Painting the Fantascape Gothic Ruins Bases:

Part of the Oath of Moment for the Repaint of the Ark Angels I undertook to re-base all of the models to somthing suitable for my Fanatically Religous Sisters of Battle.  To be fit for purpose the bases had meet the follwoing requirement:

• Ruined Cathedral style
• Functinal as a base with flat enough areas to accomodate the sisters flowing Habits.
• A range of standard GW base sizes including 25mm, 40mm and the Large Oval bases

There are a few manufacturers out there and in the end I went with Fantascape.

This is How I am painting them:

• Preparation
• Wash in warm soapy water
• Undercoat with Halfords Grey Primer
• Basecoat Citadael White spray
• Stone Surfaces
• VMA:MudBrown:Water in 4:5. Wash in stripes across the base
• VMA:DarkSeaGreen:Water in 4:5 Wash the Remainder of the White.  Pull and feathewr the Edges as you go.
• Heavy overbrush of VMC:Offwhite, 
• Drybrush of VMA:White once the overbrush is thoroughly dry
• VMA:Olive Drab: Water 1:1 Wash into the cracks and around edges.
• Drybrush of VMA:White 
• Darklight the cracks again with CW:Devlan Mud Wash
• Soil
• Paint any soil, or areas under stones like on the back of the oval base rather than the gravelly debris on the surface, with C:Calthan Brown
• Overbrush this with bleached bone, then wash all soil, and other sand-based debris with CW:Devlan Mud.
•  Grass
• Glue on C:Static Grass Clumps with CyanoAcrylate glue

This is an unashamed rip of the original article.  I have posted without the authors paermission and modified it to colour pallette I have at my disposal. I have reposted this for my own reference purposes.


Key
VMA: Vallejo Model Air
VMC: Vallejo Model Colour
VGC:  Vallejo Game Colour
C: Citadael
AOC: Windsor Newton Artists Oil Colour
CW: Citadel Wash