The craters were drybrushed with Tauspet Ochre.
You can see where I have missed bits, I hope to catch these with a wash.
Tag: 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.
Moonscape base coat
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.
Moonscape
After buying the “not very good” Blastscape I was slighty wary of buying the Moonscape, knowing it was made from the same vac-formed process. However Simon had bought some a year or so back and he said they were very good. So one impulse purchase later and I was the proud owner of a bag of Moonscape craters.
No battlefield would be complete without some fantastic terrain to bring your games to life and provide cover for your units. These Warhammer 40,000 Moonscapes are an excellent representation of the craters and ruined earth left by the devastating weaponry of the 41st millennium. Easily painted to match your gaming board they provide cover for advancing squads and can be used to represent the craters left by destroyed vehicles.
This set contains five different variations of vac-formed plastic craters for use in your games of Warhammer 40,000.
I gave the craters a white undercoat.
Softening the Blastscape
Having given the Blastscape a base coat of black and red primer, I used a brown spray to soften the harshness of the base coat.
I was quite pleased with the effect. Next stage is drybrushing.
Basecoating the Blastscape
After applying the texture and letting it dry fully I gave the blastscape a basecoat of black and red primer.
Texturising the Blastscape
I decided to add some texture to the blastscapes. I mixed some polyfilla, white glue, sand and water. This was then brushed liberally over the blastscapes. These photographs were taken when they were wet.
Sanding the Blastscape
Having been slightly disappointed with the quality of the Blastscape scenery, I decided that I would try and improve on the models by adding some texture and scenic items.
Using PVA (white glue) and GW sand I flocked the edges. I also added some GW slate to some of the pieces.
Blastscape
It came in a plastic bag! They are vac formed plastic.
Blastscape
When I saw this product for Apocalypse on the Games Workshop website, it looked really good.
So I thought I would get a pack.
Alas the original image on the website was of some resin masters, the vac formed final product was nothing like what we saw in the previews. Though GW did revise the product image to what you actually got rather than using resin masters.
It was a pity really that they didn’t make resin versions (like the Urban Barricades and Ork Barricades). Having said all that, they were a splash release and are now no longer available to buy.
They came in a plastic bag.
