Can’t se the wood for all the jungle trees…

The last piece of jungle vegetation is glued together and here we have the collection

62 bases all in all. And they where rather easy to do.

I found the jungle pieces one day at a garden shop vile I was looking for a flower to my mother but couldn’t resist to get me some toys to.

 

 

And after I used my hobby knife to cut the ball of plastic plants down single pieces I used my newfound love, the glue gun…

With the glue gun I attached all the small jungle pieces on to round bases from Renadra.
http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=2457

I like there low profile and they will not steal the attention from the plants itself.

 

After that I used my older love, my wood glue and regular sand shamelessly stolen from a playground.

And there you have it, no painting no nothing. Just glue all the pieces together.

 

And for size and scaling I will show them with my 15mm Mayas and my 28mm Eldar 

Fantasy terrain tutorial

Fantasy terrain

A friend asked how I made the bases on the trollbrothers and I thought that it would be a reason as good as any to make a tutorial.
I will show the techniques I used but while making an area terrain, this will be used in my fantasy project later on. The techniques is the same as a small model base.

I started by sawing a masonite board in to a shape of my liking and by using woodglue and sand to cover it. On a regular miniature or a piece of terrain that sticks up a little more the this allmost flat surface or a terrain piece that doesn’t have basecolor that I like,  I prime with it with a black primer. (remember to not spray on a styrofoam as it will melt...)
Then I used my white base spray paint and applied a thin layer. I tried to use an 45degre angel with the white spray, to simulate sunshine. This won’t make such a different on a flat surface like this but will be more noticed on other pieces so I thought it would be mentioned.

Next step is to ably my regular paint. I tried to use “wrong” colors, bright and non-natural ones to make clear this is a fantasy terrain. By adding water into the paint the color will not entirely cover the white primer, this effect is intentional as it will make an automatically shadowing and highlight effect.

After some different colors I felt that I was done.

I then used my bellowed woodglue and a brush I’m not that afraid to lose, covering some of the parts of the base. Dont forget to clean the brush.

By adding green grass flock I will tie the piece into a more natural coloration.

Next step was to use my box of dried stuff. It contains all things that could be used on terrain, old tea, dried and crushed leaves and flowers, some sawdust and some leftover flock and so on.

The intention with this is to make it look as forest undergrowth, a more natural terrain piece.

And then Im done.

Unfortunately I don’t have any trees to my fantasy forest yet, so until then the area terrain could be used with these rune stones, or maybe just as a piece of terrain on its own.

How I painted the Danish troops

How to..

What I have done
* Removed the flash and cleaned the models.
* Glued the models on wooden sticks, paint stirrer or popsicles is perfect for this.
* Gave them a “zenith light” painting, this is probably totally unnecessary in this scale but I did it anyway. I first sprayed the models black and when that had dried I sprayed a light layer of white over the models in about 45 degree angle. This will make a natural light and shade on the model. This will give a much better effect on 28mm scale and I will not use it on all my 15mm models.
* I then painted them in the colors they will have, making no attempt to make any shade.
* Then I painted the models in a thin layer of GW:s Devlar mud.

* Then the trick is to highlight the models in the same colors that was under the thin layer of Devlar mud. This will make a quick and very effective effect.

And with some sand painted in downwatered brown and some flock they look splendid.

Handpainted flag...

How to make a pine tree into a palm tree

I thought it was time for me to show how I made some palm trees.
I found some pine cones that a squirrel had “finished” for me on the parking lot of my work.
And that got my thinking, and in the local hobby shop I found some feathers that would be perfect for my project.

I used some watered down woodglue (pva ?) and formed the feathers to my liking. I then glued the cone and some sand on a base. After the feathers were painted I glued them on the cones and the palm tree is ready for gaming.