crazmadsci Deep Dive, Skills

Skin Deep Dive Part 1: Setting a Baseline

Recently on my hobby desk I picked out the Hill Giant Tyrant Ogi Skullcrusher from the Lost Adventures Volume 1 Kickstarter to paint. This was largely before I decided to dive into my Frostgrave series and I decided to attempt to work towards paining some of the models that I have printed. I refuse to call it a pile of shame but rather a collection of opportunity since I am really proud of my printed model collection. 2022 I’m looking at you as a major shift towards painting my backlog (already thinking of next years goals).

Hill Giant Printed Model

One of the things I wanted to do and focus on with this model was to set a baseline for myself and figure out what kind of questions I had when painting skin on models. You see in the past I have almost only used a flesh skintone paint and a wash in the past and call it done. This results in a glossy dirty finish of my miniatures. You can see the image below of some of my past painted models (2018-2021). Some of these represent models that I’ve painted perhaps only 20 miniatures ago (took a long break in 2019-2020) this does not include any of the terrain and building painting.

Previously Painted Figures

This collection showcases two 3D printed models and 3 figures from Reaper Bones. Other than the lack of depth of expression, and in the case of the bugbear on the far right any facial features painted what so ever. You can see I have quite a long way to go for improvement.

Other observations I can draw from these are a few things.

  • Even though I have painted very few models I feel as if my skill has grown tremendously
  • The skill sets and tools I have at my disposal for painting miniatures have grown.

So it is the perfect time to attempt to gauge my current baseline of skill for painting skintones. As I want to document my growth in the hobby more and current understanding to watch my growth of long period of time these baselines are incredibly helpful. I also attempted to dig more into contrast paints, how to use them and expectations of the paint but there is enough there that I am going to release a contrast paint deep dive part 1 from this model next Monday!

The Research

Around the time I really wanted to do more research around painting skin I was listening to a fantastic miniature painting podcast. I love to listen to and highly recommend: Paint Bravely the Podcast. In their July 5th episode “The Best Primer is NOT Black, White, or Grey” they discuss that using a red brown primer on models is great on showing the blood flowing through the figure. It is incredibly rare not to see a red or rosy hue on people of skins somewhere.

I also watch Squidmar Miniatures youtube and keep going back to one of his “Professional Painting Secrets – Squidmar Masterclass”. I have continuously watched the first 20 minutes of him painting the muscles of the bust. I really appreciate him breaking out into photoshop and explaining more about muscles. However in some ways I am still confused (more of that to come).

Regardless, this is a great spring board for me starting to do more.

The Inspiration

Now that I have more knowledge as to the mentality of painting skintones the second thing I struggle with is what colors to use. However as I was going through the Shadowfey Kickstarter updates for my Frostgrave buildings I noticed that they included a painting guide for the giants they released. I used their guide as the initial color reference and found paint similar in my collection although not perfect (thats ok).

Printable Scenery’s Giant used as inspiration

Paint In Progress

Using the Printable Scenery guide as a starting point I used paint conversion charts online to attempt to get as close as I could. The largest challenge for me is that I did not get a large chunk of time to paint and constantly had to remix the same tone since my workspace can dry out my wet pallete if i’m not careful and its been incredibly dry lately. This is when my paint journal came in really handy, I would commonly paint small squares next to my “official” mix to see how it compared before placing on the model. If you don’t keep a paint journal I highly recommend it. You can actually see all my “test” mixes next to the original as tiny dots clustered around a main one. I really struggled with my mix when I started using Elf Skintone.

For the very first base layer I used Citadel’s Deathclaw Brown, Terracota & Scarlet Red from Vallejo Game Color. I attempted to mix it so that way it had a strong red brown tone and after painting it on the model I actually really loved it. It felt like I already had great variable of the skin tone and a color I really appreciate.

Layer 1 (Mix #1): Deathclaw Brown, Terracota & Scarlet Red

I then used this layer and mixed in more Deathclaw brown to lighten it up and painted on top. This was the beginning of my first area of confusion. Watching the Squidmar master class it showed that I was supposed to paint the lighter tone into the muscle recesses and use the dark I believe only for the underside of the muscle. This is what I attempted here but do think it was the beginning of just “dark in the recesses” painting behavior.

Layer 2 (mix #1): Mix #1 + Deathclaw brown

I began to then continue building up and attempt to slowly paint less and less on the model to give it a better transition. This time my mix included the Vallejo Game Color Elf Skintone

Layer 3 (mix 3): Mix #2 + Elf Skintone

I then built up two more layers and the 5th layer was barely applied.

