How to Make Cracked Earth Desert Bases for Miniatures

[@SureGibson777]

Was really hoping the voice was just for the intro.

[@saythingstv5116]

Same. Haha

[@TheAgentmigs]

Dude thats the best part!!! That takes dedication.

[@ieatvirgins]

@@TheAgentmigs Damn, I liked the video just to see Gerald Steinlauf again in the future.

[@jenserikaugustinussen3833]

same

[@8BitLife69]

@@TheAgentmigs If he was good at voices, it would be another thing entirely. This is ear aids.

[@renaudroyer5390]

Good base tutorial! Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks with crackle paint👍

[@virogue007]

Great video, thanks for the demo... and for the laugh with your voice!!!

[@greenskin3000]

Ziltoid the omniscient has taken over the Painting Clinic!

[@thrackmoorinvictus5948]

Doctor Faust, what a great video! And your persona is AWESOME! If you added some maniacal laughter you'd sound like me teaching my chem classes!

[@keithkraine475]

Another great tutorial. well done Fausty...................

[@mageprist]

How can you not like this, this is amazing!

[@swimmerspack40k62]

Yep it's been a long time coming but he's finally lost his mind.

[@ravingmad8]

Nice, I liked that last technique with the yellow and the black through the airbrush. If you put down a mottled pattern of yellows, reds, and oranges, and then the cracked earth and black spray you could get a pretty fast lava effect.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

ravingmad8 Or ice.

[@JayKus373]

ravingmad8 currently drying such a setup with Fluorescent colors, really anticipating the outcome! Without adding the ink of course... ;-)

[@RokuroCarisu]

Agrellan Earth - Watching paint dry has never been more exciting!

[@maltsev-vyacheslav]

Awesome tutorial and narrator! Well done!

[@thesparklezone4258]

Super cheap alternative to the citadel paint: I accidently discovered while making teriyaki sauce for the first time that the fluid produced by mixing cornstarch and boiling water forms very pleasing crack effects. You can manipulated it considerably by boiling higher/longer/starchier. But the main selling point is it's ridiculously cheap. Funny that most of my modeling techniques involve cooking.

[@tahagokergokcnar9149]

This is what was looking for! Experience is the wisest guide :D

[@andrewhannagan2019]

Quite possibly the best tutorial on the interwebs....

[@Gomer1800]

Hey Doc, how did you pin the miniature to the base? did you impale both the base and miniature with pins? if so, what kind of pins do you recommend I pick up at my local craft store for this purpose?

[@riverOfWinds]

Can you PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE bring this voice back? It made this soooooo enjoyable.

[@grimlyfuttocks794]

Loved the voice - a refreshing change! Excellent video, learned a great technique!

[@carabus0354]

I found it add a sense of humor and quite enjoyed the whole experience. So much so I went out and brought the products and I am in the process of doing a new army bases as such. ;)

[@alexscharfe1994]

The yellow and black contrasted base would work really well if you wanted to do a cracked lava flow by painting the base with shades of red/orange/yellow.

[@chrisrud5158]

Nice tutorial, and yes, the voice was great.

[@BoWhitten]

Thanks for the insight into the Citadel Agrellan Earth.

[@insanehaberdasher]

It seems you had a good deal of fun making this video, and as a result it was very amusing to watch. Kudos, and I look forward to the next video.

[@TheRunesmythe]

Wow. I honestly don't know what to say; the video was informative as always, but the accent definitely added a whole new layer. Should be interesting/entertaining to see more of these in the future.

[@pityfulpyro]

LOVE the narration, so much. And all of your other videos obviously.

[@neofrost5288]

The voice is so funny,and this video really help me,I gonna try this,thanks!

[@RocketBoy1969]

Great tutorial and voice over!

[@dungeonsdoodads4306]

For the lava base, can you use a black rattle can spray paint?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Robert Gorman (GoGoCharlie) Yes.

[@eyeballdude]

Great vid and Gerald is hilarious!

[@Minivisiondolls]

Your video helped me a lot! And your voice is amazing haha. It made me so happy! I love your style 😛

[@albatrash]

for cheap snow and ice effects try applying superglue to a base and dipping it in water till it sets. You get some interesting effects.

