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As promised, if you want to make Water Bases like me, come, enjoy a thread on my resiny secrets... #WarhammerCommunity #Warmongers Image
Step 1. Paint your eel, or you know, something else. I guess it might work without eels...

I also paint the underside of the flight stand Stegadon Scale Green. This is useful later, don’t want to see any black plastic through it! Image
Steps 2 - 5. Build up some land. I’ve used texture paint and bits of slate. I like my Deepkin to look like they are coming from the sea, not going towards it, so I tend to place the land towards the front of the base. Base it grey, nuln the hell out of it, then drybrush to taste. Image
Step 6. Cover the black plastic in Vallejo Transparent Water. Don’t worry too much about shape just know, focus on covering the plastic up. Image
Step 7. One thick coat (sorry @Two_Thin_Coats) of Stegadon Scale Green over the water texture. Image
Step 8. Glaze Ahriman Blue towards the land. Do this 3 or 4 times, smaller areas each time. Don’t worry about getting a perfect blend or anything though, it’s not necessary here. Image
Step 9. Cover the water in Vallejo Still Water. This is a clear liquid, so just make sure everything is covered, then leave it alone for a good few hours. Image
Step 10. Back to the Transparent Water gel. Now work to build up waves, I use an old brush, and a sort of twisting motion. Do 3 or 4 rounds of this, to build up the disturbance around the land, to give a bit more energy to the appearance. Again, a few hours to dry between goes. Image
Step 11. Thin some water down a little, but don’t have too much on your brush. Pick out edges or areas of froth with a drybrush / stipple approach. Image
Step 12. Give the whole thing a final layer of still water. It’ll look a bit weird till it dries, but just go with it! Then paint your rim (black, or, I guess, something else...) and you’re done! One watery base! Image
I wouldn’t say it’s particularly difficult, there’s a fair bit of waiting for stages to dry, and the water effect will destroy brushes, so save some old ones for it! I’ve done it a bunch of times now though, definitely gets easier each time! ImageImageImageImage
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