Terrain month has nearly let up! I can almost see the finish line, and it has yellow and black warning stripes.
But first, you have to build it!
Hoo boy, this took a while. I started doing a couple of the square linking sections a day while I was building and painting Stylus's stuff. Overall, it took a month to get through the whole set, plus a fair few head-scratching moments. Not that the (only online) instructions aren't decent from TTCombat, but there are one or two bits that are probably more complex than they need to be.
And a few that are just a pain - the round pipe sections are made from thinner gray card, and it just isn't up to the task of being slotted into wood, or glued into cylinders. Maybe I'm too heavy-handed as well, I'm not the most patient builder. But PVA glue makes the card go soggy, then it tends to fold or crumple as you try and get it in place. Bleh.
However, overall you get a lot of variety, from sections with fans to blank bulkheads that you can decorate yourself with an assortment of lights, ladders, doors and I-bars. I also had a few spares from the other buildings I've got that I swiped. The long and short sections slot into the square bits with a pair of hooks, and the holes that these can slot have an alternative, a hook with lamps on. I did consider having that, but actually the holes look fine without, and the idea of painting dozens of tiny optional light fixtures left me stone cold.
Midway through, all the work bar the stripes and details done |
Looks good once painted! And that was a pretty quick bit of work, considering. Mostly done with spray paints for speed, then a two-day stint of sorting out the detailed bits. Scenery is pretty fast, I find, even if you aren't super accurate the scale you're working in is pretty forgiving. A few paper posters for after-touches, and job's a good 'un!
Assembled for final varnish |
Painting Guide:
- Basecoat - spray black from below, then a dark brown from above, then a light coat of a rust-effect brown (that contains actual glitter and ought to be relabelled Unicorn Poop, but looks good once washed) and an even lighter silver spray coat from above
- Washes - Typhus Corrosion where I thought water would gather, then a very watery wash of Skrag Brown, then a thin and selective one of Tau Light Ochre over the Skrag bits
- Stipple - Leadbelcher on with a sponge, then a lighter attack with Runefang Silver, then a medium layer of Ryza Rust in places
- Drybrush - Stormcast Silver over the edges
- Lights - Averland Sunset, Bad Moonz Yellow highlighted up to White
- Warning Stripes - Drawn on with laundry pen where it wasn't already marked into the mdf, then Averland Sunset and Black, both thinned with water and avoiding rusty bits where needed
- Cables - Either Evil Suns Scarlet with Wild Rider highlight, Macragge Blue with Lothern Blue or Caliban Green with Warpstone Green
- Terminals - Black and silver with a variety of colours not far removed from the cables, but finished up to a more reflective look with extra white
- Oil Drums - just the basecoat and wash from above, then a hard Ryza Rust stipple
Expect more shots of it in action soon, but here's some mocked up Necromunda shots using the boards and box along with the new stuff!
Come and get me, boys! |
Those corridor shots are properly atmospheric - nice work!
ReplyDeleteVery cool! Looks absolutely fantastic in action!
ReplyDeleteCheers guys!
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