Layer 4 & 5: Elf Skintone & mix of Elf Skintone and Beast Hide

At the end of the skin I was torn on using a wash and for the sake of this experiment I decided against using a wash. Perhaps it would have lent itself to more depth? I have been attempting to improve my skills with layering and am finding myself using washes less on my paint jobs. I will definitely need to back to using shades and washes and attempt to use them in more sophisticated ways.

There was definitely a small bit of painting fatigue due to the number of painting sessions this took, getting large chunks of time to paint is really hard with small kids. While I would have liked to put more time on his skin I was happy. Also the six foot rule for how it would look on a game table told me it looks awesome enough to play with. The one benefit there is that the more definite and darker muscle is visible across the table and showcases him well.

Quick Reference

One thing I made for future reference was a handy quick reference of my layers, its overall transition, and ratios of paint mixed in my painting journal. I actually really loved how it came out and let me know if this would be useful for you and if I should continue to include my reference guides.

  • Hill Giant Skintone Reference Guide

Painting After Skin

After I finished painting his skin I still felt the need to experiment. The first experiment that I did was to see how I felt about using a blue linen or leather on his waist.

After throwing on some paint I realized it was absolutely not what I wanted on my model. Also thanks for the conversations and ideas from the 3D Printed Tabletop Discord.

I decided to revert back and paint his clothes a classic leather color. I wanted to showcase two colors of cloth with a reddish fur. So instead of trying a new color I decided to try some of my contrast paints which I do not have as much experience with. However II think a conversation about my obversions and questions around contrast paints deserve their own separate discussion, stay tune for next week on that!

Areas of Improvement

As for the skin there are definitely areas where I feel like the darker recesses on the model are too thick and transitions too short. I feel as if I should have had more visible transitions. Several of my middle layers such as #2 and #3 are not nearly as visible.

The lighter color paint and layers definitely overpower the red hue of rich living flesh I was going for. While I did end up with a Caucasian skintone it was not as rosy or red hue as I wanted. This made me remember at the very end that I should have used more of a glaze of thinner consistency which would help the transistions as well.

Lastly I realized I have no idea how some muscles of the human body actually work. For example I had no idea how to appropriately paint his back and hands. You can see that the transitions in muscles are very thick, not as well definite and look kind of goofy.

In progress shots of back and hand

Finished Image

While I do admit I need to take more photos of this guy I am extremely happy with his final result. Check it out and let me know what you think. Biggest highlight is that these are probably the best eyes I’ve ever painted.

What’s Next?

I definitely want to continue focusing on improving my knowledge and experiment a whole lot more with different skin tone colors and also increase the amount of diversity in my models. Learning more about the skin of different people around the globe is going to be a ton of fun and I want to see if I can truly capture peoples heritage in color.

Next step in this experiment is my testing of different base colors for undead flesh before I paint models for the Necromancer Warband.

As always Happy Hobbying.

~ Carrie the Crazy Mad Scientist

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Wood Color Palette on 1 inch round tavern bases
crazmadsci Deep Dive

Wood Painting Deep Dive: Part 2 Improving your Color Palette

It has been quite sometime since I said I was starting my Woodworking deep dive (April 6th, 2021). It is definitely worth discussing the things I’ve done, worked on, and have to show since that time.

Just to recap for those who do not remember or haven’t read “Wood Painting Deep Dive: Part 1 The Questions, Inspiration and Self Reflection”.

I have begun an epic quest to improve my knowledge, tools, and experiences for painting wood textures for my tabletop projects. Being tired of painting everything the same and having all the shields, staves, trees, buildings looking the same I decided to attempt to learn more. This knowledge along with increased practice painting wood grains and trees would also help improve my confidence while painting.

I also have many other goals and ambitions is to do deep dives into the paint process and methodology of many different types of things in an effort to increase my understanding and skills in the hobby. Read more about my Deep Dive goals here.

The Questions



I began with attempting to seek out answers to these questions:

1) How can I paint different wood species to provide a larger variety color palette while still looking realistic?

2) What are the main wood types that I can use in the space and still not break the immersion of my tabletop? Primary focus in Fantasy or medieval time periods.

3) What are the various ways to add mold, decay, age, etc to wood grain?

4) What if the piece of terrain does not have a wooden texture. What mentality should I have while painting by hand? What are great ways to practice this?

5) How do I increase the variety of plant life on my tabletop based on season and biome? Almost all my trees end up being deciduous tree from a temperate climate.

