Legion of Everblight Army (Bases)

I posted the start for painting my Legion of Everblight starter Battlegroup one year ago today. Needless to say, this follow on post which I promised back then is a bit overdue. To be fair, I did paint these bases months ago, I just have not put the time in to post the photos until now...

Step 1, prime the base Black.

Step 2, base coat with Scale75 Amarth Blue.

 Step 3, wash the entire base with Citadel Drakenhof Nightshade. This wash starts to bring out the detail in the base which we are going to build on as we go.

Step 4, dry brush with Scale75 Hiril Blue.

Step 5, dry brush with P3 Frostbite.

Step 6, dry brush with Scale75 Purity White.

Step 7, paint the ring around the base with a mix of Scale75 Elandil Violet and Scale75 Decay Black. This mix is 5:1. I went this route because I didn't want the ring to be pure black and this mixture ties into the color a lot better, while still basically appearing black.

Step 8, add the ice effect. I combined a couple of steps in the photo below due to the fact that it was hard to see the ice effect by itself. For the ice effect itself, I used Ranger Clear Distress Crackle Paint. The ice effect was done by putting on a single pass of the crackle paint which covered the entire painted portion of the base. This product is self leveling, so you want to put on enough to cover everything, but not quite so much that it spills over the edges.

The crackle effect itself is achieved because the clear paint shrinks as it dries. One minor issue I had with my first attempt at using it was not using enough glue for the original basing material and as the crackle dried it essentially pulled the groundwork up from the base as a single piece.

After letting the crackle paint dry (overnight) I did a dry brush layer with P3 Frostbite followed by another pass with Scale75 Purity White.

Step 9, finishing touches. For this step I did a wash with Citadel Drakenhof Blue over the entire crackle layer and then did another layer of dry brush with P3 Frostbite and Scale75 Purity White.

I did this same process for all 5 of the bases from the Starter Battlegroup and I intend to repeat this for all of the bases for my entire army. I was blown away with how vibrant the bases turned out in the end and trust me, they pop a lot more in person once natural light starts to hit them.

The final step for these bases will be to use Secret Weapon Realistic Water and Crushed Glass to add a snow effect to each of the bases. However, I'm holding off on that part until I get each of the figures done.

Legion of Everblight Army

After years of painting various different Privateer Press models, I finally decided that I want to give playing Warmachine / Hordes a shot. And with the introduction of the Army Box this year, what better time to start. I decided to purchases the Legion of Everblight faction, since they are by far the models that I gravitate towards from Privateer Press.

And as if I don't already have enough different projects going, here I am starting yet another one. I plan on working on the army as fillers whenever I need to take a break from any of my other projects. Ideally I will get more painting and modelling time in, since I can work things in whenever I don't really feel like working on any of the other projects that are currently on my table.

So to kick things off, I'm starting with the starter Battlegroup.

I have already cleaned up and assembled all of the models from the battlegroup and will eventually post individual threads for each model as I work on them. But to get started, I decided to focus on the bases, since I want to have all of the bases for the figures in the army done in a similar fashion.

I filled in the slot for each of the four solid bases using Apoxie sculpt. For the fifth base, I used my dremel to carve out a slot for the clear riser for the Neraph since he is a flying model. The first step was to take each model and decide what kind of base I had in mind for the individual models. I decided that I wanted a couple larger rocks for a couple of them, so I placed those large pieces using super glue. Next, I coated each base with a little Elmer's glue mixed with some water and sprinkled a mixture of a couple different kinds of terrain. After the glue dried, I mixed another coat of Elmer's glue and water which I applied over top of the terrain. This second coat is to ensure that everything is firmly attached to the base. After the glue had dried, I then primed the bases with my black Stynylrez primer through my airbrush.

The picture below shows the bases from the starter group primed and ready to be painted.

 

Next time we will look at how to paint the bases...