Wealdgeist, Spring Cleaning The Forest
Lots of Drybrushing and A Little Bit of Blending
As most of these miniatures were treelike (more bark than bite?) I thought I’d paint them similar to how I did a load of Mantic trees a while ago. That is to drybrush them in a light colour, followed by applying Wyldwood Contrast paint. A basic slap chop style but rather than stopping there that would only be the start. I wanted plenty of greens, and maybe autumn colours.
Taking a big old worn brush I drybrushed everything quite heavily in Dark Sand then I drybrushed everything in white, but more lightly and mainly in a downward pattern.
Generally I use the Dark Sand drybrush to bring out the detail and the white to mimic the lighting.
I was feeling brave and it was a long rainy day so I was stuck inside on my day off. I thought I’d get the blender out and give that basing material a cut down to make the pieces smaller so it would look more like a forest floor on the bases (see earlier posts).
It all went rather well and the blender and blades survived the process. It did seem to me that mostly the smaller pieces got smaller while the larger pieces only got a little smaller. Still, it’s now more useful.
After the blend.
Before the blend.Next I’ll be getting the Wyldwood contrast paint out and painting everything (maybe,…, ok, not the mushrooms and maybe not any leaves).
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