Urban Terrain Table - completd!

Upon scheduling a game of 40k this week, I decided enough was enough and that they were going to be done to a playing standard. In the end it took just 2 days to complete the 32 tiles and finish an 8 x 4 board which we played on today. As always it was much simpler in practice than from overthinking it.

One of my WIP test pics

Earlier this year I bought a second hand set of the Secret Weapon Damaged Urban Tiles set- unpainted and very nice - also sadly OOP now (their website states that the manufacturer stole their moulds!). the 16 1 foot square tiles build a very nice 4 x 4 table - not quite big enough, so I put them to one side before finding another set a few months later. I had Ideas for them but as you know, perfect is the enemy of good enough and so nothing happened.

Upon scheduling a game of 40k this week, I decided enough was enough and that they were going to be done to a playing standard. In the end it took just 2 days to complete the 32 tiles and finish an 8 x 4 board which we played on today- much simpler in practice than through overthinking it.

Spray painted - generic grey, with a flat black on the roadways. Just cheap spray primer from the hardware store.

Base coated with a stippling and heavy drybrushing techniques. Reilly helped me and we got all of this done in about 5 hours.  We used sample paint pots: British Paints "Knowledge" for the roads and XXX for the tiles. This deliberately kept the whole board fairly bright, but also unsaturated in colour so that miniatures and building will really pop.

Even at this stage the initial test look was pretty satisfying.

Then we did a few washes and highlights, added some ocre colours into a few muddy shell holes for colours, and silvered up the manhole covers, drainage grills.

While at it, I did some scatter terrain in the same colours to match

And thus we were away today with some friends and had a lot of fun on a great looking table.

I quite like how they are period generic and genre agnostic - no skulls etc so they are as applicable for Stalingrad or Berlin in WW2, as they are for the Defence of Cadia in the Grimdark future.  I'd like to find a few of the undamaged tiles to give me a few more options and some larger, flat areas for key terrain. Overall though, a great project to do (and complete) in just a few days. 

May Hobby Round up

Another month has flashed past in a blur. Other than the big battle Black Powder in the last post, I have been playing bit of Kill Team with the Lad and his WIP Emperor's Children force. Losses ensued but some were mere narrow defeats!

Hobby wise I have been in a terrain kind if place of late. In fact I have painted not one but two of the old crashed Aquila Lander sets from the Battle of Macragge boxed set (2004 I think?). One was for me, another for a mate - inevitably I liked the colours I used on his more :-)

Bargain wise, I found this GW Superheavy Tank in a car boot sale. Pretty cheap at first blush, but probably will cost me the rest of the army to wrap around it...

Cheers!