Modular Terrain Part Four

Hello There! I have been working away on the desert terrain again. I have a large number of modular tiles which now only require painting.

Here is a comparison of the tiles during painting. The first, on the left is the colour of the sawdust, when it has been glued to the board.

The middle is a coat of yellow ochre with random watered down blogs of raw umber, burnt umber and burnt sienna with a little red added as well.

On the right is the heavy dry brush of an equivalent 'Iraqui Sand' 

The main paints I use artists acrylic paints, mixed with some extra PVA adhesive and thinned with water. I add  the PVA to add extra binding to the surface of the scenery so that is harder wearing.

I prefer not to use mixed colours, because I have been making terrain for a number of years now and so like to maintain consistent shades and colours, by using the paints straight out of the pot.

The main colour I use is yellow ochre and a thinned watery wash of raw umber and burnt umber, splashed irregularly in places to break up the main colour.

When this has dried I do a heavy dry brush of yellow ochre again and then various heavy and light drybrushes of a mixed equivalent to Vallejo Iraqui sand.

This is one of the few colours that I have to mix due to the high price of Vallejo paints, to cover such a large area.

I have found that mixing raw umber, white and yellow ochre, adjust to get the right colour obtains a colour hardly different to the Vallejo colour. There is easily enough to cover a very large area and can also be used on figure bases to pull the figures and terrain together to match.

I have also added a small thin wash of some 803 Brown Rose, or again mixed an equivalent, and lightly dry brushed this colour in a few places of the terrain. This is to mimic some of the stronger reds present in the larger drop on terrain rocks. Otherwise they look a little incongruous, as they stand out as a vastly different colour, on the table.

This red colour can also be lightly dry brushed over later, but not too much to completely obscure it. I just want to provide a hint of a different, matching colour.

Dry brushing does dislodge somr of the saw dust which is on the surface of the tile but I have collected ths to add to a scatter material, mixed with hardened clump foliage and pale static grss to hide some of te joins between the scenic tiles and break up the flat surface of the ground work.