Four HOTT Bases For Your Minis!

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[@Miniac]

Sorry about not making a video in a while. I was in the process of making quite a big one, but had to take a break to make a short video so that everyone didn't think I was dead.

[@GarryWButler]

Gald to see you are alive! Welcome back!

[@tinaprice4948]

we are glad you did! :D

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

NinJon got his video done about the same thing weeks ago 🤷‍♂️😜😂🐶

[@GoobertownHobbies]

this is the way.

[@LifeofZeke29]

@@GoobertownHobbies Brent I thought you'd set your cats on him 😂

[@lordbiscuitthetossable5352]

Doom is the most Christian game ever, can't be a more Christain activity then slaying demons. XD

[@ShinyShandera]

I actually think this is true. Christianity is way more hard core than people give it credit for.

[@Sakurajima616]

Do you know the truth of the Emperor of Mankind, Heretic?

[@BulkBrogan.]

#Doomguy4pope2022

[@rogthepirate4593]

Depends, really. Christianity isn't the only religion with a concept of demons or hell. And since those in Doom are really more alien than biblical, I daresay it's pretty secular.

[@Type-0]

Slaying demons and fiddling underage boys. Ah Christianity the most noble of religions. Great video though.

[@MrTonydetiger76]

Just when I was wondering where Scott was, and yeesh it’s been a minute since he posted a video. Here he his.

[@nopeacejustwar1664]

As a person from the Midwest, I appreciate how you took the time to point out how unspectacular we are. It is very bland here

[@thatguy4996]

As another midwestern I agree as well

[@xenocide1307]

As an East Coaster I disagree. I think the West and Midwest are each amazing in their own way. People just tend to become desensitized to their surroundings, but any time I get to travel out West it feels like the wilderness is such a treat.

[@mechamoto6102]

The more I explore the more I’ve come to appreciate living in the Midwest

[@coalitionofrob436]

Define bland, I live in the barren chaos wastelands ……. I mean Australia

[@brotherjohn2002]

I have a theory we would out compete everyone in the west coast and thrive if only we'd move. Like a plant. That is surviving when it's not quite in the correct spot. It wont die but its prob not flowering or whatever either. Then you give it the correct conditions and it out competes the other plants. Grows the biggest the fastest....cause the roots are so strong from surviving.

[@Jormyyy]

That 4th one would be so perfect for a genestealer!

[@rugeld6258]

Put a genestealer hand coming out of the door

[@KillyBones]

Dude 100% same thought straight away … even have one genestealer half way through and another following it

[@jarrettadams4102]

If you don't want to buy expensive diamond plate plasticard go to a Home Depot or any lumber store and see if they have any scraps of hard plastic banding from the lumber or ladder freight. The stuff has an industrial texture that easily pass for treadplate or expanded metal. They'll give it to you for free if you ask!

[@drbeandog4209]

lowes lumber guy here, i practically will pay you to take the banding lol

[@xenocide1307]

Don't undersell the Midwest! Some truly gorgeous forests and mountains there! Loved your "upside down" basing, definitely might mix it up a little for my eventual chaos army.

[@MonsieurPopu]

oh that moist scifi is soooo cool. Kommando Orks anyone?

[@MrSJPowell]

Pretty sure there is one there. He's being sneaky.

[@Redcoat86]

Using the same method of base four, inspired to have arms and hands reaching out from the dark abyss to try and grab a sorcerer. Great vid!

[@Cycon91]

Scott you have amazing timing! I just, today, brought a bunch of greenstuff putty and self-drying clay but was super frustrated because I didn't know where to start. So thanks ! :)

[@kiwishrew1]

"Clean the rim of the base like you do when you miss the toilet" Had to do a doubletake to make sure I heard that one right

[@der_mind_blender313]

The madlad did it. He painted them grass tufts

[@tthyberg]

Excellent job, Scott. Small projects like these are great when your in a funk or just want to play around. They turned out awesome!

[@georgeramplin6360]

Your basing videos are by far my favourite Scott! Thanks for the content!

[@TILZBROS.]

Yooooo‼️ We’re stoked to have come across your channel and just subscribed 🔥🔥 we’re looking forward to see more 💎🏆🔥 have a great Sunday 🙌🏻

[@bitzbox]

I always enjoy watching your basing videos. It's great seeing the whole collection together!

[@danvano8417]

Love the basing videos, feel free to make as many of em as you want.

[@bryantaylor9115]

Awesome video! Thanks for the inspiration

[@looselycollected7505]

I love the last base with the open hatch. I could totally see that under the feet of a Necromundan ganger.

[@gregmccormack5709]

Those look dope! especially the hatch style door...... nice work.

[@Jamesviolaofficial]

I did almost message you to see if you were alive, but then I questioned whether or not that was any of my business, and BAM! Basing video. Glad you're alive!

