Some flora for my Bandidos ...

[hohlinger]

... had some time today and used it to build a little more flora for my Wild West scenery ...

In the first picture you see the cacti after basing with sand and cat litter on white plastic ... the cacti are from Pegasus Hobbies and look unpainted a bit unreal ...


Here you see the painted version:


... and together with the other cacti:


I hope you like it ...

[Skrapwelder]

Those look great.

[archangel1]

Nice colour! Paints?

[white knight]

Awesome!

[Dan]

I have a packet of those but have been putting off painting them for awhile . Yours look very nice but am wondering what you undercoated them with.

[hohlinger]

First I washed the cacti with warm soapy water because I read somewhere in the forum there would be problems with the paint otherwise and then I sprayed them with matt black after basing (I did not show the picture because you will only see black cacti on a black base with black stones  ).

After that I painted the base in brown (it is called terrabrown from the Toom market) and then drybrushed in the three sand shading colors from Foundry.

The cacti where painted last in Phlegm green shades (also from Foundry) - the Phlegm light tone was also drybrushed to pick out the highlights of the cacti.

Hope this helps ...

[Terrible Tim]

I have just started to paint the same cacti! I have just based them and undercoated them black. Do you know what the equivant GW colour is to what you have used for your cacti? I really like the colour.

TT.

[hohlinger]

@ Terrible Tim:

You can probably look here:
http://colors.silicon-dragons.com/full_line.php

There you can find similar colors (or nearly similar) of different labels ... the shade (28A) is a very dark green and the mid tone (28B) and the light version (28C) are "yellowish" greens, as seen on plants very often.

The color match site gives you as equivelant a "Knarloc Green" in the GW Foundation palette which seems to fit very well if I compare the color on the monitor to the Foundry pot. From the GW Citadel palette you can use "Snot Green" for the second shade and for the third shade probably "Camo Green" because of the great amount of yellow in it ... but I am not quite sure how the colors look in reality. Anyway I hope this helps a little bit ...

[cianty]

They look really good! Great job!

[Admiral Benbow]

Very nice work with the cacti, hohlinger, and many thanks for the link to that colour matching site, which is completely new to me and very useful!

[Bako]

Ah yes, that was me. I was talking about lead miniatures. Some plastics might suffer from such things as well.

Thos cacti look great!

[imurdentist]

Those look spot on! If I ever venture to the west, I'll get some of them, too!

Btw, which part of Germany are you from?

[hohlinger]

@ Imurdentist :

I live in the little town Kaiserslautern in the south west of Germany ... and you???

[Athelwulf]

Those are excellent and very life like. Almost look like the ones at my inlaws house. Now someone needs to make some prickly pear models.

[Plynkes]

Ooh, I missed these somehow. Splendid!

I'm looking for something like this to replicate the cactus hedges of Gaza. Can you buy those prickly-pear style ones separately? I'm not sure if the pipe kind of cactus grows in the Old World, so probably wouldn't want any of those. Any Cactus experts out there?