The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Tuesday, 22 December 2020

From PaulSS: [The Aquifer]Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck (30pts)

I had cleaned up and primed this pack of Warbases ducks for last years challenge but never did get around to starting them, so they make my initial entry in the Chambers of Challenge.

The Aquifer: Anything with a nautical, or waterbound, theme

I think that a duck pond likely fulfils these criteria.

The base is a 80x60mm MDF, also from Warbases the banks around the pond were built up using Polyfiller and a few loose rocks added, one of which in the pond (I missed a trick not adding a toad).

For the water effect I painted the bottom of the pond a very dark muddy brown and added a couple of glazes of dark green, once that was dry the pond was filled with heavy acrylic gel and allowed to dry overnight before the reeds and ducks were stuck in place.

The ducks are fairly large so I think it's probably worth about 10 points for the piece and another 20 bonus points for completing the location for a total of 30 points.

Now back to painting 28mm Napoleonics.