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Owner: OldManPaints
Author: Tideswellman / Old Man Paints
Post: Leaves For Basing Warhammer Miniatures
How to get FREE leaves for your Warhammer miniatures.
Transcription
Greetings Oldhammerers.
As I said in the video last week, I’m not dead. I am still here and I am still doing a little bit of stuff on the hobby front. And, uh, to be honest, the reason I haven’t been putting any content out recently, is just because I’ve been mega busy with other areas of life. I run a business, I have a family, I have a house that needs renovating and I’ve just got caught up with other tasks.
Plus I always think, I don’t like to do content for the sake of content. I like to give you something that you can use. Whilst I was on a walk just the other day, I came across something that made me chuckle and remember a technique that I thought you’d like to know.
So let’s get on with it. Okay, so what I wanted to show you today was a really cool little basing technique.
So many of us rush our bases. We want the figure finished. We just paint the base black, or we stick a small layer of plaster or Milliput over it, paint it black or grey, bit of dry brushing and Bob’s your uncle. It’ll do.
Why can’t we just take a little bit more time and apply small, a few small, simple techniques that don’t cost the earth, just to make sure that your base matches the hard work that you’ve put onto your figure a while ago?
Some people said, what are those little leaves that I keep seeing everywhere on models? I also did not know and was like, yeah, the little Sycamore leaves. A few people on the forums told me, they were Silver Birch seeds. So, I went up onto the moor where there were lots of silver Birch trees growing but came up blank.
I couldn’t find any seeds from the Silver Birch trees. I was looking for these little leaf-type things that I thought would be growing on the plant in bunches. Well, that’s not the case. Silver Birch seed pods just look like little Catkins, little pods, little type things feel fairly soft to the touch.
I picked one up the other day there’s no sign of these little leaf things until I took one of these pods off and crushed it in my fingers. Squeeze the Katkin in with your fingers and look inside…out pop all these little wonderful leaves and seeds.
Now you’ve got to separate the leaves. But as you can see, there are lots of nice little leaves here that you can use in your model building. Separating the leaves out with tweezers and you can have a lot of beautiful little tree leaves that you can add to your bases.
Okay, so here, as you can see, there’s quite a good selection of, uh, leaves, quite a good amount of leaves. And it’s gonna take me a little while to sort through these and pick all the leaves from the seeds. Now, whether you consider that a good use of time or not, what I’m trying to do here show you that if you don’t have the money to go out and buy a set of leaves. You can make your own for FREE.
I choose to do things for free a lot of the time…rather than spending money that I don’t need to spend.
So to give you a quick update, the number of seeds that I unpacked there were about 8 Catkins. As I said, now, that’s gonna be way too much for your needs.
If you’re just basing a single figure, literally one cat in will give you plenty for a single figure. If you’re gonna do an army, then you’re gonna have to put the time in, but as you can see, there are 8 Catkins filling this entire box. Now I haven’t separated all the seeds out, but I have separated out, um, probably enough to cover, cover a couple of bases there.
You wouldn’t want to completely cover the whole base, you just want a sprinkling, to be more natural. That’s just, probably five-minute separation work there. I also said, I would show you what to do with the leftovers.
So these are some silver virtual leaves. And as you can see, these are quite small leaves.
Silver Birch leaves can be much bigger than this, but, um, this is what I’ve got from off the edge of the catkins. Now, I’ve got this fantastic little thing. *This is not a sponsored post but green stuff world sells this awesome leaf punch. I think they cost about eight pounds when I bought it in about 2020.
There’s a metal plate here with several different types of leaves cut out. When you press this button-down, you get one of each type. Be careful when you buy this online because actually, it’s easy to buy the wrong one. There are several types. So just look really carefully.
I selected the type that would give me, um, four different styles of leaves. You can use paper to create your leaves. But why not just use an organic substance, like a real leaf. If you want a leaf to look real, use a leaf.
So that’s the leaf tutorial completed all pretty straightforward and simple.
Now the only other thing I’ve got to show you is this. As I went further on my walk, I came across this. It was a simple seed pod on a weed growing at the side of a field. I looked at it, some very nice little leaves on there, theyre heart-shaped leaves.
You can have a close-up here as you can see these, this weed has these heart-shaped leaves on it. These would be really good for vines or creepers of the, of a castle or maybe just, you know, foliage on the ground. These materials cost, nothing.
Yeah. So that’s it guys really simple little tutorial. It’s good to be back.
If you enjoyed this video, hit like and subscribe, and I’ll try to create some more videos just as soon as I can see you next time.
