Another set of smallish scatter terrain finished over January and February – I have my all too many Picket Fences in HIPS plastic. Orignally gotten from the Mars Attacks Kickstarter and the massive amount of terrain I picked up from it, these are now available from Mantic’s various “Cityscape” sets from their modern/post-apocalyptic range. Unlike many of the other sets that look good on their website but are made of variable-quality PVC, these are much more pleasant to model and paint with.
The first time I saw these on the Mars Attacks KS page, I knew what I wanted to do with them. Sure, it took over a decade for them to go through the KS process, sit around here and then finally(!) get painted, but here they are. That picture above? It’s a section of picket fence from Fallout 4. Meaning that these fences are the other part of my Fallout February. I mean, I was painting them anyway even before I knew of Kuribo‘s challenge (make a challenge post next time so it’s more obvious!) but I’m happy to have them as part of the thing regardless.
My original plan was to have a mix of “clean” and weathered and worn fence segments, but in the end I went with weatherbeaten for all of them, because I figured that if I’m using them in a modern-adjacent wargame, the location of that fight is is probably not going to be in all that wonderful a state.
I achieved the overall look pretty simply. After mould line cleanup, I sprayed them all with cheap white hardware store primer-paint one-coat. I let that dry, then washed them all with Marine Juice wash for a ruddy, dirty brown. I then spray varnished them before finally sponge-weatheirng them all with a desaturated dark brown. Easy peasy, but incredibly tedious! This pile shows that I got quite a lot of these painted up. How many, you ask? I just went outside to count them, and there’s 30 of them there.
To wrap up, here’s a couple of repesentatives of both of my Fallout February model types – 3d printed barrels and Mantic picket fences. Given that I’ve had these fences for going on a decade, they also very much qualify for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
They look spot on! 🙂 That’s quite a bit of fencing as well!
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Thanks John! They cover a decent bit of ground as well. I may need to get a dilapidated house or two to go with them at some point!
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Totally agree with John 👍🏻.
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Thank you, Pat! 🙂
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Well done on getting all those fences painted up to a very high standard mate.
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They’re very mass production friendly. Especially when being weathered like these ones.
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I’m very I pressed by the results of your painting here, the weathering looks very real. And since you probably treated them as rather minimal effort pieces, that makes it all the more impressive. Lovely work on unsung heroes!
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Thanks mate. The sponge weathering is perfectly suited to pieces like these so they work out really quick and easy
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I may just have to give these a look. I’ve been thinking about getting some kind of ruined fencing and these fit the bill! You did an excellent job painting these up too as well 🙂
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The HIPs Mars Attacks-era “Terrain Crate” stuff is actually pretty good and will fit in to modern-to-Fallout really quite well.
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I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for it! I think it might only be on the secondary market now though I could be wrong on that.
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https://www.manticgames.com/terrain-crate/city-accessories/
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Thanks, mate! Somehow I missed this when looking through their offerings.
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