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| Gebirgsjager painted for a friend |
You will need a mixture of 1/3 wood glue and 2/3 windex. If you don't have windex, you can use water but it won't work as well. The windex decreases the surface tension of the mixture and helps it seep down into the basing material rather than pooling on top. The easiest way to apply this mixture to the bases is with an eye dropper. If you can get your hands on the warlord basing material pictured, I find it's a good enough mixture of sand and rocks that nothing needs to be added to it. Otherwise, use a very fine sand with a little bit of kitty litter and tiny rocks mixed in. Aquarium gravel works well. If in doubt, smaller materials are better. I tear a few small pieces of lichen or moss up to use for twigs on the bases. You'll see more of that later on in the tutorial.
If in doubt - less is more and smaller is better.
Dip the base of the model down into the sand. Lift it up, and gently tap off the excess. The warlord lipped bases help with this tremendously.
Use a very soft, dry brush to push any dirt off the models boots like an archaeologist. You can also flatten any little "hills" of sand that don't look right.
Use an eyedropper to drop the wood glue mixture onto the base. If the wood glue is pooling too much and not seeping into the sand well, add a little more windex to the mix. It's okay for some of the glue to get on the model's feet; I've never noticed it once it dries.
At this point, or before you add the glue, you can add the lichen "twigs" if you want to use them. Be sure they get soaked through with the glue mixture.
