I want to make 3D asteroids. Can anyone give me tips or point me in the right direction for some good tutorials on youtude?

The ones I've seen at my local store have magnetized bases, so if a ship lands ON an asteroid you can simply pull the magnetic model off the base and allow for the ship, then replace it after the ship has moved off. So consider a magnetic base.

I made mine with a tinfoil core (base shape) and a thin clay mantle, to form many little holes and craters with different brush handles. Afterwards I based them black and brushed them dark grey and light grey. Easy and effective.

I should have some Acrylic bases coming soon that will take a standard GW flight stand (though I'm sure you could fit a magnet in the hole too). So that should make life easier for you.

I messed around with Greenstuff, Slate, Sand and PVA mix, bits of wire, and cast up bits of space wreckage using Siligum and Greenstuff.

I made mine with a tinfoil core (base shape) and a thin clay mantle, to form many little holes and craters with different brush handles. Afterwards I based them black and brushed them dark grey and light grey. Easy and effective.

During a recent storm, some hard foam insulation blew into my yard. I've been cutting it up, breaking it, and scraping at it to make weird textures. Then I paint them with brown. Beofre the paint dries I brush on some black. Some of the colors blend and made a marbled effect.

I used lavarock and it looks killer IMO. I wanted mine to look gray not red. So I used spraypaint to paint them black. Then dry brushed 3 or 4 shades of gray working my way up to lighter shades.

I made mine with a tinfoil core (base shape) and a thin clay mantle, to form many little holes and craters with different brush handles. Afterwards I based them black and brushed them dark grey and light grey. Easy and effective.

I have not made any yet and was going to use lava rock but I like this clay/foil idea. Do you need to do anything to the clay or does it harden enough on its own?

It was a ready-to-use soft clay (for children). Got it in an arts and crafts store. Very easy to use and no hardener or what so ever needed. I bought it because i wanted to make sandsacks for 40k terrain. But then X-Wing 'got in between' so i made asteroids. I find the results are better then using lava rocks.

Idea just popped into my head. Take some modeling clay and press diffrent parts of my ships into it and then cast it with resin.....INSTANT SPACE JUNK. And i do not need to cut up a miniature to get it.

Small pumice rocks work great. They are fairly light but you might have to make your owns stands.

Those lovely destroyed ship models make me want to add some new rules for epic/story play.

When a ship is destroyed, roll an attack die.

On a <crit> and if the model has any secondary weapons or bombs aboard, an unstable wreck is formed. If it has no secondary weapons or bombs aboard a wreck is formed.

On a <hit> a wreck is formed.

Unstable Wreck:

This represents an unstable and dangerous wreck. Place a proximity mine token on the board under the ship that was destroyed (you may use a destroyed ship model instead of the actual model). The unstable wreck will explode under the same circumstances that a proximity mine would. When the unstable wreck explodes it deals 1 face up damage card to all ships at range 1 and to the ship that moved and set the explosion off (Note: shooting the unstable wreck from outside range 1 would not incur the damage - you are just stopping a ship hitting the token and setting off the explosion but ending at more than range 1 from the unstable wreck). You may boost or barrel roll through an unstable wreck, if you do so you take an additional face up damage card.

Wreck:

Replace the ship model with a destroyed ship model. This acts like an asteroid except that it is destroyed if it deals any damage to another ship. (Through overlapping etc)

Additional rule.

Wrecks may be targetted by weapons fire. They have 2 defence dice. When the unstable wreck takes damage it immediately explodes. Normal wrecks are merely removed from play. This happens prior to any post attack action such as Vader.

Additional rule 2

When a ship is destroyed and receives more damage cards than it has hull points, if it forms an unstable wreck under the above rules it explodes immediately.

I second the lava rock. It looks great. I just set them on top of a large asteroid token and move it as needed. These things look like they belong in space but its just landscaping rock.

Lots of people liking my post so I thought I'd share a picture I took of of them. Not a great picture but it works...

I did asteroids with:

• Lava Rocks
• dremmel with an 1/8" masonry bit
• 1/8" wooden dowel
• wooden spools with an 1/8" hole (hobby lobby wood section)
• hot glue
• Super Glue
• Black Spary Primer
• White and Grey model acryllics (GW paints)
• Counters from the starter set

Started out by selecting lava rocks the approximate size and shape if the starter set asteroid counters. Then I drilled the rocks about 1/4" deep with the dremmel. I then hot glued the dowel into the drilled holes, and then super glued the spools to the base of the dowel.

After that I sprayed the rocks and wooden supports with black primer. Dry brush the rocks with a dark grey, then follow up with lighter grey and then lightly dry brush on white for highlights.

I chose to super glue the spool/supports to the actual counters that came the starter set making sure the rocks approximated the size of the counter they were being attached to. I have 3 starter sets, so if/when a ship moves onto an asteroid where the support would impede the movement, the counter base can be switched out with an unmodified asteroid counter and they are all officially sized for organized play.

Here is what they look like in a game.