Quick Miniature Stone Statues for Wargaming Terrain - Painting a Simple Stone Effect

This weeks wargaming terrain tutorial is about getting a quick table ready stone look on your miniatures. I've tried to make this simple and easy to achieve to relatively effective result. I just use a couple of grey tones, white and brown, and a very basic dark wash for the base. With the simple moss effect made with PVA glue and flocking, we end up with a really cool looking stone statue for the table. I'm sure there's many ways to improve on this process, and I'd love to hear them in the comments below, but I did want to share my simple process to get a quick result.
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[@onkelgroen]

Good tip with those flecks, adds some "life" to the stone! And a great way to use those models that you don't really know what to do with. A statue is great detail for a lot of different terrain pieces.

[@RFDHobby]

Glad it was helpful! Statues let you get away with larger scale minis as well. Thanks for watching and commenting mate.

[@HacksawsHobbyBunker]

Fine work, as always! The speckling worked a treat, as did the moss. Cheers!

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you for the comment mate!

[@eastoforion]

the pigment powder blends the moss into the model so well! great tips

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Matthew. Cheers.

[@countryfriedminis]

Love the cracked effect, it really adds to the suspension of disbelief.

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you very much!

[@kayb9979]

The good thing about doing this sort of thing for 28mm/ 30mm (allowing for scale creep) is that there are plenty of larger figures from modelling and toy ranges that can be turned into statues. great work!

[@RFDHobby]

Exactly! There's heaps of stuff out there that can make for great terrain materials, but being able to use larger scale stuff for something like a statue makes things easier find. Thanks for the comment!

[@ScatteredTerrain]

These turned out wonderfully! Those scribed in cracks are a nice touch in the finished pieces!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks so much! 😊

[@TheMiniMason]

This is a great idea for reusing my older miniatures that are piled up in a box because of their outdated sculpts! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks for watching and commenting mate. I'm glad you find it useful.

[@ChimeraWargaming]

Thanks for sharing your work 😊

[@andreacook7431]

Nice! I just primed both a stone animal pen and a stone throne, so this got suggested to me at the perfect time!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Andrea, I hope you find it helpful with the project. Good luck and thank you for commenting.

[@kevinwallace1759]

Awesome technique. Just tried it and the result is amazing! Thanks for this video!

[@RFDHobby]

No problem, thank you for watching and commenting mate.

[@victoryspath4116]

Awesome as always! Can't wait to try it out.

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you. Good luck with it.

[@Vanye111]

I liked the effect. Was expecting a dry brush on it, but no need. Another thing you could try might be a targeted green wash in the folds of the clothing instead of the pigment powder, as variety.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks Jason. You're right, there's certainly more detail you could add here to really sell it. Thanks for watching and commenting mate.

[@GrimdarkSandwich]

Those look amazing. I'm loving how approachable you make terrain building seem. Hopefully this will let me get a little more into the 40k hobby without constantly dropping money on new units lol.

[@RFDHobby]

haha, I know what you mean. Thanks again!

[@earlkriewall7251]

That speckled look is really good. I'm going to have to try that on some caryatid columns. Thank you for the idea!

[@RFDHobby]

You're welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting mate.

[@TheSuburbanScumbag]

awesome work mate the moss and pigment worked wonders on the statue adding that colour. Nice one

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks mate, appreciate the comment!

[@MrFredstt]

Thank you for this!

[@RFDHobby]

My pleasure!

[@timothyyoung2962]

They turned out great. They would look really nice in a graveyard for a D&D game or for Frostgrave. Would probably fit well in some urban ruins for 40k or Killteam. Have plans to paint up some statues, altars, and pillars I purchased from Reaper Miniatures to use as scatter terrain and just general decoration for Reign In Hell. Moss might not be an option (unless it's a swamp in Hell), but the rest of the build would work perfectly.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks for the comment mate. As someone mentioned below, you can find all sorts of larger scale toys and things to convert to statues without having to worry about the scale difference so much as well. Good luck with your project!

[@thomasdoll5378]

Hi Shawn, the result looks great! Love that technique...

[@RFDHobby]

Glad you like it, thanks Thommy!

[@SculptSome]

Im going to try this on my next sculpt, looks so good

[@darkmattercrafts2139]

The stone detail is fire!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks!

[@theofficialboxx]

Super nice vid!

[@grumpyoldbear7728]

Nice effects with the stone look mate well done

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you very much! Cheers.

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks!

[@ChimeraWargaming]

It's a cool work 👍👍

[@RFDHobby]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TheMetalCrafter1983]

Great video !

[@RFDHobby]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks.

[@johnphilippatos]

Incredible. Only small objection is that I think the flocking is a bit heavier than it should be. Perhaps some flocking with smaller grain would suit the statue better. In any case, we are talking about something so minor that does not affect the result. Remember we were talking about satellite dishes, and which material you could use better to built them? Well the best by far, I found it to be the metal bottom of a shaving foam can, after you cut it from the rest of the body of the can with a dremmel. There is particularly a Gillette foam in an orange can that has a small valve in the middle of its bottom. You can remove it and use the hole to put a small plastic "core" to act as the central protruding antenna you find on several designs of dishes. Stay safe and healthy.

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks John, you could definitely go about applying the flock more carefully to scale it back a bit, or as you mentioned, get yourself a finer flock. This was about as fine as I had here, and applying it in the way I did might have been a little heavy handed, but for the sake of time, I went this way. I'll have to keep an eye out for the shaving can you mention as well, I'm still on the hunt for something to throw in the bits box for the next satellite dishes I need and this sounds like it might be the way to go. Thanks for the tip mate.

[@johnphilippatos]

@@RFDHobby kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJbVZWd-i7iCsM0 This is the gillette gel can I'm talking about, but you can use any narrow style can, as their bottoms are more rounded. Ok, now this sounded weird. Jokes aside, the shape is ideal for a satellite dish, the material is strong too (metal), even the small lips in the perimeter are perfect. You only need to cut it very carefully and don't go any deep, cause you will ruin it. And then sand it very carefully too.

[@JCetto.2612]

Very very nice! I loved the speckle effect... I thought you were going the dark wash/ bright dry brush way, buy man you surprised me... Can't wait to replicate your technique. Excellent tutorial, Shawn!

[@RFDHobby]

Thanks mate, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@BTR180]

Is it just me or is anyone else having a problem liking he video? I keep getting a notification saying that liking the video is not allowed

[@johnphilippatos]

Nope, I just gave it a thumbs up. Maybe there is a problem with KZbin in your region.

[@RFDHobby]

Damn KZbin :). It's ok mate, thank you very much for watching and commenting.

[@Vanye111]

I had that problem with a different video yesterday, but not this one.