New Thing: Bushes for Gloomhaven
I published a new thing on Thingiverse - a Gloomhaven bush model ! I spent a lot of time trying to get decent looking foliage for my printed upgrades. I tried printing the big blob style bushes and then painting them green, but I'm not nearly a skilled enough painter to pull that one off. I tried printing a framework and then attaching clump foliage (basically, green dyed scraps of sponge) to it, but I'm nowhere near gentle enough to make that work (I tried everything I could think of to get that stuff to really stick together, but it was always shedding whenever I moved it). So, I bit the bullet and decided that I would make my own bush, with actual geometry for the leaves. I'm still pretty new to 3d modeling, but I've watched a few of Miguel Zavala's youtube videos and have managed to pick up a thing or two. So, I used those hard earned skills and slaved away with Blender ... and made a leaf. But that's ok! Because, once I had a leaf...