How I paint - Terrain - Stone

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Over the years, one of my favourite aspects of playing Warhammer has been sending my fully painted army across a board with great terrain. 

The really nice feature of terrain is that can be painted easily and quickly with just a few basic techniques, and still look amazing on the table top, no matter how much experience you have.

For this tutorial, I am using the Azyrite Ruins.

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Paints required:
  • Mechanicum Standard Grey
  • Dawnstone
  • Administratum Grey
  • Athonian Camoshade
  • Elysian Green
  • Karak Stone
  • Screaming Skull
  • Agrax Earthshade (optional)
  • Seraphim Sepia (optional)
  • Nuln Oil (optional)
  • Grey Seer (optional)

The terrain was first undercoated with Chaos Black. This was then followed by a drybrush with Mechanicum Standard Grey. I like to use a fairly large, round-ended brush (I have a make-up brush) when I drybrush terrain. When drybrushing, I move the brush around in a circular motion, focusing on raised areas and edges. Sometimes too much painted is deposited with this method, but as it is only on terrain, I just wipe it away with my finger and it adds to the patchy nature of the stonework. I followed this up with a drybrush of Dawnstone. Using the same technique as before.


Wash the stonework with Athonian Camoshade. Only do one side at a time and lie the piece flat while the wash is drying. This prevents the wash flowing down the miniature and pooling. Additional, colour variety can be added to the wash with Agrax Earthshade, Nuln Oil and Seraphim Sepia. These are added as patches of colour to the still wet Athonian Camoshade.


Once the washes are dry, drybrush the stonework with Dawnstone. Again use a circular motion and a fairly large, round ended brush. Follow this with a drybrush of Administratum Grey. Option step, hit the sharp edge of the stone with a very light drybrush of Grey Seer.


I intended for the brick work to appear as though it was a later addition to the 'building. Taking a small round-ended brush, the bricks were drybrushed first with Karak Stone and then with Screaming Skull. The bricks were drybrushed in an up-and-down motion. Care was taken to avoid the surrounding stone.


This final step is meant to simulate algae growing on the stone. A fairly large round-ended brush was used to drybrush Elysian Green on to the stone. The drybrush was only used in a downward motion. This results in the 'algae building up on the upper edges of the stonework. Do not over do this step. Less is definitely more here, you are just after a slight shift in the colour of the stone. One final point, I do this step after I have finished every other step on my terrain. I will be doing a guide for wooden timbers, moss and other terrain features in the next few weeks.



I love this little scheme. It is really easy to do and the results are (in my opinion) really effective.

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Thank you for reading this little guide. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below or ask any questions you have. Bye for now.

















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