Ooh, bonus: GamersGrass is doing a giveaway of an entire armies worth of bases on their social media page! facebook: facebook.com/gamersgrass/posts/2634104463511683 instagram: instagram.com/p/CDBOKp0K4v8/
I love it. Saving that jewelry case from becoming toxic waste in a landfill to make a themed base that you might find at a toxic landfill. It's the circle of life.
That marble base....I love it. That style of base hadn't even crossed my mind. I'm really new (to the actual hobby ok), to this stuff and I'm DEFINITELY making that style of base for my Indomitus marines.
40k sells, but we know you hate space marines and love wood elves. So let’s combine them - why not paint a kit bashed, wood elf-inspired monster or chaos spawn?
Ok, the marble base was a total success, the pipe was outstanding, and I'm going to have to check out some of those GamersGrass products. Thanks Scott.
I really like the marble base, that's a really cool way to get the colour right. That pipe is just asking for a skaven mini. It would also make for a cool tiny diorama, the skaven hiding from something standing on the pipe looking for it. My fave basing technique is just mixing all the absolute basics. Texture paint, basing gravel, cork sheets. I hate using greenstuff and I've found that bluetack and super glue works pretty well for most situations. I find that using cork sheet alone is too obvious, so its easy enough to slap some texture paint onto it to obscure it. Bonus is that it's still pretty flat so you can easily put your miniatures onto it.
The advertiser including a store finder as a part of the ad was clutch. Sold me $120 worth of product because I actually found a retailer in my country for once.
Tile grout is by far the best thing I've found for sand. It scales better than ground up dirt and the colours are already a good match. It can be further enhanced by mixing in a little pigment powder or ground up chalk pastel.
Great work! Making even a simple height or width change on a base adds a lot of 'reality' to the finished piece. It's always okay to try something new and/or different - the only rule is the rule of cool!
I love your videos, but your base videos might be my favorite, I love the ideas you have, and they usually get ideas rolling on how to make others based ob your ideas.
I can't imagine Scott's face when he opened that box of sponsored Gamer's Grass. Also, really dig the scratch building in these base videos. Good stuff.
I've been looking for a way to make a marble tile floor out of some Expanded PVC (Foamex) I found dumped in my garden for a diorama, this seems perfect. Thank you.
I hope someones sees this, but specifically for the styrene marble base, how do you go ahead and stick the mini on it? do you make the base, stick the mini, and then paint everything? or do you paint the mini and the base separately and the stick it on. also what glue should be used in the case of the optimal way to do it? Im new to the hobby and preparing myself for my first army.
Any good tips to attach a mini where you might have forgetting to leave a good flat point in the build? For example I can foresee that beach one or something with too much sand or gravel can accidentally leave feet to look like that’s a floating in a way.
for pipes similar to yours I use my old Asthma inhalers. I also use the little metal bottles inside as fuel bottles, oxide bottles etc. They look cool painted up. The inhalers looks quite futuristic too you just have to disguise the makers logo etc
Hey while I’m early i figured id comment this so you hopefully see it, but you’re a huge inspiration to me and you and my friend Max are the sole reasons i got into mini painting. I got into it 2 years ago and i feel that I’ve made a ton of progress thanks to your tips and videos. Keep making these great vids :)
Great video! even just the beach sculpting technique is gonna be useful for me. Question: the links for Liquid Sand give me Natural Sand, which doesn't appear to dry transparent?
Is that aluminum wire the stuff from the jewelry section that keeps selling out? I finally got my hands on some to use as a nose bridge for a cloth mask. It looks like I will be using the rest for minis...
Do you have a video on a method for removing board game miniatures from their bases? I’d like to do some of these techniques but I only have board game miniatures.
I use GamersGrass before this! I love their products and used them when basing my Tau units. Their shipping times are pretty slow though, so if you're able to find them locally if you live in America, that is the way to go.
Nice vid mate, I'm back to painting minis and needed some inspiration on basis for them! I also wanted to ask you where you got that metallic brush case that's on your desk inthe intro, I've been trying to find something like that for a while now and not been very lucky.
This a great refreshing video Scott! Although I like watch minis being painted, bases are not really something I've seen as often. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough though. That's on me. To be honest I've never thought to look until this video. You going a great job with content. Keep up the excellent work! One question, what airbrush are you using if you don't mind?
