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

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

A photo of the two corner pieces of the Kill Team: Hivestorm terrain. They're simultaneously gothic and also sort of steampunk, with pipes running over them and two huge skulls designs. The pieces have been heavily drybrushed in grey, the metal doors and barred windows are an orange/red colour and the pipes are a rich brown. They're not fully finished yet, but look absolutely striking even in their partially completed state!

For a handful of hours work, this is coming along absolutely smashingly!

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Posted on 19 October 2024, 22:11

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table.

Right, that's the terrain assembled and undercoated! Next stop, attempting to replicate @[email protected]'s method with minimal effort via the magic of drybrushing.

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Posted on 19 October 2024, 13:55

A photo of the three measuring gauges from Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. One is long and thin with stylised skulls and a red pentagon. The other two are two halves of an isosceles trapezoid with a white circle, blue square, and black triangle on three of their edges, and half of a large skull with a knife under it on either side. All three pieces fade from a dark metallic blue to a bright copper colour, on the dark blue side I've added rust pigment so it looks like it's been rusting, and on the copper side I added a verdigris effect.

The same three combat gauges as before, but without the rust and verdigris effects.

The "barricades" from the Into The Dark set. Instead of being actual barricades like in the original Octarius release of Kill Team, they consist of four stacks of large ammo crates, two things that look like a portable generator/engine on wheels, and two sets of what look like propane tanks and big lead battery type things. They're all dark and silvery.

With my week-long cold I unfortunately didn't manage to get much miniature painting done at all, but I DID paint up my second batch of combat gauges to match my Into The Dark terrain, with a dirtied-up rusted side and a clean side. Weirdly, on the dirty side where I did the rust pigment I actually went a bit too heavy-handed with the matte varnish and it actually dried white in places (or maybe it reacted with the pigment or something? All I know is that I didn't have this same problem when doing my actual ITD terrain) but it's totally worked fine anyway and just added some extra wear! I also made the ITD "barricades" look at least somewhat better with the application of some airbrushed silver, a dunk in The Army Painter's "Dark Tone", and some drybrushing.

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Posted on 3 March 2024, 19:17

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 gothic-slash-steampunk starship. The terrain is all rusty-looking like it's been properly abandoned for centuries. Closest to the camera are the warriors of the Astra Militarium, ten heavily-armoured women in white-coloured armour wielding various guns. On the far side are six Plague Marines, huge superhuman warriors in green armour that have all sorts of gross mutations.

A close-up of two of the Astra Militarum who are about to go barrelling through an open hatchway. Above the hatchway are black and yellow hazard stripes, and the walls are all details with pipes and skulls and cabling. Next to the hatchway is a little button pad with a round screen that I've painted green and it looks like it's lit up.

A closeup of one of the sections of wall that has a series of ten smaller screens on the left half of the wall. They look like they're probably CRTs (or whatever the Warhammer 40,000 equivalent is) because they're curved and are green and glowing like what one of the old Apple IIe displays from the 80s looked like. On the right half of the wall is what looks like a round radar display along with two much larger screens, also green and glowing. Similar to the rest of the walls, there's also a bunch of cables and wires and pipes and skulls and it all looks appropriately grimdark.

A closeup shot of the leader of the Astra Militarum who is wearing an officer's army cap and has her cloak billowing out behind her. She's pointing a glowing plasma pistol directly at a Plague Marine who has a giant mouth in the chest/abdomen section of his armour and is wielding two plague knives (which basically look like mutated short swords). They're both standing at either end of a room that has two open doors where they've come in, and all the walls are the standard grimdark steampunk/gothic look with cables and pipes and skulls and rust.

My Kill Team terrain is DONE! Absolutely fucking stoked at how good it looks, I even painted the screens up to look like, well, screens! Other than the screens, all I did to the rest of it was a drybrush of Ironbreaker plus the rust pigment. I wasn't looking forward to having to individually apply pigment fixer to everything but fortunately using a solid thick coat of matte varnish via the airbrush has done the trick just as well, and with far less effort. The hazard stripes above the doors look so good too, and I made sure I dabbed them with rust pigment so they looked properly worn like the rest of it.

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Posted on 18 February 2024, 16:06

A photo of two of the sections of the wall terrain from Into The Dark. It looks very steampunk with lots of pipes and skulls and both are painted the lower colour being a dark metallic blue and further up the wall it fades into a lighter copper colour. The section on the left looks almost unfinished compared to the one on the right, that looks a lot more "lived in".

Also after our last game of Kill Team (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2542), I decided I wanted to add a bit of extra pizzazz to my Into The Dark terrain because it looked a bit dull next to my friend's set that he put a fair bit more effort into. One of the things he did that I particularly liked was adding hazard stripes to all the walls above where the doors are, because it's VERY easy to miss the fact that there's a door there and suddenly your opponent opens one right next to one of your operatives and you're like "...oh, shit." Very happy with my hand-painting efforts for the hazard stripes here, I also did some drybrushing with silver (I had done zero drybrushing at all until this point) and used the MIG brand rust pigment to add some extra grime and wear, and it looks mint. Left is before, right is after. Now I just have approximately twelve million more pieces of this terrain to do. 😅

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Posted on 12 February 2024, 21:51

A photo of entire set of EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. At the back are four parts of an Ork fort that 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. There's also an old rig thing with the big pumping arm in the same ramshackle style, and scattered in front of these larger pieces are piles of scrap metal and chest-high walls also made out of all sorts of pieces of scrap.

All the big 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.

IT. IS. DONE. All of the Kill Team Octarius terrain, fully painted!

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Posted on 19 February 2023, 10:56

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.)

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Posted on 8 February 2023, 20:11

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