Another piece of Sector Mechanicus Scenery today – another piece of the Alchomite Stack kit that I’ve previously built some pieces from. Though, honestly a lot of my early kits from these ranges are just a pile of sprues and bits in a box at this point! (and GW keeps recycling them into new “kits” such as the rest of the range, Kill Team and so on…
Anyway, this one was built some time ago – at the same time as the three completed ones linked above (and also the same time as the two more I haven’t started working on besides a prime and coat of silver spray!) So it’s been sitting in the shed for well over a year, pretty much ignored. On the heels of the Thermic Plasma Conduits (aka, PIPES) I finished the other day, I decided to work on this alongside the second set. So I could, y’know, link the pipes to some actual machinery. With that in mind, I’m going to wait until I’ve got a bit more assembled and painted and finished before doing another tabletop layout type pic of them.
I didn’t use the “crackle paint” method on this one that I did on the previous ones; instead trying a couple of new(ish) things with stippling, foam and thinned paint for much of the weathering. That’s the cool thing about industrial terrain – you can vary your methods and as long as it looks good, it doesn’t need to be entirely consistent from piece to piece since rust and industrial decay have many forms in the real world. And yes, it’s another piece for (and plug for) Dave Stone’s Winter of Scenery Challenge!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
That’s a nice bit of terrain, looks huge.
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Thanks mate – it’s pretty tall, though it’s also pretty narrow as well.
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Another excellent piece mate, and the weathering looks spot on
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Thanks Dave. The weathering was really the only fun part of the thing!
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Very nice piece and well done. I presume it’s a fairly large piece too, based on other stuff you’ve previously finished.
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Thanks, It’s quite tall, and it does link up with the pipes. I’ll get a scale shot of a bunch of these things together soon!
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Looks cracking! I really want to get my scenery painted but struggle to get them looking like i want.
I really love the rust patches and the damaged panels look great! I love weathering!
I also don’t want to put in loads of effort i’m considering getting them commission painted by someone else.
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Thanks mate! I find that some terrain makes good stuff to do as mental downtime when you’re painting something more important, and other stuff works well as something to do when you just don’t have the mental capacity to conentrate on the finer stuff. I mean, the finest detail on this thing was doing some rust streaks (and maybe the dials)!
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The weathering here is superb.
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Cheers Mark. Looking forward to when I have a good solid section of table of this sort of stuff finally done!
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Lovely job – great weathering
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Thank you Alex – glad you like!
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Gotta agree with all of the above! 🙂 Looks really good!
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Cheers John, mucho appreciated!
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Nice work- simple but effective.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Thanks Pete – and very accurate as well to the techniques!
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Excellent weathering, and the green colour is great, suitably industrial looking.
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Thanks Mut. Eventually I should have a good little section of most of the standard industrial colours so I’ll be able to mix them for that non-conformist look or section them into different parts of the plant. 🙂
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Nice! The green works really well on it.
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Thank you. I’m trying to get a bit of variety of realistic industrial colours on this stuff over the course of painting them.
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Nice one Az. The weathering is spot on
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Thanks mate. Lots more of this stuff to come as well!
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Totally agree with Warbringer ! well done mate !!
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Thank you, Pat!
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Nice work. At the rate you’re going you’ll soon have enough terrain to play Infinity! This one looks a bit prone to toppling over though – did you weight the base end?
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I didn’t, but that’s not a bad idea at all. When the shops reopen I need to get some more fishing weights for paint agitators. I might get a few larger ones and embed them inside some DAS clay at the bottom.
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