Ken Abrams said:
No, one has grass and dirt and rocks.
That's just me then. As a tabletop gamer, I consider a base to be a base. Left bare or covered with grass or sand - it doesn't matter; it's still the same base.
Take a photo of the 'naked' base first, enter contest, then add grass, dirt, rocks.
Guess I'll just have to do that then.
In the build? In the painting?
Nah... That's just hard work. The fun is in the planing and conversion stages - after that I tend to lose interest. Which might explain why I manage to start so many builds and finish so few of them... :
No, me too.
In fact, I base almost every single one of my models for many of the same reasons.
Having said that, I entered in 2010 with this:
A month later, it looked like this:
And that illustrates perfectly what I mean. No offence meant, but the model in the first picture is boring. Very nicely painted, but utterly boring.
In the second picture, on the other hand, it's much more interesting as there's now a narrative behind it.
Had I seen both of them, side by side, in real life, I wouldn't even have stopped to look at the first one while I might easily have used 10 or 15 minutes ogling at the second, admiring the paint-job and composition, all the while wondering about the story behind that particular diorama.
Oh well... I suppose this isn't the place for such idle chit-chat. Thank you for the clarifications. Can't say I'm particularly happy about it, but hey... Scott's contest... Scott's rules...
I'll take it as a challenge then...