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Zone Mortalis.

Lots and lots and lots of Zone Mortalis.

Currently gluing to base plates to match the Necromunda 2017 set.

Day 168 proper.

Making up Necromunda Zone Mortalis tiles. So far, I’m repeating the cardboard ones that came with the relaunched boxed set what feels like forever ago.

I’ve also got Markets, Gang Strongholds, Cranes, Crates, Barrels, Power Generators and all sorts of…of….of…guff to make use of.

Need to dig out more walls. And I’m certain I’ve got more. Somewhere.

And some mucking about with the Gang Stronghold and other bits and bobs, looking to make a permanent market for a campaign centred on founding and developing a settlement in a newly discovered dome.

Also as I’m delving into my Underhive of Opportunity, cracked out the Hive Scum/Militant Shopkeeps, alongside ‘Arry of ‘Arry and Barry Security Solutions.

Barry has now also been assembled.

I think the settlement also needs a pair of Ogryn. Could’ve sworn I had a set lurking, but they’ve not turned up.




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Found the Ogryns.

Grunt & Fill will be assembled tomorrow.

Day 169

Grunt & Fill Bovverboy. Settlement meatheads.

At some point I’ll convert or procure a suitable handler. Ideally female. Maybe a female Squat. She’ll be called Peggy.

When you know, you know.

The Necromunda Ogryn are two great models.

Shame I got like 20 of them...

For 20, you’ll be needing a decent bitz box for variation!

Just found this blog, Doc. Incredible progress. Your 30k Dark Angel scheme is simple but striking. Nice work.

Thank you

Currently deciding what needs doing today.

Probably start spraying a Necromunda floor tile. Get an idea of how long each is gonna take.

Or, more sensibly? Do some test pieces for the scheme I shared earlier.

In fact…

Day 170

Test pieces for my intended scheme. Because test pieces make sense before I risk buggering up hundreds of pounds worth of terrain.

And if these turn out well? And they should….I can always incorporate them into home made building and shacks at a later date. Because when you’re doing terrain? There’s no such thing as waste.

So…basecoat black. Any matte black acrylic spray.

Then, drybrush with Model Color “Mahogany”. Nice, simple, circular motion. This gets your dinge and surface rust.

After that? Top drybrush using Army Painter Shining Silver. Good bit lighter and more strategic.

Then stipple strong pigment atop.

FIN. Thus it’s gonna take me very little time! Reckon there’s a reasonable chance I can do a floor plate in three days. But…problemo. I’m suuuuper low on Black Spray right now. And Friday is payday. I’ll work round it as best I can, and check the Magic Box O’Stuff, as I may have forgotten cans lurking.




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Have also got some domes and pipe stacks in the spray box, ready for tomorrow.

Downside? I really, really need to think about where the blinking flip I’m gonna keep all this terrain.

Spesh as I’ve got in the region of 14, possibly 16 of those Cargo Containers! But those provide opporchancity. Get a rotary cutter and I make shops for my settlement. And getting them stacked atop each other can add height, run-unders and what have you.

And a cheeky kit bash from whatever was on hand at the time.

Needs more hanging cable dooberies on the gantry, make it look less dull.

It looks very good, actually looks like a working substation or such.

Looking forward to getting some proper colour on it in the coming days. But I’ve other stuff in the spray box to go first.

All neat

Have decided the big scenery piece needs a control panel or two. Maybe three. I’ve certainly enough bits floating around for that.

You really like Little Shop of Horrors, don't you Doc...

I may have an Audrey II tattoo….

Day 171

Some big old chimneys, ready to block line of sight and add visual interest.

Mahogany drybrush done. Next step is Shining Silver drybrush. After that? Some interest colours, break up the monotony.

Splodginess Abounds!

Really, really liking the Screamer Pink over the dinge. It’s a nice pop of colour, without overwhelming the murk.

