Bob's Black Suns Terrainfest

Well this is the 1st of this week’s project updates, I started with my Terrainfest project 1st, as there is Less to update and 2ndly so it looks like I have at least made some effort.

I started with all the bits of scatter terrain that I got with Spec Ops starter and the re finding of Mars Attacks box with all the scatter terrain in.

The strange thing is when painting it  it struck me, that these are the sort of bits and models that are likely to appear on numerous games fitting from pre WW2 to ultra modern. Therefore are likely to actually to see more use than any of my Armies, So why are bits of terrain often left till last or forgotten altogether ?

Any way I had originally intended to start with the Sand bags , bins signs etc as I thought they would be quicker to paint once base coated white. As it happened I actually started with the Walls , which I had base coated with Colorfasts Peachy Peach rattle can spray.

This gave a very new brick base colour, which as I progressed worked well.

I started on the Resin walls from the Spec Op starter set, I tried to do a lighter Mortar colour for the brickwork, by coating the walls with GW Apothecary grey and then wiping it off  surface with a tissue. This did work but, the Grey wasn’t really light enough to contrast , plus when I put on Agrax Earthshade thinned out wash it pretty much hid it, so I dropped this process for the later Manti brickwork.

There was one upside to the above effort in that it put a surface on the smooth resin which allowed the wash to pool in places darkening some of brickwork quite realistically.

I just used wash on the Mantic walls as the plastic had a rougher surface than on the spec Ops resin. Most of these though had other features to draw the eye.

All wall peices got a very light white dry brush post , which I’m not sure why seems to work well.