 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're going to talk about making alien world bases. So this is really fun. This is you've got let's say some sci-fi army and you want to set it on a far off imaginary world. Well today we're going to make a fun alien world base and one of the fun things about doing this is that it's really more about the paint and the colors than it is about the geography. So right now I've got a nice little 40 mil base here and I'm laying down some cork just to give me a little bit of verticality I guess we'd say and so gluing that down, letting that set. Now I'm getting out various types of basing paste. Now here I'm using some Vallejo sandy basing paste, I'll talk about each of these as I use them. But one of the keys to an alien biome is you want the environment to feel a little weird. So I've used a sand basing paste here. Now I've got some Martian iron earth which is a crackle paint from Citadel from GW but of course you can use you know there's all sorts of different crackle type basing paste out there you can use any of them. So now I'm putting some of that over the top you'll notice I'm there getting all kind of mixed up and weird in each other's business and I'm just slapping down goop on this base that's all it is. Now we're going to take some Stirling Battlemire which is just a heavy thick high grit mud again you could use a Vallejo one you could mix your own from you know dirt from your yard. The key with it is you want to have different types of environments here it'll feel more strange and kind of off-putting an alien if there's lots of different textures within all the small amount of space so it's not a readily identifiable earth biome okay. So that's why I've kind of mixed all three of these together so it looks just a little bit weirder it's a little more visually interesting and it's just all in all cooler you can do this by the way on other bases even for your people who are on more traditional earth like worlds but whatever. So now I'm just putting some rocks in to break up the texture even more kind of cross them together so easy peasy and that basically is that now I set that aside and we're going to let that dry for a little while. Alright so full honesty here I painted this whole base and got this all done and then realized that the middle part here where I was laying down the inks didn't record so I had to go back paint the whole base white and then shoot this that's why there's suddenly plants on here as is the little things glued down so I apologize I'll explain what I did one of the keys to an alien base is alien flora or fauna now the fauna is generally going to be your mini you're not generally gonna have room to put other animals and stuff on there and the other thing is color so I wanted to make a little alien plant to make that little alien tentacle plant I went into my bits box and I grabbed three scaven tails scaven from games workshop and I just glued them down in a little format where they looked like angry tentacles coming up out of the ground perfect little plant and that's my point you can use lots of natural organic bits like that to make odd looking weird plants the next step is obviously the colors so here I have a purple ink a turquoise ink and a magenta ink okay and you notice I'm working very wet on wet with these just splashing it around it's gonna run more in the details with these with those big chunks that came out I'm just putting a little white back on and then I'll blend that back in but you notice I just literally took a nice fat brush and started splashing that paint all over it okay you can see how because they're wet I can work right on top the other one bring them together make lots of weird interesting color transitions happen but working in these sort of synth wave alien colors like a bright electric blue again I'm using Daler Rowney FW inks there's nothing magical about the particular ones I'm using use anything you want you could use paint you use contrast stuff the key is use unusual colors it will fit as long as you have some kind of visual cue I have the little plant little tentacle plant as one of those you notice the little plants are gone now the flora that I had because we're back to the original footage so I have an alien looking skull I think that's like a towel skull or something I let all those inks dry and then I came back in and I'm gonna do a quick dry brush to pick out all of those all the raised areas add some more differentiation the key is alien skull alien plant alien colors and then when I actually put the little tiny tufts on I'm using alien world tufts which are again dark blue and neon fluorescent pink so everything is working together here to make it feel like whoa we are not anywhere near this is not a world that I recognize again you could do this in completely different colors you could have like a bright green mixed with a bright blue that would be weird you could have like really shock orange mixed in with some pink and yellow to make it feel like kind of a tequila sunrise thing all sorts of different colors you could use now after the what I'm trying to do here is even though I worked wet on wet and I blended a bunch of stuff together the dry brush is going to naturally de-saturate everything add more texture now I'm adding a little bit of shading so I'm going back in with a purple wash so this is just some traditional like Gucci violet type of stuff and I'm just kind of working it around in some of the deeper areas I'm working more with the magenta and the purple ink on the little tentacle plant just making sure that all of my colors are again have some interesting little hints as they get into each other now one point I'll make if you're working with inks like I am here that's really important to understand is that they dry quite glossy you will need to map this down you don't want to have your bases being all shiny and weird that's just going to clash in a weird way and make light look unusual so matte this all out after you're done it's just the necessary thing to do I know we you might say but Vince what if the rocks are shiny well then you wouldn't dry brush white on top of them to pick them out because those would be the things reflecting the most and you're gonna get shine where you don't want shine in the lower lights not in the upper lights that's the problem with shiny stuff okay back to me finishing this off so again just working that purple wash in over and over again you notice I'm shoving the purple wash at the elevation changes under the tentacle plant on the sides of the skull creating separation of the various elements in the base so there we go that's all dry and you can see now that that looks pretty nice pretty solid easy to work with there we've got we've got some nice color looks very alien now it's time to actually put those plants on you saw a little while ago these are from gamers grass I absolutely love them I mean look at those things look at that fantastic synthwave alien grass you cannot go wrong with these they have a bunch of different colors by the way of all this stuff as well as of course normal biome more earthly biome stuffs as well and so now what I'm doing is just glue them down and making sure that they're all in place now I did this after I painted this time because I loved the natural color of these and thought they would actually fit really well on this base just using some tweezers to work them in place you notice that I spread the toughed out after I push it down so like after I push it on the glue I take the tweezers and I'm literally pushing the tips of it back out spreading it making sure it's nice and sort of looking like an unfurled plant right so we don't want to we don't want to make it sometimes toughs when you glue them down they can get weird shapes you want them to be unfurled and look like a fully open exposed plant in the wind okay now and then just quickly put a little drop on to accelerate their glue and we're good to go one final little step as always we never have unpainted elements on our base so I put a little bit of purple wash around the bottom of them and then I do a little very light dry brush of white over the top of the plants just to get a little bit of light catching the edge of those thin strands of the plant makes them feel much more like part of it they're then highlighted in the same way as the rocks and everything's all set to go so there you go this is a really fast fun easy process there's nothing complicated in here I think these bases look fantastic I really love how this came out and it gives you a great chance to play with unusual colors and to make your army really stand apart so there you go if you liked that give it a like subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future if you've got any questions drop them below but as always thank you very much for watching and we'll see you next time