Hobby Cheating 274 - How to make Alien World Bases
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2021
- In this Hobby Cheating tutorial, I take you through a quick and easy method of making alien world bases. This lets you create a fantastic, alien biome quick and easy for your armies. Hope you enjoy!
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Redoing the whole thing so you can record it, that's the dedication to tutorials that we love. Thanks for everything you do, Vince.
My pleasure! :)
these look Really Great!. i can imagine a Tcheentch Chaos Demon on there Model Pistachio Shells perhaps a bit more purples and way more Cyan and less Magenta if the model I'm using on it is a Pink Model. and More Magenta and a bit less Purple and way less Blue if the Model is Blue. i was even thinking of Gluing a couple Pistachio Shells on to the Base. and Painting them to look like Eye Balls Opening up from the Alien Terrain. perhaps using Hot Glue for a water effect and painting it with Glow in the Dark Paints to look like Liquid magic, where there would be water... so much Inspiration from these Bases.
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 :)
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!
Awesome, happy to help. :)
Really cool effect! Now I'm tempted to rebase my entire Tzeentch army to use this 😅
you should !
It's a great scheme for Tzeentch for sure. :)
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 ;)
Awesome tip. I measure my skaven tails in pounds, but I understand that might not be everyone. :)
New year, Vince still killing it! Thank you and please stay safe.
Thank you, always happy to help. :)
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!
Awesome, always happy to help. :)
Beautiful! I love having chances to use some other colors for bases besides grass, dirt, and stone.
Me too!
This whole channel is a goldmine of useful tips and information, honestly.
Thank you, always happy to help. :)
Another fantastic video, Vince. Going straight into the hobby notebook!
Excellent, happy to help as always. :)
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... 😂
As long as I am helping in any way with the painting, that's a success.
@@VinceVenturella Rest assure, you do.
Love it, my necrons are going to get similar base stylings but snowy
Yeah, you could easily put some snow on top for a great effect.
Really nice; thought you’d rocked the Greenstuff tentacle maker, but clever use of those tails!
Thank you, it's a good call, the GSW roller is a great alternative if you don't have piles of tails.
Awesome work. I've been inspired
Glad to hear it!
I like the new thumbnails Vince!
Excellent, working to try to update the thumbnail game. :)
Solid video brother. Really liked it.
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
Good ideas all around. I’ll add them to the list.
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.
Sounds awesome.
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Thank you 👍
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...
I will say that the Gamer's Grass stuff should be available directly in the UK, check out Bad Squiddo Games, they might have some. As might Element Games.
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Thanks. No luck with Element Games (which is a shame because I have bought from them in the past), but Bad Squiddo have them. Though guess which one is out of stock... They do have the Alien Fire tuft, though, which is ideal for the Orruk Bloodbowl team I have on the way, which is going to be based based on Hellfire Peninsula from World of Warcraft (The team will be called the Hellfire Hellboars).
While looking at pictures of Hellfire Peninsula, I spotted Zangarmarsh in the distance, an area that I have always loved. I was thinking that it’d be ideal for an alien style base, but I think it’d need OSL skills to properly pull it off; something in which I am sorely lacking.
What a great idea!
Thanks!
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.
Great suggestion.
This is 100% fun.
These are really fun bases to make.
New thumbnail? What is this sorcery? Slaanesh!!! *shakes fist in the air* Awesome video as always!
Yep, trying to up the thumbnail game. :)
Very cool. I gotta do more stuff with my bases other than just slapping Stirland Mud on them and calling it a day...
Awsome, happy this helps. ;)
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 :)
So in general, I use very bright, saturated colors on the minis, so this wouldn't clash with a bright tyranid for example. If you are painting some muddy death korps of kreig, I woul stay away from this sort of thing or tone it down.
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!
Not a simple question, pearls or the pearlescent effect is one of the most complex things you can paint. I have recorded a tutorial on it a few times, but I was never really happy with it. I am going to refine the recipe and have something ready when the Slaanesh release comes.
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!
Yep, the GSW item is a good fix. My paints are organized by brand first, then groupings by color/type.
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.
No issue, I apprecaite you reaching out very much> :)
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?
That is one of the few cases where you are okay with gloss, I would still be choosey with it, snow still creates specular highlights, but I use it to show melting snow on the edges and keep the piles of snow matte other than a little pearlescent powder to cause some minor catch lights.
Gonna do this for my guardians of the galaxy minis… so fun
Awesome.
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
Awesome, happy to help. :)
I love these man. What inks are you using?
These are some daler rowney inks and some green stuff world washes.
@@VinceVenturella Awesome, thank you for the reply. :)
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 )
Obsidian is actually one of the toughest things to paint. Because it's gloss black, so there are two options.
1) You do a very extreme NMM black with a very short transition from pure black to white reflections. This will make it look like obsidian if you place all the lights correct, but is extremely time intensive.
2) You just paint it black and then give it a gloss black. Much less convicincing, it will look cheap, but it is a lot quicker. ;)
@@VinceVenturella thank you so much ! Would it have a better convincing effect if I did the second option added rubble and edge highlighted the Rubble ?
@@austinj2065 Less likely, the challenge is then you will have some highlights that are static and some that are dynamic, this is the challenge, if you added little rocks, you'd want them in the same style.
@@VinceVenturella thanks again for the Direction Vince! Great advice as always I appreciate it!
Vince doing an alien base... Why am I not surprised to see turquoise and pink on it? ;)
Gotta stay on brand.
Is that MDF cut to base sizes?
Yep, it's a good solution for when you need loads of cheap bases. :)
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?
I have enough bits to stick with that, but the rollers are great if you don't have that option.
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). ;)
It's always good to learn about other cultures. :)
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?
Sure, I will add it to the list, but the general answer is don't over think it too much on large vehicles, the metal paint in VMeC will do most of the work for you. My general method is to have a nice shadow that is at the top 0 degree line and then go up in highlights toward the bottom of the ship (from the reflected light).
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Welp I want to revise my slaanesh from a beach with cherry blossoms leaves to this. . .
It just looks so cool compared! I love it!
Gld you enjoyed it. :)