Vince this is an oldie but a goodie. People need you to bump this video.

The sound improvement from your old videos to your new videos is great. I just watched a new video and I learned a lot, so I clicked on this one and I was, like, 'where did the sound go?' Whatever change you made to your set up, it worked.

Awesome! Flawlessly presented Vince. Thank you for the tutorial, basing mini's is now not a mystery thanks to your beautifully presented techniques!

I keep coming back to this video, it's so expertly presented. The video is great ,the lighting is great, the audio is great, to say nothing of the actual subject matter. Thanks for the hard work.

Great tutorial, please keep them coming. Yet again I find myself saying that's how I do it just after you say don't do it that way. You have given me a lot of ideas for a 40mm figure I want to paint up.

Great video thank you!! It helps really much to see various techniques and materials being used, i think the most variety we add to bases the better it is

Great video! I love to get inspiration for different bases, especially for when making skirmish forces/warbands :) For larger armies I generally go with a faster approach.

I'm so glad I ask you a question about this nurgle mini on facebook ! You show me this channel and I learned a lot of stuff ! Amazing work thanks man :D

I remember basing some napoleonics/French chassuers(light cavalry) with coffee grounds! Great tips. I personally like cork and other bits from model railroad shops. I like how you explain height/ scale etc. if you’ve been modeling a while you may know but lots of people don’t... hopefully posting this will lead to many more realistically scaled bases in the gaming community! Good stuff. Thanks for posting

As always, top tier content Vince. Thanks!

love your basing tutorials,please keep them coming :-)

Totally amazing. This will change my hobby forever.

Awesome tutorial mate. Thank you. I'd love to see this going ahead. Maybe one with actually showing how you do rocks, mud etc. And one with what kind of flock you are using.

Great video Vince. A light coat of clear epoxy or super glue will give a nice hard coat over the dap so you don't have to worry about chipping

Another fantastic tutorial! Very relevant to my interests as I'm trying to improve my basing game. Should have some polyfilla paste left over from decorating the house and I'm sure the houseplants won't miss a bit of bark!

You sir are my personal hero and savior! I'll never stop supporting you! :D

When working with cork, in order to create more realistic looking rocks. I do the divot, etc but I also put some texture paint on the top of it, to disguise that it's cork. Just some of the citadel stuff will do, but I prefer AK as they make more realistic products for mud, earth etc. I only pout this on the top layer though, where it would be most obvious that it's lots of smaller pieces (well cork, LoL) you can then work this further with basing sand and stuff. just to give it a dusty appearance with loose stones and stuff. I always do cross contamination as well, so I have some of the mud on the stones and some of the stones in the mud, etc. It really helps with the realism. Then also pigments are a god send for basing. A pigment or two can really help to sell it.

Another great tutorial. Thank you, Sir.

Vince : reference the holey areas, me myself I'd fill them in using old paint brushes cut down and hot glued in, so that texture and height variation is another concept to add. Plus when applying your pumas stone from Vallejo before drying takes place I dip the base into grit and stones, because I find it is easier that playing with texturing and your fingers only can hold so much at a time. Maybe you can trial this method and see what effects you come up with to add height and the effects of weighted stone!

this was really informational and I loved it! I want to do it all!!! LOL My first mini to base and paint is a Young Emerald Dragon so something like this, with height is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!

Another great video Vince! One thing I'd look into making is some "Gloop" instead of using paste and filler, basically mix some Filler+PVA+Grit+Paint and you got an amazing filler/paste combo, you can play around with the grit to create different effects and textures. I find it to be superior to all the "basing pastes" since the finish is rock hard plus I can tailor the mix to my needs.

I have to say, great result. You sir make it look easy. Now i gotta re base half my models :P

I really like doing overhangs with my rocks. then if you have the guy standing (partially) on the overhang, too. Looks awesome. I did a priest with an Evicerator that was standing on a Lion King style rock, poking the chainsaw off the overhang. The base did so much for the mini. it was like a mix of nature and warzone, and I had bits of barbed wire with poles that had been stuck into the ground (bit gotten half blown up) was only the second scenic base I ever made as well, and carved my rock out of cork (got it looking good, but took work) my first one was done with an actual piece of slate, that took all day for me to drill through with a GW hobby drill (for pinning the mini) they were both for Evicerator priests for an Imperial Guard army as well.

