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I'm planning on using jungle bases for my new I.G. army. I would like to use aquarium plants but don't really like the "plastic look" and would rather paint them. My question is, how would you go about painting them to look better?

Thing is many real jungle plants look fake: and have that shiny/rubber look to them.

However if you are dead set against that look, why not go for the Avatar look and pant them with lots of blues and wild colors so it looks like an alien death world?

Perhaps look into airbrushing?

You can get cloth based ones easily where only the stems are plastic, but the leaves look a lot more realistic.

Maybe consider those?