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Hi guys I have a Daemon army and I wanted my Bloodletters to be walking across grass but I want the area around their feet and the path they walked through to be burnt ground. How could I go about doing a burnt ground effect for bases? I think the basic GW grasses mixed together worked but I can't figure out how to do burned floor like some firey being just walked over it...

Any ideas or steps on how to do this?

GF9 do an ash waste basing pack which has a peppery grey/black/white very ashy texture.

Alternatively you can use watered down black ink/wash to "stain" the grass.

You can make footprints in the grass by setting up the static grass as normal (pva - shake on grass, remove excess) and then smooshing the grass down using a dowel, or anything else to hand.

Once the PVA is dry, use the wash to colour the grass and/or add a sprinkle of ash to the area after adding watered down PVA to the grass.

You could also try drybrushing the grass black/grey/white

Sand the base and basecoat entirely with oranges/reds. Drybrush over the orange with blacks, browns or dark greys (being careful to leave the orange in the recesses). This will give the appearance of burnt soil/charcoal and cinders. If you don't leave some orange showing through in the recesses put some GW burnt grass there.

It you want lava use a smooth surface and gradually build up and blend from red to orange to yellow to white (finest highlights).

Hope this helps.

Forgeworld or Secret Weapon soot powders. Quick, easy, and look 'right':

One cool thing you can try is to make the base green grass but the footprints in dead grass.
You would probally have to apply with a tweezer.
After that maybe light drybrush of black over the footprints.

winterdyne wrote:Forgeworld or Secret Weapon soot powders. Quick, easy, and look 'right':

How are you sealing that, if I may ask?

Generally just a soft spray with flattened Klear through the airbrush is enough. I find. Quite often I set powders with Tamiya Thinner rather than white spirit as I prefer the smell. Any quick evaporating, not-too-aggressive solvent will do though.

+1 for powders. I'm using APJ pigments, which I set with plain old rubbing alcohol (let capillary action do the spreading - to much movement and you'll strip the underlying paint off) and seal with a dusting of matte varnish.

You actually get a rather good burned grass effect jsut by putting static grass on the abse and washing the hell out of it with a dark wash. Simple, effective and cheap.

Try dry brushing or, as the guy said above washing, the tips of the grass with black once youve got the ground done.