Tuesday 2 May 2023

EXT: The Wallow


Wading through more terrain...


Following up on the swamp trees, here's the swamp tiles. Six flat decorative plates that build into a comprehensive collection of mushroomy, muddy murk. 



Quick and easy, mostly done with inks and drybrushes over the brown undercoat. And on the side, as nice a bunch of scatter details as you could wish for. 

The big dead fish is one of the absolute best - it didn't make it in on stretch goals, but they found room on the sprues anyway. Glorious!


The dangling ham on the side makes this an attractive residence.


Buzzard and carcass. A pretty big carcass...

A pile of wharfside junk


The baskets of fish didn't come out too well - I was trying a gloss scale effect that hasn't worked. So they look like random offal, but I guess that works too.

Dryad! Looks like something straight out of the old Narnia illustrations.

Once I'd finished it, I got hit with a sudden urge to make a display background for it. So a single evening's work produced this mud pool, which is sprayed the same colour as the mud pools in the tiles above. Straight dark brown from the spray can, plus a bit of Agrax Earthshade and Skrag Brown dabbed round the edges, and a gloss varnish finish. Should look good on the jungle or beach mats.


Somehow, a Nighthaunt Chainrasp slunk its way into this batch, so it's a haunted swamp now. 

That's the first box of D&L done! Straight on to the next, but first a few collected shots.





That's the full box's worth, just about. A bit crowded laid out like this, but looks nice.

 

5 comments:

  1. That last pic is amazing - the mud pool does really tie it all together! Although all the piece look great, my favourite is that absurdly large fish - I'm not entirely sure how it grew so big living in a little pond like that but...

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  2. That big decomposing fish is pretty gross... and cool.

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  3. Really good swamp! Makes me regret not getting this one, I went with the Elven Woods set instead.

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    1. I couldn't decide, so I went with one of each!

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