Great video lots of helpful tips I will definitely use for my new world eaters army, thank you 👍

You've helped me save time in all aspects of this hobby. I thank you for that firstly and you're well spoken so that's always a plus. Accolades aside, if you could answer a question. How would you go about getting a sun bleached effect on the carapace and shoulders of an imperial knight? Thank you.

you really need more subs this is fantastic art thank you

thanks this was really helpful 5yrs later!

After this I finally broke down and did a cork base. I've always hated the look of the typical cork base because it is often so obvious. I did ONE previously but it was mostly to make a slotted base for a metal model that I didn't have an appropriate size slotted base for. So my Skarbrand I was working on was surgically removed from his base, his stupid thing he was standing on for the captain Morgan pose was removed, and now he's on top of a towering cork rock formation, and he's looking like a proper centerpiece model! Now I just need to finish painting him...

Thanks for all the info Vince

This may sound odd, but it never really occurred to me to combine spackle and cork pieces like that; generally, when I'm stacking corking I'll use tweezers and picks and various other hobby tools to basically "sculpt" the cork (for lack of a better word) by breaking up the edges and the top surfaces until it look more organic. I'll definitely have to give this a shot. As a general tip (for anyone who may not know) you also add a little bit of rubbing alcohol to your glue and water mixture or put a few drops of it down on the surface of what you're trying to seal in; in both cases, the alcohol helps break the surface tension of the water and glue, which in turn allows it to spread out and soak in faster. You can also make something very close to the basing paste yourself; just add various grits of fine and coarse sand to the spackle - you can also add some white glue if you're worried about adhesion - and mix them together. There's no real recipe, you just sort of add things until you like the consistency and, if you want, you can also add a couple of drops of paint in if you want it pre-colored (like the various basing pastes).

No more painted cork pieces placed alone over a base! ;) Nice tutorial, as usual.

Love the basing videos :-) When I started out I thought to go with black bases forever but I really came to love basing a lot :D Especially since the minis (as you once pointed out) stay in the shelve most of the time. I would love to maybe build a diorama but am very unsure where to start. With all your basing videos as reference could you pretty please make a video about how to get into dioramas? Like how many minis do I need, how much of a "story" can be told and what extra materials do I need and so on^^ All the best wishes from Germany :-)

I recently discovered a substance similar to kitty litter but for absorbing oil and grease stains off shop floors etc. I run it through pantyhose for awesome superfine grit, then through screen door/window sized screen for rough grit (gravel) and unsifted it's about like river rock at 28mm/1/48scale. Use the superfine to make texture paint and sand, then the next scale up for fine gravel.

This is awesome 👌

Hey discovered your channel this weekend and spent hours watching your Hobby Cheating series - it's fantastic! Thank you very much. Could you please do you one on different varnishes. Whenever I varnish I feel it really dulls down the model and all those nice highlights I've spent so much time on. Maybe you can offer some tricks on how to varnish better. Thank you again!

Good video man its great. Thanks for sharing this.

Another great vid. The flat top of cork has always driven me nuts when I see it. Question about the spackle, is there a reason you use that instead of just using the basing paste for that step?

If you cant get spackling paste i highly recommend using liquitex modelling paste, it works in just the same way as spackling paste plus you can file it down if there is too much texture...

Very comprehensive video - thank you. Do you ever sterilize/dry natural materials like bark or sand in the oven prior to use/storage? Thanks!

Amazing concepts and techniques. Do you need to hit the base with a varnish to hold the little bits from flaking off? If so, is that done before or after painting?

Hi Vince, What do you think about Vallejo ground texture? I think it has maybe to much sand on it?

