What Happened?
Well it’s been a little more than a year since my last
entry.
I used to wonder how people would
let blogs go so long without an update now I know.
LIFE it just happens.
In any case I have been busy and sadly the
blog has just been a luxury I couldn’t afford.
My hope is to be more active this year so we will see.
Plus I feel guilty since every time I check
on this blog I seem to pick up a few more followers.
Seems the content is good even if the
frequency sucks.
In any case even though
the blog has been dormant my hobby life has not.
Mainly I focused on knocking how terrain
projects.
I had some old objective type
pieces from Forgeworld and some old 40K trees I wanted to finish.
I have a Realm of War Table close to done and
wanted some nice terrain to put on it.
In this entry I’ll do a review of the 40K Jungle Trees.
40K Jungle Trees
I have a number of sprues of the old 40k Jungle trees.
You see these on occasion in terrain used in
White Dwarf and they were also included with the original Tau Battleforce.
They are interesting trees I wasn’t sure how
to use.
I have had them sitting in the
basement for years.
The large Oval base
from GW that came around for flyers is very useful for terrain.
I use this base for a number of items.
In this case I decided to build a small rain
forest terrain base.
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| The brush I used a thick craft brush |
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| You can see the talus and texture here |
I used four trees,
also ordered the
jungle swarm from the GW and a
skeleton from Secret Weapon to
provide some variety.
The base was built
up with
Liquitex Ceramic Stucco.
This is
a wonderful texture gel that can be mixed with paint or applied straight and
primed and then painted.
I went with the
later technique.
I also used
talus to provide
some rocky features.
Use an old brush or a craft brush you don't paint your minatures with. The base was
airbrushed and then drybrushed.
I also
used wash on the tree bases to get deeper shading and wood grain.
I used
Vallejo still water for small streams
running between the trees.
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| Older bottle of the stucco the label looks different these days you find it in art and general hobby stores |
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| This is the texture very smooth with a fine grit |
I like the results and plan to paint up the rest of the
trees in a similar style. I have enough
for about 5 bases which will make for a decent rainforest. A few points I used a variety of colors to
give a more vibrant look versus a uniform color for all and I’m happy with the
results. I glued the trees before I
started, next time I will try to fit the trees together without gluing to allow
for better access while painting. In one
of the photos you see guardsman legs off to the side. I used those to create footprints which you
can see in the finished picture below off to the left.
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| Skeleton above and snake from jungle swarm footprints to the left |
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| Rocky formation to the left gives variety to the base |
Next time another project I completed from the Terrain Objective bin.
