The Warforge Miniature Modelling and Conversion

Airbush abuse

Played around with it a bit more. I drybrushed beastial brown onto the base, and it looked really bad at first, so I went back and went over it a bit with rotted flesh.. I also hit the ground up with an unusual substance - I found some 'old english' dark wood wax/stain/shiner whatever the heck it was and ran it through there. It made the ground look a bit wet and evened out the browns a bit, which was nice. I felt the buildings were a bit too bright to begin with, so I mixed up an unusual concoction of black ink, future floor cleaner, vallejo matte finish, and water - it worked surprisingly well in the airbrush to 'smoke' everything and darken the colors up without obscuring them. I then went back and drybrushed the color I'd originally based them with around the edges to try and bring out the surface details. I tried to leave them darker towards the bottom, which I think shows nicely in the little comparison animation above.

 

The base's overall color direction has probably gone a bit more orange than I was intending on with the drybrushing, but I don't think it looks bad, not yet. I want to keep that footprint with the grot in it a really deep earthy color, as it makes it look more 'sunk-in' the ground, if you know what I mean. The grot hasn't gotten paint on him yet, but he will shortly, I imagine.

I'm not sure what details to pick out on the buildings or in what colors yet, and I still haven't figured out what to do with the tiles - I tried a variety of colors in photoshop as a test, but nothing looked right.