Monster Fight Club Bushes Completed!

 

This is a bit of an imperfect presentation because of the uncorrected lighting - however, you could get a sense of what things could look like using different colors in for the highlights. 

In a previous entry I mentioned that I had purchased three sets of these at HMGS cons. These unpainted versions come in a nice dark green plastic. I didn't wash or prime any of these but I will seal them once the weather warms up. Over all three sets I drybrushed Apple Barrel's Green Leaf.

 

The first set I mixed in some white to the Leaf Green, followed by another layer with even more white.

These shots have already appeared in an earlier post.

For the lower set here I added in a pure cadmium yellow a pair of times instead of white - more in line with how MFC's pre-painted bushes come.

For the third set (foreground), I added in a light tan a pair of times and honestly it looks lighter than the white did! If I have a tendency that persists to varying degrees is I get scared of highlighting too brightly leaving models tidy, but sometimes too flat. I'm better than I used to be but I probably should do another layer of whiter highlights on the first set (rear) - but I won't.

The yellow is pretty clearly a standout and is quite warm.

In this light - I honestly am not sure if this is the tan set or the white set! I think it's the former.

Monstrous werewolf for scale - that's a Cigar Box "Just Fields" battle mat under it all.

Here's the two cooler toned sets in play

And here are all three sets with the yellow one easily discernible at right. I'm not sold on these acting as hedgerows - more as random scatter or for small enclosure.

I also have a small set of unpainted fallen trees from Monster Fight Club and I bought more of their rocky terrain pieces - both of which will feature in the coming months.

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25/28mm Acheson Creations Palisades & Monster Fight Club Bushes

I love these bushes from Monster Fight Club. I got them unpainted at Historicon on a lovely discount. You've seen them in many of the backgrounds of recent entries in the state in which they were purchased. That was remedied this evening and they took to dry brushing quite well with little fuss and even less effort.

I need to get another set or three. They are made of hard plastic and have hollow interiors big enough to hide a few figures or so within. At the same time I picked up some other scatter terrain from them - a stump and some fallen trees as well as as large stones and stone piles big enough to create some rough terrain with lots of cover. Those will appear at a later date.

Here's how they came - just in green plastic:

These wooden walls have also been seen unfinished in many a background shot. It was just the basing that needed finishing and that too was completed this week.

I don't normally like featuring two different products together unless they are intrinsically linked in some way but these do, strangely enough, work together well.

28mm Victrix Austrians for scale

When I first saw these walls, I intended to use them as fences for rural, Russian yards, but as you can see they actually are palisades and not garden fences. I should make up some firing steps, but I know I won't bother.

Some WIPs

Nice set though - I'll still use them but will have to find another purpose for them.

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