Build & Paint a sci-fi wargaming base for Warhammer 40K | Star Wars | Heresy | Duncan Rhodes

In this fun tutorial, we show you how to build and then paint a wargaming base old-school style! No resin or 3D printed bases here, just some good ol' fashioned modeling. We start off by showing how to construct it using various plastic cards and mesh and then we move on to painting! This gaming base can be used for a wide variety of your favourie tabletop wargames games such as Warhammer 40,000, Star Wars Legion, Fallout, Horus Heresy and many more!

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Duncan Rhodes
Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy
Warhammer Painting

Paints used:
Chaos Black Spray (Citadel)
Dungeon Stone (TTC) or Mechanicus Standard Grey (Citadel)
Iron Warrior (Citadel)
Dark Sun Yellow (TTC) or Averland Sunset (Citadel)
Doom Death Black (TTC) or Abbadon Black (Citadel)
Oblivion Black (TTC) or Nuln Oil (Citadel)
Battle Mud (TTC) or Agrax Earthshade (Citadel)
Necron Compound (Citadel)
Carcharadon Grey (TTC) or Administratum Grey (Citadel)
Typhus Corrosion (Citadel)

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[RevanR]

Wow this really step up from painting tutorial, in few moments Duncan will upload on how scratch build entire scenery

[drsnake]

When you need a base that says both "watch your step" and "glory to the void knights". Great ideas to make visual interest on bases when grass tufts don't make sense!

[emeraldanvil]

Please do more projects like this. I love making custom stuff for my army. It helps tie the narrative together and it feels good to make something from scratch. Excellent job!

[NickMK]

I love building a sci-fi. I will build so many sci-fis!

[galan]

Zip-ties backwards (with the ridge thing looking up) are a cool texture to add to. There are also mosquito nets in plasti if you want to avoid metal materials.

[cams.]

As a seasoned hobbyist I really appreciate you're safety tips! I have a son who does things without my watchful eye and he can't hear these things enough. Dull hobby knifes leave reminders on you're fingers forever! *Poor hands* 😩

[kaygolob]

`Now this doesn´t have to be perfect...` -Proceeds to paint the most perfect hazard stripes I have ever seen.
Amazing work!

I am building a small Traitor Guard Force. I would love to see you do some conversions for that, tanks or Chaos Ogyns etc :D

[thethemperoroftheholybri]

Thanks, this is perfect timing for me, I'm just starting a stargrave crew and these would be the perfect bases for a space faring crew

[benrichardson]

Perfect for Kill Team. It's a bit more time investment than is really feasible for most armies (except for very elite armies) but it's wonderfully atmospheric for something like Kill Team.

[DismemberTheAlamo]

Tamiya also sells "textured" diorama sheets that can be used for this. Granted its a limited selection, you can get some pretty nice easy cobblestone patterns from them.

[demcrusher]

I think Duncan was born of divine origin. The man can make anything! 😆 Excellent as always brother 👍

[OrdoPictorum]

Awesome. Uploaded as I'm creating swampy nurgle bases for a side project 😃 have a good weekend lads!

[MekBoooooi]

I use plastic card however the one I found is grided. It folds apart easily and has a cool tile look! I also use Granny grate and small rail loads.

[jaysunbodaysun]

You're such a professional. You know your trade. Knowing different companies' paint ranges attests to that. A true educator. Keep up the good work and you have my full support.

[Linken]

Such a great video. You've always got such a wonderful way of approaching these projects.

[Smilomaniac]

It should be noted that instead of cutting the disc into lines to make grooves, you can get scribing tools (gunprimer and vallejo make some) which are small chisels specifically made for cutting lines or chiseling grooves in plasticard, typically for gunpla (Gundam Plastic model kits). No slippy knives needed :)

Great tutorial and result!

[monkeyhammer]

i think i would always cut the panels as rectangles that go over the edge and then trim off the excess following the angle of the base. you can also cut this thin plasticard with scissors which is a bit faster and safer in some cases

[darrengamer]

A great tutorial.
I think I would have pre-painted the pipes primary colours though before gluing them in place, so the coloured pipes showed better through the mesh above them.

[Nicholas]

That's amazing. It looks so good. Now I want to base all my iron hands up like that. Like they're raiding a space hulk or something.

[Lysosor]

Also awesome paint scheme and guide for just using it on the infinity presculpted bases <3