Five Minute Basing Tutorial

For my Blood Rage miniatures, I adopted a very simple technique that exceeds board game/tabletop standards in many ways and takes minutes to perform. All you need is:

Step one – Apply paint to your base

No need to ensure complete coverage or lack of streaks. This paint layer is only there to mask basing material irregularity. I am using craft paint for this step, burn sienna being my go to color.

Step two – Choose your basic material.

For this job, I chose Army painter Grass Green, Brown Battleground and Ash Grey and GW Glade Grass.

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Step three – Apply glue to the part of your miniature base you wish to cover with your first choice of basing material. Use a toothpick (for 20/28mm bases) or a brush/sculpting tool for larger ones). Be parsimonious with the glue as it will ease the next step and avoid white splotches in your basing aspect. When dealing with a large group of miniatures, such as this viking clan, try to process 3 or 4 at a time.miniatures at a time.

Step four – Dip the base of the miniature in your basing material container.

While there is always a risk of contaminating the content with glue, if you followed step 3, I found it to be less wasteful on the basing material than to pour some in a separate container.

Then remove the miniature from the container, press gently on the basing material adhering to the base and finally tap the base over they container to minimize waste.

Step five – Apply glue to the other part of the base and dip the miniature base in the other basing material.

Apply glue in the same manner to the rest of the bases and repeat step 4. Of course, you are free to choose more than two basing material types and thus repeat this step as many times as you have basing material. Keep in mind, however, that if you are working with board games pieces or rank and file wargame miniatures, you really do not have to get to this level of sophistication. That allows you to deploy these miniatures on the table faster.

Et voila! Quick and easy base…