building and painting some jungle ruins

[cahrn]

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.


Next a picture of the pieces after the rattle can treatment.


Here they are during the sponge and drybrushing phase.


Here is a more detailed view of a piece after sponge and drybrush work.


Lastly, here is a piece after the oil paint application and subsequent wiping off.


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.

[Bravo Six]

Cahrn, those turned out fantastic! 

[pacarat]

Wow. I love that final pic...

[cahrn]

Cahrn, those turned out fantastic! 

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. 

[Bravo Six]

No worries. Credit where it's due.

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.

[manic _miner]

 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.

[BZ]

They look fantastic!

[AKULA]

Beautiful 

I love the vivid colours - they are going to really pop once the foliage is added

[Grumpy Gnome]

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.

[has.been]

Well done, bloody well done!

[cahrn]

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.

[gamer Mac]

Stunning job

[Mason]

That has given a very impressive end result.
 

I shall have to take a look at doing something similar in future.
Thank you!
 

[cahrn]

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.

[BZ]

Looks awesome!