This is the first marble base ive seen that involves sanding and sculpting only the platic base itself, an idea that has never come to me. So many others require adding miliput or some other material to achieve the tile look. Amazing guide.
Thanks! Yeah not everyone has milliput so I figured it's easier to do without at least to start with. But there are some really interesting things you can do with milliput and basing, so I'll definitely explore those at some point.
I know I've come across this late, but my man I could kiss you. I've been racking my adhd addled brain for a way to make tiling and marble bases for my Emperor's Children and FINALLY I've found it. I can't thank you enough for this!
i’m about 11 months late but i just wanna say thanks a lot for this tutorial and for making it free to watch on youtube. i’m at a point in my painting where i haven’t needed a painting tutorial in quite some time, until now of course. this is perfect and will really help make my blood angels look all fancy
I'm not looking to do marble bases, but I AM looking for ways to paint marble effects on some Dark Angels. This is really nice, going to try this one. Nice job!
thanks for the tutorial! I already glued my models, and this is the only method that will work for that! I wanted to make tzeentch's labyrinth with tiles, and this method will work great!
Thank you for making this a tutorial that is actually possible to use, so many others use stuff I don't have (airbrushes, plasticard etc). Looking forward to trying this on some appropriate models in the future.
Remember what they call plasticard is just basic thin plastic that is used in alot of product packaging. So maybe have a second look at what you think is trash. It may in fact have some hobby use. Also for a beginner basic airbrush there is the cordless tankless version. It's pretty cheap and will serve you well through most of your hobbying.
This is the only mini painting/base painting channel I've subscribed to. I've never seen such creativity combined with simplicity before. This tutorial is fantastic. I can't wait to see more! Thank you so much, you've inspired me to work on a Greek hoplite army from CLAK.
Used this to make a broken marble statue head. I did it close to the same but i made it allot more broken and dirty. and made the effect sorta feel split. Was challenging to do this on non flat surfaces. But for my first attempt at marble i felt happy.
That sounds awesome! Glad it worked out for you. I've got a space marine statue terrain piece to paint at some point so I may do the same and see if there's anything I can add that'll make doing it on complex shapes a bit easier
If you want a better option for cutting the slab marks, look into the modeling hobby with scribing tools made for panel lines. I did something similar a long while ago for concrete slabs for some moderns and had a scriber for gunpla that worked really well at the time. Also with marble look, if you add a very light stipple of a metallic pearlescent white paint, you get a very interesting effect. Haven't used in on actual bases, but I have used it as part of something for terrain
Yeah I do need to get myself a set of gunpla scribers. But, for ease of use for beginners, I doubt I would have used them in the tutorial anyway. Beginners tend to assume you can only do something if you have the specific tool for it, and whilst that tool does make it easier, I like to cultivate the 'make do with what we've got' mindset
@@nofixedcourse I, mainly, figure that if someone is going to make an army using this technique, it would at least make things quicker and more consistent.
Awesome video! I've been wanting to do marble effects for a while now but I thought it would be stupid hard until I saw this. Any ideas on how to modify this for a gold-marble effect? Keep the light grays but swap out the darker veins for a gold maybe?
I would say that's probably a good plan. Looking at reference the gold marbling is in solid lines so you'd keep most of the grey faded parts and add almost a cracking effect in gold.
Awesome guide, the finished result is truly impressive! 🔝 Just one question, what brush did you use for drawing the finest lines? (minute 6:16) The tip is very sharp, looks almost like a mechanical pencil
Thanks! The brush is an old Rosemary & Co series 33 size 1, I only keep a couple of good brushes for detail work, this one for bases and a Raphael 8404 size 0 for miniatures. The majority of work is done with dirt cheap brushes from hobbycraft so I don't have to worry about ruining them. Edit: I just looked back at the footage, the brush you were referring to is one of the cheap ones! Pack of 3 for £3 from hobby craft stores, but it's only a couple of days old so its got a decent point on it for now
Thanks! The brush is just one that came free with a model years ago, so cheap there's no branding of any kind on it. If you want decent but not too expensive brushes, revell do a series called 'painta luxus' which I use frequently. You can get them from Hobbycraft if you're in the UK, and advisable to actually pick them out in person so you get a good one, but when you do, they last for a long time and keep a good point. I'm looking at a company called 'orange' as well that have started making brushes for not huge amounts of money, but as I've not tried them yet I can't say if they're any good
Somehow, it looks a bit closer to the actual thing than with the baby wipe and airbrush technique ! Also takes a lot more time, but at least it's accessible in terms of tools used ! I am now looking forward to try replicating this effect with slightly different colors for my Custodes army ^w^ !
There's so much variation in the real thing and not as many stripes as you'd expect, so the baby wipe method, although fast, is almost overkill. Great for a massive army, but actually painting it looks better on smaller forces. I would like to try it with other colours at some point too! Black would be the favourite choice for another go
@@nofixedcourse After-painting report: I finally went with the colors you advised to use, unsure of what kind of other marble I could make. Turned out pretty well (except maybe for the crack lines that I made a bit too regularly, irregularity in those lines's thickness participates to give a more believable marble effect), if we skip the fact that painting with white on flat surfaces wasn't as easy as I thought when you want to to make it even ^^', I need to really practice it however ! Also, I applied a gloss varnish, it's okay but maybe a satin varnish is better in the end. To add something more to it: it won't really imply the same techniques, but I will maybe try someday to go for a pink granit base (pink granit is a real thing in our world, there's only three places in the whole world where it forms naturally, but it's an aesthetic in itself, it's not really sparkling pinkey pink though, more of a dark irregular pink with black spots and white thin lines).
I don't see why not. Worth looking at gold seams in rock or marble as reference, I'd guess you'd do the same as this guide and then add in a vein of gold that doesn't need fading out as i assume it would stay clumped together
Hi! Just one small question. Do you think this can work the other way around if I want a black marble base? I mean, begin with black, then the grey lines and finally white. Liked and subscribed! Thank you very much
Yep, it absolutely would work. It would potentially be easier as well, because black highlights up through grey very well and you can start with a variety of different dark colours to give the black a bit more depth, such as incubi darkness from citadel, that's one i use to do initial highlights on black a lot.
Thank you so much for the amazing guide. Finally a tutorial for marble that doesn’t required an airbrush. I’m thinking of doing a marble Imperial knight. Do you have any tips/advice for doing larger pieces of this marble design?
It would be very much the same doing it on a larger surface I guess, just use bigger brushes for some of it to cover areas a bit more efficiently, and maybe use some glaze medium just so it's a bit less labour intensive over such a large model. Other than that, look at lots of reference of marble and have fun! Thanks for watching, glad it's been useful
I know exactly the bit you mean, and I couldn't think of a better word than 'indentations' either 🤣 only tips I can think of is make sure the lines of the marble don't flow over the corners of the tank, you want them to look like marble panel inserts rather than one huge block. So treat each flat surface as a separate piece. Once you're all done maybe a very slight gradient of some shadow colour towards the bottom half might look good if it's subtle, but that depends on how you paint the rest of the tank. Good luck with it!
To have an easier time with the line scoring and even skipping the sanding part: use some cereal box cardboard, cut it to size and glue it down with the shiny surface up top. Then score in your lines with a simple ball pen.
Interesting, certainly from a scoring point of view, but having to tidy up the cardboard edges, which will always be fibrous unless you soak them in superglue, would most likely put a beginner off if they can't replicate a smooth base edge.
@@nofixedcourse True, but watered down PVA helps. Tbh just painting it smoothes it out pretty well. At least that worked out for me. Results may vary. ;-)
@@nofixedcourse I was planning on replacing your administratum grey with Vallejo Dark Green (keeping the white the same), and maybe doing a glaze of polished gold (either in the vein or all over) to give it the sparkle of mica that real granite has. I guess I'm making white granite instead of marble. Thank you for the excellent videos, I've learned a lot.
I usually have it very thin, 2 parts water to 1 part paint, but it's more important to get rid of excess paint on the brush by dabbing it on a paper towel before each stroke.
This isn't for established hobbyists though, not everyone immediately has the tools to do it better, so it's good to show people how to use what they have already, then if they decide they want to do more, then there are loads of tools they can get to make life easier, but the initial barrier to entry should be as low as possible.
Yes absolutely, your main concern would be is the base smooth enough, and painting it in such a way that it looks natural, so either having the lines avoiding the feet completely or painting it to look like it's passing under the feet. Either way is perfectly fine.
i'd really like to emulate this as it looks stunning but i just can't do it. dawnstone over white scar is just leaving very obviously painted lines. can't do the 'feathering.' beyond my skills. was excited to try this since i have no airbrush and cant get the wet wipe method to work either. sadface.
it does take some practice so don't worry if you don't get it straight away, but have a look at this one ruclips.net/video/VdDfwbpgS8s/видео.html its older, but may still yield results for you, there's also another video on blending in the back catalogue that may help (again, its an older one so forgive bad camera work etc). keep at it, brush control takes time but its worth all the time practicing once it 'clicks'. also, start a bit lighter if you need to, adminiatratum grey before dawnstone might be easier until you get the control nailed down
@@nofixedcourse appreciate the response, i did watch your older blending for beginners video earlier but it kinda went over my head a little. video tutorials on any subject don't seem to be able to help me advance much past simple blocked colours, too in my own head about how and why what i'm trying isn't approaching achieving what im trying to do to get to that "click;" but i've got a bucket of old bases to keep practising on :)
Not everyone learns the same way, it does sound like you'd benefit more from sitting down with a decent painter in person so they can guide you through it. But having a bucket of bases to practice on is a good start!
Absolutely! I'm going to try to add as much knowledge as I can here, both basing and everything else. Are you looking for true Metallics or non Metallic style?
Absolutely, but this is for people who just want to pick up a base and start doing stuff, without worrying that they have all the correct tools, A scribing tool is easier but the end result is the same.
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Finally a marble tutorial that doesn’t involve a whole bunch of extra crap or air brush, just painting and hobby time.
Finally a guide that doesn't use that dried wet-wipe and spray can trick! Many thanks! ^^
This is the first marble base ive seen that involves sanding and sculpting only the platic base itself, an idea that has never come to me. So many others require adding miliput or some other material to achieve the tile look.
Amazing guide.
Thanks! Yeah not everyone has milliput so I figured it's easier to do without at least to start with. But there are some really interesting things you can do with milliput and basing, so I'll definitely explore those at some point.
This is a great video. Does what it says, doesn't waste time with nonsense, and is clear. Good job!
I fell asleep to his soothing voice ... Great tutorial!
Thanks! Hope you slept well 🤣
3:55 looks like an Oreo.
My official recommendation though is to probably not try eating it 🤣
I know I've come across this late, but my man I could kiss you. I've been racking my adhd addled brain for a way to make tiling and marble bases for my Emperor's Children and FINALLY I've found it. I can't thank you enough for this!
A wizard is never late, you have arrived precisely when you were meant to. Anyway, hope it helps, from one adhd addled brain to another!
This is the best marble effect I have seen, much better than with airbrush.
Glad you liked it
Tried it myself, a very good choice for basing models though I'll certainly need some practice 😅
You definitely deserve more subs and fame! These tutorials are top tier!
Thanks! yeah we'll get there eventually. I'll try and improve something with each video and hopefullythe channel will grow nicely
i’m about 11 months late but i just wanna say thanks a lot for this tutorial and for making it free to watch on youtube. i’m at a point in my painting where i haven’t needed a painting tutorial in quite some time, until now of course. this is perfect and will really help make my blood angels look all fancy
You're more than welcome! Glad its going to be of use to you
I'm not looking to do marble bases, but I AM looking for ways to paint marble effects on some Dark Angels. This is really nice, going to try this one. Nice job!
thanks for the tutorial! I already glued my models, and this is the only method that will work for that! I wanted to make tzeentch's labyrinth with tiles, and this method will work great!
Think I’ll try this on seraphon shields, thank it should look good with my metallic scheme.
Your voice is awesome for explaining things!!! Caln, clear and relaxing :)
Great tutorial! I'll try it
Thanks! Will be interesting to see how people implement the technique
Looks quite amazing!
Thanks!
What a lovely tutorial!
Thanks!
Thank you for making this a tutorial that is actually possible to use, so many others use stuff I don't have (airbrushes, plasticard etc). Looking forward to trying this on some appropriate models in the future.
Glad it's useful!
Remember what they call plasticard is just basic thin plastic that is used in alot of product packaging. So maybe have a second look at what you think is trash. It may in fact have some hobby use. Also for a beginner basic airbrush there is the cordless tankless version. It's pretty cheap and will serve you well through most of your hobbying.
Oh this rules, thanks for the tutorial. What great vibes in the video too
Fantastic finish effect!
I was searching for new ideas for Blood Bowl bases, I might try this next. Thanks!
Brilliant marble tutorial. Subscribed. Gonna use this for my SoB army
Awesome! Thanks. Yeah should look great on a SoB army
This is the only mini painting/base painting channel I've subscribed to. I've never seen such creativity combined with simplicity before. This tutorial is fantastic. I can't wait to see more! Thank you so much, you've inspired me to work on a Greek hoplite army from CLAK.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it, there's plenty more to come, this is still a tiny channel so I hope you stick around for the journey!
Thanks for this tutorial I’m currently following the steps and I’m sure it will look great for my emperors children
Used this to make a broken marble statue head. I did it close to the same but i made it allot more broken and dirty. and made the effect sorta feel split. Was challenging to do this on non flat surfaces. But for my first attempt at marble i felt happy.
That sounds awesome! Glad it worked out for you. I've got a space marine statue terrain piece to paint at some point so I may do the same and see if there's anything I can add that'll make doing it on complex shapes a bit easier
turned out beautiful
Thanks!
If you want a better option for cutting the slab marks, look into the modeling hobby with scribing tools made for panel lines. I did something similar a long while ago for concrete slabs for some moderns and had a scriber for gunpla that worked really well at the time.
Also with marble look, if you add a very light stipple of a metallic pearlescent white paint, you get a very interesting effect. Haven't used in on actual bases, but I have used it as part of something for terrain
Yeah I do need to get myself a set of gunpla scribers. But, for ease of use for beginners, I doubt I would have used them in the tutorial anyway. Beginners tend to assume you can only do something if you have the specific tool for it, and whilst that tool does make it easier, I like to cultivate the 'make do with what we've got' mindset
@@nofixedcourse I, mainly, figure that if someone is going to make an army using this technique, it would at least make things quicker and more consistent.
I’ve seen a few of these tutorials and they are all great but this one has been the best one for me, will have to try this out 😎👌
Thanks! Glad you've enjoyed them so far
Brilliant tutorial mate, just brilliant. And you do have the voice for it, if you don't mind me saying so.
Thanks! Glad you like the tutorial (and my voiceover haha)
Awesome video! I've been wanting to do marble effects for a while now but I thought it would be stupid hard until I saw this.
Any ideas on how to modify this for a gold-marble effect? Keep the light grays but swap out the darker veins for a gold maybe?
I would say that's probably a good plan. Looking at reference the gold marbling is in solid lines so you'd keep most of the grey faded parts and add almost a cracking effect in gold.
Great tutorial! I'll try it. Fantastic!.
Glad you liked it!
Awesome guide, the finished result is truly impressive! 🔝
Just one question, what brush did you use for drawing the finest lines? (minute 6:16)
The tip is very sharp, looks almost like a mechanical pencil
Thanks! The brush is an old Rosemary & Co series 33 size 1, I only keep a couple of good brushes for detail work, this one for bases and a Raphael 8404 size 0 for miniatures. The majority of work is done with dirt cheap brushes from hobbycraft so I don't have to worry about ruining them. Edit: I just looked back at the footage, the brush you were referring to is one of the cheap ones! Pack of 3 for £3 from hobby craft stores, but it's only a couple of days old so its got a decent point on it for now
@@nofixedcourse Thanks a lot! This is very helpful, I'm yet to complete my miniature brush set
Amazing tutorial, thank you!
Thanks!
Really wanna try this with my sanguinary guard
Wonderful video! Thanks for the technique! What brand was the brush for the darker lines at the end?
