Starminer Builds...Crimson Fists Display Board

All of the build and painting of this display board was for participation in a friend’s tournament. And I got it done just in the nick of time. The paint was just barely dry when I packed it up and set off for the tournament.

Unfortunately, I still had not updated my bases, and they still had the retro green rim. I always hated green edged bases, from when these were originally painted for 3rd edition and I was determined to change them to match the new display board as soon as possible, including a nice size upgrade.

Shortly after that, I went and updated the bases for the whole army. They were built with the new standard 32mm round. I piled them up with resin GW ruined city basing bits, and covered them in grit and sprue rubble.

They were painted in much the same way as the display tray. However, to differentiate squads, after a base coat of dark brown, I drybrushed onto the wall rubble various different colours. Each squad had a unifying colour, as if they were marching through the rubble of a specific building. I used a muted red, a muted green, muted blue, etc. This was all then drybrushed over with the same greys as the display stand.

This is one simple trick to help more obviously differentiate different squads, especially those that forgo squad markings. And helps keep things more clear in the heat of battle.

This wraps up the project thread. I hope you all enjoy it, and find something useful that you can use to build your own display board, or even adapt into terrain building.

Happy gaming!