A surprise combo stage
Because I didn't see this step taking that long this time around, I decided to take care of any oils and the base stuff in the same sessionsets. We'd see later whether it was a good idea or not.
Mud bases
To get some kind of shapes on my flat hex bases I dabbed odd lumps of Vallejo's diorama mud (Vallejo DFX 26811 Brown Mud) over them. I didn't even consider going for footprints or anything else of that sort.
For those damn horsies the black basecoat and a brown ground didn't look too fun. I thought that painting the ground somehow would take me forward by leaps and bounds.
With the Falcons the brown bases worked better, but we had been here before so it wasn't a test or a brand new line of thinking. This time I didn't search for pieces of anti-slip gravel or other tiny rocks to glue on the ground.
Oil wash for Jade Falcons
Only this triplet got a thin Abteilung Sepia pinwash, as a dark brown wash wouldn't have stood out from the horse skins. Now I managed to make my wash as thin as I needed, now I needed to be able to repeat it for future paintings.
After getting this far I set my minis in a box and carried them into the sauna to flash. They had two days of peace and quiet.
Base painting
To improve the flaming horde's look I started painting their grounds with heavily diluted Cold Grey. This felt like a good idea for the hot rods style, it was like they had ended up fighting on an airless moon or an asteroid.
That plain Cold Grey was a bit too flat to look at so I used some even more thinned-down Stonewall Grey over the bumps on the ground surfaces. After drying the result was going to show up better.
For the Jade Falcon base highlighting I drybrushed them gently with Medium Fleshtone. Then I picked out a few of the bumps with the Cold Grey I had still left. I didn't aim for anything too specific, just something that would add a bit of variety.
Final tweaks
I thought for a fleeting moment if the unfriendship ponies' bases should've got some snow on their bases but that didn't work for my thoughts of moons/asteroids. Instead I made them look a bit harsher with a white (VMA 72701 Dead White) drybrushing.
For the green birdies I added a couple of dark grey bits onto the bases. Again, to gently increase the variety.
That was it, next time: photos.
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