From Barks: 40K ruined statues

I did these four ruined statues together, with some cultists for scale. The marble effect is GW Contrast Apothecary White over a white undercoat, then Army Painter Soft Tone into the crevices, and finally a thinned AP Uniform Grey to create subtle veins across any big bland areas in particular. I'm pretty happy with it.

This is my first time with Contrast and it was- OK, I guess. It is offensively expensive, extrapolating out to well over $A600/ L. I feel I could have thinned down some paint and got the same effect.

Skull-o-meter™: 13

I'm going to try and squeeze in one more post later.

From Barks: An inn for weary travellers

Hadn't really realised that the Q blog is winding up! I'm having a big painting session today and will try for a few entries.

So, here's a 3D printed building I've set up as a quintessential inn. I'm submitting the floors and walls and bar; the Reaper staff are an old paintjob of mine, and the tables were seen last year. The floor is 8x8". The pieces are from Printable Scenery.

Boarded-up window adds a bit of flavour.

Door opens and closes

Fireplace and detail behind the bar

They're great wargaming quality pieces. Here I've stacked them so you can see the potential for a village...

All in all, very useful.

From Barks: A rude hut

I, too, have slowed down my output and been neglecting my blog. Here's a 3D printed hut I painted to keep the juices flowing. This is from Printable Scenery. You get a huge range of pieces- walls, windows, doors, floors, roofs etc- with connecting clips, and can plan and print away to your heart's content. This is a test building for a 4x4" footprint. The door swings and there is an interior with fireplace.

From MartijnN: More small scale scenery

For some reason I do not seem to be able to get any figures done. However, I still have lots terrain pieces to paint and I spent some time on those.

First up is a Russian village from Hagen Miniatures. Funny how 1/300 seems to be just as fluid a scale as any other. These models are decidedly small, even for 6mm. Also, they are not very detailed. However, as an assembly I think it works quite ok, and as long as there are no buildings in the immediate vicinity from other makes they should be alright. The trees are from Les Hammond's  Terrain Shed.

Next up, a 6mm French house from Battlescale. I really like their buildings, both in 6mm and in 10mm.

Then, some earthworks, also from Battlescale. They are nominally 10mm, but  I think they would work with 15mm as well. These were painted in the same shade of Citadel Contrast paint (Aggraros Dunes), but one over a grey primer and one over Wraithbone, GW's recommended shade of off-white. The difference is quite marked! I disliked the darker tone so much that I drybrushed some green and yellow over it. They''ll both do now I guess. The wood by the way is Wyldwood, which is one of the best colours in the range I'd say. Just applied straight from the pot, and the shadow effect is very good.

Finally, a 10mm cottage from Battlescale, the companion of the building I showed you earlier. This was also primed grey, which accounts from the sombre tone. I will not repeat that experiment, I suppose. Still, the end result looks ok.

That's all folks! Thanks for looking, and stay safe.

From StuartL - Dutch Mill

Another small post from me this week. I have stuff on my workbench, but can't seem to find the time to get it done. Fingers crossed it'll be finished by next week.
In the meantime, I have painted up some more MDF terrain from Sarissa Precision. I picked up this windmill a while back. It's a truly massive piece of terrain. The top of the mill itself is about 9" off the ground. The sails add another 6" or so to the height and to the width on either side.

When I finished the kit, I didn't like the empty spaces in the sails so I glued some tissue paper over the backs and painted it with watered down PVA glue mixed with a drop of buff paint from vallejo. I think it gives a nice impression of canvas.

To try to add some extra detail to the piece, I wanted to make the MDF look more like real wood. To that end, I scraped a modelling saw across the panels to make some small grooves, then went over them again with a hobby knife to add some deeper marks. These stand out quite nicely after I painted the model in a watered down brown paint. I added some washes to add some colour to the wood. I tried drybrushing, but it didn't work out to well and now one side (above) is a bit messy. I may go back over it with brown at some point to tidy it up.

For all it's size, the mill building isn't that big in terms of AHPC terrain cubes. At 9" x 3" x 3" for the main structure it's only 81 cubic inches. However, since I'm feeling generous, I'll add a bit extra for the stairs, the wide base and the sails. That should round it up to 10 points, giving me a slight boost 809.5 (unofficial) points scored for this challenge so far.

From SanderS: "The Beacons are lit, the Corona Beacons are lit!" (10points)

Hoi,

Remember me telling you guys I had bought a 3D printer? Well it's been running almost non-stop and is making some lovely terrain and vehicles, part of which you have been able to see in my last Star Wars Legion post. I have printed quite some fantasy buildings and Heroquest furniture.

A lot of the companies that produce STL files for us home-printers, have released free samples during this Corona lock-down and this one I really liked the idea of: it's a version of the beacons of Minas Tirith from the Lord of the Rings done by RM Printable Terrain. The idea is that the beacon shines a little ray (down Roussel they don't mean you!) of Hope into our hearts and homes. I didn't print the groundwork base because I want to use it with my terrain-mat or Venice terrain.

The roof is lift-off and has a nice peg and hole so you always know how to place the roof back on.

 I included some of my old GW LotR figures just for fun, oh boy I wish I hadn't because they really need re-basing and re-painting...

 As far as points go, since this is not a building with walls all round I am awarding myself 10 points.
I am printing more GI Joe vehicles and some Medieval Terrain right now as well as painting 28mm Napoleonics and even more SWL figures...