Spring Cleaning Challenge: Malifaux Neverborn

I was really in the mood to paint a landscape, and I didn’t want to invest my time into a giant canvas of watercolour! So I took the time to paint a few bases so my miniatures have homes for when they are all painted up.

As I am following my woodland/swamp/fae theme with my Malifaux minis: having the Zoraida & Titania Core Boxes. I was really looking for a nice woodland base to set the theme.

I bought these fantastic bases on Etsy. I really do enjoy Etsy for bits an pieces I can never find anywhere else. These were from a shop called Realm Shapers here in the UK. They sell loads of 3D painted resin models, such as bases, scatter terrain, miniatures – you name it! And there really is a bit of everything on there. I was surprised of all the different potential tabletop goodies.

I primed the above with my regular Scale 75 light grey primer spray, and I was good to get stuck in with the paint.

I will be honest with you, I constantly mix my paints. I certainly used all of the above but mixed them in several different ways to get to where I wanted my tree. Plus, I wanted to achieve different variants with brown and green that blended well without harsh lines. So in one way shape or form, I used these variations of brown within the tree.

After switching paint brushes about eight times, adding black into lighter colours, white into darker colours, I eventually get to a mossy tree fits into my theme.

Still not ready to put down those watercolour techniques. I found myself flicking the bristles on the brush to encourage different colours on the grass stopping it from being 2-dimentional and flat.

I actually really enjoyed painting the base, it very much quenched the thirst that I had for painting a landscape. But instead, I just incorporated one.

I now understand how much of a slippery slope is. I am already looking at woodland scatter terrain, and really do think I would have a great time painting it… Just thinking about those giant mushrooms we saw on XLBS last weekend… Haven’t even completed painting my crew yet! One tiny project at a time.

That is 1/4 bases, guess I will be alternating between miniature then base to mix things up a little and keep it all varied.