Okay, really dumb question but at 7:30, is that a bar clamp? I've never thought to use something like that, but it looks so convenient. P.S. I've just gotten an Elegoo Mars Pro and I'm jumping headfirst into this hobby. Amazing inspiration in this video, thank you @Miniac!
When you guys attach your minis to the bases are you drilling a hole in the base and foot of the mini to secure them or do you find that plastic, or super glue, works just fine?
I'm pretty lazy, so I'd do just super glue. Modern day plastic minis are so extremely light weight that they're less likely to snap off. If I was attaching a metal mini, I'd pin it for sure.
Nice sewer pipe! That'd be a good one for some TMNT minis, which I love being an old action figure guy. Maybe I feel a purchase coming on 😶 Thanks for the video!
These videos are spectacular my dude. Basing is such a freeing part of the hobby! I’d love to see a similar video but for a larger monster base (*ahem* Prince Vhordrai for your vampire army ;) )
On 9:16 you can really see Scotts confusion when that black spot appeared, like "Where the hell did that come fro... Oh, now it is gone, where did it went? Hmm, better wipe my brush..."
Do you think that gold trim can be used to glue around a base? Technically it will make it larger by millimeters giving a slight disadvantage, but instead of painting the side, you actually have a gold trim.
Ooh, bonus: GamersGrass is doing a giveaway of an entire armies worth of bases on their social media page!
facebook: facebook.com/gamersgrass/posts/2634104463511683
instagram: instagram.com/p/CDBOKp0K4v8/
i love the sewer pipe. imagine maybe a familiar or a gretchin hiding in it, that would be pretty funny
Lowering the entrypoint of "How to craft Bases" with every Video of its kind, I love the low effort high impact style though :D
Can we have 4 more epic gaming bases, made without an airbrush?
Thank you for the beach base, it shall be used for my VAMPIRATES (inspired by Dreadfleet of course)!
I am digging the mirror world base.
What kind of plastic sheet is that and where is a good place to find some?
That sewer pipe is awesome. Needs a Skaven to poke his nose out of it with a 'Home Sweet Home' sign.
Exactly what I was thinking haha
Liquid Warpstone!!! Guuut guuut!!!
Tiny rats going in. Rat Ogre on top (on a bigger version)
Toversnol EU that would make an awesome diorama
Or a home for nurglies
I love it. Saving that jewelry case from becoming toxic waste in a landfill to make a themed base that you might find at a toxic landfill. It's the circle of life.
That marble base....I love it. That style of base hadn't even crossed my mind. I'm really new (to the actual hobby ok), to this stuff and I'm DEFINITELY making that style of base for my Indomitus marines.
They're all good, but that marble base is truly unreal. Starting on mine tonight. 100% straight up stealing it.
Very nice for Greek figures as well. Greeks used marble alot back in the olden days.
40k sells, but we know you hate space marines and love wood elves. So let’s combine them - why not paint a kit bashed, wood elf-inspired monster or chaos spawn?
Or ya know... those pesky space elves but more.... tree flavoured.
@@SooSneeky so woodier exodites?
Ok, the marble base was a total success, the pipe was outstanding, and I'm going to have to check out some of those GamersGrass products. Thanks Scott.
Great video, you should keep going with these videos as any great mini needs a proper base!
Yesss all the base ideas!!
1:23
Scott's wife: SCOTT, please clean your workspace! It's the last time i will tell you!
Scott: I did... All the dirt is dried and ground up
@tbonbrad oh, my fail xD just edited
I really like the marble base, that's a really cool way to get the colour right. That pipe is just asking for a skaven mini. It would also make for a cool tiny diorama, the skaven hiding from something standing on the pipe looking for it.
My fave basing technique is just mixing all the absolute basics. Texture paint, basing gravel, cork sheets. I hate using greenstuff and I've found that bluetack and super glue works pretty well for most situations. I find that using cork sheet alone is too obvious, so its easy enough to slap some texture paint onto it to obscure it. Bonus is that it's still pretty flat so you can easily put your miniatures onto it.
Love it! I really needed some method to make a proper marble base for a boss mini so thanks!
The sculpted sand waves are exactly what I've been trying to do.
Do more skits man, nobody else has that sort of humour in this community like you 👌
The advertiser including a store finder as a part of the ad was clutch. Sold me $120 worth of product because I actually found a retailer in my country for once.
