Movement trays and odds & ends.

Truth be told, there has not been alot of painting progress lately. So I have decided to answer a couple of questions I have been asked.


The first one is "What kind of base coat do you use?" For basecoat I use Rust-oleum Specialty Camouflage in either 1917 Khaki (for light/bright colors) and 1918 Earth Brown (for dark colors). I know many people are like "OH MY GAWD!!! NOT RUST-OLEUM!!!!" Now normally I would agree, but with these paints they go one nice and thin (hides no details what so ever), it dries quickly, and the Khaki matches spot on for GW's Komando Khaki with the Earth Brown it matches GW's Graveyard Earth.

While on the subject of paints I was asked "Do you use GW paints on the bases?" The answer is no, no I do not. For my bases I used color "bathroom" sand, cheap craft paint (see pic), and Woodland Scenic's flock.

Now I am going to talk about movement trays. No a person does not need to have these, but i would hate to play a game without them. Also yes you can buy movement trays but I do them this way because they are much cheaper. The materials used is a "thick" Tenet Parking sign, old pieces of sprue, some super glue, and basing materials.

I trim the bumps off the sprue and make a square around the bases I plan to use for the unit. Then I glue them down one piece at a time, taking care not to accidently glue down the bases as well.

Then I trim away all excess sprue and the sign as well.

The bases are then laid back out in the tray.

At this time I also number the bottom of all the bases to make it easier to rank them up to lessen the amount of time it takes to setup before a game.

I hope this answers some questions people may have had and though I respond to everyone as soon as I get em, if I get enough questions I will do another post like this.
Thank you all for your support and please stay tuned for another post soon.
Manny