Well ladies and gents, ALOT of you have demanded it and I think I put it off long enough =P, so I finally got my act together and decided to put up my long awaited lava base tutorial. This will be a pretty lengthy tutorial and I will probably have to do this in multiple post.
First things first, is base construction. The materials you will need are:
-cork
-cork in sheet form
-PVA glue ( white elmers glue works just fine )
-an old paintbrush
-a hobby knife
-blank bases
I love to work with cork for my bases. Its cheap and easy to use and, for this project it has the right kind of texture I want for my lava rocks. Cork can be found just about anywhere and for the sheet cork you can find pretty good sized rolls for less then $4 bucks, enough cork for 3 armies and then some.
Step 1:
Take some of your sheet cork and break it up into random shapes of various sizes, be sure to have a few ' large ' peices suitable for you mini to stand on. Then take your hobby knife to your other peice of cork and break it up into tiny peices like so.
Step2:
Arrange your cork around your base, being sure to leave large cracks and spaces between rocks for your lava flow. Dont be afraid to stack rocks to add height and depth to the base, just be sure to leave enough of a flat surface for your mini to stand on. Generously 'paint' on your pva glue to the bottom of each peice and press and hold it firmly in place till it dries.
Step3:
To help the cork recieve paint better, I like to paint over all cork surfaces with some watered down PVA glue. Once that dries Primer the entire base with chaos black. and then you are ready for painting.
continued in next post