6) Is there a “best” way to make trees? How many should I have? Considerations to have when playing on the table?

The Research

I began my search for information with the go to location: YouTube. Compiling an immense playlist for all things WoodPainting. In the end I compiled four primary playlists: Wood Effects, Wood done with Airbursh, Barrels & Crates, Faux Wood. The Wood Effects was my catch all for either unsorted or truly unique videos. In the end I collected over 80 videos on YouTube ranging from 2013 to 2021 and view counts sometimes as low as 200. As I was attempting to sort, take notes, and design painting challenges to grow in this space I realized one thing. Without a doubt I realized I might have dove too deep for starting out.

So I decided to peel back a bit into more manageable chunks. Starting with:

What are the main wood types that I can use in the space and still not break the immersion of my tabletop? Primary focus in Fantasy or medieval time periods.

Thanks to a fantastic write up, “Wood in the Middle Ages” from the Rhode Island School of Design and Art Museum website. Essentially it gives the springboard to my ponderings.

Wood Type and Usage was primarily broken down by geographical region in roughly the 8th to 15th centuries.

Germany/Central Europe: Limewood or Lindenwood
Mediterranean: Popular
England: Oak or Walnut (less common)
Flanders, Netherlands, France: Beech & Elm

Wood Samples by Type


Well here was a start. I have about 7 different wood species to attempt to work on in my painting as inspiration. However I encounter a problem. I had no idea what colors I had if I was going to work towards a specific color palette.

Which was the perfect first series of tests and experiments!

The Beginnings of a Paint Experiment

Using my previously mentioned inspiration from Michael Cavagnaro on several facebook groups, who began making color swatches for contrast paints and wood textures.

Michael Cavagnaro’s color swatches. Source Miniature Painting Tips and Tricks Facebook Group

I began to make my own collection of swatches to hopefully give me a better picture on how to paint different types of wood. I thought about making the larger 2×2 dungeon tiles of which I actually even started printing and painting them but quickly realized that it would take too much time and material. So instead I printed 25 mm, standard tavern bases. These round bases were absolutely perfect and used very little material and I could print a large amount of them relatively quickly.

Beginning with the mentality i’ve seen very frequently in my lengthy YouTube research playlist I started with a collection of 25 bases all of which were primed black to start and then heavily dry brushed with a color of my collection. Almost all wood painting tutorials start with a black undercoat to help with shading.

Wood Painting Bases using a Black Primer
First Batch with a Black Primer

While seeing this collection grow gave me a large amount of satisfaction. However I was overall feeling disappointed with the small amount of diversity in my choices. So many colors were so dark I couldn’t even see the color only Black. I’m looking at you MSP Reaper Brown Liner! Perhaps I am doing myself a disservice by only doing a black primer by blindly following the teaches of the interwebs. So in the end I decided to build the project in the only way a crazy mad scientist knows how….

I added two more undercoat colors: Grey and White making it a total of 75 bases using the original 25 colors. All of these colors were model hobby paints coming from the brands: Vallejo Model and Game Color, P3, Army Painter, MSP Reaper, and Citadel. I have slowly been growing my collection of paints from various sources to also see if I prefer any over the other.

Not only that but I also decided to test my 4 contrast paints and brown & tan colors from my cheap hobby acrylics. This was most important since I was most likely going to use the cheap acrylics like $0.50 Apple Barrel paints.

In the end I created 123 total swatches of color for wood painting! In order to distinguish between the varieties I have labeled each underside of the bases with either a number (model paint), the letter C followed by a number (contrast paint), or an alphabetical letter (hobby paint). The key to the code of all the bases are put into my paint journal so I can always search through the swatches and pick out my favorites at any time without the bias of name.

Wood Painting Color Palette

Below are the images of all the swatches used in this test along with their name, brand, and my own cataloging tag. Each color is in three columns based on the primer undercoat; white, grey, and black.

Let me know what you think!

Contrast Paint

Model Paint

Hobby Paint

Conclusion

This painting palette test for wood painting has definitely taught me a few things.

1) Before this experiment I will admit I have heavily been biased against contrast paint as a “lazy painters” paint. As a form of shade and wash many paint in a one and done fashion. Without the need of additional layers or other painting techniques. Well after this test I will say that I’m definitely a contrast paint convert. Some of my favorite choices done are the contrast paint swatches.

