Blogging, Bases and Bilbo!

Before as just an information site for my commission painting, this site is now going to finally becoming a fully fledged blog.  Hopefully this post will give an idea of the sort of content.

So, bases.  Last year I made this:

It took a while getting the river of slime, using gloss varnish, liquid green stuff and a few green paints.  Now, in half the time i can get a very similar result with Nurgle's Rot, that newer GW effects paint for slime.  Here's some I did yesterday in preparation for a commission; 

I alternated layers of Nurgles Rot with layers of Moot Green mixed with 'Ard Coat, and churned out 20 in little over an hour and a half.  The runny gloop can take ages to dry, so best to do it on a sunny day when you can leave them outside.

Moral of the story, if you want to try slime or are a nurgle inclined heretic such as myself, get yourself a pot of Nurgles Rot.

Plus, let me know which bases you prefer.

Another basing experiment i've tried recently has been with cork, most tutorials I've found use cork board, which means buying and waiting for it to arrive;

So, from some experimenting, i found using a bread knife to cut uneven slices from a bottle cork, then hand peeling off the edges of each disk gives realistic slate rocks which you can then drybrush, i'll let the pictures explain:

Some painting; a hobbit; and my Lord of The Ring's fangirl girlfriend later, a bilbo appears: