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Some Tips

1. Try and get some alternative sized sand mixed in with your fine sand, this will give that little bit of extra 'texture' so the base is not so flat. (In my first picture you can see the blue/grey bits, I can not remember what it is called but you find it in Model Railway shops)

2. Spray your figs first, then do your sanding, I found if I sprayed the sand black first then it was harder to get a bright finish on the base.

3. When putting the glue on, wipe any excess which goes on the edges of the base to avoid getting sand on them and clean any which does. This does not matter in 25mm terms and can look good, but in warmaster, the bases have to be flush with each other therefore if you have sand on the edges of the bases (making an uneven edge) very soon your brigade of 12 bases will all be crooked (a minor thing, but it make a difference).

4. Use washes, if you have the time I painted my orcs Gobblin Green, washed with green glaze (this toned it down and gave dark green shading) then highlighted with Goblin Green mixed with white.

5. Pick a feature of the figures which will stand out and spend some time on it, with the Orcs, they are showing their fangs,  a pain to paint, but makes the figures stand out if done.

Heros

The guys at Games Workshop have spent time providing various Heros and wizards, as well as other 'extras' which have no effect on game play but look cool (how about the dwarfs with the jester and bear) You should let your imagination go wild here, a chance to do a mini vignette, this is your chance to be creative, spend twice a long on your heros, mount them on interesting bases, round bases have a good effect, 1p & 2p. 

Add a bit of height to the base, you can imagine the hero trying to get a better height advantage so he can see, command his troop better.  Go into the garden get some small pebbles, look for interesting shapes and colours.

You can not see from this angle but my shaman is standing on a stone, there is static grass around his feet to hide were I glued him on. I then thought Shamans like their wild mushrooms, he could be standing above a sea of mushrooms, these are dead easy to make out of milliput, but very fiddly in warmaster scale. Once painted red with white dots, it really catches your eye on the field
I made a raised base with milliput so the hero gets his extra height, the squigs add that extra interest.
I could not think what would be good for a orc shaman, then I saw these shards of flint in the garden, the colours caught my eye before I knew how I was going to use them.

Well shamans and magic circles go hand in hand, so I done a small circle round this one.

 wanted the chariot to be charging down on the enemy, so the back is made high with milliput, stones added and dry brushed grey for more interest. As the chariot and boars are set into the base it is made much stronger, I have dropped this on its head onto a tiled floor, the orc and sides of the chariot snapped off but the rest of model remained intact. So a bit of super glue fixed the orc and sides back and it was as good as new, hurrrah.

The General was mounted on a normal base, he should have his standard bearer with him so there is not much room to do anything fancy, I added a pebble to the front, cut the wolf away from his base so I could have him 'leaping' over the rock....

I could go on, but I am running out of time, and you are no doubt bored so I will leave it there. Hope you have enjoyed my little guide.

Justin Curtis