Re: A Wizard in Winter
Posted by
MortiS-the-Lost on
Oct 06, 2010; 2:50pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/A-Wizard-in-Winter-tp1592756p5607363.html
Umboman wrote
Very expertly done & its inspiring to see how pieces are put together-lack of imagination on the base can spoil an intersting/well painted figure.The rock,branchs,mushrooms,etc really paints a picture & that blue is perfect.
Thanks, I don't normally do display pieces like this, most of my miniatures are intended to be used for games and there fore end up with a lot more simple bases to minimize 'clash' with different playing surfaces. Plain black bases are the easiest way as your eyes tend to ignore the black (A neutral gray or brown works well too).
For a lot of my miniatures I use textured plasticard for a stone-floor look which works well in a dungeon setting for my Quest games and the ruined streets of Mordheim and dosn't look too out of place on other fantasy terrain types.
One thing that was very popular during the 90's was painting miniatures base Goblin Green no matter what the setting, it had a tendency to look awful on anything but a Goblin Green!
Agreed, an interesting base can liven up a miniature as a display piece, but I think too much emphasis is put on the base in some cases, the judges of Games Workshop's annual painting competition Golden Daemon love modeled bases and over the years the competition has become nothing more than a biggest base contest, with the miniatures themselves taking a side line. Thus this is about as much as I will add to a base and only then because it was a display piece.
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~The ravings of a single mad Goblin is bad enough, but such a power-hungry, malice-filled creature as Mortis can never hope to be understood~