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A photo of two of the EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. They're parts of an Ork fort and look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. Both pieces are on cut-out pieces of cardboard that are covered in a texture paint that makes it look like sand, and there's various tufts of dry grasses growing around the base of the walls.

There we go, all finished. Absolutely stoked with how they came out, and I'm really glad I got some of the big tufts as well, it looks so much more natural.

(Plague Marines and Poxwalkers for scale.)

Posted on 8 February 2023, 20:11

A photo of four sets of little dry grass tufts to use on miniature bases, plus some tools (Green Stuff sculpting tool, a hobby knife, and some rubber brushes).

Woohoo, more basing bits! I'll be finishing two of my pieces of Kill Team: Octarius terrain with these tonight (it's surprising how quickly you go through the small tufts when you're putting them on a whole terrain pieces, rather than just one or two on a miniature's base).

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Posted on 8 February 2023, 15:01

A photo of what looks like an old-style oil rig with the big weight that goes up and down. There's two tanks covered in metal plating of various colours with all sorts of pipes going everywhere, and it's all brown and rusty-looking. It's glued onto a piece of cardboard that's been painted with sandy texture paint, and there's little tufts of various colours of dry grass around the base of the rig.

The same oil rig but from the opposite side, you can see the grasses growing underneath the raised platform that connects the tanks to the big pumping weight thing.

I decided to do some basing on my Octarius oil rig terrain piece, pretty happy with how it's come out!

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Posted on 1 February 2023, 21:14

Two pieces of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team terrain. They're parts of an Ork fort and look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. They're EXTREMELY ramshackle.

Two more pieces of the Kill Team Octarius terrain nearly done! I just need to wait a few days for the wash to dry, then drybrushing and varnishing, and then only two more identical pieces to these and I will be FINISHED!

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Posted on 28 January 2023, 14:50

I wish I'd gotten onto this airbrushing thing earlier. It's SO much faster to paint terrain, I'm actually going to finish all of the Kill Team stuff from Octarius! These aren't finished yet, but there's two more identical pieces to go, then it'll just need a splash of colour, a coat of quickshade and then some drybrushing, and it'll be 100% done.

And then I might even try to make a dent in the Sector Mechanicus terrain from my old Kill Team starter box from 2019 that I've assembled and undercoated and then done absolutely nothing else with. 😮

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Posted on 25 January 2023, 22:05

A photo of a very messy desk with an airbrush sitting on it, a piece of junkyard-looking terrain from Warhammer 40,000, all of which is being brightly lit from above by an long narrow LED light that's pointing downwards. The light is being held in place by a gooseneck phone holder that's attached to the side of the desk.

I've had my painting table inside because it's been mostly too hot in the back room to paint, but I need to do my airbrushing out there because I can't do it in the house, which in turn means I'm back to using the extremely dim LED side lamp when I'm airbrushing at night.

Solution: LED light from Bunnings held up with a phone holder that is far stronger than it has any right to be!

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Posted on 24 January 2023, 18:44

I decided that I should really bite the bullet and actually get started on the large pieces of the Kill Team terrain from the Octarius box that I bought in the middle of 2021. Figured it'd be a good opportunity to actually try doing some airbrushing in a fashion other than a zenithal highlight base coat, and I'm pretty pleased with how it's coming out! I'm less worried about obviously sticking within the lines because a) it's terrain and I don't care nearly as much, and b) in this case it's Ork terrain which is completely ramshackle anyway.

It's weirdly shiny because I'm using Army Painter's "Strong Tone" shade paint, which is sort of like Citadel's washes but oil-based and far thicker, and for some reason they thought a glossy finish would be the go. Once it's dry (which takes a good 24-48 hours 😮) I'm going to give it a drybrushing with some gunmetal silver and then will hit it with a matte varnish to get rid of the shine, and I reckon it's going to look pretty tops.

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Posted on 22 January 2023, 16:39

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 miniature, he's wearing dark green armour and is holding a shotgun in one hand and has a big knife in the other, with the pose implying he's about to use it. He's wearing industrial-looking goggles and looks mostly human except his skin is a very light purple and his skull is just... slightly too big. The base of the miniature looks like it's completely muddy and there's lots of dark green and brown grasses growing, and the mud is splattered up his legs.

Just finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Genestealer Cults squad for Kill Team I have. Pretty happy with how it came out, the usual thing with the GSC is that they're all wearing industrial gear so I wanted to do something different and so made it look like they're wading through a swamp instead. There's also a pool of gross-looking green swampy water at his feet but you can't really see it at this angle due to the grass. I'll have to make a point of not covering that up so much next time, oops.

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Posted on 15 January 2023, 14:22

A photo of a bunch of steampunk-looking terrain on a game board, it's all walls and put together to look like the interior of a cramped gothic spaceship. There's miniatures in it, vile Plague Marines and Poxwalkers approaching through the corridors from the left, facing off again several female warriors in light blue/grey armour and wielding various guns.

A close-up shot looking down one of the corridors, you can really see all the pipes and machinery and everything in the walls. One of the Plague Marines is facing a woman in a military cap who's about to blast the Marine with a plasma pistol.

Another even closer-upper shot, taken from the point of view of one of the miniatures. A different female warrior in armour is pointing her gun through a hatchway at a Poxwalker, which is a gross pustle-covered zombie thing.

Remember the absurd amount of terrain I put together from the Kill Team: Into The Dark box? FINALLY got it finished today!

I realised I was massively overthinking it and that I didn't actually need to do remotely as much detail as I thought. I primed in black, did a low airbrushed zenithal highlight of this wonderful dark blue metallic colour, then a higher one of copper, airbrushed white for the lights, then picked out a few details in red, and it looks fantastic on the tabletop.

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Posted on 11 January 2023, 23:06

A photo of the seven armoured goblins from the Warhammer Underworlds warband Grinkrak's Looncourt. They're all very characterful, the highlights are one wielding a squig that's been attached to a stick, another hiding behind a wooden door while a second one is on his shoulders and pulling back another squig that's about to be launched catapult-style, and a third riding a very large and angry-looking squig and has a large mallet head attached to the pole he's holding. The others just have mostly regular weapons and Grinkrak himself has what looks like a jester's hat on.

(A squid is a small angry creature that consists of mostly teeth.)

A photo of the four shamanistic-looking warriors of the Warhammer Underworlds warband the Gnarlspirit Pack. They're all dressed in leathers and furs and the leader has a large animal skull on his head. His left arm is too slightly larger than normal and looks like something out of the movie Aliens, and is wielding/has growing out of the hand a blade that looks like it may be bone.

And that's the Looncourt assembled and undercoated!

I did the Gnarlspirit Pack from the Gnarlwood core box as well, and the keen-eyed (and/or Warhammer 40,000 nerds) amongst you will notice that the leader's arm doesn't quite look right. That's because it's the arm of a Tyranid Genestealer that I put on because the thumb on his regular arm had broken off in the box, so I just chopped the whole arm off and replaced it with this one. Annoyingly I had a similar issue with the head of the leader of the other warbands from that same box, the Sons of Velmorn, the box must have been REALLY banged up in transit. 😕 I'm undecided whether I'm going to actually spend the time to paint up the leader with the replacement arm, haha.

(I contacted the place I bought them from and it's no hassle to get new sprues sent out, just annoying.)

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Posted on 30 December 2022, 22:05