Citadel Wood (or drybrush saturday)

Yesterday I had some painting time again. The wife was out and supposed to take our kid but he was a bit ill so I said he could stay with me. With absolutely nothing else to do I set out to get some things finished on the hobby front.

I first sat down with my drop pod and after setting everything up and getting ready my son started crying. (he's 6 months) so I got up and cuddled him for a bit until he was satisfied. Then onto the project again. I got about ten minutes of brush time before my son needed some attention again so there I went again. Now, he was in the same room so he could look at me and I was talking to him, my wife calls this brainwashing as I tell him anything about the 41st millennium he needs to know but I felt sorry for him so I went back and forth between my son and my paint station.

I finally realised that it wasn't going to work. I was doing small detail work on my pod but had to stop and get started so many times over that it felt like a chore rather then some nice hobby time. I looked at my cabinet and realised that the citadel wood set that had been sitting there undercoated for months was probably the right project for the moment.

I got out my large brushes and started drybrushing like a mad man. I wanted the old dead, haunted look for the trees and patches of grass on the floor to fit in with my table. just three hours later I was done and the glue of the foliage was drying. I had enough time with my son to give him his milk bottle, fruit, clean nappy and cuddles whilst the tree set got done.

The good thing was that the citadel wood set is easy to make it look good. it's just mindless drybrush work. My son was happy and I have another finished project that I can take off my list.

Everybody happy.

Seb

Scenery: Walls and Fences

The Box

Gamesworkshop sells numerous pieces of scenery. For those games who have money to spare and don't want to fiddle about trying to construct scenery of their own it offers great value for money and easy good looking terrain pieces.

One of those things that most fantasy players will have in their collection of scenery bits and bobs is the box set "Walls and Fences". It comes at a low prices and gives you 4 long walls and 5 short walls of wood and stone. (well plastic really) They also did throw in 2 posts.

Now, with very little effort and hardly any real painting skills anyone can make something good of this that will look fantastic on your gaming table. If you follow these easy steps your walls and fences will look something like mine here on the left.

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Stone:
- cut from sprue and remove all moldlines.
- undercoat with black.
- heavy drybrush dark grey. (codex grey)
- drybrush light grey. (fortress grey)
- light drybrush white. (skull white)
- irregular thinned down wash lightbrown. (devlan mud)
- irregular thinned down wash black.(baddab black)
- flock with static grass and moss.

Wood:
- cut from sprue and remove all moldlines.
- undercoat with brown.
- heavy drybrush dark grey. (codex grey)
- light drybrush light brown.(graveyard earth)
- irregular thinned down wash lightbrown. (devlan mud)
- flock with static grass and moss.

After that you paint in some details like rusty chains and rings and the goglin....yeah it's there! have a closer look. I give 1 internet cookie to the first person to point it out.

All in all it took me about an hour to paint it all up after the undercoat was dry and another half hour to put all the different bits of grass and moss on. I'm very pleased with the result and it look good on the gaming table.

Mission accomplished!

Seb