Challenge Day 19 (Part 2) - Herbal Happenings

In my post this morning I promised pics of the stained herbs. Well, here's one for you:

Ink stained; unstained; paint stained

Both the ink and paint staining worked, although neither is a solid brown. In terms of the texture and ease of dealing with, the ink-stained is better - it's a bit softer and more crumbly. I may just need to dilute the ink less and/or leave the herbs in longer for future batches. For now, I've combined the two types and returned them to the jar.

I'm doing another batch tonight, this time of dried rosemary using more ink, this time a 3:1 mix of sepia and burnt umber. This will be to represent bits of wood.

I've also carried on with the Aztec grunts and finished painting them. Tomorrow night I'll varnish them and add basing scatter.

Ha! You don't get a close up at this stage!

I may also go back to the 6mm Rebs tomorrow and do the belts and straps on the other half, ready to finish them over the weekend. That will give me next week to do the basing and adding of flags (I guess I'd better start cutting some of those from the sheets).