[@howieb4217]

Got a good laugh out of me! Good work man

[@kimicox7698]

More... more of this voice! Where has this voice gone!? I want more, I say!

[@bigghatt8685]

Another great tutorial. Thanks.

[@Stormcloud10]

This ist the best desert base-tutorial, i've seen on youtube. I don't know a lot about the consistency of wood filler, but is it possible to use for example PVA for smaller bases?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Thomas Morgenroth I don't know of the rubbery texture would be an issue.

[@Stormcloud10]

+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic Ok, i've tried ... and PVA doesn't work. The cracks are getting too big. On small 25mm bases, i think, i'll use nothing.

[@Lanxe]

Gut werk Herr Dokter! You are the uber mensch!

[@kylekares]

Great video. Do you think you could paint a ghost? Would be interested in seeing the layering.

[@kasual1414]

Before he made youtube videos, I read all of Doctor Faust's tutorials in this same voice.

[@Baalpehgor]

Best. Tutorial. Ever!

[@ariel2089-k8w]

Great advice! But what accent are you trying to do?

[@S.A.S.H.]

Your theme songs reminds me so much of the theme song from the original MST3K. That's a good thing by the way.

[@TheTerminatorXDD]

hello, can you tell me what kind of glue are You using ?

[@DaytonaRoadster]

Hey doc, one of your Pateron Plebs here, dunno if i should ask here or there, so ill try this first. Think i could make a cracked ICE base using something like you experiment with the yellow/black one. Say paint the base bright blue, put the earth down, than blast it with white primer? Thoughts?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Probably would work better if you used clear crackle medium instead. Spray white while this stuff is wet and the tan may still show up on the sides of the cracks.

[@DaytonaRoadster]

got it

[@PENFOLD1962]

Could Gesso be used instead of wood filler?

[@twalling]

I wish there were less "wacky voice" and a bit more of the attaching the model with the pins and glue.

[@woodcats1]

Brilliant tutorial, and worth watching just for the narrator :) That brightened my day, thank you!

[@D00M3R-SK8]

I want to create an effect for my psykers like the spell they are casting is ripping up the earth. I have seen similar effects done for lava style bases, but I only want a channel of this effect coming from the mini to the edge. Hopefully I can work out how to do it with agrellan earth as I already have this stuff. I really did want logs and rocks busted in half along the cracks (which I'd whittle down from wood and cork) but I dunno if it will be possible to get the exact effect I want. I'm sure i can have a compromise though and still get something very nice looking) my question is this though. can you paint something like typhus corrosion on top of agrellen earth before it crack, and will the typhus crack with it, or should I mix some sand or something in with the agrellan to get this effect? I'm not sure if it will still crack. this was for a necron thing I want to try where they are breaking out of sandstone after just being activated again. I did want to paint texture into the agrellan earth for my bases as well though, and I assume if it works this way, mixing something with the paint would be the best way, as I assume applying texture paints to the cracks would be pretty damn difficult.

[@Halogeek-zq7yr]

Not everyday I get a painting lesson from Darth Sidious

[@gnonymouse]

"However, if you don't put enough down...NO cracks will be." hahahaha I died

[@CATAHA986]

Просто охренительно! (Awesome!). Damn, that's realy great, beautiful and easy to do, i will surely try it!

[@Jim-ho3eg]

Any chance you could do a run down of cracking paints? I work a lot in N scale and would like to know which would work best for desert dioramas.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Broken Worlds Modeling Crackle mediums, to be exact. I couldn't get Folkart, Vallejo or the Martha Stewart versions to work. White glue just made a mess. Supposedly Ranger works well, but I couldn't find it. The Agrellan Earth is the only paint version I've tried.

[@Jim-ho3eg]

Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic Did you try them straight from the bottle or adding ink or something? I'm looking at doing a large scale desert diorama and I'm not keen on giving GW money.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Broken Worlds Modeling They are all clear mediums. Not sure they would work if you add color.

[@DocEonChannel]

Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic I've found with Vallejo that mixing it into the paint (the layer that you want to crack) produces very tiny cracks. However, if I lay down a layer of the medium on top of paint (that has dried) I get really impressive cracks. The disadvantage there is that I can't control how deep the cracks go - but maybe your technique with the wood filler might be a solution for that.

