My plans to get a ton of exciting Heroes and Villains done in December have had a few large wrenches thrown in the works, and as a result, I haven’t really painted for almost a week. Getting back into it, I decided to work on some simple stuff that had been sitting around in the way on my painting desk – in this case, more Mantic Terrain Crate scatter pieces.
Two different types of barricade – and three of each. I varied the colours just a little in order for them to be a little unique and not just look like clone-pieces. I kept them all to natural, “woody” tones, and this time I varied the crates and barrels a little from the tones I’ve used in previous sets.
As you can see, they’re not exactly scales as proper barricades – more in a boardgame scale, if anything. Our model here is Forlong the Fat, one of GW’s “true-ish”-scale, LotR models. Even though he’s positioned behind them and is raised by a slottabase, you van see that they’re not exactly very big as far as barricades go. I’m sure they’ll be fine as generic scatter, though.
The other pieces are much less interesting – three larger keg barrels and three sets of triple-keg barrel stacks. Dark wood here, with brassy taps. While the barricades will easily make a bit of extra colour in fantasy wargames as well as dungeon scenery, these keg-barrels are a fair bit more limited. If we ever need to kit out a tavern for a game, we’ll certainly have a well-stocked booze supply!
Finally, some chests that I made myself finish off, after they’ve been sitting around for 6 months or so. These are from the Conan Miniatures Boardgame, by Monolith. I remember some time ago in the comments, someone (Dagger & Brush, from memory) suggesting that I could paint some of the chests in a set I had in different colours to distinguish the quality of them. Rather than paint the same model chests in different colours, I decided to make these slightly more fancy coffer sculpts a little more fancy in turn when it came to their paint. Baal Pteor, also from the Conan game provides us with our scale in this shot.
I’ll have some real models painted for you all. Soon.
Looks awesome. Can see these being very useful for Burrows and Badgers!
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They might be *just* big enough to keep a badger out. Unless it burrowed under, or just demolished the damned things!
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Great painting and they look cool, but yeah, the barricades are what you might call a bit on the low side, perhaps they are wrecked furniture strewn around the floor. Or a mighty wall for the rat and scorpion wars?
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Yeah, they basically make better set dressing than feasible movement-hindering terrain. 🙂
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All come out very nice! I like the variations across each piece, something I would just fail to achieve. Definitely nice scatter scenery!
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Thanks mate. I find it takes a little more time (but not much!) and looks a whole lot better than mono-colours.
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Great stuff as always mate. Hope things have calmed down a bit for you by now and look forward to seeing what you get up to in 2019. Meanwhile Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Actually, things got entirely more fucked again last week as my Dad had a stroke a couple of days before we broke up for the year – hence my disappearance from posting again for almost a week. He’s in hospital now, recovering well, and hopefully being transferred to a rehab centre for a week or two as soon as a bed opens up. I didn’t mention it in the post, because the last thing I want is to come across as someone seeking a pity party, so down here in day-old comments it shouldn’t come across as attention-seeking.
We’ll bring him some BBQ tomorrow for Christmas lunch, so he should enjoy that at least – have a good one yourself! 🙂
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Hope he gets better soon mate, these things are never easy. My dad is 92 and had a stroke a few months ago, a minor one thank goodness. Lots of running around at a time when we were up to our eye with other stuff that was going on. These things are sent to try us that’s for sure! Can’t get my head around BBQ for Christmas lunch! 😊
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Yeah, he’s been in now for just over a week and is doing much, much better – though we’re still keen on him going to the rehab centre for a little while as he lives alone, and we don’t want anything to happen to him (we’re also about to have a couple of days in the very high 30’s).
BBQ for Christmas lunch is pretty normal out here. It’s mid-summer, after all! I mean people also do a roast or whatever as well/instead, but yeah, BBQ is a very traditional and common option for an Aussie Christmas!
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Ha, that explains the BBQ stuff. Had no idea, but makes perfect sense now!
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Yeah, compare it roughly to something like a BBQ on the 4th of July, weather-wise.
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Very nice. Stuff like that is always useful, especially the barricades.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks mate. I’m happy with how they turned out, even though they’re a bit hobbit-sized!
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Really churning out those pieces now! You must be pretty close to your target for the year right? Awesome effort again, well done. I think before the new year I’m going to get ready everything I intend to work on for that month and see what sort of impact I can make on my backlog.
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I think I’m still a good way off the 600 I’d have liked to have done, but I’ll still be happy. Now I need to try and get a few specific models all done by the end of the month!
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Cool! I’m curious mate – how many square meters could you cover with scatter?? 😉
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Not enough! But I’m slowly getting there… 🤔
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Great looking scatter terrain, even though they are a bit short, I’m sure the people you game with won’t mind, as long as everyone knows from the start they count as cover
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Yeah, and they’ll still look quite decent on the table.
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The chests look a might Xmas, methinks. How topical!
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Haha! Cheers!
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Yeah, those barricades look more like they’d fit well in 15mm or something. The varied colours really do help keep them from looking all identical, tho.
Some of the barrels look like they’re leaking there!
“Conan chests” sounds more like a term to describe his harem 😉 They look really cool, tho. Like they might have upholstered lids and serve as benches as well. Poor Pteor’s head still looks all wonky and out of scale 😦
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They’d probably be fine for 20mm or even 25mm. Mantic (still!) isn’t good at scaling things. Just ignore Pete’s head and stare at his rippling pecs instead! 😄
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Awesome work on those barricades, someone could trip and have a nasty fall over them 🙂 The Conan chests are my favourite items though those are superb!
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks mate – that could be the movement-hindering rationale for them – troops need to slow down or they might trip over! The Conan chests turned out nicely. 🙂
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Those are excellent, love the richness of the colours you’ve used, especially on the barrels and the chests. Well done putting in the time to make these (essentially background pieces) look so good.
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Thanks mate. I find it doesn’t take much extra effort on most pieces like this, as all I need to do is essentially use a few different shades of brown/grey/etc to base coat the wood, and then the drybrush highlights and wash shading can be identical. Just pick out the metal and wash that and you’re golden.
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Wow, my commenting is scattershot. Guess I missed a few posts on my phone. Anyways, nice paints on these. Love the red/regal looking chests. Not crazy about those Mantic barricades (painting is awesome), but the pieces themselves, bleh. Piled up in the first pic though, look good.
Heh, so a usual, my mind quickly goes to the games I play….the triple barrels fit in perfectly with Blood Bowl, where you can have ‘Bloodweiser Babes’ inducements. A couple of those on the sidelines would help keep track of how many ‘kegs’ you bought. I think they are one use…so back to the box as they are used. I’ve been eyeing different barrels or server models for that reason.
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Mantic’s designers decided to go with videogame walls. You know, knee-high walls that Earth’s mightiest heroes of the past, the present, the future cannot pass over.
They may slay titans, alien motherships, even GODS – but they cannot pass these knee-high walls of random debris!
If I ever get back into BB properly, I might use those kegs as counters. Good to have a use for them!
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Haha, tough walls indeed. Obviously girded by force walls that extend into the ground and sky.
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Jumping and climbing are hard.
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Even harder as I get older! 😉
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Sadly all too true! 😦
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