I picked these up at one of the HMGS cons one year. They are significantly cheaper when bought unpainted, as I did. It was easy enough to drybrush over the splendidly deep details carved in on each piece. I didn't prime, nor did I rinse them with soapy water, and paint seems durable on this pretty rigid, but not brittle, hard plastic.
If you like the trunk recipe, I used a heavy drybush of Craft Smart - Tan, followed by a top down drybrush of Folk Art - Barn Brown. In some of the recesses, I used some Army Painter - Speed Paints - Brownish Decay. Finally, to suggest a light moss is making its way up the trunk with a light and spotty drybrush of Apple Barrel - Leaf Green.
For the larger canopies (the base plastic is a dark olive), I used Americana - Hauser Medium Green as a heavy drybrush, followed by the Apple Barrel - Leaf Green. For the smaller ones, Americana - Leaf Green was used for the heavy drybrush. This, too was followed by the Apple Barrel - Leaf Green. To punch them all up a little more, I used a light drybrush over the tops with Army Painter Fanatics - Warped Yellow. All pretty simple and straightforward.
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| After all this, I probably won't even use the canopies. I mostly got them for the nice dead/winter trees for horror or Russian winter games - which are mostly the same thing. (If you know, you know.) |
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| For scaling purposes, here is a 25/28mm Silver Bayonet Austrian hussar from North Star. They are interesting in a storybook kind of way, but they look very artificial next to more traditional tree models. |
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| I spose they are not awful as just large bushes or piles of entangled growth. This is the smaller bush from the same company in the center there. |
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| Here they are folded in with the properly dead trees and the stump I posted last month (see below). That they all have prominent and identically located hollows is what prevents me from getting more of them. Yes, I can fill them with putty and sculpt the bark back on. But, naah. |