The orange I used was Trollslayer Orange. It’s worked well enough, but not entirely happy with it. But It Will Do.

All in all that’s about an hours work from black undercoat.


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Hmm. For the more open tiles, wonder if using texture paint to create piles of muck might add some character.

Muck might be good. Could you also use flat plates to create large floor panels to break up the surface?

The floor plates for Necromunda have quite a lot of greebling as standard, which certainly helps them not look inherently boring.

Add in scatter terrain (tank traps here, barricades there, barrels, boxes, cranes, traction engines etc) and even an empty tile soon becomes quite busy.

Muck piles are mostly for visual interest and variety. Or, I could get some tiiiiny little mushrooms to be growing out of the muck. Suggest the organic remains of something unfortunate and the circle of life and that.

Day 172

First significant sized piece of terrain undercoated, ready for the same old process.

I may just take this up to the silver drybrush stage tonight. Whilst I’ve a lot of paint pots, too many have proven to be dried out, including my Averland Sunset. So want to leave the primary colour splodging until tomorrow, when I’ve had a chance to buy some more.

In terms of the drybrushing, the crevicey details really benefit from getting a fresh brush of silver first. Helps them standout, and in case the brush is a bit overloaded, that’s where I mind it the least. Just a wee tip there for anyone also looking to follow the scheme.


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Also? Evil Brain Thoughts have me pretty convinced I could apply this technique and scheme to Chaos Knights…and thus reasonably knock out a Knight a day.

Evil Brain is being told to shut up.

And what do we do during meetings that should’ve been emails? Drybrush scenery! Yaaaaay! Maybe 20 or so minutes work here. It’s a bit heavy here and there, but the metallic top drybrush should knock that back, and the forthcoming colour splodges will likewise tone it all down a fair amount. Pipe work will also get the odd spot colour here to break the monotony.

Trust the process! Looking much better with the silver drybrush.

Splodge colours being done tomorrow to finish.




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Also?

Now out of black spray! More tomorrow.

Day 173

Oddly bumper day, as it’s SHOPPING DAY!!!!

2 x Thatos Platforms, 2 x Thatos Hab Unit, 1 x Thatos Extended Hab Unit, 3 x Chaos Black Spray*, 1 x Averland Sunset pot, 1 x Mephiston Red pot.§

Painting wise I’ve some traction engines ready, and four Munitorum Containers in the process of being sprayed.


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Wait. Very sudden change of plan, as I now have a hospital appointment at 6:30, and I don’t really know how long that’ll take.

Soooooo….gonna do the colour splodges on the big bit of terrain and call that a day. Which is now done.

Sudden hospital appointments are rarely fun. Good luck!

You going to vary the colors on the terrain, or keep things uniform?

I’ll see how I feel on the colours. I may stick to the same ones (I’m really taken with Screamer Pink for instance), or I might mix it up.

Also playing around with other Sector Mechanicus bits and bobs, seeing what I like and what’s perhaps bits intensive.

Both are good, but I’ll agree that the pink is a bit better. Although it doesn’t really read as pink in the pictures.

It doesn’t read as pink in real life either 🤣

It’s a nicely dark purple finish, and reminds me of colours I’d associate with 70’s stuff. Though it might be 60’s. Certainly it was always cheap paint that looked knackered by the mid 80’s. And it really adds to the dinge.

Taking my mind off the hospital visit with a bit more hobby.

Two containers, two traction engines (one hidden by the containers) and four random pipe terrain. Got another two containers in the spray box drying.

Think I overdid the silver on the pipework and traction engines. Nothing that can’t be fixed though. First up will be colour splodges on any particularly flat areas, followed by Agrax Earthshade where needed to knock back shine, or deepen shadows.

20 or so minutes of stippling with Mephiston Red. And I’m well chuffed with the outcome.

Brush used (and heavily abused) is an Army Painter Hobby Druybrush. Not great at drybrushing, but bristles and short and tough enough to do a great job at stippling.