Seventeen years ago, back in September of 2019 I painted the first batch of “Traffic Pylons” from Secret Weapon Miniatures. I picked up 50 of the things on sale at a local retailer in however many little baggies of them, and then set to painting half of them. They weren’t hard to paint, but in such numbers they’re pretty tedious and so my original plan of getting to the other half got a little sooner than now got sidetracked initially by my hiatus, and then by not really wanting to do them.
This second batch then had been sitting in a chinese food container-style disposable plastic tub since last year, and sitting on top of a pile of my modelling supplies and such I kept seeing them, so resolved to getting them onto an upcoming Tray. Since official Tray business is kinda suspended right now, I’m allowing myself to work on terrain as well as D&D board game models, because Dave Stone’s Winter of Scenery Challenge, and also because terrain can be a bit rougher and doesn’t need that fine freehand and careful highlighting and shading like regular models do, so it fits in pretty well for allowing me to keep getting stuff done right now.
The only difference between this batch and the first batch is I changed the “orange” to a slightly different shade, a little darker and a little more muted. I just wanted that slight variation that you tend to see between two sets of “identical” mass-produced products that have come from different batches that then often tend to have a small but uniform difference between the two.
…and now I have 50 Traffic Pylons for my modern+ games. Hopefully this coming summer I can get my urban Tablescapes painted…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Another great batch of scenery mate, the difference in colour works well for batch colouring as you say and also for sun weathering
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Thanks Dave. Yeah, that’s pretty much the little difference I wanted to achieve. I can’t recall if that was the original plan when I only did half of them originally, or if I just wanted to stop painting them!
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Very nice work, I hope no one will be driving around your urban tablescape, with all those cones everywhere!
Cheers Roger.
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Thanks Roger! I think 50 of them will probably be complete overkill and more thna I’ll ever use, but each pack was so cheap on sale, so I end up just buying them, all…
Good thing they didn’t have any more than that!
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Useful- time is always well spent on this sort of ‘immersion marker’.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Yeah, the biggest obstacle to getting these done was the mental one – and even that was 95% due to the repetitive nature of doing 25 of them in one sitting….
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Cool & very useful – they are just such a ubiquitous thing, that you can imagine them in any modern/post modern/alt modern/futuristic u/dystopia!
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One thing’s for sure – I’m going to have a very well-defined car park on the tabletop one day!
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See, now some of us haven’t got past the first sentence! If September 2019 was 17 years ago, that must mean some of us at least are in the year 2036! I’m seriously hoping I’m not one of them, because that way I could have retired over 10 years ago and would have expected to have finished my Franco-Prussian War armies, but I’ve just checked and they’re still unfinished! You haven’t been out and about in the DeLorean again have you? 😉 Anyway, nice traffic cones! 🙂
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I think it’s the nature of time in 2020.
2019 seems like it was so, so long ago, back in the before-time when we could do things like go to a restaurant, the gym, or walk the streets without a mask. Especially for the last …6 weeks, I’ve been in a time-bubble vortex window where time doesn’t have nearly the same meaning and things on the outside only get worse…
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Nice! More scatter terrain available is always a good thing
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And even moreso – stuff I no longer have to paint one day is a better thing!
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Oh yeah. Doesn’t even matter if there are no immediate plans for their use – it’s still cleared headspace (also, cleared deskspace 😅 )
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Good stuff. Just curious as to the main color you used here?
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Thanks Mark – it’s Citadel Wild Rider Red.
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I remember the previous traffic cones and these look great as well. Full credit to you for getting 50 of them done too. That is no small feat. These will definitely be great to have for any Zombie themed games you have like Zombicide 🙂
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