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The rocks/ slate not really, the grass tufts are fine without.
The sand yes, or at least washing/ shading. As it is it just looks a little too obviously 'stuff glued to a black plastic base', especially if you let the black plastic show through under the sand and rocks.
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They will probably look too finely textured, too realistically weathered and so on to look well with the model on them. The contrast may be distracting from your model.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568257/6342538.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568257/6342538.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568257/6342569.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568257/6342569.page GMT
Seems somewhat counter-intuitive to paint sand as sand and rocks as rocks, but I consider it necessary for the suspension of disbelief. Very rarely do I not find unpainted materials visually jarring.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568257/6342583.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/568257/6342583.page GMT
Here's some smaller bits of slae I used unpainted on my Falklands troops


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