Custom Terrain Board Part 4

In this final installment I'm going to dive into the problem solving I had to do to get the board finished to the quality I wanted.

After giving the board a drybrush of titanium white, which is a bone-colored off-white I bought in a larger tube at Michael's, I set down one of the bases I was trying to match. The terrain on the left was where I started, and as you can see it's not a great match. On the right I covered these areas in Seraphim Sepia with a brush, not an airbrush, which gave too subtle an effect. This meant I had to dump two of the larger Sepia bottles onto the board (not literally dump, but I did use two) in order to get everything to the right color range where it looked like it matched my Black Templar bases.

The darker brown spots you can see in various places, up and to the right of the barrel and in the upper right corner area are places I put crackle paste that I didn't like the edges of. I smoothed these out with Agrellan earth, gave it an Agrax wash, and then re-drybrushed the whole board a bone color, but very lightly this time.

All this variation in color I've found is a really good thing on larger pieces like this. Real ground has a lot of variation in it. If something is too uniform in color over large surfaces it tends to look unfinished. I went back with small amounts of Seraphim Sepia and Agrax Earthshade to enhance this effect. So the board is coming together, but there are still a few details left.

The crater was done with a lot of black drybrushing, and then a little bit of medium grey in the center to give definition.

The hillsides were painted a medium grey I mixed with bulk acrylics I bought from Michael's: white, black, and a medium grey were all purchased for mixing. I then washed the medium grey with a lot of Nuln Oil. Yes, pricey, but I knew what the results would look like, and the clock was ticking on finishing this project. It took about half a bottle, so not overly crazy. It then got two drybrush layers: a medium grey and a light grey.

The barrel and tank traps were painted roughly with Ryza Rust over the Mournfang Brown undercoat. There was lots of terrain colors already on them, and I tried not to cover these up. I then drybrushed a fairly bright silver on them. I left the barrel much rustier then the traps.

And the final result, ready for fightin'!