Mantic Terrain Crate (Mars Attacks!): Picket Fences

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

December 2024 Monthly Round-Up (Yeah, just a little late!)

Gotta get this one out before I go further into January and then February’s painted models. December was actually pretty decent when it came to getting models finished – one reason for this was probably the fact that I was spending much of my limited free time painting and gaming, while letting things like the blog take a back seat. It’s that Zero-Sum dichotomy again.

So I put a lot of effort into getting these Zombies finished over the course of the month. I probably got some done after the start date for Dave’s “paint what you got” challenge but since I was so far out of the blogging loop I have no idea when I finished each batch aside from the GW staffers being the last pair. I also found a small set of Chests – and got them all done before finding a pile more not long after. After the Zombies I was able to paint some more “Hero” oriented models as a reward to myself, even if they were simple boardgame PVC.

What did I get done?

34 Zombies, 4 Mars Attacks models, 4 Last Night on Earthers, 12 chests (one is MIA, but I painted it!) & 10 Munitorum crates. So that’s 64 models. Even with the caveat of all those barrels and crates, it ain’t too bad actually! Add those to the 359 I’d painted up to November, and I have a total of **drum roll**….. 423 models and pieces of terrain. Huh. Not too shabby in the end, despite my posting being quite sporadic.

I won’t bother with reflections on 2024 or targets for 2025 right now. I’ll wait on that stuff until after I’ve finished the run of catch-up posts I need to run through. Let’s be real, though – the majority of the goals are probably going to be the same ones recycled yet again for yet another year!