A Saga of Glorantha
Building Beehives.
A while ago I promised to put up a guide as to how I built the scenery shown in my last post.
Unfortunately I temporarily lost access to my photos, but I have recovered them now.
So here is the first episode of three.
The materials I started with. I have also started to build the frames for the vineyard.
A seed pod, I collected these many years ago as I thought they might be useful, then when building my Glorantha scenery I had an eureka moment, and realised these with a small aperture at the bottom would make perfect beehives.
The benches for the beehives made from lollisticks.
The beehives now glued to the benches.
The beehives where then painted, sorry I have no painting photo's. The beehives where painted in Model Colour (MC) English Uniform and the benches in MC Ger. Cam. Med. Brown and then the whole model was coated in GW Agrax Earthshade. The Beehives where then dry brushed in MC Khaki Grey, and then adding White upto a final dry brush of pure white. The benches where dry brushed progressively from Army Painter (AP) Leather Brown to AP Skeleton Bone.
One of the Seed Pods was damaged and I thought it looked like the wicher core to which the cob(?) had been added and would make a great damaged beehives. I applied one coat of GW Cobtrast Skeleton Horde followed by a coat of GW Contrast Guilliman Flesh. The Bases wfere painted inMC English Uniform, coated in PVA glue and dipped in Lukes Gaming Scenics Mediterranean Soil basing mix, since discovering his ranges of products this all I use for my bases, it is so easy to use and gives a great finish better than I can achieve with paint. After applying I then spray with Testors Matt varnish to fix the basing material. Finally I add a mix of tufts and flowers from my basing box.
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