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Got that stuff I was supposed to have done last week all finished up. It’s an ongoing side event for games at the store. If you have the trophy you get the extra 3” forest to place on your side of the table. If you’re playing against the person with the trophy you can pay $1 into the store’s terrain fund to challenge them for it. Beat them and you take it from them. More trophies with different terrain will be coming in the following weeks.

The guy adoring the trophy is Cassius, someone who’s known for hanging out with a magical tree named Wurmwood (the tree on the forest base) that can move itself around and summon forests.

The trophy base is a small wooden plaque with a couple wooden disks added to the face to give more texture. The wood was than all smacked into and pounded against a chunk of rough concrete repeatedly to imprint a stoney texture into it. Sprayed black. heavy drybrush of dark grey over that, leaving majority of the rocky indents still black. Lighter drybrush it lighter grey to highlight some of the edges. Cassius was painted bright silver, then given five heavy coats of sepia wash to create what I feel is a very nice bronze color with light highlights and lots of depth.

The forest base is a 3” diameter piece of wood with a metal washer inset into the middle. Sand glued to the top, and given several coats of black and mud wash. Wurmwood then has a magnet glued to the underside so it’ll stick to that washer. Wurmwood’s painting was a bit experimental. I decided to try out using only wash for color. Was spray primed white, then the ropes got two coats of yellow wash, bark three coats of mud/brown wash, exposed wood two coats of sepia, and the skulls a single cost of black. Really like how the colors came out.
The forest base had been done with the plain black sand textured look to match some of the other forest terrain we have at the store. I don’t think I works out as well on this much smaller piece, and I may make a new base that shows off some roots and more skulls and other small details.

Shot of Wurmwood off of the base.

I think thats a cool idea. Helping you to fund a terrain stockpile is sweet.

As for the trophys they look fantastic. Especially since they are all washed.

Cool beans man.

Cheers!

Hey those are so awesome. Great idea bout hitTing the wood against concrete. It worked well.

 Jonesyboy12 wrote:
Hey those are so awesome. Great idea bout hitTing the wood against concrete. It worked well.

Wasn't my idea. Was part of a series of terrain building tutorials/contests that Privateer Press had up on their website. Is pretty genius though.