DRACONIS DOES….. TERRAINFEST 2025

5th January 2026

My recent work has been snagging some final bits on the ship.

I added some further weathering in places, in particular on the cargo bay floor and areas by the doors. For the cargo bay floor I added some areas of stains using Vallejo streaking grime.

I did consider adding some streaks to walls and the outside, but felt it could make the ship look too run-down (may add some in the future perhaps).

I also added some areas of scraping using a bright silver. On the floors by the doors I added some light areas of wear and scuffing by drybrushing over with Leadbelcher, to represent wear from foot traffic.

I also added a communications dish to the roof. There was a round flat area on the second section back which seemed ideal.

I took a cooms dish from my Deadzone terrain and sliced off the lower part of the base. I then magnetised that and the hull. The frame was painted black then drybrushed silver, the dish itself was painted in a grey like the hull, with some light silver drybrushing around the edges.

Next up I made some windows for the cockpit. There were some ‘blast shield’ pieces in the print, that slot in behind the two window areas on the cockpit. I used these as templates for cutting out some plastic from an old CD case. After much further trimming and sanding I managed to get them to fit into place. I did scuff one of the windows while sanding, but decided to leave it like that since a window could be scratched up on a ship like this.

Finally it was on to the crates. My friend had printed out crates in four different designs. Some of which happen to be very close to designs used in a certain Sci-fi franchise. For the smaller cube like crates I chose three colours, red, yellow and green. Painted these up with various washes, highlights and weathering stages. For some of them I also printed out small hazard signs and stuck them on to the tops.

There were some rectangular crates, two of which were more sci-fi styled. For these I painted them white, added some shading and then some light weathering by sponging on some Wildwood. The other rectangular crates I painted black, drybrushed silver, added some stippling of a dark grey and further weathering by applying scratch and scrape marks across them. These also had hazard warning signs glued on.

The last crates were styled like those from Rogue one. I found some images online and tried to approximate the look of them. They certainly are orange 😊.

I painted them in Fire Dragon Bright, folwed with a thinned Carroburg Crimson wash. I painted in the various black panels using rubber black. They were then drybrushed with a mix of orange and Pale Sand. This was followed sponge weathering using Pale Sand, and then wildwood. Edges had dabs of silver applied, plus some scrape marks. Picked out the white sections on the tops and added some black marking in the middle based on the images I found online.