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Finally getting around to painting up the in-progress buildings I showed a couple weeks ago. You can see the in-progress pictures
here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/08/toy-bashing-urban-terrain.html

The first one done is the "Building Under Construction" which is based on a "Fast Lane" (Toys R Us store brand) Parking Garage that I found at a resale shop for $3! Though I don't currently play Necromunda (have the figs though and hope to someday), this building has a very Necro look to me. As you can see, it's quite a sizable structure.


Side view


Close up of the ground floor HVAC/Elevator shaft unit. The whole model is painted in a very fast method of prime, drybrush basecoat, 2 brown washes and drybrush tan, so it's slightly less impressive up close.


Though there's alot of open space, there's sitll alot of opportunities for cover, and I'm working on some construction and warehouse themed scatter terrain (coming later)


Lots more pics and my ramblings here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/08/terrain-triptych-part-1-building-under.html

Very neat! I think I recognize that Mad Cat, too.

Looks great

Very cool, looks like it could add a lot of height to a battlefield and is large enough to see use in 40k too.

Mattlov wrote:Very neat! I think I recognize that Mad Cat, too.

You most certainly do.

Paradigm wrote:Very cool, looks like it could add a lot of height to a battlefield and is large enough to see use in 40k too.

Thanks, that's actually exactly what I was thinking. I wanted to build a few pieces of terrain that are interesting and accessible enough to be used in skirmish games, but large enough and with enough floorspace that it could be used in squad based games also. Additionally they needed to be big enough to block or obscure line of sight for the 28mm "Mech Attack" games that I play occasionally and run at conventions, where the largest mechs are often around 8 inches tall.

Does the Timber Wolf still have it's game in it, mine does not?

 Anpu42 wrote:
Does the Timber Wolf still have it's game in it, mine does not?

If you're thinking of the Timberwolf that had a little video game thing in it, that's a different model, though they are similarly colored and probably near the same size.

This is one of the die-cast and plastic Mad Cat's from the line released by "Joyride" toys to support the Mechwarrior Dark Age clix game.

 Eilif wrote:

 Anpu42 wrote:
Does the Timber Wolf still have it's game in it, mine does not?

If you're thinking of the Timberwolf that had a little video game thing in it, that's a different model, though they are similarly colored and probably near the same size.

This is one of the die-cast and plastic Mad Cat's from the line released by "Joyride" toys to support the Mechwarrior Dark Age clix game.

Cool

Back with a smaller piece. A power station built from a Hot Wheels car launcher. Very little conversion work required on this one.




more pics and descriptions here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/08/terrain-triptych-part-2-power-station.html

Coming soon, the big one!

Excellent once more!

Here's the next one, and it's a biggie.
An Elevated Train Station. This one began it's life as a Fisher Price GEO Trax playset. It's just the start of a Terrain Sub-set that I'm working on that will be an elevated train line. I've got all the necessary pieces, I've just got to get assembling and painting. Stay Tuned for future posts.

As always pics from every angle (including the underside) and other details here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/09/terrain-triptych-part-3-elevated-train.html

Anyway, here goes:
http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/8/26/642327_md-.JPG

Good work on that, fits the scale just right and looks great with your conversions and painting.

What paints are you using for these? Do you find it hard to get good coverage and consistency on the toy plastics?
I tried a few years ago with basic Gw paints and it was a disaster.

Cave_Dweller wrote:Good work on that, fits the scale just right and looks great with your conversions and painting.

Thanks!

Ratius wrote:What paints are you using for these? Do you find it hard to get good coverage and consistency on the toy plastics?
I tried a few years ago with basic Gw paints and it was a disaster.

I use almost exclusively Delta Ceramcoat craft paints. I've tried all the brands of craft paint and it's the one that is closest in pigmentation and consistency to miniature-brand paints. It's not as good, but it's good enough for me and it's what I use for most of my figures as well. Also, it's a dollar and thirty cents for 2 oz instead of 4 dollars for a half an oz, so that's nice.

The real key though is priming. What did you use to prime the toy you were painting? For hard plastic toys I use cheap dollar cans of flat black spray paint most every big box and home repair store has some version. For soft plastics or plastics I'm not sure about I use Krylon Camo Flat Black. It use the "fusion" tech (though it says so in small letters) that Krylon uses to indicate sprays that are formulated to bond to soft plastics. It doesn't have quite the "tooth" that the cheap spray paint does, but it takes paint well and allows good coverage.

As for consistency, it's not a huge issue for me because my method of painting is a heavy drybrush of the base color over black, followed by a couple of brown washes and a tan drybrush. Uneven coverage isn't as big a deal because you want the buildings to look worn and a couple brown washes and a drybrush of tan blends it all together anyway. Look close at my work and you'll see black showing through at places, but it works with the overall look.

Nice work again. Note to self: raid local toy and craft stores, steal/borrow idea

Went a bit nuts building cargo scatter terrain a bit over a week ago, and here's the result:



Pictures of all of them with construction and sourcing information here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/09/scatter-terrain-for-sci-fi-and-post.html

Here's some of the choice bits:






Also a couple of mini structures


And a truck

The terrain insanity continues. Here's a bit that I made for my friend. He had the lone three tanks on a desert gravel base, but wanted to spice it up a bit. He agreed to paint up a Salvage Crew for me if I gave it "The Treatment". Some pipes to connect the tanks, a few i-beams and some paint and whole new piece is born!

Full Pics and Construction details here:
http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/09/more-terrain-small-chem-plant.html
I was sorry to let this one go, but I'm sure I'll be battling on it soon. Looking forward to it!

Your stuff's looking great. The Hot Wheels motor thing is genius though. I never would've thought to use that.

Thanks! I'm always on the look out for old broken toys with good greebling.

Interestingly a fellow in Germany saw the Hot Wheels launcher piece and was so inspired, he ordered 4!
http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=70480.msg860806#msg860806

Now I kind of want to find some more too.

Wow, that's really awesome! Inventive and great painjob.

Awesome terrain. Truly a credit to the hobby!
Your scatter terrain is really going to bring the table to life.

koooaei wrote:Wow, that's really awesome! Inventive and great painjob.

Thanks! It's actually a really easy paint job to do and I use it on almost all my terrain. Just Black Prime, Heavy crybrush of colors, 2 heavy brown washes, a drybrush of dusty tan over everything and spray on some matte varnish.

jedi76 wrote:Awesome terrain. Truly a credit to the hobby!
Your scatter terrain is really going to bring the table to life.

Glad you liked it. What surprised me was how fun scatter terrain is to build. Building terrain is already my favorite part of the hobby, but scatter terrain goes together and paints so fast that it's like waves of accomplishment.

Time to add a bit of church to my dreary urban landscape. Finally sat down and hammered out a building from a pile of Pegasus Gothic Terrain parts that I've had sitting around my workspace for a while. I wanted to go the extra mile for this one, so it has proper roofs (removable of course), parapet walls (lots of cutting…) and a mildly decorative floor.

And to really mix it up, it's not ye old grimdark grey!!!





Really pleased with the Pegasus kits. Alot of DIY is required to get the most out of them, but with the right tools, they're great to work with and build a really impressive and sturdy structure that sits well in a multitude of genres and eras.

As usual, more pics and an excruciatingly over-detailed description of the process is on the blog: http://chicagoskirmish.blogspot.com/2014/09/terrain-cathedral-de-la-pegasus.html

Great centerpiece that cathedral! They make great cover in any setting

More toybashing fun can be found here...