This video is what the kids would call based. You’ve turned into my favorite content creator for Warhammer 40K. Whenever I see a Feral Painter video, I hit watch and Like
I haven't watched the entire video yet, but I have a fairly unique basing method that hardly anyone else uses: wall/plaster filler, watered down so it doesn't hold a shape but is still able to stay in one puddle, custard consistency. Get egg shells (cook the egg first if you eat them, my wife likes boiled egg and salad cream so she loves it when I need more egg shells as I make her egg salad sandwiches 🤮) and put them in a sealed container; I use a jam jar with the lid on. Shake the jar until you get the size you want; a light shake will produce large bits of shell. The more shaking you do, the smaller the pieces will be. Mix the egg shell into your watered down wall filler, give it a stir, and then apply to the base. You can sprinkle some larger pieces of shell onto the wet mixture to create a very rugged looking, spikey terrain. Once the basing material dries, prime it and then paint any colour you want. A huge bonus of this is that it adds weight to the base, so miniatures are more stable on the table. I usually add filler into the bottom of the base, too. After a light sanding, the miniatures glide over the table top the way chess pieces do. If it is a larger base (Titan size), I add some sprue as ribbing to the bottom of the base and then fill the gaps with wall filler. The ribbing gives the filler something to hold in the middle of the larger bases. I will have a look at the product you have recommended here. It is nice-looking stuff.
Thanks for this man really helpful, trust your content explicity. Which one would you suggest for black templar bases do you think to make them really pop?
Great video, them basing materials look awesome, i was using Geekgaming Scenics stuff but i like these now. Also you mentioning your mini diorama is there any possibility of a video of creating one?
Your firestorm link in the description is missing the affiliate code (it's there but not part of the url, so wouldn't track). Although I suspect your audience already wiped out all the product, shame it won't likely have tracked. The element games one works but couldn't find it there? Thanks for the vid.
Looks awesome, but the shipping to Canada is atrocious. Both places want almost double the cost of 2 tubs in shipping. F that. Hopefully I can find a place here that carries it.
A bit of a question, when basing armies for consistency this looks great, and lots of youtube videos show creating these bases without minis attached, but presumably you would normally have a mini gluee to the base and apply this stuff round their feet? Just concerned their feet would disappear? If you apply to base first then glue a painted mini on top would think there is a risk the model is just attached to the materials and would break off easily?
bast basing material ever? moss. depending on the species makes wonderful ferms or even in scale flowers. grab it from some brickwork, rinse it, soak it in glycerol for 24 hours and dry it. works amazingly
I have some problems with the fixer it greys out the finished look. Did you have an idea what to do? All the contrast is lost after using this product. Do you paint the finished fixed mixtures of croudcover for a better look? Thank you for your great videos! I enjoy it so much.
With any fixer you will always get some discolouration, however ive found that the kraut fixer is the best and causes the least colouration. Just apply less amount and see how u get on
Hi Sascha! Fixing Groundcover, Sand and Gravels with a Fixing Solution is a Science of its own. In a Nutshell: Each material in a Basing Material may react different with the Fixing Agent and what works perfect with Earth and Sand, can look suprisingly different with certain Plant Materials or dusty Stonemixes. Unfortunately its impossible to cover all Materials 100% in all Cases of Use. BUT! The Kraut Fixer has a nice Ability that you should try before you determine it as Failed with your certain Basing Material. We produce the Kraut Fixer in a Stock Solution with a certain Amount of Fixing Resin in the Isopropyl Alcohol Solvent Base. Thats a quite thick Stock Solution that is made to make a maximum Fixing when using and cover all Applications in this Configuration. You can thin down this Stock solution with pure Isopropyl Alcolhol up to 25% Additional Alcohol. It still makes a perfect Fixing Job for Basing, but reduces Colorshifting Effects significantly. Try to Avoid excessive Pooling while using the Fixer helps reducing the Colorshifting as well.
@@Krautcover-bv4ts Hi, thank you for your answer in such a detail. Any tips you have for avoiding puddles? Viele Grüße Sascha from Freebooter Miniatures. :)
@@saschabernhardt5269 You need not much Fixer to do the Job. Let it soak in the Material and stop before the Fixer creates a puddle beneath the material. We use the Fixer drop by drop and spread it over the whole Base. Due the pure Alcohol Base its made from it reacts completly different from water based fixing agents. It soakes in fast and has no surface tension that would avoid it to moisterize the whole Basingmaterial layer.
If I would put as much time in the base as I put in the Mini, my next Mini would be finished on christmas Eve…2026. I have some products from Krautcover and they are Great.
Thanks for the fast reply I really appreciate it. Sorry for all the questions but I've another. I've found the test base I've done becomes rather sloppy once the fixer is applied, does the fixer have a longer drying time or am I applying too much? I assume it's the latter. Do you think the fixer is strong enough on its own? Many thanks again for your time and help. @@TheFeralPainter
Yes the fixer has a slightly longer drying time. Usually around 30mins to an hour depending on humidity etc. But yes its extremely strong. Holds rocks etc
