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Hi, I found these pieces of packing material laying around and thought they might make some pretty cool terrain. I am looking for any and all paint scheme ideas?

I was thinking for the rectangular piece, possibly a concrete look, and for the upside down v’s maybe make them a metal with the inside track being a glowing color.

I am very new to the hobby, so any advice would be great appreciated, thanks!

awesome!!! Oh, and welcome to dakka and terrain making!

This is sometimes the best type of terrain projects to start with!

So a few questions...

What kind of table will you put it on?

Is it a desert wasteland?
(everything in browns and sand colors, with rocks etc?)

Is it more a green colony world?
(green grassy type table, some trees, with scattered buildings?)

A ruined city?
(dark rubble filled streets, burnt out structures, lots of dust)

An industrial complex type area?
(Like a refinery, of a factory complex with lots of metallics and dark colors).

Those types of thoughts will inspire you to what the setting the buildings will go into...

For example for the desert setting (i.e. mos eisley) I would paint them all in light browns with various highlights and some dry brushing.

But if it were going to be an industrial complex - start by paiting them black, then do a lot of highlights in metal colors - steel, rust, bronze, etc. then add some glowing spots for lights etc.

If you want them more generic (or like the colony world) then more like concrete....of paint them black, then dry brush successive shades of lighter and lighter gray.

Finally, check out some of the various "terrain" videos on youtube - there are tons of good ones.

Channels I would suggest for terrain would be;
terrainaholic
rubbishinandrubbish out
terrain guy
miniwargaming
etc.

Best of luck and let us know if you have any more questions!

yellow with purple polka dots. All else is not grimdark enough.

honestly though, you need to finish the things. Add railings, smoke-stacks, filters, doors, shutters, windows, antennae... all of that jazz. Then it depends. military installation? camo pattern of your world of choice (ice, desert, jungle, temperate, etc.) otherwise you an just do it gray and speckle it with different shades of gray. Say, paintt it a dark gray, dry brush a lighter gray, and then grab an old tooth brush, dip it in the lightest gray, and then pull your thumb across the bristles to flick the color onto the buildings.

Thank you for the welcome, I am excited to learn.

I am not sure I am up to adding stuff to them, since I am still in my infancy stages of this hobby and I think that might be a bit too advanced for now.

I really want to use these pieces as learning tools, I do not have any specific long term visions for them, but in the short run, I really just want to practice airbrush, wash, and dry brushing techniques on these.

I plan on using it on Citadel's battle board. I plan on painting the battle board up as a grassland type of setting, with the plans on eventually adding FW's city tile system later on, as my hobby progresses.

I was thinking of it being like a bunker with some industrial type power generator type of units, that could be used in a grassland / village / or a wasteland area.

Thank you for the youtube resources, I will definitely check those out.

WW2 bunkers were often painted with camouflage patterns, so I should paint the blocky ones like dark concrete with green camo on them.

I like your idea of metallic with a glowing slot for the triangles. If you spray the glow it will look like some alien power generator. Add some alien symbols along the sides.

I thought about this more, and the 4 triangles will work, but the others...? I dont know... your best bet will be to half-heartedly glue sand all over it, with some wood-chips, paint it over a series of browns, and turn to the badlands for painting inspiration. Maybe place a series of correctly sized and shaped wood chips on top/into the rough-textured box to make it look like khorne's skull or some other chaos symbol, and then paint it up, and add some dead shrubbery around it with steps leading up to it. You'd also need to bevell out some of the edges or dig out some chunks to make it look like a convincing hill/cliff that was planed flat and eroded over a long period of time. Adding that badlands coal seam through the middle is probably what will make it the most convincing, or even a pile of skeletons in two or three places, abutting against the cliff.

Thank you for all the great ideas.

Since I really want to use these as practice pieces, I like the idea of trying out a concrete with cammo pattern.

I also want to try and replicate scorch marks on the bunkers too.

With the alien power generators, I think they would be good to practice painting metal surfaces, glowing surfaces, and then trying out some weathering techniques on them.

I am thinking of having it be two different types of metal, with a more steel surface for the footing, and then the vertical areas being a bronze or darker metal.

Since color theory is not my strong suit, what type of glow would you recommend for a bronzed surface? Orange? Blue? Green? Or would I be better off swapping the colors, and having a bronzed footing, with a steel vertical structure?

Thanks again for all the advice and input.

I was trying to figure out why those triangles as power stations seemed so bloody familar. then I remembered dune.