Your bases videos are your best videos
Great video. Love these little experiments. I tried the marble technique with baby wipes and its amazing.
Tile grout is by far the best thing I've found for sand. It scales better than ground up dirt and the colours are already a good match. It can be further enhanced by mixing in a little pigment powder or ground up chalk pastel.
Absolutly love your content, Scott. Will join the Patreon soon! Love from Germany
These base videos are my favourite videos of yours!!!
These are great. I really like your base videos. The beach one is probably my favourite
We need this as a regular series. Maybe one base per week...start simple.
Yes!!! Awesome 🤘🏻 🤯
A nother Miniac video 😊
I LOVE these base videos!
Love these videos and help me to continue to think outside the box. I also love seeing different materials for basing!
Great work! Making even a simple height or width change on a base adds a lot of 'reality' to the finished piece.
It's always okay to try something new and/or different - the only rule is the rule of cool!
I love your videos, but your base videos might be my favorite, I love the ideas you have, and they usually get ideas rolling on how to make others based ob your ideas.
Nobody: Not a single soul: Scott: SO TAKE YOUR CIRCLE CUTTER
That marble one looks really nice!
I can't imagine Scott's face when he opened that box of sponsored Gamer's Grass. Also, really dig the scratch building in these base videos. Good stuff.
Crystalline bases, just as I imagined. Thanks!!
More Scott! This is my favorite thing you do.
Thank you for the tape idea, I have a ton of that stuff. I was trying to find a base idea for some necrons im doing. That will work well.
fantastic looking bases.
very nice, may need to try this =)
Love these basing vids so much! Well done. Each of these are so cool.
Wow, all those bases are amazing! Finally something that is not higher than the mini on top of it.
I've been looking for a way to make a marble tile floor out of some Expanded PVC (Foamex) I found dumped in my garden for a diorama, this seems perfect. Thank you.
Big fan of your approach to the marble bases and want to give it a go myself! Do you recall what thickness of styrene sheet you used for this example?
Great work, love the pipe and the goop coming out of it also the beach base will be perfect for a dnd pirate character im playing in our next games.
very nice video, I enjoy watching your stuff so much just because of who you are! and I love listening to people talking about stuff I like 😁
Thanks for the video. Making bases is fun. Nice work.
Been looking for good marble for so long finally!
The aluminum tape idea was out of the box Loved it
These base videos are always a great inspiration. Have you considered exploring ideas of easily mass produced bases for armys?
I have not, but that's definitely a video idea that I would like exploring!
Incredible, truly awesome
Bought my first airbrush for painting mini's recently! Getting into it as a whole has been really easy thanks to yourself
Loving the split-screen shots.
Dang man. You're my favorite painter/YTer. Keep up the great work
you can tease out a cotton ball out to also stencil simulate marbling instead of using dryer sheets
A Tamiya plastic scriber or similar would also be a good way to create the gaps between those marble tiles.
Hey Scott, great video!
What's the marble base's rectangular aluminum's size? 5mmx1mm?
Omg, these are incredible!!!!
I hope someones sees this, but specifically for the styrene marble base, how do you go ahead and stick the mini on it? do you make the base, stick the mini, and then paint everything? or do you paint the mini and the base separately and the stick it on. also what glue should be used in the case of the optimal way to do it? Im new to the hobby and preparing myself for my first army.
Any good tips to attach a mini where you might have forgetting to leave a good flat point in the build? For example I can foresee that beach one or something with too much sand or gravel can accidentally leave feet to look like that’s a floating in a way.
for pipes similar to yours I use my old Asthma inhalers. I also use the little metal bottles inside as fuel bottles, oxide bottles etc. They look cool painted up. The inhalers looks quite futuristic too you just have to disguise the makers logo etc
I really like those videos ! Always give me inspiration!
Love this video. Basing is so important. I base everything now, even my6 inch Star Wars figures...
Hey while I’m early i figured id comment this so you hopefully see it, but you’re a huge inspiration to me and you and my friend Max are the sole reasons i got into mini painting. I got into it 2 years ago and i feel that I’ve made a ton of progress thanks to your tips and videos. Keep making these great vids :)
I'm happy that you got into the hobby with your friend!
Love your basing vids. they really are great for inspiration. Keep it up 👍
Amazing work, love the videos.
