Some new bases done

Some of my favorite models are coming up, so I made them some special bases.

First the base for Kara Sloan:

I had a lot of thoughts about the base for Minuteman, and finally I decided to give him something to jump from :) A piece of a wall looked just right for the task :)

And finally the base for Hunter #2. This one I plan to paint to a lot higher standard than the last one, so the base should be fitting :)

The only one that can be called "finished" for now is the Kara Sloan base.

Waiting for colors to arrive

I ordered a bunch of new colors that will be needed for the Cygnar army (never did much blue stuff on the models), and while waiting for the colors to arrive, all there is to do is more bases :)

Here are three more:

Finished bases for Cygnar jacks

First bases for Cygnar jacks are ready. Grass over terracotta red earth:

The road base for the heavy jack is done already:

Beginings of a Cygnar army

In the past few months I came to the conclusion that even though Circle Orboros have probably the prettiest and coolest models, I really don't enjoy their play style. After some research, I decided to start a Cygnar army, and as always, I will start with the bases :)

First models I will work on are 8 light jacks, and one Ironclad. The general idea for the bases is to go for red earth/terracota color, with a lot of texture, and a lot of green grass. I also decided to throw in some roads, and the Ironclad will get the first road/earth base :)

Here are some in-progress photos:

 Cobblestone road is made of cut sheet cork (2mm thick) and just laid down to look like cobbles. The "ground" is a mix of mid ballast and shale (some sand will be added later on to smooth it out).

Red earth bases are based in mix of dark umber and red (looks like terracotta to me)

And here is the final product (without grass for now, and with primed-only jacks on top):

New blog dedicated to miniature basing

Yesterday I was invited to become a contributing member on a blog dedicated to miniature basing. I really like this idea, and of course I joined :)

You can find this new blog at http://justthebases.blogspot.com

Some very talented people gathered there, and hopefully soon there will be a lot of interesting content there.