Need help with painting ruins, also, thanks :)

[mage 20596xp 1]

Hey guys,

Looking for advice here. I have some AoS ruins to paint for the same board I will be using as te two Citadel Woods kits. I have several sections like this:

 

 

Im using mainly GW paints with some Army Painter washes. This tree has been primed in GW Zandri dust. Im kind of a basecoat, hilight, wash, hilight, hilight kind of a guy with no access to an airbrush. Im looking for advice for a simple colour scheme to make them look good.

 

I was thinking:

 

Im not quite sure what to do with them, how much effort I should put in and what to do next.

 

Any help would be appreciated, I really want to find the motivation to complete these, and quickly!

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 2]

You can get some really good results very quickly with those kits. Spray with Zandri Dust, wash with Seraphim Sepia and then drybrush them up with tyrant skull, terminatus stone and optionally Wrack White. Trust me they will look good enough to grace a tabletop with just that. After that you can decide whether you want spend a little more effort on them to pick out some of the details but you can do that at your leisure some time in the future, they will be fine for gaming with without the extra work.

[mage 20596xp 0]

This is the kind of quick easy solution I was looking for. You hit the nail on the head, good sir. Now all I gotta do is get the last three paints you list. I have Sepia already: would you use much if any Lahmia Medium or just go straight out of the pot? And would you put it on thick or thin?

 

TBH the detail can wait, I want to start gaming! Already painted up 4×1000 point armies. I shall start a thread or plog of it. It will be glorious!

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 1]

Nah, just slap the wash right on. If you think it’s too dark when the wash dries just do a heavy drybrush of Zandri Dust (layer) before you start with the Tyrant Skull

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 3]

This is what it looks like in stages

[mage 20596xp 1]

Hot damn Im stealing that, looking great!!!

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 1]

Glad I could help

[mage 20596xp 2]

 

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 0]

I notice you have some dead trees there too.  I have a solution for those lol.

I sprayed them with Zandri Dust but gave them a heavy Nuln Oil wash.  Then I dry brushed them up using Terminatus Stone, Wrack White and finally Praxetti White.  They look fab

[mage 20596xp 0]

Damn dude, those are nice.

 

and quit making me add more different paints to my shopping list!!!! Hahaha

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 0]

Well, you should already have Wrack White and Terminatus Stone for the ruins.  It’s only Praxetti White that’s new.  And truth be told you could just go old school and drybrush with Whitescar, just make sure you don’t go to heavy with it

[mage 20596xp 1]

Progress on my walls:

Now, whether to follow this or not:

Thoughts?

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 0]

A cool option might be to paint the coloured parts BEFORE the drybrushing.  That way you will weather the coloured areas so that the whole piece looks weather beaten.  I might give that a whirl and see how it goes

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 0]

In other news your wall pieces are looking good.  It’s amazing how easy those kits are to paint – they almost paint themselves which is really what you want for scenery.

[mage 20596xp 0]

Man they really hit the sweet spot with the Way the kit, dry paints and brush I used made it turn out. Very satisfying and fun. It gave me an appetite to do more. It’s an odd feeling to describe.

 

Like having a homemade meal or eating something very hearty like some good quality fried chicken and gravy, if that makes any sense

 

I’ll probably not do colours on my ruins and leave them sand worn

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