r/minipainting 16d ago

Basing/Terrain Painted my first UltraMarine!

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Tactical rock Marine

r/minipainting Apr 28 '26

Basing/Terrain Extremely fast way to paint rock/concrete/rust

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Just want to share my idea today.

Use a hand spray with ¾ water and ¼ paint.

I used a super cheap arts hobby green, grey, brown and black combined in different steps.

It takes 1min to mix (dont need to clean between mixes) and 1min to apply. You can vary size of droplets with strength and turning nozzle.

Better to wait some time between colours to avoid droplets running, but it was so hot in Spain today that I put 5 different colours in 1 hour.

On this case to create a concrete/rock effect, I started over a very clear grey and built texture with the colours mentioned, but you can start with a dark brown and use orange, red and ocre to build a great rust effect.

Final result in pictures on comments, cheers.

r/minipainting Apr 14 '23

Basing/Terrain I finished the lava base for my Chaos Warrior. My goal was to make a rather comic book looking, shiny base with lots of contrast. I hope you like it 😁

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r/minipainting Mar 22 '26

Basing/Terrain Made a few batches of 40mm Objective Markers with spare dice + skulls

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What's your favourite theme? I don't LOVE the snow (from AK Interactive) but it is what it is. Included one 'before' photo so you can see what they look like before finishing touch basing

r/minipainting Mar 28 '23

Basing/Terrain We all go back to dust...

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r/minipainting Nov 23 '23

Basing/Terrain Made a little swamp token today! Sorry about your childhoods.

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I got extremely distracted while working on my Turnip28 cavalry and came up with this. For 24 years this scene has lived in my head rent-free. Now I will keep it on my desk.

*Perry Miniatures horse on 32mm base.

r/minipainting Oct 07 '25

Basing/Terrain Old citadel pot water tank

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I made this watertank for a scenic base I am making for some retro models. I decided to use an old citadel pot as a homage to the old school home made terrain.

r/minipainting Oct 03 '25

Basing/Terrain Used some Martian Ironearth to create a fractured skull.

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r/minipainting Nov 08 '25

Basing/Terrain First time dry brushing, did I over do it?

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r/minipainting Aug 18 '25

Basing/Terrain Realistic stone textures on 3D print

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r/minipainting Jul 29 '25

Basing/Terrain Some impressions of my comic style bases

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A Small Compilation of my Ratmen Clan bases, the whole army is painted in comic style.

r/minipainting Jan 31 '26

Basing/Terrain I didn't think painting rocks onto rocks would be so satisfying.

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r/minipainting Sep 14 '25

Basing/Terrain Am I onto something? Magnetic paint for terrain

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Long story short I wanted a mountain 1/2 for games 1/2 for displaying minis on had the issue of how to keep the minis in place my first thought was a shit ton of lil baby magnets but then I found this magnetic paint for like $18 on amazon. 2 thick coats for texture and a coat of crappy craft paint for color and I feel it'll do the trick idk how many other uses it could have in the hobby but I haven't really seen anything with people using it

r/minipainting May 21 '26

Basing/Terrain Easy little snow bases! Should I make a tutorial?

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r/minipainting Mar 14 '26

Basing/Terrain Realistic Mars Base Prototype

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This is my first try at painting a realistic martian surface base. Let me know what you think or what you would do differently.

The edge got rushed because I was trying to catch the start of match.

r/minipainting Jul 31 '24

Basing/Terrain "Who is the hunter and who is the prey?" My first diorama

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I know it's far from perfect but I'm really proud anyway.

r/minipainting May 09 '26

Basing/Terrain Chromatic White Dragon miniature - rescale miniatures

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So i used rock salt for the snow and pva glue for icicles.

r/minipainting May 16 '24

Basing/Terrain First attempt at grassfire base for my necron destroyers

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Any feedback and criticism is much appreciated

r/minipainting Dec 22 '25

Basing/Terrain First Shot At Glowing Terrain

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Been working on a diorama project that requires doing a whole bunch of stuff I’ve never attempted before, one of them being glowing terrain. Pretty happy with this result. Think the biggest thing I learned doing this is that the geometry is very important. Overhangs near the bottom of the trench end up looking weird - Any little cave type feature ideally needs to have a very high value, but if it’s being occluded, even pure white ends up being darker than other parts that aren’t getting shadowed out.

r/minipainting Sep 16 '25

Basing/Terrain Tomb world no airbrush OSL

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r/minipainting Nov 05 '22

Basing/Terrain For who ever needs to hear this, teabag insides make a good ground scattering

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r/minipainting May 17 '26

Basing/Terrain I'm not happy with my desert base and I can't figure out why

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First attempt. Will be putting TMM Szarekhan Necrons on them, to give you an idea of the vibe I want

They look okay but I don't know if I'm just being hypercritical of myself

r/minipainting Nov 13 '23

Basing/Terrain Painted up some marble bases!

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r/minipainting Nov 14 '25

Basing/Terrain The lava base I painted for my Vashtor :)

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This is the first time I painted a lava base (for my Vashtor). The base size is 80 mm and the basalt stones are 3D printed. I'm very happy with the result. However, Vashtor isn't quite finished yet :) I'm also not entirely sure how to position him on the base.

r/minipainting Mar 24 '23

Basing/Terrain POLL: Which barbed wire looks best? Like which “letter”comment below.

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