Legio Astorum Forge World Warbringer Nemesis Titan - WIP #4 - Base

Welcome Titanseers, thanks for dropping by. Now bases for Forge World titans are not essential however they do form the third leg of a triangle making the legs as a whole stronger, less likely to splay in heat, more stable for game play at Titan Owners Club events, and a chance to add more detail. On the underside I use teflon sliders for furniture to allow for easy movement at such Events - they slide easily rather than having to lift and shift the titan. 

The Base is 6mm MDF cut and shaped around the feet, I use a side plate as a stencil and then a jigsaw and sander. The underside where I will screw into the titan feet has two recesses for a wide screw head created by a forstner bit. The original rescue titan came with a huge elaborate base with a lot of ruins, too much for me and the base was quite heavy and thick - so to match my other titans, the MDF was used again.

I used slate chips from the garden and modelling sand (blend of fine sand and coarse sand). The ruins were placed around the feet in a suitable manner and glued to the base with superglue. They will be reinforced with PVA glue when the sand is added around them. I used the coarse stones around the ruins and finer sand elsewhere.

Sand in place then sealed with watered down PVA. The titan was placed on the base whilst the water mix dried so the MDF doesn't warp.

The base was then painted my usual basing colours, Mornfang Brown, Karak Stone and Ushabti Bone. Some grass tufts were applied and some flock. The surface where the titan will be glued is scored with a craft knife to help the epoxy glue bond. The left foot (right above) is raised off the ground and a resin plug glued to the underside of the foot so I can glue and screw up from underneath and the weight will be through the foot and ankle onto the resin plug and not resting on the toes which may get stressed and break otherwise.

More by luck than plan, there was enough room for the inbetween toe armour and the ruins!

Here is the finished Legs and the base ready for gluing and screwing.

Cheers, main body construction and progress soon (progress can be seen in rear of above photo). Thanks, Princeps Seniores Siph.