Where do you buy your 'jungle' plants? For 10/15mm - First attempt on pg2

[TheBlackCrane]

Thanks for all the tips everyone - thought I'd stick a photo of my first attempts here:

Made with a variety of tufts and aquarium plant cutoffs, much of which was embedded into polyfiller. I didn't stop to think at the time how difficult it would be to paint the base and filler with plastic shrubs etc sticking out of it, so they look a bit of a mess, but on the other hand jungle (or in this case 'generic dense vegetation') isn't neat and tidy!

Quite pleased with the first effort - the next phase will be to make up some bigger bases that the round ones can just drop into or not, pretty much stealing the idea from Ockman's blog 

[Brandlin]

I really like them.
Too many of the cheap aquarium plants look just like heap aquarium plants - all monochrome and shiny. Your foliage has colour gradation and a matt look. Well done.

[FifteensAway]

Decent first attempt - or reveal as the case may be.  Another way to go about it, before adding any tufts of course, is to assemble the basic unit and then spray paint the whole thing with a base color and then use floral paints (if you can find them) to create tonal variations.  Or maybe use something like Montana range paints - but their pigments may be too thick to be workable.  The floral paints are pretty opaque.  You could also have applied daubs of acrylic paint above the base and sprinkle on soil textures.  That would add a nice dimension.

[War Monkey]

Looking really good!

Here 's a link that may help;
https://1000footgeneral.blogspot.com/2017/06/making-jungle-terrain.html

I know it has inspired me.

[Grimmnar]

I really like them.
Too many of the cheap aquarium plants look just like heap aquarium plants - all monochrome and shiny. Your foliage has color gradation and a matt look. Well done.

So with that said what is the best way to correct this?
Can they just be painted or just doesn't come out?
Any type of different paint prep?

Grimm

[FifteensAway]

"died in the wool" oopsographical error!     Should be "dyed in the wool" of course.   

[FierceKitty]

The first version sounds much more interesting!

[Shahbahraz]

I just airbrushed mine, they came out pretty well, and I didn't bother too much about over-spray, jungles are plenty of colours. So it was just a matter of using plenty of colour variety.