Thanks! The brush is just one that came free with a model years ago, so cheap there's no branding of any kind on it. If you want decent but not too expensive brushes, revell do a series called 'painta luxus' which I use frequently. You can get them from Hobbycraft if you're in the UK, and advisable to actually pick them out in person so you get a good one, but when you do, they last for a long time and keep a good point. I'm looking at a company called 'orange' as well that have started making brushes for not huge amounts of money, but as I've not tried them yet I can't say if they're any good
Looks good. **subscribed**
Somehow, it looks a bit closer to the actual thing than with the baby wipe and airbrush technique ! Also takes a lot more time, but at least it's accessible in terms of tools used ! I am now looking forward to try replicating this effect with slightly different colors for my Custodes army ^w^ !
There's so much variation in the real thing and not as many stripes as you'd expect, so the baby wipe method, although fast, is almost overkill. Great for a massive army, but actually painting it looks better on smaller forces. I would like to try it with other colours at some point too! Black would be the favourite choice for another go
@@nofixedcourse After-painting report: I finally went with the colors you advised to use, unsure of what kind of other marble I could make. Turned out pretty well (except maybe for the crack lines that I made a bit too regularly, irregularity in those lines's thickness participates to give a more believable marble effect), if we skip the fact that painting with white on flat surfaces wasn't as easy as I thought when you want to to make it even ^^', I need to really practice it however ! Also, I applied a gloss varnish, it's okay but maybe a satin varnish is better in the end.
To add something more to it: it won't really imply the same techniques, but I will maybe try someday to go for a pink granit base (pink granit is a real thing in our world, there's only three places in the whole world where it forms naturally, but it's an aesthetic in itself, it's not really sparkling pinkey pink though, more of a dark irregular pink with black spots and white thin lines).
Great video, thanks!
Outstanding work! Though, the PWF is too "pink" for my taste. That aside, the veins you painted were excellent!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
You're more than welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for this great guide! Would it work also with metallics? I've been thinking of doing a gold marble base. Thanks!
I don't see why not. Worth looking at gold seams in rock or marble as reference, I'd guess you'd do the same as this guide and then add in a vein of gold that doesn't need fading out as i assume it would stay clumped together
Fantastic!
Great video, sub gained 🤘
Awesome, thank you!
Very nice work 😝🫡
Thanks!
Fantastic video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
What about having some artist acrylic whit gesso as the base layer?
Yeah if that's what you have then go for it! As long as you give it a quick sand once it's dry it'll be absolutely fine
Hi! Just one small question. Do you think this can work the other way around if I want a black marble base? I mean, begin with black, then the grey lines and finally white. Liked and subscribed! Thank you very much
Yep, it absolutely would work. It would potentially be easier as well, because black highlights up through grey very well and you can start with a variety of different dark colours to give the black a bit more depth, such as incubi darkness from citadel, that's one i use to do initial highlights on black a lot.
@@nofixedcoursethank you so much! I appreciate it very much
Looks Amazing thank you so much
You're welcome, glad you liked it
Thank you so much for the amazing guide. Finally a tutorial for marble that doesn’t required an airbrush. I’m thinking of doing a marble Imperial knight. Do you have any tips/advice for doing larger pieces of this marble design?
It would be very much the same doing it on a larger surface I guess, just use bigger brushes for some of it to cover areas a bit more efficiently, and maybe use some glaze medium just so it's a bit less labour intensive over such a large model. Other than that, look at lots of reference of marble and have fun! Thanks for watching, glad it's been useful
@@nofixedcourse thank you!!
i want to paint the....how shall i put it. the "indentations" on the sisters tanks like that. any tipp to make it look good there?
I know exactly the bit you mean, and I couldn't think of a better word than 'indentations' either 🤣 only tips I can think of is make sure the lines of the marble don't flow over the corners of the tank, you want them to look like marble panel inserts rather than one huge block. So treat each flat surface as a separate piece. Once you're all done maybe a very slight gradient of some shadow colour towards the bottom half might look good if it's subtle, but that depends on how you paint the rest of the tank. Good luck with it!
@@nofixedcourse thx
Do you ever do gold flecks?
It's not something I've tried no, but now it's on the list to have a play with!
To have an easier time with the line scoring and even skipping the sanding part: use some cereal box cardboard, cut it to size and glue it down with the shiny surface up top. Then score in your lines with a simple ball pen.
Interesting, certainly from a scoring point of view, but having to tidy up the cardboard edges, which will always be fibrous unless you soak them in superglue, would most likely put a beginner off if they can't replicate a smooth base edge.
