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A photo of (most of) the terrain from the Kill Team: Tomb World box, it's a bunch of walls that all connect together with corner pieces. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The painting I've done is the brown stone that's covering the Necron walls so it looks like the stone is crumbling away and revealing the alien Necron technology underneath.

It's taken a while, but I've now got all of the base stonework done for my Tomb World terrain. 🫠 (The pieces off to the left are the fully-finished test ones I had done previously.)

The stone was definitely the largest job, theoretically it should be faster going now because there's much less left to paint in terms of surface area... various dark green bits like the archways built into some of the walls and a few other pieces, some glow effects, then it's just highlighting those various colours (including the base white of the Necron walls) to make them pop.

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Posted on 14 May 2026, 12:59

A photo of two of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. The right-hand piece is the one I'd previously finished, but the left-hand one has a cool almost Egyptian-feeling doorway in it where the top half of the doorway sides tilt inwards. It's got a big chunky door frame painted in dark green and the door has three gold-coloured Necron scarabs on its surface.

Wall piece number two is down, plus one of the connectors and a door! (And not pictured, another one of the "doors" that looks like a bunch of lightning).

I had briefly thought about painting Hexwraith Flame into the little gaps in the connector pieces to make it look like it was glowing but quickly decided that I cannot be fucked.

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Posted on 7 December 2025, 18:02

A photo of one of the wall pieces of the Tomb World terrain. The designs on the wall have a geometric alien-robotic look, and part of it is covered with cracked stone so it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath the stone. The stone is brown colour, and the alien-robotic walls are shaded white and grey, with white highlights, and really contrast with the crumbling stone. In the middle of the wall there's a misshapen section missing because there's another section that gets plugged in when you're playing and you can breach the wall at that point and blow it out, which means you need to take the missing piece out so it can act as a doorway.

SUCCESS!

The drybrushing didn't go as well as I'd hoped (it's already too light for it to really work), so I've had to manually highlight everything which means this is not going to be a quick project. 😅 But I'm really happy with how it's all come together. I really liked the hazard stripes above the doors on the top of my Into The Dark terrain as a really obvious way to highlight "HEY THERE'S A DOOR HERE, THE ENEMY MIGHT COME THROUGH IT" and I had been pondering how to do that here but without being yellow and black hazards stripes because that wouldn't really go. Turns out hazard stripes still work fine, you just need to theme them!

I'll need to tidy up the edges of the stripes and put a white highlight along the top wall edge, but these are going to look really sharp on the tabletop when I eventually get everything finished. I'm thinking I'll paint the Necrons themselves in a similar colour scheme as well.

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Posted on 4 December 2025, 21:47

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain bluetacked onto pieces of cardboard so I could airbrush the primer onto them. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The whole lot has been undercoated in black then a white applied from a high angle so it catches the tops of all the surfaces and fades down darker as it goes down.

Definitely making progress here, the terrain — sans the scatter pieces — has been primed and zenithalled (yes that's now a word)!

My plan is to drybrush some pure white to bring out the details a bit more, then hopefully I can get away with painting just the crumbling wall parts that are covering the Necron walls and I can leave the Necron walls themselves as they are, just with some details picked out, and it'll look cool and clean and futuristic behind the crumbling. I'm not sure how it'll work in practice, it might still look unfinished, I'll have to try a test piece first.

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 13:42

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain sitting attached together on my painting table. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves.

Right, the Tomb World terrain has been liberated from its sprues, next stop is priming!

The new connection method Games Workshop has for this terrain seems to be pretty improved over what they did for Into The Dark, I didn't do any filing or sanding for the Tomb World terrain here and everything has mostly fit together without issue.

(Necrons in the middle for scale.)

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 10:02

A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @RollleafD@dice.camp for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo of one of the two larger pieces of terrain that comes with the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's made to look like a ruined gothic-looking building made out of metal concrete with steel reinforcements with rivets everywhere, enclosed on all four sides but the two sides facing the camera have been blown clean away down to a bit below shoulder height and it's completely open in the middle. At the rear is the second level of the building with twisted metal coming out from where the floor ends, and there are tall thick gothic-looking barred iron windows that end part-way up the wall where the roof also has been blown off. Three ordinary human-sized miniatures are standing on and in the terrain for scale, showing that it'd be a somewhat high-ceilinged building if it was fully intact.

I have finally gotten another piece of the Hivestorm terrain done (sans rust effects and weathering)! 🥳 Now there's just the really big piece left, plus the small pieces of scatter terrain. I'm quite looking forward to having a go at the single-player mode on an open board, even though Into The Dark is my favourite way to play Kill Team.

(All this just in time for the Tomb World box to arrive next week. 😅)

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Posted on 16 September 2025, 21:50

A photo of a dining room with two tables set up on either side, two people are sitting around the left and another two and a child are sitting at the right. There are a bunch of paints and miniatures and things scattered over both tables.

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table. They've been primed black and then had three layers of drybrushing done in increasingly-light greys and it looks mint, if you were lazy you could totally use that on the tabletop as-is.

Today I went over to a friend's place for a painting day! I got the drybrushing for ALL of my remaining Hivestorm terrain done, and then we finished the day off with a good hour-long splash around in the pool.

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Posted on 27 December 2024, 13:10

Slow going (I have too many other hobbies completing for my time 😅) but that's the second piece of the Hivestorm terrain finished!

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Posted on 11 November 2024, 21:20

Right, I think I'm calling my first piece done! (Miniatures on top for scale.)

I might go back and add some rust or otherwise general weathering, but I'll get the rest of the terrain finished first.

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Posted on 20 October 2024, 20:15