Something of a Maze

The next thing I had to address was the rocks.   At the moment, they are just painted with rattle cans, which is okay for a starting point, but they need more definition, and the blue tinge toned down so that they fit in better with the loose rocks scattered around.

I grabbed a few colours to get rid of the blue.

First, mix a bit of dark, black-brown with some off-white, and randomly dry-brush bits before splodging on bits of a reddish-brown mixed with off-white.

After that, I splodged on a light stippling of reddish brown mixed with black brown, mostly in the bits that I wanted to be more shaded.

Finally, I gave the rocks two very quick dry brushes.  First with off white and then with white.

Next, I mixed up some green wash and applied it pretty liberally over the trees and rocks to simulate moss.   I will come back and cover some of these areas with a fine green flock down the track, but for now, this is providing a nice basecoat for the areas that are mossy.

Moss is an evergreen plant, so it will add a nice contrast when set against the reddish autumn leaves.  The green also helps the fallen statue pieces pop a bit more.

From here, I think my next stage will be to start blending the tree roots into the ground and cleaning up or hiding any exposed hot glue.

At the moment, it feels like the trees are sitting on top of the ground covering rather than being a part of it.  I know that when I get to the final stage of ground cover, this will eliminate a lot of that, but I also don’t want to take the risk of any bits looking unfinished.