For some time I've wanted some scenic items to portray marsh/swamp/ponds. My friend gave me some spare resin tree stump castings - which set me off trying to find a use for them. I spotted the 'Battlefield in a Box' Swamp set online - just the thing to act as base I thought. So when it arrived I unpacked - two ponds with four islands, nice but for me not useable straight off, I got all my spare bits and some scenic material out ...
I wanted another larger area of marsh so I made up a group of four marshy ponds on a piece of MDF, here is the main basic buildup with the resin tree stumps
and terrained up with plastic wood ...
I bulit three small ponds on circular bases, kept three of the 'Battlefield in a Box' islands and added a couple of tree stumps to the two ponds.
The bases and tree stumps were painted dark brown and the foliage clumps added to the tree stumps to make stunted trees ...
The pond areas were dry brushed with some browns and a bit of greeny blue and varnished using lots of Humbrol satin varnish. Then I applied a static grass mix and some Army Painter grass tufts to finish them off ...
A low level shot to get that marshy feel ...
Hey Hans did you here a hound barking ???
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Those pieces look great!
If Sven gets the upper hand on Roder he'll have a place to lay low while he rebuilds his strength.
Very nice! I particularly like the idea of a large swampy area on a single base.
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