Desert terrain

desert

Last week, I showed you how to model desert mesas. This time I'll cover painting and adding vegetation to finish off the terrain. Painting The mesas are painted fairly simply using three main colors and a dark brown wash. For reference I'll compare these colors to Formula P3 Bloodstone, Moldy Ochre, and 'Jack Bone, but use a latex paint that closely matches the color rather than actual miniatures paint (unless you want to empty twelve pots of paint to cover the terrain). Step 1) Start by…

Cliff/bluff faces- your opinions please. For a few years I've collected the odd rock that had an appropriate scale appearance for the bluff faces and general outcroppings of the area I'm referencing in my scenery. I still do this today. However, before I even laid the first rails down 8-ish years ago I found out about the use of 'pink foam' for scenery, and must admit for ease-of-use I've been hooked. Again, I still collect a rock here and there for use in my scenery, and even have the…

It's not a picture of the surface of Mars, it's the desert of my country Algeria. Tassili Najer, Algeria🇩🇿 📸by: Andrew Studer