Jungle Bases pt. 1

For my Necrons I decided early on to have jungle bases, with a strong green tone overall. The idea is to have the bases look like the floor of a jungle area, with a lot of leaf litter and smaller ground plants. To that end I purchased the ever-needed accessory of jungle bases: aquarium plants!

To fill the bases, bits of aquarium plants were hot glued directly to the base, then a textured paste was applied over the entire surface of the bare base and over hot glue spots. On top of the paste I glued mixed herbs and some static grass to add texture to the ground and make it look undergrowthy.

To paint the bases I decided to employ two stages, first rough in the colours using the airbrush, then paint in detail by hand. The photos below walk you through the airbrush stages, I’ll cover the hand details in another post.

First a quick zenithal undercoat to define light and dark areas.

Go over the lot with vallejo air dark green, concentrating on the centre to start forming a light to dark gradient outside to in

Mig bright green to reinforce the outer areas

Vallejo Air Escorpena Green, also on the outer edge, but much more patchy, to create a bit of visual interest

Finally I lightly misted Vallejo Air Light Livery Green over the whole base to tie everything together

The LEDs in the spray booth are quite blue, so here is the result under daylight lamp.

And here is the base in context, with its future inhabitants

I plan next to add some washes to add more depth and to pick out some details using a brush. A few browns will be introduced for a bit of variation, but I want to make sure the greens dominate. I’ll add a link to Part 2 when that is complete (Part 2 here).