The twelves bases painted to showcase contrast paint at three different undercoats.
Experiment using Contrast Paints

2) Do not underestimate the power of grey. So much wood has a grey hue to it. Some of the most realistic painted swatches are using the grey primer.

3) The cheap hobby paint does not nearly have the same opacity as the model paint. This would require several coats of paint for terrain projects. Which leaves me for a later question. Is it worth saving the money on the cheaper if you will perhaps spend so much more time on it?

4) Black might be my last favorite go to choice for undercoat for woodworking. While some looked decent I have so much more variety and capability while painting when using grey or white instead of Black.

Wood Bases showing extreme dark wood colors which are almost unnoticeable
Some of my Darkest Colors using a Black Primer

What’s Next?

Now I am left with of course more questions. Will a variety of colors look good on a single project? How can I push these swatches to look even better for painting projects? Which colors will match specific wood species.

This Deep Dive of course did not answer all my questions about wood painting but has definitely helped to take a step forward in the right direction. I have significantly more confidence in painting wood and am excited to experiment further, rather than intimidated.

Do you experiment anything when painting? What would you like to see tested further? Have an idea on the next step or something you want investigated in your hobby? Nominate it here.

As always Happy Hobbying.

~ Carrie the Crazy Mad Scientist

New Website Sections!

I’ve recently added new sections to the website to make this conversation and others for deep dives more easily accessible. Found under Painting you can navigate to either the homepage of all Deep Dives or directly to Wood Painting for more easily accessible information and pictures of the color palette.

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Wood Painting Deep Dive: Part 1 The Questions, Inspiration and Self Reflection

Herein lies the first installment of the beginning of my wood painting deep dive. Wow, do I have a ton to unpack for this series and am already running out of “time” as I attempt to break things down and schedule them out. I can already tell that like all things in art and hobby there is no definite end or mastery but rather a continuous journey. So lets get to it!

The Problem

I do not know about you but I absolutely hate painting wooden textures in the tabletop space. In my mind almost every aspect of the hobby includes wood of some form. Miniatures have shields, perhaps wooden tavern bases, wooden helmets, bows, staffs, handles to weapons etc. Terrain can be trees, a fort, a barricade, tables & chairs to just name a few. Don’t even get me to start listing different buildings built out of wood. Everywhere I look I have to paint more wood onto objects. 

As a crafter I am now faced at a crossroads. Do I continue doing the same thing, paint, method and color? OR Do I attempt to grow my knowledge and skill? Obviously since I am starting a deep dive category regarding the subject I’ve obviously chosen road number 2.

Now let us face the looming question. How do I make all the things with wood in my collection not look the same? I am aspiring to diversify my collection and wheel house of choices as well as skill.

The Questions

1) How can I paint different wood species to provide a larger variety color palette while still looking realistic?

2) What are the main wood types that I can use in the space and still not break the immersion of my tabletop? Primary focus in Fantasy or medieval time periods.

3) What are the various ways to add mold, decay, age, etc to wood grain?

4) What if the piece of terrain does not have a wooden texture. What mentality should I have while painting by hand? What are great ways to practice this?

5) How do I increase the variety of plant life on my tabletop based on season and biome? Almost all my trees end up being deciduous tree from a temperate climate.

6) Is there a “best” way to make trees? How many should I have? Considerations to have when playing on the table?

7) What about paint on wood? How do I paint color onto a wood finish and still keep the texture?

These are just a few of the numerous questions I have when painting wooden things for my tabletop. I am sure there are going to be plenty of others and not all will be answered in this short series but at least it will get my foot in the door, of things to look out for while I’m researching and painting.

The Inspiration

Part of the inspiration for doing deep dives at all is from a facebook post by a man named Michael Cavagnaro in the Miniature Painters Tips and Tricks group on December 4, 2020. He created a large collection of wooden floor tiles for reference using different washs & contrast paint on top of 2 undercoats. The first was just a printed Brown PLA and the second primed with white spray paint. 

Inspiration Work by Michael Cavagnaro

While this is a great reference document, I am unable to find the original source as well as do not frequently use or own many contrast paints. I am also someone who currently has the mentality that the extra time spent on learning, and making it look as good as I can. My intention is that each wagon, tree, shield I make and paint will last year’s and I am in no rush to make my ultimate game table, battle map, and epic miniature paint job. Within reason of course, finishing projects is the goal after all.

My plan is to make not only my own sample selection of paint for wood like Michael did but also be more transparent on paints used for others to grow the collection. 

