{"id":10593,"date":"2025-08-27T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:32:08","slug":"work-in-progress-wednesday-plants-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/work-in-progress-wednesday-plants-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress Wednesday – Plants Special"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have a change from out normal Work in Progress post this week for Jeremey to take us through improving a popular cheap option for plants on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Like many wargamers I picked up a number of cheap plastic aquarium plants to use as plants in my games. To try and get some variety I bought a number of different sets and mixed them up a bit, but despite that they just looked so plastic.<\/p>\n

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At a recent game this is what the plants looked like on the battlefield. Admittedly they are designed to be bright for fish tanks of a tropical nature. You could also argue they work fine as bright plants for jungles or alien planets.<\/p>\n

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However I wanted something that would look more natural and if nothing else just look less plastic. Here is a selection of the plants I’d put together for my games, that I decided to see if just a light spray paint over the top would provide the results I wanted.<\/p>\n

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For these I used a camoflague style green paint from Halfords. I used a couple of short bursts mainly from the top down. The above picture shows a before an after. I was really pleased with these results the paint was a mat colour and so took that plastic shine off the plants.<\/p>\n

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I was about to spray all of the plants the same when I decided to take a chance on some other colours. In the example above I first tried using a can of army painter green skin. This kept the plant colour quite bright, great for jungles but it did take the plasic shine off. For the other example I used a can of red primer from Halfords. Again for both of these, just short bursts rather than colour the whole plant.<\/p>\n

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And this was the end result, It’s made such a difference to how the plants look and it took just moments to do. I’m not going to varnish these. If the paint wears off I can just apply a bit more paint. I might look at using some different colours, but for now I’m pleased with how this project went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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