Sci-fi Trees

[O Dinas Powys]

I let this dry over-night in the boiler cupboard.  The acrylic shrank down onto the base as it dried, which worked really well over the hot-glue.  I'm not sure the difference shows in the photos, but it's quite noticeable in the flesh:


Next, I washed the base with Citadel Chestnut ink (original range from the late 80's):




The pictures aren't great so it doesn't show very well, but this has really made them pop  

Hopefully it'll work with my sci-fi figures for the painting competition, although the experiment has shown I'll need to use some putty/filler otherwise the figures' integral bases will stick out like Phil's thumb...  

Next step: foliage! 

Cheers!

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Merion

[Techno]

Hopefully it'll work with my sci-fi figures for the painting competition, although the experiment has shown I'll need to use some putty/filler otherwise the figures' integral bases will stick out like Phil's thumb...  
Cheers!
Meirion

Bog off !! 

(I like the optical illusion in the bottom piccy, where the 'tree', at the bottom right, seems to be floating in mid air and casting a shadow underneath......Keep telling you my 2D perspective is rubbish !)

Those are looking really spiffy, Meirion.

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Bog off !! 

(I like the optical illusion in the bottom piccy, where the 'tree', at the bottom right, seems to be floating in mid air and casting a shadow underneath......Keep telling you my 2D perspective is rubbish !)



Cheers - Phil

Amazing what vegetation can do on some planets.

[fsn]

I like these. I may have to appropriate this idea.

[O Dinas Powys]

I remembered these - they're 42mm explosions from Irregular - that I bought for use in my fungal forest project.

I was never quite happy with how they turned out, so I've given them a repaint to fit in with my blue/red colour scheme:


...and here with some Pendraken Grey Aliens for size comparison:


Cheers!

Meirion

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great work. Maybe a lighter coloured fruit?

[O Dinas Powys]

Great work. Maybe a lighter coloured fruit?

Possibly, at the moment the darker bits in the frond are painted blue to represent "woody" parts protruding from within, but they could get another use 

[Techno]

I like those...

(I'm with Will on slightly lighter 'fruits'.....Light drybrush with 'orange' perhaps ?  ......Just might make them 'pop'.)

Overall, I think they're really zippy. 

Cheers - Phil

[O Dinas Powys]

Work progresses! 

Foliage applied to a tree and a shrub!



Cheers!

Meirion

[Techno]

I really like those, Meirion.
Damn good job ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Roy]

 

I love the colours

[Subedai]

Great idea, like 'em.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great work

[Bodvoc]

Very nice, I think I will borrow this idea when I return to outer space

[O Dinas Powys]

Thanks for the complements guys 

I'm very pleased with how they've turned out, just need to try and get the rest finished!

Cheers,

Meirion

[Maenoferren]

Looking really good. Another idea to snaffle.

[BucketKnight]

Those are some cool looking alien trees. Makes me want to have a go at this too. Thanks for the pictures and explanations.

[O Dinas Powys]

Had a spare hour today so finally finished the shrubbery!



Now just need to find something suitable for a base cloth, a big roll of sandpaper might do the trick!   

Cheers!

Meirion

[O Dinas Powys]

Some shots with figures for scale.

Martian Star-Rat forward observer lurking in the foliage:


Star-Rat artillery blends into the scenery:




Mottled, grey-white beings with lambent, lapis eyes are seen moving in the shadows around their sinister, arthropodal carriages of doom:


Cheers!

Meirion