As well as all the Sons of Sek fun and games, I’ve been cracking on with
some generic scatter terrain that will work for Mortalis, and potentially
Infinity as well (although this stuff does look pretty gothic).
Some resources first, literally anything works for small terrain, if it
looks interesting, grab it, keep it.
I’d been given some puzzle cubes for Christmas some time ago, and they
had been taking up space, so glued them with PVA, and on they go as small
crates.
Leftover business cards work great as a cheap base, these were plastic
too, so bonus.
There were Cotton reel oil drums, An airfreshener capsule
container. Those bomb-like shapes are actually capsules of saline we’d been
given to clean my daughters eyes with but never needed.
The base of this was the bottom of an LED light fitting.
There were knobs from a CD system I threw out. These are upturned
chocolate trays.
Business card boxes, filled with shavings and broken stuff from
conversions that just don’t fit work great as skips.
These ‘skips’ had the plastic lobbed in, then a couple of layers of
watered PVA kept the small bits in place.
Memory card cases, tic-tac boxes and of course, those bits of 40k parts
that you actually wont use.
Now was where I was foolish, I should have used cheap primer, car
spraypaint, hobbycraft matte or something. I got lazy and just used Citadel
Stuff. Whoops! Not so cheap now!
2 drybrushes on most of the pieces, then some quick sponging and
slashing with ligher metal colours. Detail.
The Trollslayer orange that I purchased *gasp-purchased?* was
lovely and vibrant, and ideal for rust. So I tried out a few different
splotches over some of the scatter pieces I’d created to make the Mortalis
board look a little more rugged. Wow that’s bright.
So, toned down, this looks much better.
As well as this, I finally worked out that working on one piece OSL is
dull as hell and slow. Paint, wait a sec, paint. Wait. So I decided to spread
it around a bit while doing the Sons of Sek Psykers and this objective/station
hence the blue glow, I like it.
A nice little board it is, you do have to accept that you will feel
slightly like a rag-and-bone man,
In best Steptoe accent; ‘You dutty old maaan!’.
These are fantastic. I really love this type of posts, as I think many of us forget the absolute treasure trove of terrain bits we all have laying about! It's good to not only see them used as an example (unpainted), but painted up as well. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteVery nice work. I have a few of those Business card boxes too! Great to see how well thinking outside the box can help create great terrain.
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