Reaper figures look better mounted on a standard round or square bases. They can be removed from the solid base with a jeweler's saw or wire cutters and hobby knife. If you like just glue the solid base on top of the plastic base and fill in the 'step' between the two with a little epoxy putty. The extra dimension also lends itself well to embellishment with gravel, rocks, etc. Its better to apply basic ground texture (gravel, rocks) to the base before the miniature is primed, then paint it and add grass or flock after the miniature is finished.

Cornmeal, applied with CA glue, makes a great basic gravelly texture when painted and drybrushed. It's durable and very inexpensive. The sand sold by Games Workshop and other hobby suppliers has a finer texture and often looks good unpainted.

Mustard and Poppy Seeds can be used as a substitute for gravel and sand. Poppy seeds are almost ideal as they are perfectly round and just the right scale to represent small stones. Combined with the equally round mustard seeds they are great for representing a dried up streambed or river. Another food fit for terrain are small beans and split peas, the latter of which make great boulders. Use dried parsley flakes, to simulate leaves. but you will need to drybrush the flakes with brown after they have dried, as fallen leaves aren't green.

Rocks, boulders, and outcroppings can be made with modeling clay or epoxy putty, but they are most easily created with...rocks. A single bag of aquarium gravel can supply you with basing material for years. The inexpensive crushed field stone type is great; there's a good range of shapes and sizes, and you can pick out a rock with the characteristics that you need for a particular base. you should always paint and drybrush any stones on a base, rather than leaving them in their natural state.

Static grass is another basing option. Should be apply in patches rather than solidly over a base. Games Workshop, Woodland Scenics, and several other companies produce it. There are a few different ways to apply it to get it to stand up, but here is a good way to apply the grass:

Keep the grass in a plastic bag or container, and shake it before use to charge the fibers with static. Apply superglue (CA glue) to the base. Sprinkle the grass over the glue rather thickly, then turn the mini upside down and shake off the excess rather vigorously. Hold it up above eye level and blow up from beneath the base. All little grass particles should be on end by now.

After the glue is dry you can drybrush the grass, loading a drybrush and dragging it lightly across the top of the stems. This also creates different shades of grass from the same bag of fibre.

Ground cover: The spice rack offers many possibilities. There's a wide variety of texture and color. There are different dried herbs that can be used for forest litter or dead leaves on bases (savory and oregano are used below), and it can be mixed with regular basing flock for a different look. It's incredibly cheap by the ounce at the local supermarket's bulk dry goods bins, and the stuff that's been in the back of a kitchen cabinet so long it has lost any flavor is perfect. Applied with superglue and sealed with a resin finish with the rest of the miniature, it's quite durable

Cobblestones: Start with a very thick layer of white or PVA glue on your base. Then liberally dump mustards seeds, on top of this glue. It will then be necessary to push down the seeds and gently arrange them so that there are few, if any, spaces in between . Give this plenty of time to dry. Once dry, give it a base coat of dark brown. After this, drybrush up to a light brown. To finish your base off, randomly paint a few stones in a slighty darker brown color, and a few others in a red-brown.

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