My Wood Painting Journey Thus Far

In reality I did not truly get into the miniature painting and tabletop gaming hobby until 2014 of which was a brief introduction which was not rekindled until summer of 2018 when I started 3d printing. Check out the Beginnings into 3d printing if you are curious about how I got my start specifically for 3d printing. 

Like almost all people the starting prints in the hobby consisted of scatter terrain things like treasure chests, trees and the like. Then I saw the project that I absolutely MUST do. My first ever 3d printable file purchase was a lake backer purchase of the Forest of Oakenspire by Evan Carathers. This project is royalty among wood terrain. A fully modular, livable, tree village! I mean come on who doesn’t want to make that? 

Kickstarter Image of the Forest of Oakenspire Tree house.

In the end as a brand new person into 3d printing I decided to start with something “small” (insert laughter) of a flying airship from that Kickstarter set. To this day it is still a project I haven’t completed and is looming over my head. One day i’ll finally finish it.

Airship work in progress project from 2018.

Not too long after I started diving into Dungeon tiles and 3d printed some tavern tiles.

We can say that the project got a little bit out of hand. Also that I might seriously have an affinity towards Dungeon Tiles.

I worked on docks for city harbors, these are made an Openforge design by Devon Jones.

I’ve also made bookshelves, tables, trees, and so many more things made out of wood. With the exception of the dungeon tiles, every single one of these projects I have never completed because I was unhappy with the quality of paint job and diversity of my wood based builds. 

Wood Painting in 2021

This year however, 2021, I have decided to put more work into painting wooden textures and have already tried a few different things and learned quite a bit already.

Starting one of my first paint jobs I painted the siege equipment from the Fantasy Props Kickstarter. The Trebuchet and Catapult I learned a very important lesson about underpainting. So far I have always primed the wood brown and layered up. The method used for the siege was a black base coat then dry brushing up. I love the dark hue underneath and there is definitely something there that deserves more time and experimenting.

Another wood paint style i’ve attempted this year is a more dynamic wood age and weathered look. Painting the fishers hut I used a large variety of colors to attempt to give the grain and planks their own unique look rather than a static uniformity that I think tends to be dull. I have gotten so many compliments on this specific paint job and am excited that my going in blind approach of throwing colors at it actually came out great. I would like more confidence in doing this though rather than just throwing a hail Mary and hoping it turns out well.

I also really really loved the fact that I added bronze paint to attempt to showcase a rusted nail look on the planks of the Fishers hut. It is actually my favorite painting aspect of the entire project.



All in all wood is the perfect example of just how crazy in depth the crafting hobby can go. Due to the sake of length as well as providing more time for research I am going to extend the research portion this deep dive for next week. While I think I have had a great start in improving my skills of wooden painting for the tabletop hobby there is so much more I can do. I’m excited about pursuing it further. 

Stay tuned for next week where we break down various applications of painting wood textures, materials commonly used, where its commonly found, and the planning of future painting projects to test new concepts.

Do you have any questions about painting wood? What kind of things would you like to see experimented?

Part 2: Wood Painting Color Palette

New Website Sections!

I’ve recently added new sections to the website to make this conversation and others for deep dives more easily accessible. Found under Painting you can navigate to either the homepage of all Deep Dives or directly to Wood Painting for more easily accessible information and pictures of the color palette.

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crazmadsci Deep Dive, Goals

Introducing: Crazmadsci “Deep Dives”

Introducing a new post series: Deep Dives

As a 2021 Hobby Goal it is my ambition to work on “Deep Dives” of 4 different major topics. This is a post series i’m extremely passionate about and look forward to starting.

What is a deep dive?

From an analytical standpoint a deep dive is an “intense, in depth analysis of a certain problem or subject.” What does that mean for the tabletop hobby? Well for one I want to research, explore and experiment with all the different ways myself or my fellow hobbyists tackle a subject in the tabletop space. Either painting, printing, playing or something perhaps something else entirely. A deep dive will document my entire journey, the successes, failures, and methods.


The Never Ending Questions


The primary goal of a deep dive is to begin to answer some of the many questions I face when crafting and playing. Some of those questions include:

Where do I even start for X Project? How do I break out of the rut of doing the same method over and over again? How do I make my collection of scatter, miniatures and terrain stand out and be unique as opposed to all look the same? What materials do I need? What problems will I face? What is the lore or history around this project?

The downside is that some of these questions end up becoming so overwhelming for me, projects never get completed or even started. Uncertainty and fear of messing up especially when I have so little hobby time can be debilitating.

Since the purpose of crazmadsci.com is all about sharing my experiences in the hobby, how about also including my experiments?