@@nofixedcourse True, but watered down PVA helps. Tbh just painting it smoothes it out pretty well. At least that worked out for me. Results may vary. ;-)
I think i'm going to try this with green instead of grey. Wish me luck!
Good luck! I'm sure it'll be fine, there's plenty of references around for green marble. It's usually a cold green so that's worth remembering.
@@nofixedcourse I was planning on replacing your administratum grey with Vallejo Dark Green (keeping the white the same), and maybe doing a glaze of polished gold (either in the vein or all over) to give it the sparkle of mica that real granite has. I guess I'm making white granite instead of marble. Thank you for the excellent videos, I've learned a lot.
This looks great but there is no way in hell I'm gonna do that to 100 bases. I'd go insane. I need a faster method 😅
I can’t believe I never thought to sand the rough texture off the base.
the only question i have is that how thin is the paint are you using?
I usually have it very thin, 2 parts water to 1 part paint, but it's more important to get rid of excess paint on the brush by dabbing it on a paper towel before each stroke.
@@nofixedcourse thank you, I’ve been testing it out today, thank you so much for the video and great job on the marble.
Ya’ll never heard of panel line cutters/scoring tools? Turns what looks like a pain in the ass job into a very easy one…
This isn't for established hobbyists though, not everyone immediately has the tools to do it better, so it's good to show people how to use what they have already, then if they decide they want to do more, then there are loads of tools they can get to make life easier, but the initial barrier to entry should be as low as possible.
You have a great voice.
Thanks!
could you still paint these with miniatures already on?
Yes absolutely, your main concern would be is the base smooth enough, and painting it in such a way that it looks natural, so either having the lines avoiding the feet completely or painting it to look like it's passing under the feet. Either way is perfectly fine.
@@nofixedcourse awesome, i was planning on smoothing the bases before attaching and priming.
Then fix the feet once the bases is done.
saved.
i'd really like to emulate this as it looks stunning but i just can't do it. dawnstone over white scar is just leaving very obviously painted lines. can't do the 'feathering.' beyond my skills. was excited to try this since i have no airbrush and cant get the wet wipe method to work either. sadface.
it does take some practice so don't worry if you don't get it straight away, but have a look at this one ruclips.net/video/VdDfwbpgS8s/видео.html its older, but may still yield results for you, there's also another video on blending in the back catalogue that may help (again, its an older one so forgive bad camera work etc). keep at it, brush control takes time but its worth all the time practicing once it 'clicks'. also, start a bit lighter if you need to, adminiatratum grey before dawnstone might be easier until you get the control nailed down
@@nofixedcourse appreciate the response, i did watch your older blending for beginners video earlier but it kinda went over my head a little. video tutorials on any subject don't seem to be able to help me advance much past simple blocked colours, too in my own head about how and why what i'm trying isn't approaching achieving what im trying to do to get to that "click;" but i've got a bucket of old bases to keep practising on :)
Not everyone learns the same way, it does sound like you'd benefit more from sitting down with a decent painter in person so they can guide you through it. But having a bucket of bases to practice on is a good start!
Looks like "don't have airbrush = every base will take forever"
It's the old 'Fast, Good, Cheap' triangle. You can only pick 2. You want fast and good...won't be Cheap. This one is Good + Cheap, so it's not Fast.
Doing it by brush makes you feel more pride in your work.
Sir I´m afraid youre a behemoth for basing, any plans on adding more "how to paint metal" videos?
Absolutely! I'm going to try to add as much knowledge as I can here, both basing and everything else. Are you looking for true Metallics or non Metallic style?
Nmm if possible, Im having a terrible time grasping the concept and the blending aspect of it, Thank you vey much!@@nofixedcourse
Nice work! Too much warning about if you're an idiot who shouldn't use sharp objects then you can hurt yourself.
My guy, do yourself a favor, and buy a scribing tool. They will make your life so much easier when carving lines.
Absolutely, but this is for people who just want to pick up a base and start doing stuff, without worrying that they have all the correct tools, A scribing tool is easier but the end result is the same.
Honestly. Looks good BUT! Just do it with an airbrush….
I have done in the past, but this is for everyone who doesn't have an airbrush or struggles to use one (which happens, especially when learning)