With the base camo set on the ODA, I'll turn my attention to the base. The wooden round base is produced by Andrea Miniatures and is an excellent starting point for any figure or vignette base. The idea behind the simple base was that I wanted the ODA to be standing in a Wadi (dried riverbed) or beside a low wall in an Afghan compound. The references I used for the colour of Afghan mud structures were various pictures in the news and in documentaries. Often times there will be small clumps of grass on the wall which is where Citadel's middenland grass comes in.

The small section of the wall is carved from a square of solid Styrofoam. Once i had hacked enough of it away to give it an aged worn, earthy look I used white glue to set it on the base. There was a visible gap around the joint and also several gaping holes in the wall which i filled with liquid green stuff. The whole base was given a coat of Vallejo Iraqi Sand and then drybrushed with successive layers of the base colour plus a light grey. Pastels were left off until the figures were ready to be weathered to make continuity easier. Hical, James