, since you‘re making them from your sculpting mass of choice you can freely pose them ;)

Love this, BTW do you think it would work with Black Templars? My thinking is since they go all over the universe crusading and purging aliens, seems natural they'd be on an alien world base. Ty.

I like the new thumbnails Vince!

Tau skull?!? Sacrilege!! Outcry. Grumble. Grumble. Grumble. May your derriére scratch forever and your arms be too short! ;-) :-P Nice video. Thank you. Do you ever use these kits too roll tails and such out of putty or just parts from your bitbox?

You, uh, know the flora/fauna distinction is an earth thing, right? On my planet we have f%qq@a, zz'znpla, g~a and aaaaaaaaa (broadly speaking, the bitey ones, the explodey ones, the dissolvey ones, and the ones that go down the back of your neck). ;)

Beautiful! I love having chances to use some other colors for bases besides grass, dirt, and stone.

I love these man. What inks are you using?

Love it, my necrons are going to get similar base stylings but snowy

Happy New Year, Vince. Been painting daily over last few weeks and your warhammer weekly runs in the back as entertainment. And I don't even play... 😂

Another fantastic video, Vince. Going straight into the hobby notebook!

Very cool. I gotta do more stuff with my bases other than just slapping Stirland Mud on them and calling it a day...

I wonder how well it will work with Kharadron Overlords. They have a lot of warm copper and gold that's difficult to balance with other metals, and Chamon was invaded by Tzeench so weird stuff on the ground should fit the lore. A great product to use with alien bases is Green Stuff World's tentacle maker. Fluorescent paints fit here, too. Btw I remember you only did a tutorial on using oil paints to shade large metal parts. Can you do a Hobby Cheating on how to paint airships with Vallejo Metal Color? More precisely, how to shade their bottoms, because they are up in the air so they are lit by global light and reflection from the ground, but at the same time they should be in the shadow of the ship itself. Do I need to use a darker VMC paint there (say, going from Aluminium on the hull to Gunmetal on the bottom) or is it okay to use an oil wash and airbrushed dark ink to create a believable shadow?

Looks great! Green stuff world also has tool for making weird spindly things if someone doesnt have skaven bitz. Also wierd question but how do you organize your paints? by color or by manufacturer or something else? Cheers!

So after binge watching your tutorials any pointers regarding a obsidian base ? I imagine it's similar to your marble basing ? (Picked up the runic greenstuff world Roller and was thinking of using obsidian as the stone that the runes sit in )

apologies for all the messages yesterday Vince. I sent them to Tom, Your Wife, and You alongside tweeting you multiple times about the youtube video with Adam and yourself. great hobby cheating video and happy new year.

Nice tutorial! I have a qustion: How would you paint pearls? Upcoming Hedonite mage seems to have huge pearl on top of his staff. It looks like it has some light orange/brown and greenblue shades in it. Would it be best to use oil paints for this case? Thanks!

Very cool! I painted the Daemonette Start Collecting box set a while ago. I wasn’t overly happy with how I painted them, though, so they ended up stuffed in a drawer (I never intended to play them anyway), waiting to be stripped and repainted. But, the other day, I was searching through my drawers for a lost figure and came across my Daemonettes. I was pleasantly surprised, they actually look quite good (I think this might be the curse of using a magnifier to paint. Poor lighting, too). So I started thinking about basing ideas... This video has come out at exactly the right time for me. I really want to get some stuff from Gamer Grass, but with diseases and Brexit and not knowing where they are based, I’m not sure if it’s worth trying to put an order in right now. I never did find that lost figure. So now I have an Orruk rider without a mount...

Really cool bases I love all your basing videos! If you want some base ideas, I've been looking for some mountainy/rocky bases guides and also some spider-nest like, but could not find any inspiration.

When I did snow bases, I used gloss varnish (over a full covering of matte) on everything that would be shiny due to the snow & moisture. Were you saying I shouldn't of done that?

Awesome work. I've been inspired

Cool base, Vince! How about a tutorial on dusty, muddy weathering effects for cloth? I had a go with some pigment powder, but I wasn't sure how to go about it.

I got some bright orange tuffs similar to those. I am planning on using them for my DG bases with OSL on the lower legs. I want to give them a soft alien glow with a more dark depressed landscape. Got some other vines and bits from outside to complete them.

Really nice; thought you’d rocked the Greenstuff tentacle maker, but clever use of those tails!

New thumbnail? What is this sorcery? Slaanesh!!! *shakes fist in the air* Awesome video as always!

Vince doing an alien base... Why am I not surprised to see turquoise and pink on it? ;)

This is 100% fun.

Is that MDF cut to base sizes?

This whole channel is a goldmine of useful tips and information, honestly.

Gonna do this for my guardians of the galaxy minis… so fun

What a great idea!

Thank you.

Welp I want to revise my slaanesh from a beach with cherry blossoms leaves to this. . .

👍🏻👍🏻

Solid video brother. Really liked it.

Great stuff friend 👏 👍