Gorram's Grand Terrain Project

I only have one day off this week and haven’t had any hobby time during the week so Sunday was painting day. I cleared the grown up jobs out the way, stuck on an audiobook and away I went…

In anticipation of a game next weekend, I needed some tents for a camp. Mantic’s Terrain Crate range has a Military Camp box. Oh the synergy! Thankfully the Terrain Crate stuff is largely one piece so, with minimal clean up and blatantly ignoring some mould lines (sorry Gerry!), I got to priming.

I’m sure that there is a way to paint up large, mostly flat, pieces like tents that they don’t look crap but I wanted to focus on done, not perfect so I primed black and then did a heavy zenithal with an off-white. It doesn’t really show up in the photos but in person it gives a slight shadow that breaks up the surfaces. Speed paints and normal acrylics were used on the rest of the items. If I can find them before next week, I’ll use some pigment powders to dirty up the lower halves of the tents a bit but they’ll do as they are for game day.

Now to more walls and fences. I painted up some Terrain Crate stuff a couple of months back but I recently saw these for Games Workshop. At £18, I figured they were worth a punt as there is more variety than the Mantic box had. 

I’m assuming this is an older GW kit that has been retooled for Old World cos they aren’t overly fussy with detail – just enough that with some drybrushing and two or three other colours for details, they look great. 

I primed them all black and then:

• Walls were given a heavy dry brush with Army Painter Deep Grey and then a light dry brush with Army Painter Ash Grey.
• Fences and trees were dry brushed with Army Painter Oak Brown.
• Any metal details were given a coat of Citadel Leadbelcher and a Nuln Oil wash.
• The few plants were painted with a green but I decided that because I was going to flock the bases, it would look better to cover the plastic plants with some tufts
• All the pieces then got some pva and my fantasy terrain basing mix which is a Javis Scenics mix that I bought several bags of so I don’t need to worry about forgetting the recipe in the future

I caught myself a couple of times at the end of the day feeling like I hadn’t achieved much but seeing it laid out together, that is clearly bollocks. Two boxes of terrain painted and ready to hit the table (varnishing will have to wait as we are being battered by a storm right now so spray varnish is not in my immediate future). 

And I finished my audiobook before it had to get returned to the library. 

What a time to be alive!