Welcome to the first tutorial on OSHIROblog. It's a simple one for now but there will be more complicated ones in the future (the Japanese 28mm village buildings tutorial will be up next).
There is a wide selection of movement and sabot trays available in the webshop via the link below. I've chosen to do two different types for this but the principles will apply for any size or arrangement of tray.
The first step was to prime the trays. They come in clear acrylic (already assembled) and the primer of choices was Halfords camo khaki spray. Any quality primer will do of course, I chose this one as it closely matches the final colours of the trays.
Once the primer had gone off I added some texture. The tray on the left was given a light coat of superglue and sand was added to this. The tray on the right was given a gloop mix (decorators acrylic caulk mixed with fine sand) and was painted with a base of my usual ground colour.
Once these had dried the left tray was given a coat of Windsor and Newton peat ink and the right tray was drybrushed with my usual triad (Valspar tester pots).
Again, once dried the 'growies' were added (usually my favourite part of any job). Normal static grass was added to the left hand tray with watered down woodglue (normally Gorilla wood glue) and the right hand tray had a mix of flocks which include such things as sawdust scatter, foam scatter and other bits and bobs; I've been adding to it for many years so the original 'recipe' is lost to the mists of time. A couple of small, 2mm tufts were added to the right hand tray to match the figure bases.
Hopefully, as you can see in the picture below, the results are worth the effort. It's no a long process but can end up being a chore when there are many to do so I tend to do them in small batches of four-six in one go.
Of course, a temperate isn't the only one to appear on the table top and I'll do another similar tutorial with other settings in the future.
Thanks for reading :-)
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