Building An Industrial Hive Table

I began this project under a normal hobby thread in BoW 1.0. I haven’t been able to reload the thread since the changeover so I’ll do a quick recap here. Please bear in mind that I’ve been flat out trying to get some of this table ready for a tournament for the last two weeks. Hence why there’s a sudden glut of updates now.

I ordered the industrial terrain set from TTCombat and while I was waiting for it to be delivered I began working on some extra bits I’d bought for it. I was looking for a quickish way to do some weathering effects and decided on the hairspray and salt technique.

First up I primed the terrain grey. Then I stippled on P3 Bloodletter for dark rust patches followed by P3 Khador Red Highlight for the brighter patches. It didn’t need to be neat so this was a nice job I could do with my son.

Next I sprayed them with hairspray and sprinkled varying chunks of salt all over. Once that dried I sprayed the containers with their base colours without trying for full coverage. After that I loosely airbrushed in some of the details. Since these are old containers they didn’t need to be too sharp.

Once dry I wet a firm bristled toothbrush and set to work scrubbing off the salt. I’m pleased with the result. Not too much effort for some simple scatter terrain.

I’ve done some other pieces I’ve documented before. They were some barriers and ramps painted in the same way as mentioned above.

The hazards on the ramps were created by first spraying chipping fluid on the area to be weathered. I then masked using Tamiya tape, sprayed on a yellow and then used a stencil to spray black stripes. Once dry I used a toothbrush to scratch off parts of the paintjob.