[@spooksshow9454]

Hey! Great to see a video! Your bases are some of my favorites,they always look so bang on. The next time we see some bases could we see some water bases? Beaches or uses for water effects?

[@bellefleur4089]

loving the bases! Thanks for the vid, Scott!

[@kelimar3014]

Short and sweet, I’m always happy to see another base video from you :)

[@Excaliber158]

This is my favorite video series you do. Everything you do is awesome, but MY GOD these are always awesome

[@dancofo]

I love this series. So much inspiration!

[@dekai7992]

All of these are awesome!

[@NuggetsDungeonTerrain]

I come for all of your vids... I stay for the basing vids! More please! More!!!!

[@riccardoforti2765]

Really like this series ! Lots of cool ideas to pick

[@margeorita]

Wooooow! These bases just awesome! You are so talented!

[@jujuyarn]

I love videos like this, I bookmark them and come back 8 months later for inspiration

[@wyvern385]

Love the Upsidedown one, oh yessss

[@Curran_Kleen_Brown]

I always love these videos, great inspiration.

[@TomJones0065]

These are GREAT, I'm not really a gamer in this Field But I LOVE to make some of these! What is the best 2 sizes for these! Next I needs to learn how to use an air brush!!! Love Your Work of Art!! great Job!

[@KabinMiniatures]

Awesome as always, Scott! Basing is so freeing 👍

[@patsnohjarta3148]

Love these basing-videos

[@kosachilles2504]

Love these base videos!

[@tiltedmouse1972]

finally fed my addiction, I'm going to go start a new project..... PAINT MORE MINIS !!!!!

[@daemonofdecay]

When I first started my bases, some texture paint and dry brushing was me being bold. Now it’s plants, debris, and sand bags. I gotta up my game now though!

[@kevinpatrickcarey3741]

I like how even just the bases of the models is an entire hobby amongst itself

[@lego1168]

great video, i was gonna do a snow trench mix for my orks but now im gonna do a tundra one. luckly I live in the rockies area of the usa so I have alot of tundra near me. (its all just tundra or Steppe)

[@wybuchowyukomendant]

4:00 my friend did base like that, but he just freehanded it, kinda looked like it was painted with blood using a corpse dragged across the floor, came out really cool.

[@mattkent1958]

fave series

[@pyronick8588]

Minnesota been HOT! I'll take some of that midwest fall thanks.

[@cuauhtemocsanchez8139]

i use my dogs poo poo for dirt on bases

[@SwiftRelish]

underrated comment

[@njkf]

Very cool. More!

[@Rulo709]

Great Video, really liked the bases. I think you have great skills for terrain and bases, that just add up to your painting skills. Please more of this. Also Stranger things Synth music is cool was hoping for a bit more hahaha.

[@LechugaOP]

The upside down base reminds me of the isz chalice dungeons

[@davidmoffitt981]

missed opportunity not calling it a MOIST environment vibe ;) good to see you back!!

[@liveandgaming]

Now I want to cut the d&d bear I have off its default base and make a fanshysmanshy one before painting. Damn you getting me to do more work

[@EternalQuestion]

I think being able to wing it when basing models is a pretty essential skill really, since you never know what kind of crazy mini you're gonna be basing next. Case in point, I recently 3d printed an elf rogue with a really cool dynamic stance. Unfortunately when I came to mount it on a regulation size DnD base, I realised that the stance was so wide that it was impossible to actually fit both feet on the base... No worries though, I cracked out my basing materials and managed to improvise a rocky outcrop using some cork, stones and texture paste. I made it overhang the base slightly at the edges, just enough to fit the model but not so much that it looked silly. That base would suck if you tried to mount any other model on it, but it worked great for the one I printed. A bit of creativity solves any problem.

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@jacobmurphy3045]

You should totally do a vid on a larger scale terrain project using some of these ideas. Maybe a collab with BMC or similar creator.

[@justonsvoid]

Hey Scott! You are a good dude!

[@drowgamer]

Thanks for the inspiration. The upside down base will be a great starting point for my gloomspite army.

[@wwoolofl8056]

I love base videos. They really elevate my poorly painted miniatures into looking like the best at the table

[@ALJessica]

I love these basing videos :) but how do you mount a mini on a base like the first one ?

[@sillymonger]

Fuck yeah brother, these were all dope and relatively easy to recreate. Cheers, appreciate these basing videos, would love to see more! Appreciate you

[@StackUnderflow1]

I swear I've seen this squarespace add like 7 times

[@LouieLovesMinis]

That rim technique is new!

[@user-yn3kq4bn5t]

You are best, man 🤘🏿

[@fishstrats960]

Man these are great.

[@davidhintz1249]

First and foremost - great video and tutorial. Regarding the demon base, did you think about painting the base in reverse? For example airbrush the white; then fluorescent red, mask the pentagram/outer rim and airbrush the black and corresponding highlight? Would you mind sharing why you took the approach you took? Again, great video; love your work!

