Small Scenics: More Mantic Terrain Crate bits and pieces…

Mantic Terrain Crate

Once again I have a whole bunch of little bits from Mantic’s Terrain Crate Kickstarter – as with last timne, these are not from any particular pack – just from the stuff I considered “ready to paint” without a bunch of additional preparation like resetting with hot water, etc.  Evenb though I painted the shackle tables identically, I painted the “tool” tables as though one was old-timey surgical equipment, while the other perhapos used for Torturer’s Tools.

Mantic Terrain Crate

These are hedges. Really.

These hedges are fine for moulded plastic. I retextured the ground with Vallejo paste, and added some flock in patches to the ground. I could have covered the actual hedges in flock as well, but it would have been messy and the stuff would probably continue to fall off for a long time to come. Not worth the time – if I’m going to flock hedges, I’d probably do my own fron scratch…

Mantic Terrain Crate

This little wheelbarrow and bucket could go into a corner almost anywhere across a lot of genres.

Mantic Terrain Crate

A pile of bedrolls and pouches and a lantern. x3. Painted them with the same colours but with all of the individual components being different colours across the three, though the lanterns each use different palettes.

Mantic Terrain Crate

A pair of Iron Maidens. Done in brassy-coppery tones for a bit of extra colour over doing them in boring old silver-iron tones.

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And a pair of coffins, with optional skellingtons. They also fit into the Iron Maidens.

17 more little Mantic pieces in 21 bits. Although these were finished across August, you can see why I saved them for a compilation post at the end of the month – and those Skeletons were finished in the last moments of August! These are my final pieces for Dave Stone’s Winter of Scenery Challengeand I should have a post up tomorrow with all of the items I finished for that challenge over the two months.

Sector Mechanicus #6: More Thermic Plasma Conduits

More Thermic Plasma Conduits, today – I meant to get this post up yesterday, but working from home sometimes means that I need to be working and then going shopping for food when I can rather than taking those last few photos and posting up on the blog, so they’re here now. I am however, writing up both today and tomorrow’s posts, as I photographed the final bits for tomorrow’s post that I finished on Monday night. The plan so far is to take a pic of all the terrain I painted in July and August together later today for a personal round-up pic. It’ll also then mean I can put the stuff away because it’s completely overwhelmed the area I use for temporary storage.

With these pieces, I found that after the previous pipes I put together, I had a bunch of damaged section end-caps leftover. I initially decided to cut one normal pipe seciton in half and make a pair of cut-off pieces, but then following that I wanted to make a pair of damaged sections that were the regular length of a “normal” pipe to give me some extra versatility on the tabletop. The two half-pieces worked out nicely, but I was left with another couple of end-cap offcuts from the longer damaged pipes, so I used some of the extra end-caps and the the offcut end-cap on the final piece to create a slightly-longer than normal “X-intersection” of pipes that still wasn’t so extreme so could just add length if needed, OR provide a full T or X-intersection. As a little bonue, I also painted all of the little lights on the broken sections in red, because a broken pipe is probably bad…

Once again, this one goes up for Dave Stone’s Winter of Scenery Challenge! One last post of painted stuff tomorrow, then the collection on Sunday.