Its paint time! :)

Its still very basic, but the idea is to literally drown the base with a dark brown color. This has to be done because the materials used are very porous, and we dont want any sand color showing through. Non painted areas will be base coated with green for still water effect :)






This piece here is a test piece for some home made dark brown wash. For now it looks like it works good :) (and this same wash will be used later on ofcourse :)




And if anyone wondered how my desk looks like, here it is in all its glory :)





Once the paint was dry, the base is progressively highlighted toward bleached bone, using sable brown, honey brown, moon yellow and finally bleached bone (of vallejo variety. The rest of the paints are mu sturdy Americana)




































And to soften everything up I added liberal amounts of my home-made wash :)

After the glue is (almost) completely dry, its time to add more detail. In this case rocks and wood.






Rocks are from WH40k basing kit, and the wood are twigs collected around the house, and trimmed to size

Once the glue is dry, its time to make the added stones and wood look slightly more in place instead of just carelessly being thrown on top. That will be achieved by adding glue to the edges of the objects, and sprinkling fine sand on the glue.





This piece turned out pretty nice :)






Some deeper edges will need a few more layers of glue and sand to fill up the gaps. Just a little patience ...




And it will look a lot better :)






After this stage I prefer to leave everything to thoroughly dry for at least 12 hours.