Wednesday 27 January 2010

Painting lichen on terrain

I'm working on few weathered terrain pieces at the moment (basically it's another ruined wall piece) and as part of the weathering I've added some lichen to the rocks.

Here's a picture I took to use as reference:


...and here's the effect in miniature:

I'm pretty pleased with the outcome for is, and it's easy to do:

1- Use PVA glue to stick sand where you want the lichen to be
2- Paint the rock with whatever colour you want, I used grey (about Codex Grey) and then drybrushed with light grey (about Fortress Grey). Make sure you include the sand in your drybrushing
3- Drybrush the lichen with whatever colour you want it to end up as. In my picture above I used Gretchin Green.

Easy, and it adds instant age. Here's the complete terrain piece:

I've also knocked up some bases for these trees, nothing too special with these:

5 comments:

Space Hulk Enthusiast said...

Simple and easy, love it.
Consider this stolen.

Max said...

Nice!

Gotthammer said...

Thanks for the tip, very timely as I'm going to be doing some lichen myself soon.

sovietspace said...

Awesome, that'll add nicely to my terrain!

Tigerstyle said...

Thanks for the comments everyone, glad you found this post useful.