Basket Weave Tutorial

This vase miniature is a Hirst arts block from the Common Inn Accessory mold #58, but you could use this technique on any round or squared shape. I painted this piece to be a woven laundry basket for a little vignette I'm making to display some fantasy miniatures. So I added a sock hanging down the side, and some more fabric inside made out of green stuff.

1) Start by base coating the pot a medium brown color (Games Workshop: Graveyard Earth / current color = P3: Gun Corps Brown). Using a tan color (Games Workshop: Kommando Khaki / current color = P3: Hammerfall Khaki) paint lines on the bottom in a wheel pattern.

2) Continue the tan lines up the sides of the pot. You may need to add more lines to fill in the sides just be sure to add an even number of vertical spokes.

3) Using the tan color paint one horizontal line across the middle of the pot.

4) Using a dark brown color (Citadel: Rhinox Hide) paint a thin line along the bottom and right side of the horizontal line. You will be painting over one of the vertical spokes.

5)  I don't have a picture of this step because I didn't realize it was blurry.  You will be using a light tan color (Games Workshop: Bleached Bone / current color = Citadel: Flayed One Flesh) to paint a thin line along the top and left side of the horizontal edge.

6) When you have finished the middle horizontal line, Paint another horizontal line
 above and below the first. Highlight and shadow these lines like the first, but offset by one spoke.

7) Continue this pattern towards the top and bottom of the pot. Be mindful that the pattern will wrap inside the pot, and that you will need to reverse the direction of the highlights and shadows on the inside.

8) After finishing the pattern, apply a coat of a sepia colored wash (Army Painter Soft Tone) to shade the basket. Focus the wash more towards the bottom and inside of the basket.