Mordhiem graveyard

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Project Entry by admiralfb

Step 5: painting

October 8, 2023

Now it’s time to start bringing it all together. When painting, especially terrain, the secret is to always use the biggest brush you can get away with.

Technique wise I fall back to stipling and drybrushing for pretty much everything. Stipling quickly adds colours to flat areas while adding texture and natural variations in tone. Drybrushing quickly catches textures and helps define details. With these two techniques I have painted 90% of everything.

With the next stage being some all over washes it doesn’t hurt to go brighter than you would expect. The wash will knock it down and bring everything together.

With that done I pick out a few key details to add a touch of colour and pop to each piece. In this case it was a bronze tone to the roofs of the crypts and some flowers. In the next step I will add some weathering effects to these to help break up the shine and bring them into the theme of the build.

The final step here is to add the smaller details and set dressing. These details can make the terrain feel lived in and help reinforce scale. For mordhiem it’s mostly skulls…