(Painting) Clump Foliage in the Style of Armoured Ink

After nearly 16 years of blogging, I can't remember exactly what the first idea or project from another blog I stowed away into the drafts. To be honest, it was probably some Back of Beyond stuff on Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog.

Armoured Ink was possibly a close second.

The blog had ingenious scenarios, the terrain wasn't museum quality, but I wanted to try things.  Alfrick seemed like a fun dude.

And then I noticed everything stopped, the last quote a random one about the then-recent Conan board game, now nearly ten years old.  And then the pictures started disappearing, post by post.  I know I couldn't save another man's blog, but I did make sure to save pictures as examples and inspiration.

I recently took a crack at some scratchbuilt trees from his post in 2009.  And this one still had pictures attached!

It's a simple concept: Varying sizes of nails, some glue, varying sized bases, and a robust assortment of Woodland Scenics.  I didn't have "Clump Foliage" but the "Bushes" seemed a smaller alternative that needed more hidden locations for glue.  

All in all, I made five stands of trees, and one bush, which was smaller nails lined up and coverage with material.  Next stop: how store these guys (and remove some straggler strands of glue)

Alfrik's Example from his blog.

In the Queue:  Gnomes and Zulus and Ducks(!) oh my!   And Star Wars figures seem to be escaping from their box, looking for a better life on my painting table.

Project 350: Continuing to drop, now 463 (295/168) from 469 (298/171), and the completion of the  #CharacterCreationChallenge for another year.  I don't know how long it's going to take me to drop down below 290 drafts,  but the next three months is pretty light, and many of the Actual Play and Holiday posts set to be replaced with similar posts in the near and long-term future.  I've got to take some inspiration and finish up these projects that just don't get completed, and play some games.