Finished another couple of rock outcrops. Here's one with a broken tree,

And this is an overhead view of it.

This one is a little larger, 3 large rock outcrops,

And more and more I am agreeing with matt and Ruffian that this should be classified more as linear terrain, besides, the way they're built, they can be put together to form a piece of area terrain if needed.


Now I need to finish up the gatehouse and the rusted manufactorum.

ok now plz stop, im about 1 year away from any terrain with my current projects John

You're are teezing me

I suppose I could do the 'reward periodically' thing ppl spoke of by allowing myself to do a terrain piece for the army I am working on, in between the more mundane aspects of those projects

Good idea, linear becomes area...

Looking forward to "rusty" stuff, how are you going about that (stage by stage pics???).

KInG wrote:ok now plz stop, im about 1 year away from any terrain with my current projects John

Okay, I'll stop. But not until I'm done!

This is my nearly done gatehouse (for lack of a better label) that some might recognize as being shamelessly copied from one of Matt's ruins!

This is the back of it. We tried it in a battle last week and it kept my dreadnaut safe from a monolith particle whip for 3 turns! Plus the dread was able to successfully contest the incredibly well placed objective marker through the end of the game (SM victory, 1 objective marker held, 2 contested!)

ruffian4 wrote:Looking forward to "rusty" stuff, how are you going about that (stage by stage pics???).

Can't give too many WIPs Ruffian, sorry. Just picked up a tripod for the camera so I can take more and better shots now. Won't have to balance the camera on blocks of wood, etc. To get to this point however, the ruin was basecoated in flat white and the washed in something called "Didi's Magic Brown" (link here). I had thought to just tone it down with the brown but found it gave a nice rust color over the white straight from the pot.


Now I just need to finish the ground work, add some static grass and some type of debris to the floors. With luck I'll finish it up tonight.

I love that last one - the colour (color) is fantastic

I want a trembling admistrarium to come stumbling out asking if its all over ..

Do like that... cheers for the link!

it's acrylic dip!

mattjgilbert wrote:I love that last one - the colour (color) is fantastic

Thanks, I think so too. Have it finished up now, didn't have much more to do on it. The lighting changes the color a bit from time to time, but it is a nice rust brown color overall. I might at some time give it a bit of orange highlight here and there to pick out new rust spots.
Here's a shot of the front of the ruin;

The back of the building has plenty of room for models to move. I tried to put a little 'sag' into the floors, this way it could be classified as dangerous if we wanted.

Here's one side of the building showing a good sniper nest on the first floor (although I think you all might refer to it as the second floor, anyway it's the floor one higher than the ground level! )

An overhead shot of the way I put debris around the edges of the floors.

And last, a couple of extreme close ups of the front of the building.

killmaimburn wrote:I want a trembling admistrarium to come stumbling out asking if its all over ..

I'll keep that in mind for a future ruin I'm working on.

Well, another bit of an update here, something I'm working on.
It's the Space Marine statue rom the Honoured Imperium set.
First is the statue primed black and base coated in hammered copper


And here it is with a coating of my home-made vertigris


Now just have to finish off the base and it should be ready for Wednesday night's game!

The verdigris looks good although there looks to be a lot of it! If there much copper showing through?

That's v nice, in fact verdigris nice!

love that alot mate

timewizard wrote:
And here it is with a coating of my home-made vertigris

That's a point, do only statues on tall buildings get vertigris?

Step by step guide, maybe, looks great!

Umm Statues don't get made of copper, they get made from Bronze.