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Title: What color is your Martian foliage?
Post by: Extra Crispy on May 30, 2017, 02:59:04 AM

I'm going to need to do some basing soon for my 6mm Martian Empires / Space 1889 battles. I'm using a terra cotta color for the red earth itself. Not sure how to go with foliage/grass. More arid yellows? A non-earth like mix of colors? Go cray cray with purples and blues?

What do you do? Pics please!

Title: Re: What color is your Martian foliage?
Post by: dinohunterpoa on May 30, 2017, 10:53:13 AM

(http://www.solstation.com/life/veg2moon.jpg)

Take a look: http://www.solstation.com/life/a-plants.htm (http://www.solstation.com/life/a-plants.htm)
 
;)

Title: Re: What color is your Martian foliage?
Post by: Pendrake on June 16, 2017, 03:46:26 AM

What color should Martian soil be?

I tried to find NASA images and that was a disaster (of unattributed pix, looney tunes finding 'hidden' fossils, color filters ad nauseum, conspiracies of all sorts!)

I just wanted to know what color of table cloth to go for...

Title: Re: What color is your Martian foliage?
Post by: OSHIROmodels on June 16, 2017, 04:51:09 AM

I've only built one of these for now but I went with a tan/slightly green look. For bases (28mm figures) just dry looking tufts seem to fit the bill.

(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/jimbibbly/Martians/b220e6ab2c809550fbd71d0f7284f8af.jpg)

I also went for some standard trees with red foliage.

(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/jimbibbly/VSF/Martian%20Japanese/45af71cd5c678bde4f6c5ec4608cd905_zps5edb7f7c.jpg)
(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk138/jimbibbly/VSF/Martian%20Japanese/c257f44a6316355010654f3f8c610f34_zps98e972fa.jpg)

cheers

James

Title: Re: What color is your Martian foliage?
Post by: ecwcaptain on June 16, 2017, 03:49:27 PM

From what photos I have seen, the ground appears tan/earth, similar to North-West Frontier. I did not see that it was red, though it is called "the red planet". I went with the same NWF drop cloth, and then scatter just a hint of red sand. Works!

With regard to foliage, I go with non-green types; orange, yellow, etc., and maybe add one very yellow-green type. Again, stick to NWF, and add to that for weird foliage, and I think you will be fine. I use Space 1889 canon.

That said, if your games are around the canals, then you would have more foliage, and you can mix in greens.

Title: Re: What color is your Martian foliage?
Post by: The Gray Ghost on June 16, 2017, 04:38:31 PM

I used varying shades of red turning to purple as it nears the canals