Swamp, pond, and a ton of Epoxy

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Project Entry by Lovecraft2020

Swampy Ruins (1/2)

October 7, 2020

After painting the base and ruins, I realized the piece was a bit too dark: dirty brown/green and different shades of grey for the ruins. I scattered a few painted skulls (zhandri dust/ushabi) to contrast nicely with the rest of the piece.

Tip: to break the colour monotony of a terrain piece, don’t hesitate to add a few contrasting bits.

I gathered a bunch of dry twigs from my backyard. After trying different configurations, I chose small branches that I covered with a thin coat of watered-down PVA. Once the PVA was dry, I glued the twigs onto the model.

I added three different types of grass/tuft:

Army painter wasteland tuft
Scroched Grass from GW (some kind of static grass)
Batttlefield Grass Green from Army Painter.

For the Battlefield Grass Green, I mixed it with PVA. It became a gooey mess that I applied as moss growing everywhere. It dried a little bit too light for my taste. I made a second batch of Grass/PVA, to which I added a bit of Agrax Earthshade (GW) to darken it.

The darker moss was applied thinly over the first lighter moss. When it dried, the two colours of moss meshed beautifuly.