Here’s the last of September’s minis, sans of course the Monthly Round-Up which will follow in a day or two. We have the next parts of this Marvel Crisis Protocol Terrain Pack with this pair of Generators (or something) – one intact and one damaged. Logan here provides us with the scale shot.
As noted in the previous set of these things, this sea-green-grey scheme is my third attempt in getting something I liked. I’ve gone for a rough look on these via drybrushing over zenithal spray, edge highlighting and then the same kind of chipping I apply to my WWII tank models.
Here they are alongside Logan from MCP as well as a couple of models from other well-worn genres. I think the lights would work fine alongside all three scales. I used some Tau decals to emphasis the sci-fi look to them, as well as Irish Air Corps roundels from an old set of decals I have for random markings on things. Shout-out to those of you from Eire and Northern Ireland (yes, I know NI is part of the UK!)
The point wasn’t to make them Tau proxies, but to simply emphasis their unfamiliar designs with unfamiliar symbols. And hey – if I ever manage to paint and play with my Tau, so much the better, right?
The biggest trial on these is something that most people won’t have even noticed – I chose to drill out all of the thick, dumb-looking broken cables on this terrain piece and superglue-insert short lengths of actual insulated electrical wire in red/blue/black/white. Trust me, it’s night and day compared to the original castings on these things!
I mean, the whole set looks a little goofy, but I did only pick it up because it was on clearance at less than half price, so if with some different paint and some tiny tweaks I can make a decent looking set of “alien” looking buildings as something to use in games as an alternative to the standard skull-encrusted 40k stuff….
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
great work. you are building up a pile of great scenery now!
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Tons of scenery – and the major storage issues that come with it!
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Your colour scheme looks way better than the official one, the random Galacticus colours just doesn’t work for me, and awesome work with the real cable replacements, they look way more effective.
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Thanks Dave – I get that the official scheme is a throwback to those very colourful comics, but those ones never appealed to me anyway.
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Really nice, I like that Sea Green color scheme. When are one of these mini companies going to snatch you up as their painter?!
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Thanks Faust – probably sometimes after I learn to start a project, then finish a project as opposed to shotgunning a half-dozen at a time as a crawl at the best of times.
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I was going to say that the wiring bits of the models was much better than the rest of the sculpt, and then read you did it yourself. That certainly makes the broken one stand out! The basic models and box-colours aren’t impressive to me, and you’ve made them something worthwhile with colour choice and decals.
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Haha thanks mate. The stock wiring kept bothering me until I just bit the bullet and spent an evening with some drill bits, superglue and an electrical lead off-cuts. Still not amazing models but they look a bit less cringe now!
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As Dave said, the color you chose is spot-on. The problem with the studio painted set is that they would only look good in the Marvel cosmic setting or maybe the retro Sci-Fi stories from a few decades ago. The chipping also looks top-notch and adds a nice bit of realism to the terrain.
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Thanks mate. Having seen the MCP “Spaceport Showdown” map, these pieces would still work OK in this scheme while also being a bit more adaptable to not looking entirely ridiculous elsewhere…
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These are really nice! 🙂 Good call on the wiring, really works well! We’ll have you making stuff out of cardboard before you know it! 😉
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Thanks John – I doubt that somehow – I hate assembling plastic kits these days, let alone scratchbuilding models from cardboard! 😮
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Decent stuff mate, I rather like these!
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Thank you, Alex!
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I actually kinda like the look of those, they almost have a goofy robot look to them, smashing painting and detail work as always mate.
Cheers Roger.
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Good call there, Roger -very much a goofy 70’s-80’s look to them. I need to finish the last pieces from this set once I can sit properly for longer periods so I can then forget about it except for when I want to use it!
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Nice. They’ll serve you well in all sorts of games. I reckon that they would make a pretty good setting fora mad scientist’s lab.
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Thanks mate – I’ll probably paint some of the 40k Mechanicus – or even Mantic terrain in a similar scheme so they fit in together at least a little for larger terrainscapes.
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