Da Green Horde

My last entries for this year's edition of Dave's Season of Scenery challenge are these two terrain pieces from Polish manufacturer Mini Monsters. The model on the left is an Orc Totem (quite similar to the old one by ForgeWorld), the one on the right is an Orc Ritual Rock. The Ritual Rock makes for a great Idol of Gork (or Mork), it looks like it could become animated anytime and wreak havoc as a Rogue Idol . Painting was a lot of fun, like scenery always is. I worked a lot with drybrushing and washes, the red and white colours on the totem and idol head were applied with a sponge to achieve an irregular pattern that makes it seem like they were painted by orcs or goblins. The flames inside the Ritual Rock were painted white, followed by Striking Scorpion Green Contrast paint to resemble Waaagh!-Energy.  After applying the usual Dirty Down rust and moss as well as Vallejo lichen effect paints, I added some tiny tufts to make the rocks look even more natural. The models were e...

A few colleagues at work and I decided to give AoS Spearhead a try. We're currently in the process of building and painting our forces (I'll be fielding my Ogors). In addition to the miniatures, we also need some pieces of terrain. Spearhead has some special requirements for the number and size of terrain pieces. Instead of buying the kit from GW, I decided to look up the measurements of the pieces and craft them myself. While the original terrain pieces represent ruined walls and rubble, I went for a different look and made some stake barricades and palisade walls. The palisades are made from different types of cocktail sticks and chopsticks, since I did not want them to look too uniform. To make the sticks stand upright, I added some Miliput to the plasticard bases and simply pushed them in (the putty was later covered in earth texture paste to make it look like a mound). After everything had dried, I applied a layer of watered-down PVA glue to give it more stability and fill...

A few weeks ago I went to an arts & crafts shop and found some paper mache trees, which I thought would fit in well with my miniatures. They are manufactured by Decopatch and are normally meant to be used for interior decoration. Getting them ready for the table was quite straightforward: I painted them brown, added Iceland moss as leaves and put them on 50mm bases. To give them some variation, I added uncoloured (white) lichen instead of green to one of the trees - it'll look perfect on a snow themed table, but I think it'll work for other settings too. These trees are my first contribution to this year's edition of Dave's Season of Scenery . This won't be my only entry for the challenge, next up will be some scratchbuilt terrain.