A quick one today (if delayed) – my final completed pieces for February – A set of four shipping containers from various AT-43 sets I picked up a number of years ago before letting them sit (for years, again) until finally getting to the weathering stage a couple of weeks ago. A couple of them may be a little over-weathered, but I guess they’ll still look fine on the tabletop, especially alongside the Reaper Bones ones I painted a couple of years ago.
I wanted to get these up over a week ago, but the wargames table is covered in stuff from inside that had to get moved until the AC guy came to fix the AC. Well, he finally turned up yesterday (almost 2 weeks after getting in contact with them) and it’s now hopefully fixed. A loose wire on the board outside and a dessicated gecko corpse across a board on the inside(!) and $240 later, and it’s now hopefully sorted. We’ll see, I guess. It’s not like I would have known which wires to check on the exterior unit high up on the outside wall…
The motivation for these came largely from continuing to get ready to play Crisis Protocol. If I ever get the minis and terrain done and actually set down to play, it’ll be a good looking setup!
So now the schedule is Monthly Round-up tomorrow – which doubles as my part 2 for my Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. – And then right into March’s (small) backlog of models – starting with my first model for Swordmaster’s Monster March 7 challenge…
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Nice job on the containers mate, very usable & useful! That poor gecko though… 😬
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Thanks mate! To make it worse, the AC isn’t working again either!
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Oh noooo!!!!
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Nice work on the containers! 🙂 I used to have quite a few of those when I had AT-43 stuff when it first came out. Your weathering makes them look really good!
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Thanks John! The terrain included in the AT-43 sets was pretty nice. Still don’t quite uunderstand what those alien searchlights were supposed to be, but hey!….
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Very effective mate, I think the weathering looks spot on and the symbols add to the effect.
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Thanks Dave! I can’t take credit for the stencils on these as they were part of the models. 🙂
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Effective work, both for weathering and decals (this time we purposely avoided seeing how the containters looked without paint). While they are fine for 40mm scale, are they made more for 28-32mm scale? Well, now you’ve found a place to store the gecko’s corpse and integrate it on your game table: let’s hope you kept it, with all the money you spent…🤣
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Thanks! The decals were actually a part of the models, though I did add some weathering to them. I probably should have taken a pic of them in the before state now that you mention it, though they were simplky coloured plastic with the stencils on them. And the AC isn’t even fixed…
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The crates look really nice as always and I don’t think you over-weathered them at all. They look pretty close to a used crate to me, let alone a Sci-Fi or post-apocalyptic one. You have great timing on these because I’ve been working on a shipping crate myself this week.
I was going to say you were lucky it only cost $240 to get your A/C fixed but seeing as how it isn’t working again, I’ll refrain from expressing that kind of sentiment. I really hope you can get it fixed soon!
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Thanks mate. I saw yours when I had a scan through your latest post just now. I think we may just have to just bite the bullet and cough up for a new AC unit – that’s going to cost a fair packet, unfortunately.
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Nice work on those shipping containers! I like them a lot better than the ones I picked up. Though I guess mine were designed to be futuristic. Hopefully the AC unit was gecko proofed afterwards, but given their size and climbing ability, I doubt it!
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Thanks mate – these are a nice generic sculpt of them that ironically came from a sci-fi game. Do you have the 40k ones, or another futuristic type of container?
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I think they were from the Infinity game. Which I’ve never played, but I have a few of their mdf terrain pieces that were on sale.
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