TerrainFest 2024 with 144Artist

I started putting together my biggest forest base.  I had just enough power left in some batteries to use my hot wire and cut a piece of foam down to fit, raising the elevation of part of the base.  I made some test assemblies and then got down to gluing trees together. Once they dried I got them primed white.  Now I need to get new batteries to run my hot wire and get more foam cut.  Until then I have plenty of fungal forms to paint and a base to texture.

The first set of Fungus Forest I built are all pretty much flat, with little change in height.  I wanted to add some more characters pieces to the collection by using bigger bases, more plants, and changes in altitude.  I want to create some Impassable pieces as well as paths and hiding places.  I might even get a sniper’s nest built.

I finished the paint job on my Sanctum Santorum.  While not part of my Terrain Fest plans it is terrain, never the less, so I feel like showing it off.  Coming up next; Fungus Forest Plans.

More pictures on my Marvel Crisis Protocol blog.

I assembled and primed the Sanctum Santorum black.  I’ve been painting it as well but that process is posted in my MCP Project Blog.  I will post the finished shots here as well as there.  I want to keep this blog updated with all the terrain I’m working on right now.

I have glued the four corners to the underside of the warehouse roof keeping it in place and finishing that project.  What a great kit that isn’t for beginners.  It has multiple layers, tiny detailed bits, a few mis-cuts, and less than clear instructions but I still enjoyed working on it.  Now that I’ve photographed it I’ve packed it away with the Wolsung collection so i have room for the next item on my check list, more Fungus Forest.

I opened up the second box of alien plant parts I ordered from the Mantic Terrain Crate3 Kickstart campaign.  I have a second box because I figure if some trees are good then more is better.  That seems to be my mantra with a number of things in this hobby.  I took stock of what I had what with the box packed full of the original contents, the left overs from the first box I painted up, and various bases.  I also looked over the first ones I had done.  I really like them but they are brightly colored and on flat bases.  The colors are fine but more of them on a table could really be overpowering so I will doing something different on these and adding variety to the contours of the bases.

Not a lot of hobby time last night but enough to work on the roof of my warehouse. Pretty straight forward except a couple of the long pieces had broken in transit.  I recall frustration with that and the fiddly windows was why I had stopped working on the kit in the first place.

Luckily, the way the kit assembles meant the broken ones had other pieces to offer strength and the damage barely shows.  Typical of 4Ground, a couple pieces were cut wrong so needed pegs trimmed or removed but it was a minor issue and, again, the design of layered and overlapping pieces meant no strength was lost.  All I have left to do tonight is to glue the corner spacers under the roof so it fits well to the floor beneath it.  I missed taking pictures as my fingers were covered in glue.

I finally had some time and space to get back to work on my 4Ground Warehouse. Having a house guest for two weeks made it harder to take over most of the horizontal surfaces in my apartment.  Being on my own all weekend means I could make up for lost time.  I started by organizing the model parts and workspace.  I do miss 4Ground and am grateful I was able to collect a number of their kits before they disappeared.  My future Samurai village is currently a bin full of unassembled 4Ground buildings, for example.

I followed the directions very closely and test fit everything and I still missed details.  It didn’t help that pieces had fallen out of the box and gotten lost.

So I’ve had this wonderful warehouse model from 4Ground sitting, half finished, for almost two years now.  It is too nice a kit and I miss 4Ground too much for this travesty to continue so the first challenge I will tackle is to finish this kit

The second challenge I’ve set myself is to finally finish painting the two sets of Secret Weapon’s Terrain Tiles I picked up in their Kickstart eons ago.  Another great company that no longer exists and I want to use these for a few of my genres  of minis gaming not the least being Marvel Crisis Protocol.

To finish the trifecta I have one more fun box of Fungus Forest from Mantic Game’s third Terrain Crate campaign plus a pile of Litko bases that really need to painted and based to complete the fauna part of my sci-fi terrain collection.

If, by some miracle, I finish all that I’m sure I can find more partial projects around here.