Great video! even just the beach sculpting technique is gonna be useful for me. Question: the links for Liquid Sand give me Natural Sand, which doesn't appear to dry transparent?
Is that aluminum wire the stuff from the jewelry section that keeps selling out? I finally got my hands on some to use as a nose bridge for a cloth mask. It looks like I will be using the rest for minis...
Awesome bases! Does anybody have the link to the printable bottle rack?
Using sponges to apply the marble effect also works really well- a good workaround if you don't have an airbrush. :)
Love this video series! Base-iac!
Hey Scott, cool bases B) .. how do you base minis that come with a smaller base already attached? i.e. some D&D metal minis
Wow! Great bases bro
Awesome ideas ☺
Do you have a video on a method for removing board game miniatures from their bases? I’d like to do some of these techniques but I only have board game miniatures.
Can you link the cattails? They are perfect fee what I need, but can’t find them on their site
I love you videos they help me out so much since I’m just beginning thanks😁
i love the beach one, im def gonna come back to this video for when i start up my Hawaiian shirt themed harlequins army
thats gonna be a while though
Great job!
Sweet upload
Yooo gotta ask how do you store all your basing materials?
Any tips for painting with reds? I feel like I'm doing something wrong and the red layers take forever to get a consistent look.
Cool Scott! Gonna see this asap!
I use GamersGrass before this! I love their products and used them when basing my Tau units. Their shipping times are pretty slow though, so if you're able to find them locally if you live in America, that is the way to go.
Gamer Grass FTW!! 🇵🇹💪Great work and inspiration on the bases.
Nice vid mate, I'm back to painting minis and needed some inspiration on basis for them! I also wanted to ask you where you got that metallic brush case that's on your desk inthe intro, I've been trying to find something like that for a while now and not been very lucky.
Amazing as always.
Magnifica tecnica,un saludo
fantastic. nice job.
This a great refreshing video Scott! Although I like watch minis being painted, bases are not really something I've seen as often. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough though. That's on me. To be honest I've never thought to look until this video. You going a great job with content. Keep up the excellent work!
One question, what airbrush are you using if you don't mind?
The Iwata HP-CS and the Badger Renegade Krome
Thank you.
Excellent 👍👍
That sound effect for the pipe Intro stayed waaaay longer than my ears wanted
It was hilarious, great bases!
When I put it on the timeline and listened to it, I was like "this is wrong" - so clearly I have to keep it in!
@@Miniac also thanks for the heads up on the giveaway
Okay, really dumb question but at 7:30, is that a bar clamp? I've never thought to use something like that, but it looks so convenient. P.S. I've just gotten an Elegoo Mars Pro and I'm jumping headfirst into this hobby. Amazing inspiration in this video, thank you @Miniac!
I believe most brands call them "quick grips"
I've been struggling to make interesting jungle bases for my seraphon army, mainly what basing bits to use
0000 wire wool gives a nice marble effect as well using a similar method
Hope you’re all well as we didn’t get to see you this time. Take care and great basing work!
Love your base vids
When you guys attach your minis to the bases are you drilling a hole in the base and foot of the mini to secure them or do you find that plastic, or super glue, works just fine?
I'm pretty lazy, so I'd do just super glue. Modern day plastic minis are so extremely light weight that they're less likely to snap off. If I was attaching a metal mini, I'd pin it for sure.
@@Miniac Good to know! Thanks for the reply and I loved the video!
Nice sewer pipe! That'd be a good one for some TMNT minis, which I love being an old action figure guy. Maybe I feel a purchase coming on 😶 Thanks for the video!
Does anyone know the name of the background music used when he's painting the first base?
These videos are spectacular my dude. Basing is such a freeing part of the hobby! I’d love to see a similar video but for a larger monster base (*ahem* Prince Vhordrai for your vampire army ;) )
Very cool!
On 9:16 you can really see Scotts confusion when that black spot appeared, like "Where the hell did that come fro... Oh, now it is gone, where did it went? Hmm, better wipe my brush..."
the pipe is perfect, but where should I put my miniature on this base?
For the 3rd model, you could still paint the base circle gold instead of black. Then it would match the upper riser without much effort?
Do you think that gold trim can be used to glue around a base? Technically it will make it larger by millimeters giving a slight disadvantage, but instead of painting the side, you actually have a gold trim.
Because the base is angled out, it would be very difficult to do. You could paint the base rim gold!