[@JakeDogg-RIP]

3:35 BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD DOGG!! 🩸☠️🐶

[@eyflfla]

Love your shirt

[@nicolaso921]

Basing the upside down… how cooler can it get!? 😎

[@johnalbers6153]

Super fun ideas! Also...get yo'self a bandaid my guy!

[@skrathos337]

I have been wanting to improve my base game, but how do you attach the mini to the base? Some of these bases make it seem difficult to attach the mini I want to do some WW2 minis on grassy fields, but I worry that glueing metal minis to static grass is just going to give me minis with grass glued to them and bases with bald patches haha

[@eBayMiniatureRescues]

That Community shirt though

[@bellefleur4089]

yay!

[@gaborboth3602]

You're right that these really aren't that useful for basing itself, but the processes are cool to learn for terrain!

[@christopherlein5360]

I like the community shirt!

[@podwick7222]

Oh my, that Doom base is going to send me straight to hecc.

[@fetalninja6971]

What kind of sponges do you use for the chipping effect?

[@CCMinis]

M8, where did you get that sweet community shirt? Great video Scott - love the pink flavored starburst base

[@Ethnarches]

I would recommend to always paint your tufts and any other basing materials, as well as the rim of the base, to keep the finish unified with the model itself. Unpainted grass tufts etc. stick out like a sore thumb from a painted model and tge rest of the base due to their plasticy look, which makes them look much less realistic. Using washes is an easy way to achieve that, just add a bit of a highlight at the top of the tufts to make them pop and you are done.

[@muppetminded7183]

YOU GUYS, HE'S BACK

[@Mistshinobi]

What type of dry brushes do you use?

[@smithfamilygaming9700]

Off topic question but do you own a reciprocating saw(sawsall)?

[@juliusklp]

Excellent Uhu pronunciation!

[@Ruinstad694]

That Doom base would be great for a Deaf Pony.

[@oakenboken5761]

I. Am. INSPIRED!

[@powersave2]

Would like to see how the upside-down base fits minis. Feels like it would be hard to fit one.

[@fishnoggin5319]

in the grimdamp future, there is only moist

[@jfunderburk1989]

That shirt is fire

[@tadelong]

Me loves the upside down base!

[@byronsnads]

I saw the Rivets are made of styrene. Any worry of them melting when priming? Hoping to use some for boils on my deathguard.

[@Miniac]

I haven't experienced any styrene melt when primed 🤔

[@byronsnads]

@@Miniac awsome thanks I'll have to try it out.

[@cosmic6301]

dem be good bases

[@UrMomLuvsMeMore]

If u paint the base color that’s under ur masking tape first before u paint the color ur adding so if u would of sprayed that black before the white ur lines would of been crisp Ik why u didn’t but after that red u could of lol still amazing bases luv ur work

[@andrewdavis1673]

Can you tell me which is the link to the plastic sheet for the industrial base, please

[@Miniac]

I got them at my local hobby shop, hub hobby

[@echtervogel]

Hey, hobby woodworker here. If you have a drawing compass and want to make a pentagram, just trial and error walk around a circle until your compass walks six steps all the way around the circle and ends up in the original point. Lightly mark all the steps and you have all the points of the star. Basic, no math, little thinking.

[@SgtScreamD68]

All I had going in my head when I saw the Doom base was Morbo from Futurama.

[@jillthomason-stewart7820]

what did you use to seal at the start? really thin superglue?

[@Miniac]

Yeah, "super glue thin"

[@zebur4170]

The links in description dont seem to be working for me Is one of those where to get the plastic diamond plate? I need some of that to make pieces of sheet metal for my ork bases

[@Miniac]

Which link specifically

[@zebur4170]

@@Miniac and warlord games is giving me a 404 Perhaps because I'm on mobile(I've yet to try these from my desktop, give me a bit and I'll check from there)

[@tinaprice4948]

Where did you get the tufts you show off that is the second one? The full white sheet with brown, its whispy and amazing, I looked at your links and couldnt find it :( maybe their picture of the product sucks compared to yours that makes me wonder where it's been my whole life?

[@Miniac]

Gamer Grass!

[@tinaprice4948]

@@Miniac Thank you it was hiding under Spikey :)

[@tobybelford-mcdowell3509]

Bases be HOT!!!

[@JenxRodwell]

Huh, I always thought that HOTT uses square bases, not round ones! Is what was the first thought that crossed my mind when I saw the title.

[@appledornart2535]

Man, doing the pentagram exactly the opposite way I would.

[@sw33n3yto00]

I really need to start putting work into my bases, instead of just black circles.

[@KoboldRogue]

It looks like you got some airbrush paint into that open wound on your thumb? I think you might want to clean that off and stick a bandaid on it before you get anything else in there.