Season of Scenery: Vomit Trees

I have FINALLY got some Season of Scenery terrain painted, and would you believe it but we're back to Nurgle!

I'm sure these are the 3D printed non-union equivalent of GW's Feculent Gnarlmaw, only smaller and about $30 cheaper. For those not in the know, Gnarlmaws are daemons that take the form of diseased, carnivorous trees and hang about in Nurgle-blighted forests waiting for some poor bugger to take a pee against them.

Both trees were glued to pieces of cork stuck on 60mm bases and sprayed with black primer. I kicked off the painting with a heavy overbrush of Heavy Black Green and a thorough drybrush with Death Guard Green. I then shaded them all over with Athonian Camoshade before giving them another highlight with more Death Guard Green and then some Army Painter Jungle Green, one of the very few Army Painter colours I have left from the set I bought back in 2018.

With the basic colours on, I hit both models with a wash of Agrax Earthshade and then started on the details, and there's a lot of them. I first did their tongues with Khorne Red and Mephiston Red and then moved on to the teeth, which were based with Rhinox Hide and highlighted up with Wraithbone and Bonewhite. The skulls were painted the same way and brushed over with Seraphim Sepia to tone the paleness down a bit. 

Both trees have worm-like creatures on them, one I painted Goblin and Scorpy greens and the other Wizard's Robe and Pink. The nooses were done with Khaki and Agrax Earthshade, and then with those larger details finished I moved on to the smaller ones.

And there are so many smaller details. I painted over a lot of the boil-like extrusions with White and then went over them with Filthy Brown, and the mushrooms were given a coat of Grey Seer and a wash with Druchii Violet.

The rocks around the tree roots, which I can't stand as they're very basic and to which I really should have added flock, were painted Black and drybrushed with Mechanicus Standard Grey and washed with more Agrax Earthshade. 

The bases are the usual Nurgle recipe of Ork Flesh, Moot Green and Green Yellow slathered in UV resin tinted with more Green Yellow. I'd already prepainted some maggots ready to go, and dumped a few into the trees' mouths and around the roots before pouring in the resin. It all added up to a thoroughly disgusting paintjob which, let's face it, is exactly what you need when painting Nurgle.

I'm well pleased with how the trees came out. As 3D prints they're really good with bags of texture and detail. They come in three scales, 15mm, 28mm and 32mm, so I got the 28mm versions as I felt they were big enough. They really do make a good alternative to the official Gnarlmaw and at less than half the price of the GW model, they were a real bargain.