Basing Your Models

THE SHORT VERSION

PVA-fixed sand provides a common starting texture for all three example units. Space Marines and Corsairs use a painted brown base with pale drybrushing and earth-coloured rims, while Skeletons use an ink-covered surface before the same highlight. Different amounts of grass change the setting suggested by each base. Applying sand before undercoating is offered as an alternative, sealing it under primer but requiring a painted rather than ink-coloured foundation.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Scorched Brown↗Bleached Bone↗Graveyard Earth↗Brown Ink↗

Only explicitly named Citadel paints and mediums are indexed; unnamed colours and third-party products are not guessed.

Back to the original

Find this article in White Dwarf 340, p. 89.

This is an original summary. Refer to your magazine for the complete article, rules, images and painting steps.