Mikey C's Man-O-War Bombadiers

[Mikey_C]

Here they are, wanted them to look like they saw some action but not be as beat up as my Shock Troopers

[Mikey_C]

[Oniichan]

Looking great! I really love your base work, it's quite excellent. Were the Bombadiers pretty easy to put together?

[Yurimow]

"yeah yeah, minis are fine, tell me more about those bases??? They are awesome!!!"

just kidding. I like 'em a lot. I think the best word is "gorgeous".

[Prismatik]

Dear god... You're the first one I've ever seen here paint something on the base to camouflage the base itself as a piece of scenery! Folks paint edge markers, folks paint the whole thing... but you painted the base to look like stone. Awesome.

The paintwork on the bombies themselves is outstanding, great stuff!

[Mael]

I think you should make a table with the same colour/size of stones as your base edges.

[Mod_Plarzoid]

Too awesome. The battle damage and layering is awesome, but the free-hand rocks on the bases is spectacular.

Kudos.

[Mikey_C]

Oniichan: The bombadiers are easy to put together. The only difficult or at least bothersome task is cleaning some of the flash lines from the more difficult places.

Yurimow: The idea behind the bases is that I wanted them to look like something like this but with a dusting of snow.

For the execution, I use plastic card and kitty litter. Making bases is probably my favourite part of the hobby aside from playing games. I just cut the plastic card into the general shapes, work the edges with a hobby knife to rough them up, and then layer them together with superglue. Then rough up the top layer further with a hobby knife. Then I put white "school" glue on the base and add the kitty litter. For the snow I use gale force 9 snow flock and that same white school glue. I put down a blob of glue and add flock until the mix is about 50/50 and apply it to the base using an old long haired brush.

Mael: Perhaps someday, perhaps someday.