The earth is simple and straight forward to do, simply pick a shade of brown as base and the simply add an beige tone and dry brush it. When it come to the stones, I don't like to go from black/grey and then add white to highlight them, this is for the same reason why I don't add white to any highlights on these miniatures, I want the highlights to be soft.
If you want more prominent highlights, use white, but my preference is, specially with historical miniatures, is to use beige for a soft tone. Stones has a brown tone to them, not just grey tones and I have used the soft tone approach to the miniatures it fits better.
Earth
1. Grave Yard Earth, base
2. Grave Yard Earth 1:1 Ushabti Bone, Dry brush
3. Ushabti Bone, Light Dry brush
Stone
1. Black Grey 70.862, base
2. Black Grey 70.862 1:1 Ushabti Bone, a really thin coat all over the stones.
3. Ushabti Bone, Light Dry brush
Basing
For the basing I went for a grass field in the summer time, to add some reality to the grass I used a static grass, grass tufts and flower tufts for the bases.
I use different types of grass to get some more realistic look to it, my aim is to have the bases look like a grass field and grass fields do have different types of grass and length on the grass.
Due to my good lamp dying on me I had to use a more yellow light so the colours on the pictures are a bit off, I tried to correct them much as possible, but then again these pictures are about the grass on the bases not on the painting so it will do.
Material
Army painter Jungle Tuft
Army Painter Meadow Flowers
Army Painter Winter Tuft
Citadel Static Grass
Citadel Static Glade Grass
