Easy Realistic Ice Terrain Colours

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Want awesome looking ice terrain for your winter snow boards? Then here's my trick to get the right colours for painting that realistic icy look for your frozen glaciers, ice fields and icebergs.
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[@TheTerrainTutor]

So whats your favourite sort of ice terrain?

[@jetfuellover]

the Hoth

[@garryeckert5929]

Antarctic land scape.

[@harrietcraig7817]

Came for the ice. Stayed for the Mozart. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@nathanback760]

That looks fantastic, i bet if the blue pallete was changed to a grey it would make a great snowy mountain

[@asmodeusvadrigar2371]

I love this. Whenever life's hard and I feel like crap, I watch one of your videos, and it brings me back to life. Thank you Mel.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

That's also what I'm here for mate

[@MisterTroglodyte]

Cool video, Mel! ❄️ One thing I’ll throw out there is to be mindful that paints have differing levels of opacities. White paint is typically very opaque. More so than your blues and greens. Which is why overbrushing too much with white can leave a piece looking chalky. When you were dragging the paint out on your acrylic palette you were thinning the color down to let the white plastic board show through the color. But when you apply the color to your white primed terrain the paint wants to go on less thinly and darker. You could water it down but that may leave it too runny and paint will go where you do not want it to go. Instead, add in some white to your darkest color. This will simulate the low opacity you get by dragging your pure color out. And then keep adding white in steps as you did to step it up to your white highlight. This is especially helpful for smaller and smaller pieces of terrain where you will see less and less of that blue. Looking forward to more winter vids even though I’ve quite enough of actual winter! 😁

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Well said mate

[@AzraelThanatos]

I've found that it works rather well to add a layer of polyeurethane gloss before shifting to lighter tones for ice. I've also normally kind of used quite a few more layers with a start from a deeper blue/green and then using paler glues and greens for layers of drybrushes over the blue and using a mix of blue and green inks for a wash after getting to white that way followed by the gloss layer and then another white over that.

[@GrhuntBeartooth]

Science and terrain knowledge I love this channel. I’ve been watching your stuff for awhile. No matter my day I can’t help but feel better because of your personality and excitement for the hobby it makes me want to get back into it greatly. Keep being amazing!

[@paulgibbons2320]

This tutorial literal pulled a project out of the fire. Building a segment of wall for a game of thrones project. My painting was looking a bit grey and ropey. Rolled it back borrowed the teal under painting technique here and it's now looking cracking. Thank you most kindly. 👍😉

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Awesome mate, chuffed it helped!

[@ellagrant6190]

Check out pictures of Lake Baikal in Russia. It has some teal ice, but it shows that far more blue ice is found in nature, in addition to the teal stuff.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Wow, that first pic on google images!

[@Kiapolice]

Lot time searching a tutorial to paint ice terrain, thanks dude

[@oldschoolfrp2326]

Me, Feb 2021: Searching for painting advice for some ice walls on my Frostgrave table; Mel, 2 years ago to the day: It’s cracking on time

[@__apoooorvv__]

Now I can paint my m416 toy to the legendary m416 glacier with this technique ❤️❤️❤️

[@CraftyWarGaming]

Nice video really shows how layers of different colours can totally transform a piece like that.

[@HenkJanBakker]

I'm not sure why I should watch a video after you explained it perfectly. ;-) You sure nailed it. Simple, effective and fun.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Thank you!

[@stianthijsen4784]

Brilliant video and EXACTLY what I was searching for 👍👍👍

[@newfenrisrailroad621]

Mel thanks for this awesome video as I’m doing a 40K Fenris based train and gaming board and was looking for a way to do the ice on the hydrocal rocks as ice.

[@andyrucker1903]

Looking forward to putting these techniques to use in making some ice terrain for Dystopian Wars :)

[@Dylan-er9ji]

Fantastic

[@ericarainae]

feels more like a rock terrain in a snow setting but good for that. helps for when wanting to make a frost style terrain

[@messerjocke143]

Just found your channel and I really enjoy your work! Love your use of classical music and the amazing terrain you are crafting.

[@paulgibbons2320]

Useful for frostgrave. Good call Mel. Thanks for your expertise.

[@TallCommander]

Really helpfull tutorial. And that came out amazing for a test piece

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@DiceLegenz]

Thanks for the tips

[@ShadowDrakken]

The white at the end made all the difference. I just wasn't seeing it at all until the white got laid down.

[@simmonslucas]

One the most technical and informative channels dude! Thanks for this vid

[@plasticbutcher]

Great job Mel, watching you paint this iceberg made me cold, looking forward to the next tutorial/inspirational video, thank you, Rick B aka Plastic butcher

[@TheTerrainTutor]

I'll take that as a win!

[@arkilyd]

I am going to be using this technique when I start making Ice Pillar markers for Malifaux

[@janyajones5409]

Awesome video thanks!

