Skaven Project - Basing - Project time 2hr

Hey all
My friend Ben lent me of his Skaven which he had lying about as I grew more and more excited about my new project. These are the miniatures shown in the previous post which I've started to paint up. I've completed the first unit of 20 slaves and pretty happy with the result "en masse".
Unfortunately though it's evening here so the photos wouldn't come out well. Tomorrow I plan on doing an afternoon session with Ben (he's preparing 15mm Ambush Valley figures) and I'll complete the unit I've based up this evening and take step-by-step pictures of the it together with some photos of yesterday's.

Tom suggested he paints his miniatures by basing them first - basing having always been my weakness - and thought I'd give it a try. Must say I like the approach!

I started by completing the tray for them by undercoating it at the same time as I undercoated the figures, then went over all the bases and the sides of the tray in dark brown.

Over this I drybrushed pure leather brown thickly, making sure to let some of the darker brown and spots of even the black show through.

As an experiment to speed the process still further I painted all the wood areas (mostly weapons, straps and some shield) in leather brown also as I like the contrast it gives to the two-tone browns I use on the fur.

I then put a little superglue randomly in dots and strips on the bases and dipped the whole figure in light flocking (the railway type, not the ultra-bright GW version)

All in all, for an hour's work, I like the way they've turned out thus far. I do feel that doing say three units' worth of basing at once in a session will also maximise the hobby time rather than doing it unit by unit...though I just don't have that many figures yet!

More tomorrow after a good night's sleep (Rambo: First Blood is running in the background and almost over, still strong after almost three decades!) when I'll unveil my first painted unit of the new army
Thanks for reading
Steven

TOTAL SkAVEN PROJECT TIME: 2hr