All things Fantasy
Eat, Shoots and Leaves
Part of being a Sylvaneth player is needing GW Wyldwood Terrain. The idea for this scheme came from painting the Tree Lord Ancient. I really liked the effect of the Gore Grunta Fur Contrast paint and was looking for an excuse to use it.
So autmunal trees was as good an idea as any and the Silver Birch bark seemed a good contrast to the rich leaves.
I started on the base useing Cygor Brown for mud, Apothecary White for rocks, Bsilicanum Grey for fallen branches, Skeleton Horde for bone. Finish with a light highlight of Ushabti Bone to tie it all together.
At this point I found it was difficult to paint the tree trunk (Basilicanum Grey) and leaves (Gore Grunta Fur) and painting the base made it more difficult as I had less areas I could hold the mini by. The fungus was painted first with Skeleton Horde and the mushroom tops with Blood Angel Red.
The leaves looked good but lacked something. So to complete the autumnal feel I chose my brightest green (Moot Green), red (Evil Sunz Scarlet) and yellow (Flash Gitz Yellow). With these I stipled the leaves using some scrap foam and this completely lifted the look of the leaves. I may have gone too light asit isn’t too noticable from a distance so I may add more.
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