Had a little time to work on some of the numerous bits of scenery lying around the gamesroom this weekend. Finished the Medium Ruin:

Front


Back

There are three different types of flock on this but you'd never know it looking at that picture...

Also got some bits from Total System Scenic recently and painted up some of those too.

Dragons Teeth


These came individually but I mounted them on plasticard in sets.

Also got some basic walls. Pretty simple paint job on all this stuff, sprayed black and then drybrushed up grey. Nothing clever.

Walls

Looking good bud.

Do you intend to have a gaming surface to tie in with the finish of your scenery?

Jim

No... my tables are both as you see them with no plans to change them (they need to be for other game systems too). However, I might buy a gaming mat in an appropriate urban scheme.

Like the dragon's teeth Matt. Good idea basing them like that.
The ruin is great! consider the idea to be stolen (I still have a number of CoD parts left over, should be enough to do it up. I really like the small walkway. What did you use for the floor in the large ruin (the non-CoD floor?).

The floor of the large ruin...you mean the flagstones on the ground?

Will have either been card or plsticard. I don't remember.

Finished the small ruin.

Looks very nice!
(Pictures saved off, shamelessly stole to appear on Time Wizard's table in future)

Excellent, as usual matt!
You're a busy so and so, soon the super shed will be so full of stuff, you won't be able to get in!

ruffian4 wrote:You're a busy so and so, soon the super shed will be so full of stuff, you won't be able to get in!

At which point it will be time to assemble the "Super-Duper Shed"!!!

It'll be a build-off against K!nG

The shed is getting pretty full....

....actually right now I can hardly get in there at all. All the crap from the house that's been cleared out for Christmas is in there but that should migrate back inside over the next week. I might then have another mini-clear out, I'll see what space there is.

It's shelf space I need really. And cases, or at least some more figure storage: my GW cases curently make up an 8ft row on the floor under the table on one side and there are no spare cases for my daemons, some of the larger models, a load of chaos stuff (mix of my brothers models and the club chaos army) and all my unfinished marines.

The large ruin has been sitting on the "ruin" shelves taking up a whole shelf on its own. It's been mocking me every week in its current state of unfinished ugliness. If I get a good day for spraying it this week, I'll have a go at it. I'm thinking to spray it in black/brown streaks and patches to leave a 3 colour base before drybrushing, then paint details and do some washes.

Once I start it, it'll get finished (and then others stand a chance of getting done too). Starting these things is always my problem...

...but finishing them never seems to be!
Your terrain work is top notch and an inspiration.
Looking forward to seeing the finished ruins.

Nice sunny day and although probably a little too cold for spraying I had a go at the large ruin anyway. We went for a walk (2 hours) up to Cissybury Ring here in Worthing to walk off some Christmas chocolate and before we went I brought the ruin and the sprays I wanted into the house to warm up.

The Army Painter Navy Blue was sitting on the shelf and I thought..why not? I said in a previous post that I'd try some other colours so the walls were all sprayed blue first. Then the base and some patches/streaks were sprayed black. Then brown was sprayed in patches on the walls and floor and all the craters and larger rocks.

The black and brown spraying can be messy - it helps for a more weathered and realistic finish at the end. It's currently drying in the shed which could take a while in the current temperatures. Next up once that's done (probably tomorrow if I get time, although we are supposed to be taking down the Christmas decorations and then I can reclaim the games room) is highlighting and then detailing.





EDIT: The black/brown don't seem to show up that well. It might be better with the lighting in the shed.

Here's the ruin shelf:



As you can see the big (now blue) one takes up a lot of room. Shelves either side have had to take ruins too!

Those dipped stealers are on the shelves on the right of the picture and above them on the top shelf on the right are the undipped but undercoated ones + broodlord.

That shelf is well and truly ruined!