A long overdue task, now underway, was to complete the refurbishment of my original Purbeck Terrain river boards. The river banks have previously been improved which had been painted to a basic standard. This was done by adding texture including random rocks etc.
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| An example of a 9" x 9" board with textured river banks. The task now is to repaint the river to make it look a little more realistic. |
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| This is the result. Because of the small scale I now use I decided that a more appropriate colour for the river would be similar to aerial photos or google earth images. i.e. almost black. I have added a little blue and lightened the shade towards the banks. |
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| A 'basic' ford. |
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| Ford on a 18" x 9" board. |
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| The wider 4" rivers. |
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| A little more blue was added towards the middle of the river and over all reasonably pleased with the result. A couple of coats of Woodland Scenics 'water' finished the job. |
A great improvement, and well worth effort. I agree the ford could do with a bit more work - IMO the contrast is too sudden and too great with the rest of the river, if you just blended it in with some of the blue I think it would be fine.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you comments about the ford Rob. Will need to rework those in due course.
DeleteNice work there Jon and certainly better than the bright blue of the original colours, but I must admit I do like a slightly brighter river for my games so that it pops a bit more on the table.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that Steve. It is a good point regarding the brighter blue. A look across various examples of river modelling revealed some truly outstanding work, way beyond my capabilities. They did tend to be for 28mm figures and maybe a little less suited to 6mm but nevertheless works of art.
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DeleteCan you advise what type and colour of scatter you use for the terrain boards as mine are much too dark. I paint it milk chocolate brown and the add Woodland scenically blended scatter but it just doesn’t pop like your boards.
ReplyDeleteI am away from home for a few days and will get back to you on my return next week. It was Woodland Scenics and mixed 2 colours myself but cannot recall which off the top of my head.
DeleteThanks very much Jon
DeleteIt was not Woodland Scenics after all! It was an even mix of Javis fine turf JFT1 light green and JFT2 mid green. I also tried the brown undercoat but found it dulled the green as you found. I settled on a medium - light green.
DeleteAll the best
Jon