Monthly Archives: July 2023

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Dumpsters, Street Lights & Traffic Lights PLUS Mantic Terrain Crate Bins

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Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Dumpsters, Street Lights & Traffic Lights PLUS Mantic Terrain Crate Bins

Continuing with the month’s overall theme of Dave Stone’s current Season of Scenery Challenge we have a lot of smaller terrain pieces from the Marvel Crisis Protocol Core Set as well as a few extra pieces from Mantic.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Dumpsters

First up we have another pair of Crisis Protocol Dumpsters. This pair is from my second Core Box that I picked up as it was on sale and not terribly more than picking up the NYC Terrain Box set, but also had the benefits of extra dice, rulers and a second set of figures to play with. I painted the initial pair of Dumpsters back in 2020, so I’m hopeful that I’ll finally get my shit together soon and be able to have a game with a fully painted set.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Traffic Lights

I also found the initial pair of Traffic Lights that I’d partly base coated, got the newer pair up to speed and then completed the four of them. Credit to Jay Adan for his downloadables that made my life easier in terms of the stop-go people and the “instructions” on them.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Street Lights, Mantic Terrain Crate Bins

I also finished the single Rubbish Bin and the Street Lights from my second set. I’m pretty sure I painted the original Rubbish Bin in the past as well, but I’m not going to go searching for the link to it. These Mantic Bins used to be called “Mars Attacks” scenery, and that’s how mine were purchased as well as listed the last time I posted them but given that this particular licence has long expired and that the same terrain pieces still continue to be sold today as part of the Terrain Crate range, it only makes sense for me to call them that here. The previous bins were painted green, as “Rubbish Bins” while I went for yellow on this second set, which are more in line with how public “Recycling Bins” look around these parts.

Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain: Dumpsters, Street Lights & Traffic Lights PLUS Mantic Terrain Crate Bins

To wrap up, here’s a few models providing us with scale – We’ve got Reaper’s Berkeley, a Zombicide figure, a Primaris Marine and Crossbones from Marvel Crisis Protocol.

Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress: Gateways Into Madness – Japanese Gateways (Torii Gates)

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Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress: Gateways Into Madness - Japanese Gateways (Torii Gates)

Several months ago I cracked open the box for this Shadows of Brimstone: Gateways Into Madness set, mostly so I could knock them out quickly and make some space by disposing of the box. Naturally, the whole plan backfired. The Organic gateways have huge gaps in them that will need filling as well as lots of mold line trimming. Basically, a huge pain in the arse to get ready for painting. These Torii Gates I primed and started painting. In brown. But they looked pretty mid, to be quite honest. So I decided to repaint them. Later.

Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress: Gateways Into Madness - Japanese Gateways (Torii Gates)

Scale shot showing a variety of model types.

A couple of weeks ago, I started working on them again in the background, motivated by Dave Stone’s current Season of Scenery Challenge. Got the reddish brown happening eventually, and then due to lack of enthusiasm took over a week to paint in the lantern-windows with a somewhat glowy effect.

Finally this last weekend I got them all done finally. Getting reddish wood on this scale to have effective highlights and shading was actually pretty difficult, but the finished product fits pretty solidly into the category of “good enough for the tabletop” for me.

Shadows of Brimstone Forbidden Fortress: Gateways Into Madness - Japanese Gateways (Torii Gates)

A I was getting to the last stages of getting these done, I realised that I could use these in Marvel Crisis Protocol for a Japanese-themed area – whether that be a park, or a village or city, or a “Little Tokyo” cultual enclave in a Western city. So I may actually have a reasonably likely use case for these pieces. Huh!