{"id":127,"date":"2021-01-24T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2021-01-24T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:58:28","slug":"regiment-of-30-night-goblins-and-how-i-base-my-28-mm-miniatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Regiment of 30 night goblins and how I base my 28 mm miniatures."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, I recently finished a unit of 30 night goblins I’ve been working on and off on for the last two years. Originally I planned on multi basing them for KoW, but I decided that it was better to base them individually so I could use them for more game systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Led by Buddy and his assistant Buddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of my friends, as well as a couple of people on different fora, have asked me how I do my basing, so I decided to make a little tutorial of sorts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First I paint the bases with zhandri dust. The coat does not need to be fully opaque or even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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step 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I glue on larger rocks or debris. If I have painted any other kinds of detail to have on the base, this is when I add it. This allows me to pile on the dirt to make it look like it sits in the ground rather then awkwardly on top of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next I add my dirt. This is dirt from a small wood where people often motocross. This means the muddy areas become a fine sandy dirt when dry, and it absorbs liquid amazingly well. I sift it, and keep the larger rocks to decorate bases… like here. This is just a first layer, I put down a thickish (only slightly watered down) layer of pva and dip the base in the dirt, shaking of excess. The coverage here does not need to be perfect – we will add more. On every stage with he dirt I clean off the dirt from places I don’t want it with a damp brush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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step 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now is one of the more fun steps – I have a little container with very watered down pva glue, another with the sifted dirt, and I sprinkle more on to places where I want more dirt. I try to make details such as rocks look like they sit in the ground, and I try to make interesting small variations in the elevation rather than a flat layer.
I see now that in this example I buried one of the goblins right foot. Oh well, you can clean excess dirt off with a damp brush but since these are lovely back-rank night goblins I don’t really care. It won’t be visible when gaming anyway. Leave this to dry overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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step 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

now I add some of my homemade flock here and there. This is simply sifted sawdust painted with cheap craft acrylics. I try to vary where I put it, and make it look random and natural. I catch myself flocking the front left and back right of bases too often, it takes a little bit of effort to not make it look to planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally I add static grass, tufts and clump foliage. I try to make sure all bases always have some point of interest – be that a large rock or interesting tuft – but I also try (and fail) to not make it too systematic and regular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finish the base off by painting the rim matte black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I recently finished a unit of 30 night goblins I’ve been working on and off on for the last two years. Originally I planned on multi basing them for KoW, but I decided that it was better to base them individually so I could use them for more game systems. Some of my friends, … Continue reading Regiment of 30 night goblins and how I base my 28 mm miniatures.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,24,14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomasmartins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}