So it’s just the painting and finishing left to go…
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- Nope this isn’t some cunning ‘where we left off from’ starting shot, I’ve actually painted in the bits that got missed on the first pass of base coating. I’ve found that when base coating sand you ALWAYS miss bits on the first pass, so it’s best just to accept it and touch up as necessary.
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- The ‘soil’/base colour gets it’s first drybrush. As I said previously I mix my paints but I originally mixed them to match old GW colours – Scorched Brown, Graveyard Earth, Kommando Khaki/Bleached Bone.
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- Now before I put the final drybrush on the earth, it best to get the secondary colour painted so if needs be you can hide any fck ups with the final drybrush ;)
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- All blacked up
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- Rocks first drybrush – I’m always surprised how a colour that is a straight mix of black and white can look blue when painted.
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- My two drybrush technique can be summarised to – paint base coat, heavy first drybrush, light & patchy second drybrush (rinse repeat). The reasoning behind my painting technique is that your trying to create a background setting, and not draw people’s attention away from the miniatures being played with. Good terrain should just disappear into the background ;)
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- I found that a patchy effect in final drybrush just contrasts nicely with the flock put on top, and if/when the flock rubs off with use it shows and still looks good.
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- The technique I use for flocking (found through trial, error & enlightened suggestion) is to paint on the PVA in random patches, then squeeze out the brush & dry brush the edges out away from the glued areas. This is so that when the flock is applied it has a less uniform and more natural thick/thinness. To emphasise this I also leave random blank patches unflocked
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- Pour on the flock! It’s best to have a large tub of flock that you can just pour over and gently push around and pat down. Of course you then need to pour the flock back off the piece onto your waiting newspaper.
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- Here are the finished flocked hills, however the flock will rub of these really easily due to only being glued on the underside.
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- I solve, or at least slow, the sheading flock problem by over spraying it with a PVA & Water mix. I don’t use exact quantities just a squeeze of glue then fill up the reservoir with water and shake till mixed. Alternatively you can use any spray clear Matt varnish, which is actually better at this job it’s just more expensive than PVA.
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- Less of a problem with spray varnish, but with PVA spraying it’s best to prop up your terrain so that if/when the gluey water drips off it doesn’t stick your terrain to the newspaper that you’ve put it on.
Anyway hope this helps and amuses ;) Nick
Very nice tutorial, thanks :)