I'm doing some urban bases for warhammer/warhammer 40K, i was bored of using always the same plan bases so i've been thinking for a while about doing something special for my current army (the newly released Vampire counts for wh).

I found a way to "sculpt" the urban texture on the base just by accident, i was playing with a couple of molds i have and i found a simple way to transfer the texture to the bases:

• cut off the upper part of a warhammer plastic base, just leave the edges...

edited: I was wrong, they have an agreement with hirts arts so they are cool: http://terranscapes.com/products/structures.php

 my apologies and thanks to everyone that sent me the link above

 

isn't this (new) terrain piece:

http://terranscapes.com/newreleases/newrelease.php

a little bit too similar with this set done by hirst arts?

http://hirstarts.com/church/church.html

I know that gothic churches are supposed to be similar but this is really a copycat! : (...

I've done recently some experiments with the Fanatic Army Painter (now it's called Quick shade for some reasons) and I'm pretty happy with the results.

I never really understood how shading using inks works (my miniatures used to look just very dirty) but I'm having no problems with the FAP since I need just to dip the miniature.

The Empire and Dwarven miniatures in the galleries just uploaded are an example of what you can do with the FAP, the colors (...

This post in the official AT-43 forums shows some pictures of the urban project i was working on back in August.

I wasn't happy about the level of details so i stopped the project moving to an alternative strategy using Hirstarts.com molds

 

 

the 4th edition of confrontation is coming, i haven't yet received by box so i don't know what will be the actualy quality of the pre painted minis (the one below is painted by the studio)

more information and the official rules at the official Confrontation website...