[@Kalipp0]

Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic The surface you put on the medium is whats important, you have to give it some "grip", so it can crack while it shrinks, otherwise it will just slip. I used Ziterdes Dead Earth in the past, they give you a primer with it that leaves a kind of rubbery surface that makes it work.

[@nathannguyen7960]

Would putting my model on a stick with mounting putty and holding it inside a box and spraying it with a bottle of P3 primer to prime it a good idea? It is my first time using primer. Thank you in advance!

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Hobby Dump Yes, or you can skip the putty and just put it in the box.

[@nathannguyen7960]

+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic Ok, thank you. Also I recently went to Brookhurst Hobbies which to my surprise is my local hobby store and was amazed by all the model kits and things they had in stock!

[@Teais4theeelite]

When are you posting the bloopers real?

[@MrCsaszi28]

Great video loved it, sadly i did the same and 2/3-d of the cracks came down on drybrushing :/ Any idea?

[@Mngzkhuel]

nice narration

[@shawnm4kq]

awesome, thank you for sharing this with us!

[@isaacfiremind9435]

How do you keep the paint from chipping off until there's nothing on the base during play/transportation, etc?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Isaac Firemind Testors Dullcote.

[@orkmad12]

+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic So you apply the dullcote after the crackle paint has dried but before you do the drybrushing?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

No, at the very end.

[@ottostillen]

hello nice channell what is the scale of that miniature ???

[@TimmermansJeroen]

Great video. I was wondering why you added the inks to the woodfiller though, as it will get covered in primer (and a good solid basecoat) later on, the color will not show through?

[@TheRunesmythe]

I believe he says this in the video itself, but he does it in case any of the crackle paint chips away and peels paint with it; that way at least there's something underneath with color and not just a black void.

[@alejandrolii317]

Love the pirate voice! great tutorial

[@williamhayden7711]

Dr. Faust, question. Do you have issues with Citadel paints drying out?

[@butlersmodellingpaintingan3974]

Informative video as usual and love the mad scientist voice :)

[@vermithrax42]

You are in face INSANE. Great tutorial Cheers Keith

[@Guinea779]

newbie here. i recently got into warhammer/painting models and i had a quick question. instead if ink would regular black and brown model paint work in the mix with the wood filler? would it give the same effect?

[@Moritz606]

Ink is basically just heavily watered down paint. I'd recommend not using your good citadel colours for that step, just pick some cheap dark brown colour from the hardware store to mix in with the woodfiller. The difference is that Citadel/Vallejo colours have very fine pigments and other colours have bigger ones which would clog up details in your model, but your base really doesn't care.

[@Guinea779]

+Moritz606 oh OK, thanks for the tip! I got some cheap Apple barrel paint laying around I could use.

[@FarhanSaktiSpot]

only citadel technical agrellan earth that can crack? or all technical can crack after its dry?

[@jaypo7]

Nice tutorial Mate!

[@redbaronlast]

Awesome in EVERY way! :D

[@gabrielhassouni820]

Bro so cool I may try this but like mars looking sand

[@SMC01ful]

Hilarious and informative. I have no problems with the voice what so ever.

[@Kardine]

I was smiling the whole time because of your voice. Awesome video dude!

[@MrGnarmik]

Thank a lot dude. Just, a wonderful tutorial with an amazingly fun tone ! As always, thank you for all you videos.

[@MisterMannIndy]

Hey Doc .... love the channel. You've helped me become a much better miniature painter. Thank you! Quick question- have you ever done a video on how you clean up your mixing pallet? I always see your kitchen tile in varying states of use and wonder what you do to clean it. This inquiring mind would love to know! Thanks!!!

[@ThePaintingClinic]

MisterMannIndy Soak it in warm water for a few minutes and wipe clean. Toss it in the sink when you do the dishes, for example.

[@MisterMannIndy]

Thanks Doc!!

[@stuartsmith809]

Thought it was great informative with a bit of a laugh think it's the first time Iv laughed out loud watching a tutorial normally you'd be lucky to get a smile whilst watching

[@windimoz8040]

What is that model that you put in the base?

[@Alamn420]

I love the mst3k music used here but be careful I don't think Joel would sue you but you never know

[@scranton8582]

You mention about attaching the mini correctly due to the cracks not allowing a solid surface to glue to, how did you attach the mini then?? you mention it briefly but don't show how.

