Trees and things

After letting the filler dry, I sprayed the whole lot with Grey car primer.

I then tried using some kids poster paints to give a simple, brown base coat.

This did not end well as you can see above – the poster paints, although quite thick and heavy, have so little pigment that the coverage was shocking!

So, I cracked out the airbrush and hit the whole lot with German Camo Medium Brown (Vallejo Flames of War range #826).

This was then washed with Sepia and / or Agrax Earthshade depending on the tree.

The Birch was drybrushed with a 50/50 mix of Warcolours (WC) White and Vallejo (V) Ivory. The rest were given a light drybrush of German Camo Beige (V #821). followed by a really light drybrush of the 50/50 white/ivory mix.

Knowing that, generally in the northern hemisphere, trees tend to have a green, mossy north-facing side – I thought I would give one side a green drybrush(Luftwaffe Camo Green (V #823). I then washed this with Nuln oil (GW), and reapplied the drybrush. Overall I’m not overly impressed with this, so I might try another way before I finish.

For the bases, I coated the whole thing with watered-down PVA, and sprinkled various shades of flock/static grass. I sparingly use the woodland flock in a circle around a couple of the trees.

I added some lichen, clump foliage and flower tufts around the trees. The whole base was misted in watered-down PVA before a satin lacquer was applied.

There are still some finishing touches to go – so I’ll have another entry before I close this project. But so far, they don’t look too bad.