How I Paint - Terrain - Moss

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When I was painting the Timeworn Ruins, the sheer number of skulls on these pieces really annoyed me. So, I decided to cover them. Then, while out walking, I noticed lots of stone walls covered in moss. I had my idea, now 'how to do it?'. 

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Materials and paints required:

  • Flock
  • PVA Glue
  • Castellan Green
  • Athonian Camoshade
  • Agrax Earthshade
  • Elysian Green
  • Ogryn Camo
  • Lamenters Yellow
  • Waywatchers Green
  • Biel-tan Green
  • Spatula to apply the 'Moss'.
  • Medium sized round-ended brush
  • Wash brush

The 'Moss' is applied to the miniature after everything else is painted.

First of all I mix up the Flock and PVA Glue to make a paste. To this add enough Castellan Green and Athonian Camoshade to colour the paste. The paste will dry darker as the white glue becomes transparent. The paste should be runny enough to not crumble when it is applied and but stiff enough to retain its shape when you apply it. If it is too runny, add additional flock to the mix. If it is too stiff, add additional PVA glue.

The paste is then applied to the terrain using a spatula; I used a Green-stuff modelling tool. Be careful applying the paste because it has paint in it and so it can 'damage' the existing paintwork of your miniature. Once the paste has been applied leave it to set for 24 hours. Do not take short cuts here!

Once the paste has fully dried, it can be painted. The moss does not need a basecoat because paint was added to the original mix, so it is straight onto highlighting. I used a medium sized round-ended brush to drybrush all of the Moss with Elysian Green.  Avoid dry-brushing upwards, always drybrush downwards.

The moss was then washed with Agrax Earthshade, this added depth to the colour and breaks up the green.

The next step is to drybrush the moss again with Elysian Green and then with Ogryn Camo. Again, I used the medium sized round-ended brush. I noticed when I was drybrushing, the end result was better if the colour was particularly heavy. Avoid drybrushing upwards, always drybrush downwards.


The next steps were to add yellow and green to 'liven-up' the moss. First, the moss was glazed with Lamenters Yellow. The yellow is picked up by the drybrushed areas.

 
 
Once this was dry, the moss was glazed with Waywatchers Green, whilst this was still wet, spots of Biel-tan Green was added to give additional variety and depth to the green colour.


There we go. I have really enjoyed using this technique as it really feels I have brought more life to my terrain.


Thank you for reading this article. Let me know what you think? Do you have any questions? If you do, add them to the comments below. Happy hobbying.





  

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