As a new blog entry into the road to Call to Arms 2023, here are some tests for prospective basing.

As I am a little bit feed up by tanned earth and plascrete type of basing, I wanted to try something else.

My attempt to swampy bases as not been to my taste, but as my Wraithlord was getting quite a  good contrats on its white primed base, I wondered: Why not stay like that?

Huh. "Stay like that?", really? Well, not really: I will try a Iced World basing. Maintaining the red to white contrast.

A. First step - or rather before first step

B. Second step - Adding texture with some sand and stones - they will be mostly covered with snow and are here to give relief

C. Third step - Painting it with splashes of whites and greys plus some frosthearth. If snow flakes do not cover everything, I expect that what will remauin visible, by somekind of see-through/transparency effects will enhance the snow/ice effect.

This here we see a small issue: I used Vallejo paints and the GW Contrast do not wet well - resulting into a Frostearth doing puzzeling effect and not giving the rending expected in the texturized areas. For plain areas I corrected the pearling effect by spalshing some GW grey seer before applying the hearthfrost.

I will have to revise this by selecting over undercoats if I want to maintain the icy blue... 

D. Fourth step - PVA and snow flakes

I use Army painter snow. This mico plastic is quite fine but it may sometimes stick everywhere by electrostatic effect. Once PVA glue is dry a smooth cleaning is required to remove what is staying were not desired... I decided not to cover every thing but keep working by splashes of flock.

One of the benefits of Vallejo paints (especially the well named gloss white) is that they they give this gloss that is fine for mimicks of light reflections o icy substrate... Or at least it is what I want to believe. 

And here is the final result - an old school Wraithlord ready to join a Saim Hann war party:

I think I have the basing I want for this army...