Terrain and Scenery - OOP Planetstrike Blastscape

Hello all, a looong overdue terrain project finally finished! This is the now out of production Planetstrike Blastscape vacuum formed terrain set. In its day this was a bag of terrain which was much lamented as the terrain shown on the pack and in White Dwarf was the original set from which I reckon these were vac-formed as the detail on these was not as good as we had come to expect. They are quite thin plastic sheets but when drybrushed come up decent enough.

I painted the generic 'escape pod' in drybrushed metallics and added some of the lost details like exhaust nozzles and a Rhino Hatch for the top of the craft, I saw similar on Reddit and thought I could do that, the hatch slightly open, did the occupants survive planetstrike and escape intact?

Here is a close up of the restored nozzles, without them the plastic lacked detail or overlap due to the vac-form process. I sprayed the crash scar Stormvermin and washed with Nuln Oil to look burnt from re-entry.

As you can see I added sand and PVA (Elmers) along the flat edges to blend in the table better. I added some vegetation patches similar to my normal bases.

The next piece I again used Mournfang Brown as the basecoat before marking out the scar with Stormvermin and painted the asteroids with Eshin Grey. The ground was drybrushed Karak Stone and Ushabti Bone and the asteroids Dawnstone and Administratum Grey, and a little Leadblecher.

The scars were washed again with Nuln Oil to look burnt. And the edges blended with sand and PVA.

The laser scar piece was painted as a break in the crust or a lava / magma scar, I used car spray for the dark red, darkened the edges with Nuln Oil, then picked out the details with lighter reds through orange and yellow.

I quite like how the edges blend from red to black to brown, more by chance than skill I must say. I picked out the craters with a quick spray of Stormvermin and washed with Nuln Oil to give a burnt blast look.

The craters were a repeat of the other craters, a base coat of Mournfang Brown with a quick blast of Stormvermin in the centres and then Nuln Oil wash.

I like the blackened craters, it's quite good I think :)

The final piece was a half buried piece of debris, possibly part of a long crashed space craft or to me it looks like the neck area of the torso plate on a Warlord Titan, so I added some rust drybrush and a watered down glaze of Mournfang Brown for the recesses.

So, a nice long overdue terrain project finally done and off the to-do list, I like the look of these and look forward to using them in my next battle.

Cheers, Siph. (5 points for Terrain)

Titan Owners Club walk 2019 - Mountain Terrain for Titans

Hi One and All,

A crazy week following the Titan Owners Club, Titan Walk over the last weekend of June 2019.

I thought it would be best to post the terrain I was working on after the event - to not spoil the surprise. So when looking for light of sight blocking terrain for a Titan walk there is only one thing to do - go big! Mountain big! Here is a picture from the walk.

The TOC bought 8 fish ponds, with the plan to paint them up as mountains by turning them upside down. The mountains were painted to match the playing mat we were using. The ponds were initially cleaned, and then prepared for paint.

The ponds were sprayed initially with a base black, and then a full base of red. The mountains were then sprayed from above with different brown sprays. The mountains then had the edges highlighted with a cream spray. The cliff sides were painted with a hint of grey and black within the colour scheme. Black was used to add shadows. By spraying from above the paint was caught on the higher edges to add instant shadowing.

Here are some completed mountains with my titan's around them. 

I also worked on getting 14 craters ready for the walk, these were painted as above with details picked out with grey, or the metals with Leadblecher which was dry brushed. These were the OOP Moonscape Set x2 and the Apocalypse Crashed Spaceship set.

Thanks for Looking! Cheers, Lord Halfpenny.
(55 painting points - 5 each mountain terrain, and 5 points each crater set)

Terrain and Scenery - Moonscape Craters

Hello Readers, thanks for dropping in to our humble corner of the blogosphere once again. My latest addition to the Terrain and Scenery I have is the Apoc OOP Moonscape Craters plastic set from GW.

These were first on sale around the launch of Apocalypse I think and judging from a quick serach on GW website, no longer available which is a shame. I bought some of the Quake Cannon Craters too, much more detailed and grim dark with bits of tanks and plenty of skulls, these by comparison are very generic and a lighter vacuum formed plastic mould. A lot more flimsy than they look, and thinner plastic than the Quake Cannon Craters but once on the table top, they are very durable and do the job just fine.

Not much to say other than these took about an hour from start to finish, (not including optional glue drying time overnight), so if you do have them, get them out and get them done! Don't take several years like me!

I went the additional optional step of PVA (Elmers) glue around the plain plastic rim, and dipped in my modelling sand and then once dry, sealed with some Purity Seal to lock the grains in place.

Paint wise, which took less than the hour for all of them, is simply spray primer, sprayed Mournfang Brown, drybrushed Ushabti Bone, the centre of the craters was washed with a Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade mix. Done.

I then added a few clumps of burnt grass flock to the rims as all my bases have, and helps tie in with the Gamemat I have, it has little bits of vetetation pictured.

There you go, the GW Mournfang Brown spray is your friend here! Bag open to done in 1hr (overnight if you use glue like me). Go on, paint your scenery!

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Cheers, Siph.

Terrain and Scenery - Quake Cannon Craters

Hello avid readers, I am away again earning the cash to buy more weemen. This is scheduled to pop up so the blog lives on! To complement the new Games Table, I purchased some terrain, the new-ish GW Quake Cannon Craters. They are much better detailed and of sturdier plastic than the vacuum formed moonscape craters previously released.

As they are two part and four designs, you can make 4 unique craters. I glued with plastic cement and once dry, strengthened with liquid greenstuff into the join. I painted the details of dead guardsmen to match my long forgotten squad of guardsmen. Great kit - I recommend it, and make 2014 your year for doing something about that grey plastic scenery - it is so much better battling over cool painted stuff. Scenery is quick, you don't have to be precise and drybrushing is king!

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