Painting The Gnarlwood – TerrainFest 2024

Managed to get the temple finished. I tinkered and tweaked as I went through the process of painting it. It really was a “just wait and see” with the overall scheme.

I liked doing the gold and also adding the glow effect to the gems on the top of the terrain. I am not a fan of doing the straps around the bamboo so it might be a little half arsed at moments. Either way, it makes the terrain look a bit better.

Next up, the trees. These trees are WAY bigger than you’d think so it’s going to be an interesting process painting them!

I will have more pictures of the terrain in the near future.

To give an idea of some of the other terrain in my collection, here are the Warcry pieces I painted recently using just drybrushing and a few washes.

I think it still sits nicely alongside the Contrast painted terrain and whilst it was still a bit of a chore to paint, it was fun to do a lot of drybrushing.

I was quite taken by the statue of Neferata that you got in the Crypt Of Blood set and the sarcophagus which had a pool of blood draining into it.

The pool of blood was done with contrast red which was then built up using blood for the blood god for the wet look.

Slowly but surely, the Age Of Sigmar collection of terrain is coming together and looking forward to making use of it on the tabletop.

The project continues with some work on the temple. I gotta say, whilst I have to “trust the process”, the actual act of painting the larger terrain with Contrast can be a pain in the ass.

I am still tweaking and updating the scheme as I go and doing a bit of extra detail work as I get bored of doing the stone. So the stones on the top have been given a metallic basecoat so they can be given a more glowing blue later on.

Again, this is still “work in progress” but it is slowly coming together. The Contrast will be given another bit of a drybrush, especially on this larger piece so that it brings the details back + some of the icons will be picked out in gold. Same for the ring around the crystal in the centre.

At least I have three months to tackle this now!

I have had a bunch of Warcry terrain from Nightmare Quest sitting unpainted for ages and so TerrainFest seems the best time to get some paint on these big chunks of plastic.

The idea is to dive in and paint these using “Slapchop” and Contrast paints in order to make this process much easier whilst also showcasing the final results.

My initial experiment looks quite dark. I have been working up from grey but even that means that the bone stays very dark. I think the overall look of the terrain is actually quite nice though and I can see myself enjoying this process.

This is where the smaller terrain pieces have got to at the moment…

I returned to the bone and painted it with Rakarth Flesh OR went in with a drybrush for some of the bigger pieces that seemed like they might be older and more worn.

I also went over the straps/ropes on the bamboo with a dirty yellow to make them stand out a little more. I am tempted to go in with a bit of green (maybe as a wash?) to tie some of the bases together into the rest of the terrain and make it feel overgrown. I am yet to try that out though.

Lastly, I have also started work on the big Temple…

That is a lot of little vines to paint. I am then going to move on to the trees and the bamboo before finishing off the darker stone on the temple. It will then be a case of picking out the details a little bit and it should be done.

For a couple of night’s work this week, I think I’ve got quite far through. The smaller terrain pieces are effectively done so it’s now the big temple and the two massive trees to finish!