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Title: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: cahrn on July 20, 2021, 09:54:49 PM
In 2019 a friend and I both backed a Kickstarter campaign for jungle themed ruins terrain from a Polish company called Archon Studio. Both of us received our pledges last year, but neither of us got around to assembling or painting it for a variety of reasons. Over a couple weeks we each assembled our respective packs and last weekend we got together for a work day to get started painting the collective terrain. Over about five hours we applied a base coat with various colors from rattle cans, namely teal/aqua blue, violet, orange, and a grey/black. From there sponged all of the pieces with cream and yellow ocher, then drybrushed again with cream. To tint everything and add more interest we then applied unthinned oil paint over the pieces. The oil colors we used were burnt sienna, raw umber, burnt umber, paynes grey, olive green, phthalo green, and magenta. Once the oils were down we used paper towels with some white spirits to wipe away the excess and blend the colors together where necessary.

Here are some assembled pieces prior to any paint going on.
(https://i.imgur.com/zaW1B0u.jpg?1)

Next a picture of the pieces after the rattle can treatment.
(https://i.imgur.com/Z6o4OOK.jpg?1)

Here they are during the sponge and drybrushing phase.
(https://i.imgur.com/8BpsJnL.jpg?1)

Here is a more detailed view of a piece after sponge and drybrush work.
(https://i.imgur.com/h7qZ1Qd.jpg?1)

Lastly, here is a piece after the oil paint application and subsequent wiping off.
(https://i.imgur.com/YI8HW9x.jpg)

On the day we got together we were able to complete about half of the project through the oil paint step. Of course all pieces still need a generous treatment of moss and other vegetation. I will update with some more photos when we've achieved that step. Over all we are both really happy with how they are starting to turn out, especially with no precision brush work involved.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Bravo Six on July 20, 2021, 09:58:02 PM
Cahrn, those turned out fantastic!  :o
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: pacarat on July 20, 2021, 10:25:41 PM
Wow. I love that final pic...
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: cahrn on July 21, 2021, 01:20:00 AM
Cahrn, those turned out fantastic!  :o

Thanks for the kind words Bravo Six. It was quite the flurry of activity getting so much accomplished in one afternoon. Hopefully some moss and plant life helps tie everything together. 

Wow. I love that final pic...

Thanks! We thought so, too. It really proves the idea that when painting or building terrain things tend to keep looking worse and worse until that one step when it doesn’t anymore.  o_o
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Bravo Six on July 21, 2021, 01:21:18 AM
No worries. Credit where it's due. :D

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It was quite the flurry of activity getting so much accomplished in one afternoon

I've had afternoons like that myself, especially lately. Keep up the good work.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: manic _miner on July 21, 2021, 11:37:10 AM
 Great work on the terrain.Going to have to dig mine out now and get started.
 Looking forward to seeing the finished pieces with the vegetation added.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: BZ on July 21, 2021, 12:33:14 PM
They look fantastic!
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: AKULA on July 21, 2021, 01:23:59 PM
Beautiful  :-* :-*

I love the vivid colours - they are going to really pop once the foliage is added
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on July 21, 2021, 02:15:09 PM
Looking good! I particularly like how you built not that hill. The Kazumi Temple pieces are great, I have a few I got on eBay that I have not gotten around to painting yet but once I do I will need to look at getting more. Your work is inspirational.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: has.been on July 22, 2021, 08:37:25 PM
Well done, bloody well done! :-*
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: cahrn on July 22, 2021, 09:08:18 PM
Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

Looking good! I particularly like how you built not that hill. The Kazumi Temple pieces are great, I have a few I got on eBay that I have not gotten around to painting yet but once I do I will need to look at getting more. Your work is inspirational.

The hill piece is one my friend put together with a couple extra wall sections. I think it is a pretty interesting piece. It’s certainly different than the rest of the normal ruins we made.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: gamer Mac on July 22, 2021, 10:21:59 PM
Stunning job :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Mason on July 22, 2021, 10:47:34 PM
That has given a very impressive end result.
 :-* :-*

I shall have to take a look at doing something similar in future.
Thank you!
 :)
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: cahrn on July 27, 2021, 01:05:50 AM
Here's a little update with a couple pictures of a piece with added foliage. I also did a final drybrush pass to pick some of the most raised detail back out after the oil paint step.


(https://i.imgur.com/9wviHDy.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/K0ZQ4x3.jpg)
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: BZ on July 27, 2021, 03:57:32 AM
Looks awesome!
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on July 27, 2021, 06:26:45 AM
Brilliant work!
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Ash on July 27, 2021, 06:48:34 AM
That's a great result, with the magenta & green oils you've created a really super split tone effect on the stone.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: fred on July 27, 2021, 07:40:18 AM
These look fantastic.

I’m impressed with your imagination to use the bright colours as the base then blend it all in to the finished piece.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: has.been on July 27, 2021, 09:32:27 AM
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These look fantastic.

I’m impressed with your imagination to use the bright colours as the base then blend it all in to the finished piece.

Yes, yes, yes. :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: gamer Mac on July 27, 2021, 12:32:41 PM
The colours you are adding are great :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: cahrn on July 27, 2021, 04:44:14 PM
That's a great result, with the magenta & green oils you've created a really super split tone effect on the stone.

These look fantastic.

I’m impressed with your imagination to use the bright colours as the base then blend it all in to the finished piece.

Thanks for the kind words. The idea was to use bright colors to get some contrast and visual interest on the pieces. Probably a lesson I need to learn for miniature painting as well  lol. I'll add some more pictures of the other pieces in time, and maybe a shot of the completed terrain on the table.

The colours you are adding are great :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*

It's been cool to experiment a bit with this technique. I did a different set of cast plastic terrain earlier this year that I painted with rattle cans and feel like a bold use of colors can make a really interesting result.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Bloggard on July 31, 2021, 10:24:27 AM
fabulous.
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: cahrn on October 22, 2021, 06:11:58 AM
I've used the ruins a few times for games now. Overall they're pretty neat and work well to cover up a table.

(https://i.imgur.com/jDf4lkr.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/PvgFvMc.jpg)
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Mick_in_Switzerland on October 22, 2021, 09:06:23 AM
I was a bit sceptical about the green and purple shades but the finished result looks great - well done. :-*
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: MaleGriffin on December 20, 2021, 07:54:09 PM
Brilliant and inspirational!
Title: Re: building and painting some jungle ruins
Post by: Cacique Caribe on December 21, 2021, 07:24:35 AM
Wow, extremely impressive layout!  The motifs seem to be from all over and, at the same time, from unspecified backgrounds.  So these pieces could even work for an alien (offworld) setting.

Dan