Solid video as always! What glue do/would you use for securing a large mini (stonehorn in my case) to the bark? Would you advise pinning the mini to the bark also? Thanks

Thanks, Vince, just what I was looking for. How thick are your cork sheets usually?

I've been trying to find that kind of bark for quite a while (mostly through google), but I can seemingly only find the 40L bag variety around here, I assume for outdoor/garden use. I've started questioning if they even make it where I'm from... :/

Easy cheap source of cork. Walmart has it in the office/college section as something to stick pushpins in.

I meant to ask before: When you say Dap, do you mean their wall filler? I went to Home Depot yesterday and the guy said "Dap is a brand and they make a lot of products." :D

Hey vince, actually i don't have airbrush, so how would you advise me to base coat those rocks without the possibily of making a zenithal highlight?

Random question but what is the advantage of the gridded matts so many hobby painters? My mother is a quilter and i know those matts are used for rotary cutters since they wont cut through the material when making cuts across fabric.... but ya theyre expensive and im just curious what the function in hobby painting is for.

Do you varnish the base? would you varnish before adding grass, flowers etc?

Hi Vince! I came back to this video while I'm messing about with my Sylvaneth bases. Do you still use DAP as basing material these days, or are you more into using Vallejo's pastes? Thanks in advance and see you next Wednesday!

Hey nice work but i have a question : why did you usef dap then vallejo dark earth, wht didn't you use only one of them like only the dark earth? I mean I don't understand the difference between them and why using one or the other

Can plaster of Paris be subbed for spackling paste by chance maayyybe? I have a ton of art supply's and the oil paints about the only thing I can use ironically. Anyways...plaster has properties of cement but I'm assuming what your using is a paste Any experience on this?

Hey Vince sorry to bother you but I have a bit of an issue with a seraphon army I was basing with a nice colour potting sand but after I sealed it with watered down PVA it's made some not all now, look like building sand I'm drying guys out now on a radiator incase they might be still too wet, I was going for a simple desert sand is there anything I can do ? I don't want to paint every thing if I don't have to

does the vallejo texture paste not have enough glue grip to hold the grit/rocks on its own if you push it in a bit, without the PVA mix? i've not used it myself but have heard a number of other places speak about how it has a strong hold

I wonder what product alternative this would be in the UK for Dap. 🤔

is "DAP" similar to liquitex modelling paste? I was looking for something for creating a bit of height at the ground level, before adding your mud or whatever. I wasn't sure which product to use, so I just bought that as it's a brand I know (I use their inks)

Somebody has been busy today. What white primer would you recommend? I keep getting really gritty coverage

Do you think that spackling right to the base and adding things after is fine? As opposed to a cork base

Do you do anything with the bark to prevent it from rotting or something in the future?

so you don't have to dry this stuff out in the oven, or even clean it? not sure if we can get this in the UK. I picked up a big bag of komodo bark for lizard tanks, and it's dirty with soil and damp (needs dried in oven) I looked all over for info on what kind of bark to get, but couldn't find anything. Then I find this after I have already bought it.

Good evening sir - quick question - where do u get your cork?

Hello there, do you have pictures showing this base with a miniature on it?

what is that "dap" stuff? I'm at 11:07 the white stuff he's filling the gaps with he keeps saying dap? Is that correct?

so when im trying to book a room for adepticon it says none available. did the hotel really sell out already or am i doing something wrong lol

10:45 I'd have hidden a skull in that gap (or a Nurgling or something thematic for whatever mini is going on there)

anyone knows a product in the EU thats like those bark pieces?

Awesome! You said ‘cavalry’ instead of ‘calvary’ 😄

To help someone from "across the pond".......What is dap? Is it filler, plaster of Paris or something else. Probably a dumb question but, there it is.

What bark are you using?

I like to put paper and a coat of baking powder over the top and paint it like asphalt.

so in short just go nuts with everything you have

Don't waste anything eh? What do you do with all the left over right hand gloves? xD

cheating??? no such thing in this realm of life lol

I like your videos but please speak louder or turn the volume of your speaking louder than the music.