Basing for my Chaos Dwarves - input requested

So all this basing talk has got me wanting to do resin bases for my "Abyssal Dwarves" when they come out - which of these do you think fit the blasted wastes of Zhar Naggrund?

These

or

These

if anyone else has any desert/wasteland bases I'd love to see them as well. I'm tempted by lava basing, but I feel like it would be weird having dwarves just walking across lava...

EDIT: fixt

My opinion is to go with the second one. The first one looks more regimented, like paving stones in a city; the second has more of a blasted wasteland look to me.

Just an opinion. It's worth what you paid for it.

I like the first one better..but the second wouldbe easier to paint

I'm inclined to agree with both Gamewizard and bdix. While I do like the first one better it does seem more like cobblestone with boulders thrown in. Granted that may he due to the paint job more than anything, but I think if you're going for 'blasted wastes' the second option might be the way to go.

-edit- it most certainly is the paint job, took a closer look and I think the first would look really nice with a few pudgy little dwarves on top... That said, I was under the impression Naggarond was a frozen wasteland but I could be wrong, fantasy (and its fluff) is not my forté.

Naggarond is where the DEs live.

Zharr-Narggrund is the CDs homeland in the middle of the Darklands which are equiv to the Middle East.

The designers of WFB hit the bottom of the barrel for naming things...

I actually have some of the wasteland bases, but they are round. I used them for my Orcs.

I think I like the second ones better, but they will be harder to paint.

To save money on my Orks I used the resin bases on the cooler models and then on the regular guys I used a fine sand that would have the same texture, just not all the cool bits, and painted them the same way. They fit in really nice that way and I didn't have to use resin for the whole army.

I am with the others. I prefer the first I think. It has that dried cracked mud look. I haven't really seen any armies based on that type of terrain. Also since Zharr-Naggrund is further north, it might give more of a "badlands" feel over the typical sand-dune type dessert. Choice of color would also be a determining factor, as you can go with darker colors, rusts, browns and ochres over lighter tans and bleached yellows to get a different feel.

But, the second are also good, and like Big D said, you could "skimp" on the rank and file, just using the resin around the edge of the unit. This would save money, and is much easier to achieve with the second pick, since it looks a bit more like traditionally sanded bases.