Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:28 am
I still favour plasticard - 60 thou for 15 mm and 80 thou for 25mm. It is getting harder to find as the little model stores are closing down.
It cuts easily (score with a sharp scalpel and bend), doesn't bend (unless you use 40 thou which is too thin) and slides well across the table when you are moving blocks of figures.
I coat with tetrion to cover figure bases and provide some surface variation then paint grass green or sand, wash with earth brown or dark green, dry brush with a lighter shade of green or brown and then paint the edge of the base in black.
Easy to do and looks pretty good (I favour the sand/brown variant but it doesn't look right for north european troops like my Romano-Britons)
It cuts easily (score with a sharp scalpel and bend), doesn't bend (unless you use 40 thou which is too thin) and slides well across the table when you are moving blocks of figures.
I coat with tetrion to cover figure bases and provide some surface variation then paint grass green or sand, wash with earth brown or dark green, dry brush with a lighter shade of green or brown and then paint the edge of the base in black.
Easy to do and looks pretty good (I favour the sand/brown variant but it doesn't look right for north european troops like my Romano-Britons)