How to paint toxic bases for miniatures : Great for Necrons and Death Guard!

I've really gotten into painting my bases lately, and finding interesting ways to paint them quickly! I wanted to experiment more from our lava bases, and see what else could be pulled off. Really impressed with the speed and look of these quick and simple toxic/plague like bases which absolutely awesome under a Necron or Plague Marine.
Was my first real play with my airbrush and didn't find the learning curve too strong - keeping it simple with just some basing to begin with :-)
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[@TheSarge23]

As you already had the airbrush around, you could have sprayed a bit of the green and/or yellow at the Necrons from below, giving the bases a kind of eerie, toxic glow.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

That’s a great idea!!

[@ScytheNoire]

The new Fanatic Effects Disgusting Slime is basically the colour you painted the base. :) I love neon green.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Is it!? I have it but it didn’t look as bright! I will try it out

[@TheArmyPainter]

Huzzah for fluos!

[@Sqalman]

I love the Green Stuff Worlds neon paints! Your word pun game was on top in this vid!!! :) :)

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I’ll check them out! Thank you 🙏

[@metajock]

Good idea, looks fast and easy. Thanks!

[@BillyTheRealDeal]

Mom joke - Absolutely priceless!!

[@herculesmclovin]

This was my first video of his.. I couldn't believe it, came from wayyyy left field 🤣🤣

[@davidlabrash2294]

Would you please do one for ice/snow/frost looking? I'm not sure how to begin. Absolutely love this crackle paint idea!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I'd probably use a light blue undercoat - then use a white crackle paint. Just don't know who makes one 🤔

[@HeroesBosses]

I never thought I'd see the day when Ben used an airbrush :D Very creative base!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I like to be very medium at as many things I can in life :D

[@DukeJohnny]

Man, those look absolutely vicious. I love them! Uh, I mean... heresy! For the Emperor!

[@Terry-hb6wc]

May the algorithm serve and protect!

[@Weirdwerwolf]

Made it with moot green from GW. Worked fine

[@CrispyCrusader0.o]

Me too 💪

[@davidhardstaff8110]

I am going to have a play at doing this with modle already glued on. It might/should tie the feet of the modle to the base. I will make sure no crackle on the feet though.

[@ScottieJ448]

these look great! im going to try this technique myself but only crackle paint i have is 'AK's Dark and Dry Crackle Effects Diorama', which I have practically 0 experience with. Fingers crossed! Thanks for this video though man!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Let us know how you get on! Good luck

[@ronarion]

I am happy I watched it before sending it to a friend wvia work chat XD

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Keep that on the DL :D

[@crawler0095]

Now i can make OSHA Compliant Hi-Viz Marines

[@WatchItPaintIt]

:-D

[@herculesmclovin]

priceless 😂 🤣

[@TheMariusDarkwolf]

Have you tried Gauss Green from AP's neon Air range? Mind you on the cracklebases I usually tap a hole with a small drill and run a bit of wire like a bit of paperclip and use superglue. I do want to try that jungle green though that's BRIGHT

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I have that one, in the bottle it looks really dark though? I need to give it a try. I thought about pinning these minis on the base too, but just wanted to test scratching and gluing and they have held up very strong. But pinning is definitely the better option

[@TheMariusDarkwolf]

@WatchItPaintIt it does look dark, but especially on a white undercoat it's super bright. Using a brush I had to do 3 coats to get a good depth of color like your video shows

[@Theigzorn]

looks great. but at the end i would suggest to seal the base with a varnish (shiny or matt) , else the crackle paint might chip off over time. if i ever get a 28mm illidan stormrage model this base colour woud be perfect.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Oh yes great tip! I completely forgot to mention, I did varnish mine after it dried.

[@christianbusch3038]

AWESOME!❤

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Glad you like it!

[@kevinryan7531]

Greenstuff world has a nice fluorescent range that work great through an airbrush.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Arkus]

I do the same thing with Moot Green. I use it for my Thousand Sons like the ground is being cracked open by Chaos magic.

[@evilmattn]

Extra effect tipp: Use martian ironearth instead and go over it black with an airbrush while it is still wet.

[@tripfoward]

That's some fel looking lava you've got there.

[@BunniRabbi]

You know, if you took a few neon or pastel colors and blended them from one tobthe nextnunder the black crackle paint you would have a neat chaos-y look.

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool

[@Kil23Joy]

I’m going to use this for Szarekh the silent king

[@Nosferatuklown]

I do the exact same bases, I enjoy tesseract glow from citadel. I'm still hunting for a good alternative for mordant earth in large quantity.

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Niceeee! Oh me too, this stuff is expensive to paint large batches. Let me know if you ever find anything good

[@robbie_g8308]

Hey Ben nice bases. Ak interactive and Greenstuff world have crackle texture paints. I've used them both there worth a look

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Oh nice! I need to check them out, but I worry there’s a huge import tax?

[@robbie_g8308]

Most uk stores stock them now Bud.@@WatchItPaintIt

[@Mark-q9j3i]

If I wanted to achieve a light blue glow similar to this, could it work?

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Yes! Just use blues!

[@Coombsy17]

I love the look. How durable is crackle paint? It seems like it would flake off after a while. Anyone know if there are any ways of sealing the crackles to prevent flaking?

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Sorry, I glossed over the step where I varnished them! I don’t know what, but I always add a quick layer of varnish once the crackle has dried

[@Coombsy17]

@@WatchItPaintIt No problem at all mate, I probably wasn’t paying attention enough in the video to see that bit. Great to hear varnish works!

[@preparingcalmly]

Going to do this for blackstone fortress… any idea what air colors would do neon blue??

[@WatchItPaintIt]

I want to try that myself. Any idea what you’d call the base? I’d give it a college try if I was making a video about it :D

[@angusmctwangstick4079]

4:10 just to remind me that i should play this section to my workmate

[@WatchItPaintIt]

🤣 🤣 🤣 I love comments like that, I’m always like “I wonder what I did” and have to watch it myself and I’m like “oh Jesus :-D”

[@niallburke8985]

I bought mordant earth for these style bases and unfortunately it doesn't crackle dry like its supposed to

[@WatchItPaintIt]

It definitely should do! Did you shake it/mix it, did you put it on thick? Did you let it dry naturally?

[@bombkangaroo]

It's reminisicent of a post-Hand of Gul'Dan Shadowmoon Valley. (from World of Warcraft)

[@lanesteele240]

Nice

[@WatchItPaintIt]

For how little work this was, definitely going to be my go too speed base for necrons now!

[@lanesteele240]

@@WatchItPaintIta nice quicky for a combat patrol

[@nicholasschian6651]

My son did similar for Tyranids

[@nicholasschian6651]

And I did the multi layer lava under my Salamanders in this manner. NEVER skip the glue/sealer layer!! Make sure you seal it after finishing the crackle as well. So it doesn’t flake off over time.

[@awijntje14]

Why does nobody ever consider the poor skaven and their toxic warpstone bases....

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Damnnnn. Now I feel bad! Excellent suggestion!

[@nicholasmiller4756]

Take a UV light to those bases and watch them really light up

[@mahari7285]

❤ The Algorithm protects...!

[@davewhite8418]

Can I Please have the paints?

[@SwartFrancois]

Don't bring my mother into this!!!!

[@WatchItPaintIt]

Title of my sex tape!

[@lesblackwell5026]

Why do you Brits walk your dogs at night?