Resolution 2020: Clearing the pile of shame
Skaven Gnawholes
I painted the full set of three of these, but they all look the same so only photographed the one.
These are really time consuming to assemble and paint for terrain kits. The wooden beams are quite fiddly.
When you build them if you follow the instructions exactly you encounter two problems. One is that each set of beams has either a censer or brazier on them with smoke. If you put these on as you go you will find that the smoke from these all point in the wrong direction once the terrain piece is fully assembled (like mine does). It is better to leave these to the end so you can apply them with a consistent direction.
The second problem is that each terrain piece has three beam sections which are installed to make the Skaven symbol when the terrain is viewed from above. If you follow the instructions you end up with three identical terrain pieces, but looking at the box art you can see that the terrain was designed so that all the different beam sections are interchangeable. This allows you to have three unique looking terrain pieces. Unfortunately the instruction book does not make it obvious that this is possible.
As for painting the terrain pieces, I basically used the same colour scheme as the Skaven Endless Spells (see my last post in this project).
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