 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and last week We actually painted a plaguebearer, and I thought he came out pretty cool. It was fun to paint nergal It's fun to step outside of your comfort zone And if we're gonna paint up a little plaguebearer, well, we've got to do a cool base for him So this week we're gonna talk about painting a plague world base Something that's gross disgusting bubbly oozy and fun. So Let's get amongst it The strict techno man sir that is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style All right, so you can see the paints for this and it's pretty simple as always the paints will that I'm actually using when I use them They'll scroll up in the top so you know what's going on But we begin our base with our old friend quirk I see a lot of people use quirk on bases, and it's perfectly fine The trick is you can't stop at quirk. That's where people go wrong They apply some quirk and then they just call it a day But our goal here is trying to raise the model up and make an area where we can then Have other effects water and mud and rocks and stuff like that So we first step is to making it not look like quirk is to mess up the quirk So here I'm just using a pen and digging around in the quirk creating unnatural Breaks and divots and things like that up top You'll see how we continue to mess it up as we go along But you just want to bust up that surface You need to have changed the top from being perfectly flat and change the sides from looking like quirk Now here is my recent discovery. This is some Liquitex coarse gel medium I really love this stuff for doing extremely fine grain and I found these super cool brushes on Amazon that are supposed to be like for some kind of Other purpose like makeup or something. I don't know I'll put the link in the description But they're so great for spreading this kind of paste or just messing around on your bases because unlike your hair brushes They actually don't get gummy. You can just wipe them off and they're silicone. So it's really nice I'm making this base for a plague bear But of course you can make these sorts of plague roll bases for anything could be anybody on top of here It doesn't even have to be something nerve-related Just representing a gross awful world. And so we want that to be muddy Now that it's dried, we've got to break up that texture though Okay, again continuing to make it look not like quirk So one side of the base is gonna have some rocks on it just to again further Create change and that's what you want to do on your bases. Even though you've got a small amount of space It's great if you can have areas of differentiation. So all of my rocks are on the left side as you'll see later We're gonna put in some water effects and those will be kind of in the middle the idea being that You want to make sure that your bases have that they feel like they're part of a varied world I just primed it in black and then from here We're just gonna go ahead and again use all brush no airbrush on this There's taken a nice soft dry brush and doing a nice little run over the top of it to pick out all the details And start to create that contrast. I'm focusing a lot more on the front of the base This is another simple trick to pop up the way your miniatures look Focus more highlights toward the front of the base because then it looks like the light is at a place where the viewer's Eye is and it's just more visually interesting I'm the reason I'm putting this thinned sepia ink over everything is two fold one I want to get rid of some of the black work in a brown tone to sepia is a perfect color Cuz it has a little bit of green in the brown So again, it's setting my tones for what I eventually want and it just kind of helps to reinforce some of the shadows Now I'm gonna take some plague bearer flesh and though this isn't flesh yet again We can help to set some tones nature is very random and a plague world would theoretically have layers and layers of muck and Goop and mud and gross sick all on top of each other So we're aiming to repeat lots of simple steps to move colors around and create natural variants On these lower areas that are still mostly black or dark brown because of the way that the dry brushing works I'm just taking some rhinoxide and forcing it in there and then kind of smoothing it around Now why rhinoxide? Well because rhinoxide is a purple brown And as stated in last video purple makes an excellent complement to green as our shadow color Now I'm just gonna push up that green through a little bit of pigment pigment is very strong But don't worry. We're gonna knock it right back so we can go a little ham with this I shoved some of the pigment on and then force it around You notice how I didn't rub my brush all over it really getting it down in the paint People ask me all the time whether or not you seal pigment or stuff like that Most of the time you don't need to in this case you'll see how we cheat and seal this pigment without needing to actually seal it But next up I go over some brown because we do want some kind of earth tones here or something It looks more like actual brown mud and then finally a little bit of red for the same reason I put a little bit of red on the plague bearer Because red is the complementary color to green and we'll make it more eye-catching if there's just a little hint of it in there Then I take some some of this agrax and I just dab it all over notice. I'm not wiping I don't want to wipe because wiping will pick up too much of the pigment. I just dab and dry Once we're all dry, we've significantly darkened our base, but we still have a lot of different colors in there So then I'm dry brushing again This is almost think of this like edge highlighting notice how I'm focusing on the edges and the top front of the base Just trying to bring those back up create more of that natural variation But in the same way that edges gather light on our miniatures edges gather light on our bases So and a little quick dry brush on that texture helps to pick that out Now we begin the magic part of the base. This was all just you know muddy earth And take some of this very green paint. You can use any green paint I haven't been using or flesh any green paint work. I'm gonna lay that down right in that area Now what I'm doing by laying down that green is setting up for this next step This is my new favorite trick for water effects. This is green stuff world UV resin. I absolutely love this stuff so what this is is It's a little squeegee resin you kind of squeeze out of this tube and you notice It's pretty controllable like it's got a really good surface tension So it doesn't run everywhere or anything like that I'm gonna take the previous tool you saw me use and I'm just gonna you know kind of make sure that it's in the Places I wanted shape it around Smooth it out a little bit make sure the pool is covering all the areas I like and I just you know wipe that off Somewhere then I'm gonna take these little you can get these silica gel packets They come in clothing and boxes all the time, but you can also just order bulk amounts of them I'm gonna take these little silica balls and I'm gonna just drop a few of them right into that wet UV resin and I'm gonna make sure they sink down in there, but not all the way they'll just kind of wonderfully halfway sink into this puddle of goop and What they then form are perfect little bubbles It's so easy and wonderful these little gel packets are you can get up You know like I said you can order them off eBay or Amazon for a few dollars And we just hit them with the UV and after about 10 seconds if UV light it is solid as a rock now we need to make it look nuclear toxic and So here we're bringing out the green stuff world fluorescent ink. I love this stuff for this kind of purpose You get big old globes on your brush, and you just dab I'm not painting it that surface is way too glossy and smooth to paint But the ink will settle in and make it just wonderfully look like it's this glowing green Toxic waste and notice how it ends up pooling around the bubbles Around the little beads Which is exactly what we want because now we're gonna take a little bit of the bilious green from warcolors But any bright green like this I guess we're peening green or something like that would work We're just gonna dab each of those little bubbles With this to make it look like this horrible radioactive bubbling up out of the swamp out of this toxic and Captain Planet would definitely not be happy I'm also gonna dab a few little spots around the base that aren't the bubble You want to make it look like there's other little bits of this radioactive stuff or this toxic stuff You know in there not just the bubbles other smaller bubbles that would be in scale because admittedly these are pretty huge But that's okay. They look cool Now we're just gonna add a few small tufts I picked something very dark green and kind of dead-looking you can use any tufts you like but These happen to be from gamers grass, and I just fasten those in place To make sure it's I use a little bit of Gel glue and as always everything on our base gets painted. So we have three different tufts We just take a little ice yellow give them a quick dry brush to make sure that the tops look again more gray and dead Which seems appropriate for this kind of an atmosphere Take a little agrax and sweep it around the bottom of the tuft to make it feel like it's part of the world It's in you shove a little down the tuft you sweep it around the outer edge That takes the tuft and ties it together with the environment. It's in oh Yeah that last step blacking out the rim of that base Is there anything better than that final moment when your base is done and you just slap down that black paint right along the rim Yeah, anyways, that's a funny joke, and I quite like it So then you finish it out. There's our little plague bearer in his toxic world I thought this came out pretty fun if you liked this give it a like if you've got questions about any of the tools I used drop those down in the comments Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future, but as always I very much appreciate you watching this one And we'll see you next time