Completing the stone circle I started recently, here are three more menhirs...
The fallen stone was a happy little accident. Though a tad unconvinced by the size of the thing (that's a 75mm base it's close to spanning), I figured it was better to have and not need than to not have and want - so I started prepping it alongside the smaller stone. Whether I was heavy handed or the print was a bit fragile (or some combination of the two), I managed to snap the stone off its little scenic base. The break was pretty clean, so I decided to make lemonade and sanded one face of the stone flat before gluing it to a base. The hollow stone itself I filled (at least partially) with filler, which also formed the base texture, being built up into a small mound at what used to be the stone's base (at left in the photo above).
Basecoats, various brown and green washes, a smidge of dry-brushing (all as the earlier stones) and a bit of static grass and tufts, and I called it a day.
While these standing (and reclining) stones are hardly a significant work of terrain-building, I have really rather enjoyed working on them and might have caught a bit of the terrain bug. Perhaps not so much in terms of planning my own building projects (yet!), but definitely in the value and impact of having some thematic terrain to accompany an army.
Speaking of which... work on the soldiers of the Old Faith continues - six more spearmen are under the brush right now, with six more in the distance. I had originally thought to focus on a different unit type for a break, but the models I had originally earmarked for that aren't really resonating for me at present... while the simple - but beautiful - Footsore Picts are just screaming "paint me!"...
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