Kira's Club Terrain - A Spring Clean Challenge

Like most people in this hobby, I have had my time in Games Workshop. These days it tends to be using their models as I love the lore and setting but drop them into other rule sets (Grimdark Future has been gaining some traction recently).

But as I mentioned, this is for a club and as such, we get quite a bit of Warhammer 40,000 and Kill Team being played and so some terrain from the same line gets quite a bit of use.
The sets here are:

• Sector Mechanicus
  A smattering of stuff from Kill Team boxes, picking up issue of those Hachette Partworks magazines and stuff donated by members, all of this is just sprayed Leadbelcher and left as is.
  I think I would like to add some accent stuff to this lift it up a bit but not go mad so that it could overshadow the models being played over it. Maybe some washes, quick drybrushes and/or some Modelmate sprays might be in order before picking out some complementary details.
• Space Hulk stuff
  The Into the Dark season of Kill Team was a big draw for me as I was in to pretty much all of the teams that were a part of it. As such I ended up with three of the launch boxes and picking up a sprue of the unique bits from the other. This has actually seen a fair bit of play as it really is it’s own things but I’ve been reluctant to paint it as the put together and take apart nature of it means exploring a world of varnishes to protect the paint I’ve never really explored before. A good learning experience when I commit to this.
• Octarius
  The OG set of terrain from the first Kill Team second edition launch set. This one also sees a lot of play as it’s one of the few terrain sets that isn’t blatantly imperial so it’s great for everyone not playing for the Golden Throne, even if they’re not Orks but just fighting through the ruins of a scrap town.
  Like the Mechanicus stuff, this has just been sprayed Leadbelcher and could do with some lover to bring out some of the details.

Tackling these will definitely be on the list simply because they get used so much.

These are all the gubbins that have come with other Terrain kits over the years, the small bits that don’t really add up to a piece of terrain themselves.

Individually they are small enough that putting them on the table just makes more of a mess than anything else so they have been banished to the box to accrue over the years. Going through this I was struck by the idea of gluing these together in little groups and adding them to bases to make still small but manageable scatter terrain.

I shall have to go and have a rummage around my bits and the internet for some ideas on completing this.

Just a bunch of stuff that I also have around that aren’t really complete sets in and of themsleves.

1. A bunch of Fantasy bits, mostly from Oathsworn (yes, the Burrows and Badgers people) and Warbases. There is some nifty stuff in here like the stone circle with a changeable centre is a cool centre piece and the quaint mouse house is full of whimsy.
   The stockade is one of the first pieces of terrain I ever owned and it;s serviceable enough but it’s a little small for most “28mm” scale stuff I find. Perhaps it will be donated to the TT Scale model train stuff and find a new life there.
2. These are some boards of model trees and some rocks made of some foam (I think XPS foam but unsure under the paint) that was donated by club member. They are actually pretty good on the table but have had a rough life. Some of the rocks have worn away at the edges and a few of the trees have come away from the board (revelling what I believe to be a cereal box).
   Another set that could be really something with a little TLC and a better storage solution than shoved in a box with some bubble wrap. A bit of paint to cover the scuffs on the rocks and I’m thinking of either a new base for the trees or adding an additional base layer to the trees to give them a little more weight and rigidity. I shall have to see but these are so nice to begin with I would hate to not bring them back into the fold.
3. Stuff to get rid off:
   Yep, in routing through all this stuff I found some things worth getting rid of. Most of it is a series of GW ruins all in the same style, some painted and some not. There is nothing wrong with these but they are relatively bulky and take up a lot of space for what they are. Seeing as I stack all the club stuff on a cart on the night we meet and wheel it over to our venue they are becoming less and less appreciated by me.
   Perhaps I’ll get them all based (those on the box are primed… Mechanicus Standard Grey I think) and then offer them to one of the other local gaming clubs we know that have storage on site where packing it up and moving it each time isn’t so much of an issue.

So, that is everything I have to work on, in club terrain at least, and lets not get into the likes of half painted minis and ideas cluttering my painting space; that’s for another project.

Time to take stock, figure out what I want to do first and then set my first weeks goal. As mentioned previously this might involve some other bits and pieces (for example, I’m on some MESBG Rohirrim for a learning game that should probably keep on top of getting built at least) but come tomorrow, I should have a direction to begin this journey.