A Scattering of Terrain
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About the Project
In which I show pictures of terrain I have cobbled together, painted , printed and or purchased - obviously mdf kits will be featured and therefore expletives are nigh inevitable. I have attempted to gather a wide-ish cross section of biomes, this first foray features mostly Stargrave and Frostgrave applicable items.
Related Game: Frostgrave
Related Genre: General
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Stargrave run down mining colony pt 2
A Slight Diversion
So, in the course of building my industrial town I was pleasantly distracted by the Grinning Gargoyle ‘facility ‘ boxset. My smaller pieces of terrain had grown in number and I had slapped some paint on some of them. Turned out to be a really good set and covered a goodly portion of a 6×4 table.
Back to the build
I decided to see how all the elements combined on a 4x4 mat, It was possible to traverse the map without hitting ground level via a few different routes. Probably a good thing as the density of the buildings would make ground level a little awkward. But overall I was pleased with the results.
The bar was probably my favourite building to make, not sure if it's big enough for the first scenario in the Lost Prospector, but it will be fun finding out.Stargrave run down mining colony
Early days, putting together a 5 Parsecs table, one of the rare occasions I actually played the game before I had painted everything .It felt like a decent start
I decided a couple more buildings were required. I had always like the aesthetic co-opted by GW in their Necromunda franchise, but obviously their prices were....their prices. Therefore I made thoroughly nice Ebay vendor the Troll Trader 100 quid richer instead and then found a few other bits on also on Ebay. Four weeks later and upwards of 1500 manly swears later I had a table full of stuff to paint. 
I wanted a fast and dirty way of getting colour on all these bit, so I opted for rattle cans from the local car accessories emporium, silver and a reddish rust brown. From a psychological point of view turning a sea of mdf into something coloured and with a bit of tonal interest was a massive boost to my motivation. as a sufferer of anxiety/depression it can be hard to find your get up and go at times. I will touch on that more over the course of my projects. Maybe it will strike a chord with someone (assuming folks read these).
Shiney
Along with the sci fi terrain I bought some Wild West buildings to convert, I definitely had Firefly at the back of my mind when creating my sci fi terrain. For my first go at really detailing mdf kits I was surprised and pleased with how they turned out.
So after the spray painting I set about the pieces with Vallejo pigment powder (as left over from Gaslands, I have used these so much of the years). gave everything a run down and rusty feel. but then added a little flock for a kind of mossy effect. I figured that this stuff was a pain for the colonists, like anything that stands still for a week has this stuff start growing on it.
Working on all the buildings at once helped me make them appear more unified and coherent. I did umm and ahh over the vegetation, but I figured desert wasteland has been done to death