[@TheRunesmythe]

Pinning; i.e. small holes are drilled into the bottom of the miniatures feet and where you want them to sit on the base, then a pin (usually made from wire, paperclips or small brass rod) is secured in the feet using super glue and is anchored either on or underneath the base (underneath requires you drill completely through the base and you can either apply glue immediately or if you used longer pins bend the excess and then glue). Just in case you're unfamiliar with the technique of pinning.

[@tylerrivay9867]

Also, what size of the talus did you use here? Medium or Coarse?

[@richosburn]

I know you touched on the idea of mounting the model after the base was completed, but is it doable to mount the model before doing up the basing effects, or is the process simply too messy to avoid tarnishing the model? Thanks.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Rich Osburn I normally prefer to mount the model before base effects, but this time it would have been difficult due to the airbrushing.

[@richosburn]

+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic I have one last question, and it is regarding the Vallejo Game Inks you use. If there is another video on this, I apologize for the redundancy, but I have very little experience using inks, so are there issues to bear in mind when adding the inks to the putty...such as color concentration, dry time issues, or any other concerns that you work through based on past experience? I'm going to buy some inks so I can follow the recipe in this video, but wanted to ask about using them before I set to it. Thanks again, Tony.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Rich Osburn Don't add too much ink or things get too runny. That's it.

[@richosburn]

+Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic With respect to the flesh ink glaze, did you cut the Game Ink with some Vallejo glaze medium, or do you have another product/method that you use to make glazes? If so, do you have any video links you refer to when making glazes? Thanks for all your advice and tips, Tony.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Rich Osburn For glazes just use water.

[@noneurbusiness6570]

What was the actual miniature that was used in the vid?

[@thehobypainter6622]

Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing.

[@proft7211]

As always great video. But Please bring back the guest voice! LOVED it!

[@2007bing]

Great stuff!

[@zactoler6843]

How did you pin the model to the bases?

[@AslanAtreyu]

Where did you get the skulls for the base?

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

from greenstuff world you can get a bag of 100 resin skulls worth ten bucks, they work well with 25-28-35 mm scales and are randomly selected of 25 different cast. that the best deal I have yet to find.

[@HouseofChains81]

How would you pin your mini to the base?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

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[@Lierbal]

It must have been difficult keeping up that accent the whole time. I definitely couldn't do it. The video was very good and I like the character, but it's not something I'd want to hear on every tutorial. On occasion though for sure. Great job! I'm really interested in trying this out. Thanks for sharing.

[@SirMeowingCat]

Gerald Steinlauf please do more videos!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

[@sadville13]

So how do you paint miniatures without attaching them to the base first?

[@RSenior2107]

a lot of people blue tac them to the tops of paint pots or to corks, you can also buy specific miniature holding devices, doing so allows easy access to the entire mini without having to touch it

[@drowgamer]

Pip pip, bloody nice tutorial there.

[@melvinvandegraaf2738]

You're funny, dude. Don't let nobody tell you any different. Just found out about your channel. Think I'm gonna stay and look around a bit. 🙂

[@UnitedWarGamers]

great video and yes! the Doctor is Good

[@Paradox0nBlogspot]

Great tips and very entertaining! :)

[@666lupine666]

wow, ok, what? is that a voice modulator or a tts?

[@tylerrivay9867]

I can't find the flesh ink you use to color the base with, I can only find flesh wash. Am I blind or are you diluting the wash? Sorry for all the questions.

[@NikoTeaJay]

If you're referring to GAME INK "flesh wash", it's an ink. Ink with a confusing name, but still an ink.

[@christianoliver25]

This is awesome.

[@marcvelagiral1211]

Thanks Doctor!

[@beetle5000]

Cracking contrast

[@Nibenonn]

Hey, you have a sense of humor. After all this time and many, many videos, who would of thunk:)

[@steveisaak4320]

What is wood filler?

[@thebowtiechaplain3399]

Where do you buy your paints?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

+Andrew Oldfield Brookhurst Hobbies

[@Witchhunter33724]

What model did you pin to the base?

[@ericvorhangeschloss2953]

A nice terrain to watch out for snakes.