Thicket Grove is a muted, earthy olive green from The Army Painter's Warpaints Fanatic John Blanche Masterclass range. This 18ml. acrylic originally appeared in John Blanche Masterclass Volume 4 and provides a versatile natural colour for clothing, foliage, armour, creatures, wood, weathered equipment and grimdark terrain.
What is Thicket Grove? Thicket Grove is a medium-dark olive green with a distinct earthy, yellow-green character. Rather than the brightness of a classic grass or emerald green, it evokes dense undergrowth, weathered military fabrics and dried vegetation. This makes it easy to place among browns, ochres, rusty colours and other natural tones while still remaining recognisably green.
Thicket Grove originally appeared as one of the eight acrylic colours in John Blanche Masterclass Volume 4. This volume is built around earthy warmth and fiery intensity, combining colours capable of suggesting both decay and vitality. The Masterclass colours were developed in collaboration with John Blanche and connect naturally with his grimdark and gothic visual language, where atmosphere, texture and visual storytelling play important roles.
Thicket Grove is a conventional Warpaints Fanatic acrylic paint, rather than a wash, Speedpaint, metallic or effect paint. The Fanatic formulation combines dense pigmentation with a premium resin base and stabilisers for smooth application. It can be thinned significantly while maintaining good pigment dispersion. This makes Thicket Grove suitable for solid base colours as well as layering, blending, glazing and fine detail work.
How do you use Thicket Grove? Shake the bottle thoroughly and build the colour with thin layers. For a natural green scheme, begin with a darker olive, brown or green-grey shadow. Apply Thicket Grove as the main colour or midtone, then develop the raised areas with lighter olive, yellow-green or beige tones. For a darker result, keep the highlights restrained and allow more of the shadow colour to remain visible.
For clothing and military equipment, Thicket Grove is particularly useful. Cloaks, uniforms, capes, bags, webbing, tarpaulins and fabric equipment all suit its subdued olive character. The colour feels natural and understated, making it suitable for scouts, soldiers, post-apocalyptic characters and grimdark warriors. Brown shadows create a warmer result, while grey-green shadows can make the same colour scheme feel colder and more weathered.
Across creatures and organic surfaces, Thicket Grove works for skin, scales, chitin, tentacles and other natural or unnatural textures. Combine it with brown, yellow-green or pale beige to distinguish different surfaces. For unhealthy or swamp-like flesh, introduce controlled brown, purple or reddish glazes in selected areas. This adds variation without losing the underlying olive-green identity.
Thicket Grove is also a natural choice for foliage and terrain. Use it on shrubs, leaves, moss-like textures, roots and overgrown ruins. Because the colour is already subdued, vegetation can look more weathered and realistic than it would with a very pure bright green. A dark brown or deep green foundation followed by Thicket Grove and a few lighter yellow-green accents quickly creates depth across woodland bases and tabletop scenery.
On armour, vehicles and machinery, Thicket Grove can provide a weathered military foundation. Add chips with dark brown and place smaller, lighter marks along selected edges. Rust-brown and orange-red accents create strong contrast against the olive green. This makes the colour useful for tanks, walkers, weapons, industrial machinery and old armour that needs a worn, dusty appearance.
Thicket Grove also has interesting applications on wood and weathered materials. Thin glazes can introduce damp, mossy or dirty green staining to wooden surfaces. Across stone and ruins, place the colour selectively around cracks, beneath ledges and near ground level to suggest organic growth. Keep these effects irregular: natural staining becomes more convincing when different surfaces receive different amounts of colour.
The muted olive also works as a connecting colour within a warm grimdark palette. Combine Thicket Grove with Umberroot for dark earth and wood, with warm ochres and beige for natural highlights, or with Emberveil and Blood Thorn for much stronger contrasting accents. Small red or orange-red details are especially effective against its subdued green character.
Thicket Grove is suitable for beginners and advanced miniature painters alike. Beginners get a versatile olive green that makes it easy to connect natural materials and military subjects within one scheme. Experienced painters can use it for glazes, organic staining, weathering and subtle temperature shifts. Its main advantage is its subdued character: Thicket Grove reads clearly as green while remaining earthy enough to sit naturally within weathered grimdark colour schemes.
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