How to base infantry units step by step!

First step is to glue the painted soldiers to the bases with Super Glue. Some miniatures require some trimming at the bottom of their bases to make it stand better. Try to arrange the miniatures so as every base looks unique.

Miniatures glued to the base.

After gluing them, an optional step is to fill the empty space between the soldier bases and the base holes with plaster filler. Then it is better to paint the filler in any brown color. You can skip this and fill these holes with sand instead.

Materials used for the basing.

Next comes the sand. For my Japanese army I used a mixture of around 2/3 GaleForce 9 Fine Basing Grit with 1/6 of GaleForce 9 Rocky Basing Grit  and 1/6 of GaleForce 9 Ash Waste Flock. I put this mixture in a small container, then spread GaleForce 9 Basing Glue all over the base.

Headphone case reused for basing!

Dig the base in the container and make sure that the entire base is covered with the sand. Let it dry for a few minutes (you can add glue to the next base meanwhile) and then flip the base over and remove the leftover sand by tapping the bottom of the base.

Infantry bases with a layer of sand.

Leave the glue to dry for a few hours, then apply basing Glue to areas where more sand is needed and repeat the previous process. Add as much sand as needed to make it look good.

Bases after second sand layer in some areas.

Now you can add some little wood logs or small stones or some other decorative elements. After these are glued, it is time to add the grass. I prepared a mix of 2/3 of GaleForce 9 Winter/Dead Static Grass and 1/3 of GaleForce 9 Parched Straw Static Grass in another container. This mixture looks quite Manchurian to me. Then spread Basing Glue in the areas you want to cover with grass, and apply it using hobby tweezers.

Container with grass mixture and hobby tweezers.

After letting it dry for a few minutes, flip the base over and remove the leftover grass by tapping the bottom of the base. As with the sand, apply grass as many times as you feel appropriate.  Basing glue gets quite transparent so don´t worry too much about it.

Final result!

The last step is apply a matt varnish layer (Vallejo Matt Varnish in my case) to the whole stand (miniature, grass, sand...) to protect the paint, sand and grass.

Looking awesome!

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Banzai!