So a couple of weeks ago I posted the
first part of how I have done my
Realm of Battle Game Board, and its taken a little while to finish due to illness and life etc, but here is, for the most part, my finishing of it. Unfortunately for the some of the various dry brushing stages I forgot to take photos so I did the same on the
Battlescape scenery piece and used photos from that to illustrate what I did
So here is the Battlescape after the ink has dried.
So I take the brown from the
Citadel Scenery Painting Pack and dry brush this over the inked brown to bring back the mid-tone.
Then I take the ochre and I dry brush that over the brown to bring up a light colour.
Now its looking ok, there are places where you can see my brush marks, but they aren’t that bad, especially as I will be covering it with flock.
For the rocky areas, the girls I live with kinda ganged up on me and convinced me that where the brown I painted meets the grey, it looked unnatural, so against my better judgement, I resprayed those areas to make it seem more natural, well that didn’t work that well as some brown areas were hot with grey so I had to repaint them in brown and ink them again, so there are some differences in the soil tone around the rocky areas, but it doesn't look terrible and in fact adds to the non-uniform look I was hoping to get.
Anyway so I repaint the areas that got hit with grey accidently with the brown, and then hit that and the grey with the same ink mixture that I did the rest of the brown area and leave this to dry overnight.
So the next step with the grey is to dry brush it up to the colour I want. I start with
Dawnstone and dry brush that over all of the rock and stone areas. Then I follow that up with a dry brush of
Administratum Grey. And here is the finished rocks.
For the areas that look like they used to be road, well I want them to stand out a bit more, so I take some
Rakarth Flesh, and drybrush that over them to try and give me the apperence of once well worked stone that has now worn away, but still has patches of its former glory there.
And now the dreaded skull pits! For these we followed a tried and tested method, we painted them in
Rakarth Flesh, dry brushed with
Ushabti Bone, dry brushed with
White Scar and then washed with
Agrax Earthshade.
The next stage is a little alien to me, but I wanted to weather the board with moss and algae on the rocks and road, so I had a selection of greens and the
Faded Green weathering powder from Forgeworld. But one of the girls I lived with kind of took over and I have no idea what she did, I might have to get her to post on here and tell me what she did! But here are some photos.
So on to the flock! We took the PVA glue from the scenery painting kit and mixed it 50:50 with water and the painted it on the board, there were two of this so it was a pretty easy task.
Then we took the green grass and sprinkled it on the board, all around and in some concentrated areas as well.
Then we sprinkled on the scorched grass flock.
And this is what we ended up with.
But obviously this is way more on there when we need so we tip the board on to an awaiting bit of wrapping paper to collect the stuff that hasn’t gotten stuck on with glue so we can recycle it.
So once its all done we end up with this.
Now I leave this to dry overnight and when the PVA glue is good and dry I take a brush and start to roughly brush off the flock that hasn’t really gotten stuck down.
I even take my hand and rub the board to really get the barely stuck on stuff off, leavening some quite patchy areas where the glue wasn’t as thick.
And then this is the end result.
I am not done yet, I need to get it all up on the table for a game and finish off some scenery for some games. I also want to get some
Mordheim Turf to put in the big cracks in the road, and then get some matt varnish to spray the board with to protect it.
One last word, why have I gone with a green field board, instead of the urban city of death I love the look of, or the icy wastes of a snowy death world? While its true I mostly play 40k, I am trying to play a lot more WFB, I have a large
Empire army which is barely used and the girls I live with have an
Island of Blood set between them, meaning I have some
High Elves and
Skaven to wage war against, perhaps even with the new
Triumph and Treachery expansion (yes that is a hint, I want!!!)
But seriously green is a neutral and very flexible scheme, and can work with both 40k, fantasy and if I ever decide to paint my Cygnar army, perhaps even Warmachine, but that would require me learning to play Warmachine properly and I really don’t like it that much, or really at all, (sorry PP but steampunk dreadnaughts just don’t do it for me).