[@FrostyDeagz]

This looks soo cool with the piece your using? But how do you create this effect on flat surfaces?

[@richardokeeffe8375]

Fred has changed how you look at colour for sure. This is fantastic knowledge Mel!

[@TheTerrainTutor]

oh for sure

[@michaelmichael9077]

Much appreciated

[@killareevm8948]

Mel, I live in Alaska; several times I have visited the glacier shown on the video you reference. The actual color of the ice differs depending on the amount of sun striking the glacier/ice berg. The video was filmed on a very overcast day, so the ice is a deeper shade of blue/teal. When the sun is out and shining brightly, the ice is an amazing, luminous pale blue shading down to indigo blue. Google Mendenhall Glacier Alaska, and check out the wide variety of ice colors that same cave produces depending on the amount of sun.

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Thanks for the info bud!

[@johnnycooper7019]

Mel, Outstanding!

[@alcovitch]

Wondering if this would look even more like ice if you had glossed the piece before dry brushing white on it? You'd get that reflective shimmer of ice under the accumulated snow on top.

[@philRminiatures]

I already knew it but ... you are a real artist!

[@irondwarf2292]

Wow Mel, free science lessons as well. Nice one matey.

[@elcharrua1063]

I’m thinking of using this technique and add some resin on top for a see througheffect

[@alcovitch]

Would be interesting to see what it would look like if you gave the blue a coat of satin spray first then dry brush some white. Give the ice a slight shimmer.

[@JeepTherapy]

:D frozen plane toilet water! JUST KIDDING!!! Thanks for sharing

[@patrick.bastiaensen]

Good morning

[@newtpondskipper]

Shout out for Fred! Well done sir!

[@BillRoyMcBill]

More important than painting, today we found out why the sky and ocean are blue. I'm not saying you learn something new everyday, but today...was that day.

[@slohand4you835]

very cool...gr8 tips as always

[@readinglennon8254]

Genius technique!

[@khor96]

Great tutorial!

[@mordor-focker]

Hopefully you see this as it's quite an old video. What did you base your terrain with before adding the teal? Was it just basic white acrylic?

[@TheLegendInYou]

It looked like a lump of jade until that hogs hair white brush.

[@glowingunknown5625]

Don't get to crackin' too hard. You'll break it.

[@the_russian_viking1722]

Could you do a how to on how to make the glacier out of the foam?

[@OldSkoolBiker62]

So cool.. What was the base you used has the iceberg? Thanks for your great videos..

[@Hobbyrepubliken]

From a video about hiding joint lines some weeks back I think

[@TheTerrainTutor]

As Republiken said mate

[@shadowintheeast6042]

Has anyone mentioned yellow snow yet...

[@jeramyboileau4967]

Hay Mel awesome video, check the mail Friday ! Best wishes

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Thank you buddy!!!!!

[@MrCrystalwarrior1]

This has just inspired me further in one of my "little" projects :-) I'm building entire fleets of flying ships made from rock/earth, and this tutorial has made me realize that I can make an ice fleet for Northern Barbarians/Dwarves too. I got the original idea from the "Light & Darkness War" comics by Tim Veitch & Cam Kennedy (Check out t6he graphic novel for some awesome inspiration if you want something alternative to GW's Kharadron Overlords themed army). i use XPS sprayed onto grease proof paper the same way you teach in an earlier tutorial for making quick terrain, and now have some interesting "ships" that always attract attention when people see them. I use Rum 'n' Bones figures for the more diverse crew, but mostly Dwarves from a host of suppliers, along with Halflings, Humans, Orcs and more. Thanks for this amazing and inspiring video. I'm definitely going to make some ice floe/berg based airships now :-)

[@TheTerrainTutor]

Glad it helps you out buddy

[@titobenito43]

Did you use a foam cutter to cut that piece out, Bonus querestion. Im doing a Titanicus set right now and want to get into doing some ice lake effects on the base using GW would its be a good idea to go Base coat white, Layer on calgar blue and then white scar around the feet for cracks in the ice? your thoughts?

[@TheTerrainTutor]

If those colours match these, then go for it mate

[@anotherzingbo]

Snow isn't always white because sometimes a dog has widdled on it. Remember, don't eat the yellow snow.

[@ceowulf69]

it might be beer?

[@Jaytheradical]

You know... this would probably look way cooler (ahaha, get it) with some resin on it

[@Jaytheradical]

One of the most underrated visual effects in Skyrim is the sense of dimension you get out of the glaciers and ice bergs in the far north, where you can see the light and colors shifting as you move around them.

[@Jaytheradical]

You forgot a stripe of red across the base.

[@paulgibbons2320]

Only the Titanic did not see that one coming.

[@jimitubman8046]

Too blue for my tastes. YMMV.

[@redgreen09]

yes ice birgs YOU MAD man its cold enuff BBBBBBEEEERRRR have see fake ice UUUUGGGG ges so and gess what not doing fake ice hate cold but looks good and cold