Continue reading on the Old Man Paints blog
Owner: OldManPaints
Author: Tideswellman / Old Man Paints
Post: Leaves For Basing Warhammer Miniatures
How to get FREE leaves for your Warhammer miniatures.
Transcription
Greetings Oldhammerers.
As I said in the video last week, I’m not dead. I am still here and I am still doing a little bit of stuff on the hobby front. And, uh, to be honest, the reason I haven’t been putting any content out recently, is just because I’ve been mega busy with other areas of life. I run a business, I have a family, I have a house that needs renovating and I’ve just got caught up with other tasks.
Plus I always think, I don’t like to do content for the sake of content. I like to give you something that you can use. Whilst I was on a walk just the other day, I came across something that made me chuckle and remember a technique that I thought you’d like to know.
So let’s get on with it. Okay, so what I wanted to show you today was a really cool little basing technique.
So many of us rush our bases. We want the figure finished. We just paint the base black, or we stick a small layer of plaster or Milliput over it, paint it black or grey, bit of dry brushing and Bob’s your uncle. It’ll do.
Why can’t we just take a little bit more time and apply small, a few small, simple techniques that don’t cost the earth, just to make sure that your base matches the hard work that you’ve put onto your figure a while ago?
Some people said, what are those little leaves that I keep seeing everywhere on models? I also did not know and was like, yeah, the little Sycamore leaves. A few people on the forums told me, they were Silver Birch seeds. So, I went up onto the moor where there were lots of silver Birch trees growing but came up blank.
I couldn’t find any seeds from the Silver Birch trees. I was looking for these little leaf-type things that I thought would be growing on the plant in bunches. Well, that’s not the case. Silver Birch seed pods just look like little Catkins, little pods, little type things feel fairly soft to the touch.
I picked one up the other day there’s no sign of these little leaf things until I took one of these pods off and crushed it in my fingers. Squeeze the Katkin in with your fingers and look inside…out pop all these little wonderful leaves and seeds.
Now you’ve got to separate the leaves. But as you can see, there are lots of nice little leaves here that you can use in your model building. Separating the leaves out with tweezers and you can have a lot of beautiful little tree leaves that you can add to your bases.
Okay, so here, as you can see, there’s quite a good selection of, uh, leaves, quite a good amount of leaves. And it’s gonna take me a little while to sort through these and pick all the leaves from the seeds. Now, whether you consider that a good use of time or not, what I’m trying to do here show you that if you don’t have the money to go out and buy a set of leaves. You can make your own for FREE.
I choose to do things for free a lot of the time…rather than spending money that I don’t need to spend.
So to give you a quick update, the number of seeds that I unpacked there were about 8 Catkins. As I said, now, that’s gonna be way too much for your needs.
If you’re just basing a single figure, literally one cat in will give you plenty for a single figure. If you’re gonna do an army, then you’re gonna have to put the time in, but as you can see, there are 8 Catkins filling this entire box. Now I haven’t separated all the seeds out, but I have separated out, um, probably enough to cover, cover a couple of bases there.
You wouldn’t want to completely cover the whole base, you just want a sprinkling, to be more natural. That’s just, probably five-minute separation work there. I also said, I would show you what to do with the leftovers.
So these are some silver virtual leaves. And as you can see, these are quite small leaves.
Silver Birch leaves can be much bigger than this, but, um, this is what I’ve got from off the edge of the catkins. Now, I’ve got this fantastic little thing. *This is not a sponsored post but green stuff world sells this awesome leaf punch. I think they cost about eight pounds when I bought it in about 2020.
There’s a metal plate here with several different types of leaves cut out. When you press this button-down, you get one of each type. Be careful when you buy this online because actually, it’s easy to buy the wrong one. There are several types. So just look really carefully.
I selected the type that would give me, um, four different styles of leaves. You can use paper to create your leaves. But why not just use an organic substance, like a real leaf. If you want a leaf to look real, use a leaf.
So that’s the leaf tutorial completed all pretty straightforward and simple.
Now the only other thing I’ve got to show you is this. As I went further on my walk, I came across this. It was a simple seed pod on a weed growing at the side of a field. I looked at it, some very nice little leaves on there, theyre heart-shaped leaves.
You can have a close-up here as you can see these, this weed has these heart-shaped leaves on it. These would be really good for vines or creepers of the, of a castle or maybe just, you know, foliage on the ground. These materials cost, nothing.
Yeah. So that’s it guys really simple little tutorial. It’s good to be back.
If you enjoyed this video, hit like and subscribe, and I’ll try to create some more videos just as soon as I can see you next time.
Continue reading on the Old Man Paints blog
