Tag: scenery

Jungle ruins

This scenery from GamesDay 2009 always impressed me.

Taking the Imperial Ruins, painting them stone in colour and adding overgrown jungle foliage and roots was always in my opinion an inspired move.

I don’t actually like the glossy plants, however I do know that in “real life” a lot of jungle plants are in fact quite glossy! The reasoning is that other ways of representing foliage when making scenery for Warhammer is usually quite matt. So when you get glossy leaves, to me it doesn’t quite feel right.

Another piece of the jungle ruins.

Frozen Bones

A nice piece of scenery that was on display at GamesDay 2009.

Snowy bones on display cabinets at GamesDay 2009.
Snowy bones on display cabinets at GamesDay 2009

I’ve always liked the idea of snow and ice scenery and games. Probably the result of watching The Empire Strikes Back too many times!

There is something very different about snow and ice, in reality it creates real tactical and strategic challenges (ask Napoleon about his attack on Russia).

Of course there is more to snow and ice than putting down a white sheet and painting all your bases white! Real snow on the ground is rarely white, especially after been marched on, depending on the thickness, the temperature and how old the snow is, it can very quickly become a muddy icy mess.

More photographs of scenery.

Washing the Moonscape

Having drybrushed with Tauspet Ochre, I noticed that there were some areas which I had missed with the base coat. So I decided to give the craters a wash of Devlan Mud wash. However as you can see from this close up it didn’t work.

So I have decided to do some touching up to fix this. However apart from this I was quite pleased with the wash effect in toning down the drybrushing, though I am going to drybrush a little more.

The Fortress of Redemption

This is The Fortress of Redemption on display in Warhammer World.

Fortress of Redemption
Fortress of Redemption

The Fortress of Redemption is an indomitable fortress, a towering bulwark against the ravages of planetary invasion. First used by the Dark Angels of the Adeptus Astartes, these unyielding fortresses have since been used by every military force in the Imperium of Man, and have proved invaluable in the war against disorder. A nigh on unassailable stronghold, the Fortress of Redemption bristles with weaponry, a missile silo and two bunker annexes.

Fortress of Redemption
Fortress of Redemption Gun Turret

This is quite a “constrained” piece of scenery in that it is very specific terrain piece that has, in my opinion, little use outside a Dark Angels army. If this had been a non-specific Space Marine chapter fortress I am sure I would have bought one, as I suspect many others would as well. Having said that I do like the fact that Games Workshop as well as producing non-specific terrain also makes specific terrain.




Reducing the sheen

I gave the craters a base coat. Rather than use GW paints I used Daler Rowney’s Burnt Umber acrylic paint. The paint does give a slight sheen, but the process I am using should tone that down. To reduce the sheen of the acrylic paint, I sprayed the craters sparingly with a Humbrol Dark Brown spray which gave the desired effect.