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Showcase: Aeronautica Imperialis Ground Assets

September 13, 2019Tagged paint, airbrush, showcase, terrain, 40k, warhammer, gw, ork, adeptus titanicus, 8mm, Aeronautica ImperialisLeave a comment

Loving these minis! I sure am hoping to see it integrated with Adeptus Titanicus 🤞

Showcase: Mouse-Holes Terrain

September 1, 2019Tagged airbrush, basing, bolt action, mdf, modern, painting, showcase, skirmish sangin, stalingrad, terrain, ww2

Finished up some Mouse-Holes for Stalingrad and Skirmish Sangin. Made by Tiny Terrain Models and highly recommended!

Showcase/Tutorial: Flak Bunker Terrain

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Tagged 28mm, airbrush, bolt action, Germany, painting, showcase, terrain, tutorial, warlord games, ww2

Got excited by the new D-Day: Overlord campaign supplement book for Bolt Action and painted up a flak bunker this weekend. One more bunker to go and then it’s back to Stalingrad.

For airbrushing:

1. Primed black.
2. Trying to leave the recesses dark, I roughly filled in between them with Vallejo Model Air Anthrocite Grey. Exactly like you might do with modulation-style airbrushing of a tank, for instance – except, being terrain, with way less attention to neatness.
3. Similar process with Vallejo Model Air Stonewall Grey.
4. Sprayed all the concrete’s damaged spots with a light mist of black.
5. All over drybrush with GW’s dry paint Wrack White, paying particular attention to hard edges and the damaged sections where fresher concrete might show through.
6. Painted the exposed rebar damage black and then GW’s Typhus Corrosion.
7. For the ladder, door, etc. I did the same followed by a quick stippling of a metallic silver.

For washes:

1. I went around working section by section. First I wet the relevant working surface to avoid tide marks and then applied a wash made up of an eyeballed mixture of black paint, dark green paint, water, and airbrush flow improver as a wash. I kept paper towel handy to dab off excess.
2. For all the damaged concrete and edges where I wanted rain marks, I wet the surface with water as before and then applied agrax earthshade in a downward motion and feathered/wiped it off as desired.

For the base:
1. It’s cut from thick styrene sheet.
2. I put down vallejo texture paste and then sprinkled rocks and sand as i saw fit.
3. Primed black.
4. I then painted it all over with a cheap dollar store acrylic chocolate’ish brown.
5. A quick drybrush of Vallejo Model Air Stonewall Grey (if I remember correctly).
6. Applied some Army Painter Mountain Tuft.
7. Brushed on some PVA/water mixture and sprinkled on a couple different flocks I had kicking around (Gale Force 9’s MarshBlend static grass, followed by GW’s grass flock).

The only other relevant modification I made to the kit is replacing some of the steel ladder railing with a brass rod as the plastic was breaking just from looking at it wrong.

Showcase: Project Stalingrad, Scatter Terrain Rubble

June 14, 2019June 14, 2019Tagged bolt action, diorama, German, Germany, stalingrad, terrain, ww2

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WIP: Project Stalingrad, Scatter Terrain Rubble

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019Tagged 28mm, basing, bolt action, diorama, Germany, soviet, stalingrad, tamiya, terrain, warlord games, wip, ww2Leave a comment

Too rainy outside to prime buildings, so here are some work-in-progress pictures of scatter terrain rubble piles for placing up against the sidewalls of buildings. For today, a wrecked Kübelwagen (Tamiya, 1/48) – more pieces to come. Just needs some bullet holes drilled in and primer, then it’s on to painting.

WIP: Project Stalingrad, Batch 3 Part 4

May 25, 2019Tagged 28mm, bolt action, conversion, mdf, stalingrad, terrain, terrains4games, wip, ww2Leave a comment

Been waiting on a couple cheap packs of Walthers HO scale Industrial Storage Tanks for my factory building. The kits are HO scale, but industrial piping, etc. is so varied in sizes that I think it works well as a scale-neutral option for 28mm terrain Kitbashed and glued in the first package this evening, along with a few other extras. Trying to find that sweet spot between detail, durability, and playability.

More Cruel Seas

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019Tagged 1/300, cruel seas, naval, royal navy, sarissa precision, terrain, warlord games, ww2

Finally had a chance to get some hobby time in after a week of flu. Played a great game of Cruel Seas (1500 points, Royal Navy vs. Soviet Navy) and built up the dock terrain piece that recently arrived from Sarissa Precision.