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...Madness in Miniature

Vampire Lord Scenic Base

A while back I started on a mounted vampire Lord, just for the hell of it. I decided to give him a scenic base, as he's not a mini I'll ever want to use in a game.

Here's what I came up with...

The cavalry base will disappear eventually, of course. The rocky outcrop is made from layered polystyrene, sliced up all rocky. The trees are made from several strands of copper wire, wrapped around each other, coated liberally in PVA glue, and dipped in silversand. Undercoat with black, drybrush Dark Flesh, with a very faint highlight of bronzed flesh.

By itself, the base started out like this...

The next step is to coat the polystyrene, so that, once it's painted, it doesnt just look like painted polystyrene

I had intended to use a textured spray, as this is quick and easy... unfortunately, by the time that occured to me, I had already glued the trees in place

So, instead I mixed up a very watery plaster mix, with a generous dollop of PVA glue for strength, and painted this all over the base:

Once that's set, I can go in with the hobby knife and sharpen up all the edges again...

Dolloped PVA glue around the place to add in patches of gravel... I use my special "gravel mix (tm) for this (silversand mixed with model railway ballast, mmm) :

Time to undercoat. Slathered a heap of Chaos Black all over the base. Then said, "Oh bugger..." and went back and glued the tombstones in place, surrounding them with a bit more pva and gravel...

Once that was dry, undercoated the gravel around the tombstones, and then started drybrushing with Shadow Grey.

Finished the Shadow Grey coat, and then added a highlight of Ghostly Grey...

Undercoated the tombstones with Vomit Brown, and then drybrushed on progressive layers with Pallid Flesh, Bleached Bone, and finally Skull White. Re-undercoated the trees where the grey had hit them, Drybrushed with Dark Flesh, and then hit all the trees with a highlight of Vomit Brown to brighten them up a tad. Also drybrushed small patches of Dark Flesh around the rocky bits, to dirty it up a little...

Finally added on a few patches of static grass, and a black rat lurking between the tombstones, and painted the base edge black:

Stuck the vampire in place by trimming the tabs on the horse's feet down to about half an inch, dipping the tabs in white paint, and then pressing them against the base. Once this dried, I used my hobby knife to cut out the resultant white rectangles. This gave me two nice neat grooves for the tabs to fit into.

Then simply put a nice generous dollop of PVA glue on each tab, sat him into the grooves, and slapped a layer of plaster over the top to disguise them. Once set, that was painted the same as the rest of the rock.

A note here... I wouldn't normally use PVA glue to hold minis onto bases. It really doesn't give a particularly strong bond. However, this is only a display piece, so doesn't have to withstand being lugged around the countryside in a lunchbox, and PVA glue won't eat the display base like superglue would.

Anyhoo, here he is...

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