Mennes’ Mini-Mashup: Custom Bases With Hirst Arts – Part Two – OnTableTop

Mennes’ Mini-Mashup: Custom Bases With Hirst Arts – Part Two

April 6, 2017 by crew

Mister Mennes is back with another awesome tutorial using Hirst Arts kit and Green Stuff.

In the previous video, we saw how Tomas created beautiful custom bases using Hirst Arts moulds.

This time we're looking at how to erase those small mistakes with some Green Stuff and add some sand and dirt effects alongside the pillars.

Click Here For Episode One

What's your best Green Stuff creation?

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emptynessisform

thanks for sharing. my modelling skills are pretty basic so these have been a real eye opener for me. the vallejo paste looks interesting , I mean there would be at least as much on me by the time i’d finished but it looks like a lot of fun.
the sculpted spilt beer was awesome but all I could think about was Winnie the pooh and honey pots. there must be a Winnie the pooh miniature out there somewhere with my name on it.

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elromanozo

This is really something !

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jodain

The objective marker looks really good, I might have to build my own with the Hirst Arts stuff I have. My only tip from working with Hirst Arts is to get organised and keep different blocks on drawers or something.

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doomzombie

The objective marker with the barrels on, there`s one thing i can think of to finish it of…………..IMHO……….and that is. The little broken barrel you put GS in to look like beer, i would of added some under it on the barrel below to make it look like it had a leak. Nice move on adding the rat thing.

Nice use of bases Menne, i do have some Hirst bits around. Will look into doing some bases, depending on what bits i have of course.

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lawnor

Very nice looking stuff. Question though, how are you going to paint that rat, and half the edges of those crates and barrels now that everything is glued together? Theres lots of mparts I can see that I’d never be able to get any kind of brush control on with everything in the way.

Also, wouldn’t it be better to use a drying liquid to make spilled beer? Dribble some PVA glue and let it dry, or layer up some varnish, straight from a dropper bottle?

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tmsmnns

In all fairness, I did not think about painting everything while I was building. This is a conversion tutorial, so I just glue everything together. When I do something like that for myself, I keep parts of it apart, so I can easily paint them and then do a I final assembly once everything is painted. And yes, PVA glue or varnish would work as well. I just had some Greenstuff at hand, so I thought I’d use it. The only downside to pva or varnish is that the pva dries flatter than you apply it and that both take… Read more »

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radegast6

I dont get why not use superglue and sand and build it up, it will take same time, will look natural and dont cost as much, or do mix of pva glue and sand.
Miliput is great product when you now how to use it and how to work with it, best thing about it is it dry rock hard,
great objective and fantastic eye to details, i would love to see you explaining how to get ideas and inspirations for conversions,

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tmsmnns

Never used super glue and sand. I don’t like pva and sand because it is messy and really hard to get the mixture right. This paste is basically pva with sand anyway (with something to make it easier to sculpt mixed in there). It has a great consistency and it comes prepared in a jar, which is why I really like it.

But if you prefer one of the other methods, please use that one. These are just my personal preference, nothing more.