Conan’s 3d Scenery Pack – Complete!
Remember back in January 2017 when I finished some barrels from the Conan scenery pack?
…and here are Conan’s Barrels.
…and then a short while later. In December 2018 (only a short 2 years there) when I finished the Chests from the same pack?
Well here we are in July 2020 (a mere 18 months later) and I’ve spotted the box sitting in a pile on the floor and wondered what my damn fool problem was, and then smashed them out over a couple of days. Now, while these were not on the Tray nor are they part of a game I’m actively playing, I decided that taking a small amount of time while working on other models to finish these and throw the box into the recycling was a worthwhile trade-off and justification. So I did that.
Sarcophagus!
Skull Piles!
Tanned Hide – Furry Side!
Tanned Hide – Smooth Side!
I decided against basing any of the pieces aside from the hide tanning rack so they could be more versatile and used as detail scatter terrain in a range of games – and also because I don’t know how they work in the Conan game, which I haven’t yet played. I did base the tanning rack because the model was wonky as fuck and needed to be reset via Hot Water anyway, and so gluing it down to a base gave it a stability it didn’t otherwise have at all.
Here’s the new stuff that I just painted, collected. Exciting, eh?
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Some nice terrain and nicely painted. Those are quite the piles of skulls!
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Thanks Ann – surprised there’s not a giant cocktail stick holding them all together – must be mounted on a tall blob of blu-tac!
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Yeah, or maybe it is a cunningly devised trap/alarm system. If someone comes along and moves one of the skulls (or perhaps there is a trip wire?), the whole thing comes clattering down and makes a great noise. Now that I think about it, I’m going to have to make a note of that because I think it would be something good to put into a D&D adventure.
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Come to think of it, perhaps I came come up with a couple of traps and put them into D&D 5th mechanics for a small “article” for The Dragon Egg Gazette. Perhaps, if you don’t mind, I can include some of your pictures in the article?
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I see! And then the only way to not set of the trap is to have a presisely-weighted bag of sand and swap it out in one deft gesture. Just beware of the giant, rolling rock that it all sets off!
And no problem – more than welcome to use my images. 🙂
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Great work on the scenery pieces, they look great and very versatile in a multitude of settings, the basing of the hide looks excellent.
Thinking of running a scenery painting/modelling event in July and August to help motivate clearing those pesky scenery projects if your interested
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Thanks Dave! They should be useful for a few different things aside from Conan. 🙂
As for a scenery challenge in July and August, I’ll be down for something for sure. Which reminds me I need to post up for Jewel of July this weekend!
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They look really good! 🙂 I like your choice of technical terms, and I’m quoting you here, “wonky as fuck”! Brilliant!
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Thanks John. I find “as fuck” to be a great and highly flexible quanfier. 🙂
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Maybe not exciting but still very nicely done indeed. 😊
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Cheers, TIM! 🙂
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Nice work banging those out! I really like the fur pelt as it has a nice texture, though the pile of skulls is suitably grim as well. It seems like most terrain pieces like this are a bit of a chore but they really do help bring the game to life when you have them painted up nicely. These could be decent props to have around for various fantasy themed photos as well 🙂
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Thanks Kuribo – they were all surprisingly quick and easy to knock out. They just looed like a chore when they were in the packaging…
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Nice- time spent painting scatter terrain is never wasted.
Cheers,
Pete.
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My thoughts exactly!
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Great work! Really want a few of those skull piles now…
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few very similar types of skull pile on somewhere like Thingiverse, ready for printing…
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Looking there just now, so many skulls to wade through! I’ve honestly had to stop myself buying GW’s ‘box of skulls’ so many times 😄
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I actually weakened and bought it myself awhile back after ignoring it forever. I just figured I could use them for basing or whatever over a long period of time as needed. 🙂
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That’s what I was going to use them for, in lieu of my usual formula of grass tufts, rocks and Ultramarine helmets 😄
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Yep. I’ve got a little baggie of resin skulls and another of little resin skulls I’m slowly using up, but they’re all human ones, and so the box gives us some more of those as backups, but also the exotics like ork and tau and so on.. 🙂
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Absolutely, some great looking pieces in there. Looking pretty tempting
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Nice – I really like that sarcophagus!
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Cheers Alex. It’s a small but very fine sculpt. 🙂
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Pretty sure scenery is separate from The Tray™ 😎
Looking good! Got some of the same pieces cluttering up the desk too.
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Oh I wish! There’s five big, painful parts of the Crashed Aquila Lander taking up more of the remaining Tray Real Estate than anything else rihgt now… groan.
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Really like what you did with the hide – both sides.
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Thanks Mark. It was a piece that looked like it would be a pain but was actually really easy to get done. One thing was I thought it was broken and I’d need to fix it, but it wasn’t quite – and the hot water trick got it to a point where it wasn’t a problem.
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These look great to me mate, well done, and I’m with Mark in regards to the hide!
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Thanks Pat! I think the long grass adds to it nicely.
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Sweet, sweet, sweet terrain, my man! Lots of cool stuff to look at here. And again, showcasing your talent in tackling different textures in animal hide, metal sarcophagus, and skulls. Really liking that sarcophagus. The weathering on it is pretty amazing!
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Thanks Faust! I had a first go on that kind of aged bronze for a project for someone else a month or two before the tiny sarcophagus. I’ll put some pics up on here of it a bit later, once I clear the mini-painting pic backlog!
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Hi Azazl,
Can you use the photos in this post to illustrate models in my application?
https://the-overlord.com/Companion/Conan/#encyclopedia
It is free and opensource
Thanks
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If you’d like to use my pictures, then certainly. You are welcome to.
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