Jon Grant Miniatures

I’ve really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and Age of Sigmar . I’m starting to build up a solid collection of pieces, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to see the table come to life. In this article, I’m focusing on the bone components of my Warcry terrain—specifically, the skeletons and skulls . Let’s be honest: if you paint GW miniatures, at some point you’re going to paint bone. There are literally skulls everywhere in the Mortal Realms and the Imperium. I sometimes wonder if the dead just get buried without their heads? Anyway, here’s a quick guide for painting bone that’s been weathered by the elements. I use this recipe for both terrain and bases. Paints required: Wraithbone spray Morghast Bone Athonian Camoshade Karak Stone Screaming Skull Pallid Wych Flesh Agrax Earthshade Optional Zandri Dust Start with an undercoat of Wraithbone Spray —assuming the piece can be painted separately. Then apply a base coat of Morghast Bone . If th...

I’ve really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and Age of Sigmar . I’m starting to build up a solid collection of pieces, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to see the table come to life. In this article, I’m focusing on the wooden components of my Warcry terrain—specifically, the wooden walkways and barricades . These differ from the wooden planks found on the ruins, as the branches used in these structures still have bark. I wanted these to look subtly different from the planks, and after a bit of experimenting, I’m really happy with the final result. The process is fairly quick, though a few steps require drying time.   Paints required: Skavenblight Dinge Dryad Bark Wyldwood Agrax Earthshade Rakarth Flesh Deathworld Forest Zandri Dust Ushabti Bone Screaming Skull Dawnstone Administratum Grey Elysian Green Seraphim Sepia Chaos Black Spray Start by undercoating everything with Chaos Black Spray . The wooden planks were then basecoated with...

I’ve really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and Age of Sigmar . I’m starting to build up a solid collection of pieces, and it’s been rewarding to see the table come to life. In this article, I’m focusing on the metal components of my Warcry terrain—specifically, the metal grates found in the Azyrite Ruins and the ruined eight-pointed Chaos stars on the barricades. I wanted these metal parts to look like they had been exposed to the elements for a long time, corroding naturally with rust. This effect adds some lovely orange tones that contrast beautifully with the grey stone, green moss, and brown wood. For this tutorial, I used a barricade miniature. I painted the wooden stakes first, but the rust technique can be applied to any metal surface you want to weather.   Paints required: Leadbelcher Rhinox Hide Nuln Oil Black Templar Agrax Earthshade Doombull Brown Skrag Brown Trollslayer Orange Ironbreaker Lahmian Medium Chaos Black Spray...

I have really enjoyed painting the Azyrite Ruins and other terrain features for Warcry and the Age of Sigmar. I am beginning to amass a good range of pieces.  Having finished the stonework on these structures, the next next large sections to paint were the wooden planks that make up the broken floors and of course the bell tower. I wanted the wood to be a different colour from the stone but equally to appear as though it did belong in the ruins. I intended to basecoat the 'wood' with grey before shifting its hue with browns and then finishing it off with greens. I recently did an update of this method. I did not like the glossy look of the contrast paint. So I have experimented a little to change the paints I have used. The update is in blue . More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here.  Paints required: Skavenblight Dinge Wyldwood Agrax Earthshade Rakarth Flesh Deathworld Forest Elysian Green Seraphim Sepia Chaos Black Spray I undercoated the wood ...

When I was painting the Timeworn Ruins, the sheer number of skulls on these pieces really annoyed me. So, I decided to cover them. Then, while out walking, I noticed lots of stone walls covered in moss. I had my idea, now ' how to do it? '.  More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here.  Materials and paints required: Flock PVA Glue Castellan Green Athonian Camoshade Agrax Earthshade Elysian Green Ogryn Camo Lamenters Yellow Waywatchers Green Biel-tan Green Spatula to apply the 'Moss'. Medium sized round-ended brush Wash brush The 'Moss' is applied to the miniature after everything else is painted. First of all I mix up the Flock and PVA Glue to make a paste. To this add enough Castellan Green and Athonian Camoshade to colour the paste. The paste will dry darker as the white glue becomes transparent. The paste should be runny enough to not crumble when it is applied and but stiff enough to retain its shape when you apply it. If it is too runny, add...

Over the years, one of my favourite aspects of playing Warhammer has been sending my fully painted army across a board with great terrain.  The really nice feature of terrain is that can be painted easily and quickly with just a few basic techniques, and still look amazing on the table top, no matter how much experience you have. For this tutorial, I am using the Azyrite Ruins. More of my  How to paint... articles  can be found here.  Paints required: Mechanicum Standard Grey Dawnstone Administratum Grey Athonian Camoshade Elysian Green Karak Stone Screaming Skull Agrax Earthshade (optional) Seraphim Sepia (optional) Nuln Oil (optional) Grey Seer (optional) The terrain was first undercoated with Chaos Black. This was then followed by a drybrush with Mechanicum Standard Grey.  I like to use a fairly large, round-ended brush (I have a make-up brush) when I drybrush terrain. When drybrushing, I move the brush around in a circular motion, focusing on raised areas an...

  I have recently been painting a fair amount of terrain for Warcry and I have thoroughly enjoyed it; simple techniques can produce great effects really quickly. When Kill Team: Pariah Nexus was released I decided that I would like to paint the terrain pieces from the set. I already own I sizable Necron force, which I started building around 20 years ago (some of it is made of actual metal)! So here we go, this is my guide to Necron terrain in a classic 'Green Glow' scheme. You might also like: How I paint - Necron warriors - tabletop standard Paints required: Chaos Black spray Caliban Green Spray Nuln Oil Nuln Oil Gloss Black Templar Deathworld Forest Caliban Green Warpstone Glow Moot Green Flash Gitz Yellow White Scar Iron Hands Steel Tesseract Glow Lahmian Medium Undercoat with Chaos Black spray.  Undercoat with Caliban Green spray. Wash with a 4:1 mix of Nuln Oil and Black Templar . Paint one face at a time and allow to dry horizontally. i made a pot of this mix up as I ...