IMPERIAL TILE BASES By ( Kraegus )

THE BASICS

This article is based on a thread on the Bolter and Chainsword Forum. It has been reproduced with the kind permission of Kraegus.

Stage 1: Base prep. gouge some cracks in your base, do two straight lines across (or more, depending on how many tiles you want) as well as some cracks to imitate the effect of weathering.

Stage 2: Drybrush liberally the whole thing with scorched brown. Note that I have not primed the base with black.

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This is a simple technique for creating unique bases using standard gaming materials in a short amount of time. TOOLS REQUIRED: -hobby knife                                        -shadow grey                                          -flock (optional) -Scorched brown paint                    -Vermin Brown paint                              -Bleached bone paint -Chaos Black paint                         -one plain unprimed base

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Stage 3: Stipple on a mixture of vermin brown and scorched brown (stippling is like drybrushing except dab down with the brush instead of strokes)

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Stage 4 - 6: Stipple again, except with vermin brown, then a mix of bleached bone and vermin brown. VERY LIGHTLY drybrush with bleached bone to bring out the details, and paint a thinned down line of black in the cracks. Find some suitable iconography that you can use to depict the imperial creed on to the tiles.

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Stage 7: Carefully paint out the general shape you want to use with shadow grey.

Stage 8: Now fill in the outlne with bleached bone and put some flock on the base if you want.