Gorram's Grand Terrain Project

Let’s start small shall we?

I have two of the Mantic Terrain Crazy boxes (one from 2022 and 2023) and they are filled with a hodge-podge of terrain bits that may or may not see a coat of paint. Amongst them were four of the trees from the Gothic Grounds (https://www.manticgames.com/terrain-crate/fantasy/small-box/terraincrate-gothic-grounds/) box. I like the look of them and when I saw that I had a £10 off voucher for Mantic, I ordered a full box to go with them.

The trees are nice and sturdy – they don’t feel like they will tip over the way most others do. The are all the same height so these eight will be okay but a whole table of them would look dull. The stumps are nice and the wee mushrooms will be added to the pile of basing bits. It feels weird to describe the box as a ten pieces of scenery when the mushrooms are smaller than a fingernail but even with eight pieces in the box, the price is good.

The kit comes with faces you can add into the trees but I only used one for this set – they are being painted up with a specific use in mind but I can easily see me buying more in the future and having more face trees.

• Black prime and a brown (Vallejo Chocolate Brown) drybrush did the bulk of the work. For the stumps I drybrushed a lighter brown (Vallejo Mahogany Brown).
• I need some cursed spider trees for a Rangers of Shadow Deep, five in total. Thankfully we’re getting close to spooky season so getting decorative spider web.
• I used a little Javis Battlefield Field Scatter around the trunks to add a little more interest.
• The remaining trees will be back in another post