A Quick Steel Rift
Buildings for Battle
I don't have anything in terrain storage that would look right with a mech game so I had purchase the buildings set from Death Ray Designs.
Caution. Open the package on a flat surface. I was holding it in my hands as I tore into it and the kit pretty much imploded.
With some wood glue the kit builds up easily and fast. The kit also comes with acrylic inserts to black out or make the appreance of windows inside the building. I'm not using them.
I have seen alot of mech games with nice city buildings, but it never sat well with me. I would think that with these machines with powerful weapons would be tearing things up. So I'm building mine as damaged and worn. I took a marker and drew some rough areas where I wanted the damage to be.
I cut most of the sides with nippers and the tops with a jig saw. Black spray can primer to seal it up.
Using Vallejo model air I painted(airbrushed) the the buildings 3 different colors. I then used the colors mixing in some white for drybrush highlights of the roof and corners. I went back with black air paint in the airbrush to all the damaged areas. I used a desert sand color paint, thinned down in the airbrush to hit all of the bottoms to blend into the sand theme. Last touch was using liquid pigment from AK to make it look like sand had collected in the parts like the bottom windows.
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