Introducing…


The crazmadsci DeepDives. This area of the site is going to be the location of all my “experiments” or rather rabbit holes. For painting I admit while learning and figuring out color schemes, paint recipes, paint techniques etc. I do have an affinity for painting along with others or taking the advice and experiences of others to heart. Almost every youtuber, guide writer or instagram poster has a different method of painting bone for example. Or depending on the area of focus either via 3d printing, buying kits, or foam crafting the process of painting terrain may vary based on materials and tools on hand. The goal of my deep dives are to attempt to figure out not only why these other hobbyists make these decisions but also what suits my current skills, materials, and preferences the most. Why not take advantage of time spent by others to figure out what works?

Perhaps painting bones, wood, metal etc in a dozen different ways apiece will give me a wide array of experiences and examples to choose from to help diversify my hobby playbook.

Deep Dive Goals


What are my goals for the Deep Dives:

1) Learn numerous ways of tackling a problem

2) Increase the diversity of painting in my collection

3) Grow in both mentality and skill for the hobby as a whole

4) Understand more the mentality of others who are also in the hobby

5) Create a collection of choices or swatches, when painting for future inspiration. A portfolio of sorts.

6) Document the process so I do not forget what i’ve learned and have reference material to go back to.

Deep Dive FAQ:


1) Will the deep dives stay purely focused on painting? 

Absolutely not. I plan on doing deep dives and focus research on many aspects of the hobby such as miniature photography, materials for crafting, various aspects of 3d printing and more that come along the way. I do want primary focus for the time being to be on painting though.

2) How do I choose what is researched? 

This will mostly be revolving around the subject matter that currently perplexes either myself or a reader. Once we encounter a question we will tackle it as it comes. However there will sometimes be some larger pre-planned projects resulting in a “series” of posts and experiments.

3) Once researched once will I ever go back?

Absolutely! As I grow in the hobby i’m sure my questions will as well requiring me to constantly come back and fine tune. I”ll try to keep every major category numbered to more easily follow along. Find more guides online that you think I should try myself and add to the collection. Don’t hesitate to bring them up as I will constantly be evolving myself.

4) Where will my “research” be coming from?

All of the experimentation will have references & links to the original source of that method. Sources will come from as many places as I can find: Youtube, Blogs, Random search engine responses, Pinterest, Facebook, Discord groups, etc. No credit will be taken in my hobby experimentation but rather become a repository to hear how something is solved in numerous different ways. All ideas, methods, and concepts learned from a particular location will have the citation to go with it so you can hear it from them as well. 

5) Format of Deep dives on the site:

The current intent is to post more about my current project progress rather than just start and finish. So hobby posts which subscribers/followers of the site get notified of upon publication will get updates of project progress after milestones are completed. Eventually upon project conclusion a reference page will be created so we all can go back and refer to images, paint schemes etc as needed. This will make it easier to find information down the road if you are not following along. Also all posts will be hyperlinked for easy navigation. Posts will occur on Fridays if a series is in progress. 

Potential Future Deep Dive topics

Current areas that I as a hobbyist am planning to investigate (No order of importance):

  • Painting Bone
  • Painting Wood/ Trees
  • Printing with Transparent filament
  • Supporting models in FDM & Resin
  • Miniature Photography
  • Flocking & adding foliage to my terrain
  • Painting castle/ruin terrain, various stonework
  • Painting Skin, humanoid and other

Conclusion

For the month of April I am currently planning on doing a 5 part series on a deep dive into painting Wood & Trees. Starting with its introduction on Friday, April 2nd. Stay tuned.

This will allow me to better compile my experiments while answering some of the many questions I have about the hobby. Perhaps others might have the same questions as well or if i’m lucky answers. These deep dives could also prove valuable in the years to come as I hope to repeat or reuse pieces of builds or add to my collection. Lastly the aim of this is to instill confidence and a form of accomplishment in the hobby. It is incredibly easy to always feel like nothing is ever done in a space of never ending goals and projects.

What kind of questions do you have in the hobby space? Have any questions about painting wood and trees? 

As always Happy Hobbying,

Carrie, aka crazmadsci

Wood Painting Deep Dive Part 1

New Website Sections!

I’ve recently added new sections to the website to make this conversation and others for deep dives more easily accessible. Found under Painting you can navigate to either the homepage of all Deep Dives or directly to Wood Painting for more easily accessible information and pictures of the color palette.

Deep DIve HomePage
Wood Painting

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