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Warlord/Italieri Bolt Action 1:56 scale “Wrecked House”

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Warlord/Italieri Bolt Action 1:56 scale "Wrecked House"

More terrain today. I know that Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery is just around the corner, and while I’ll be in on that for sure, I’m posting models finished in April right now because I have been – and still am way behind on the ol’ blog.

Warlord/Italieri Bolt Action 1:56 scale "Wrecked House"

What we have here then, is a bit of a failure on my part to get things done. This was one of those “easy wins” that sits around in sprue form for years, and then I get it in my head to just smash the thing out and get it done, only for it to end up sitting in limbo for literally a couple of years, taking up space as it floats around on top of other things on my mess of a painting desk…

Warlord/Italieri Bolt Action 1:56 scale "Wrecked House"

– until the day when I eventually crack the shits about seeing the bloody thing and then make a new effort to get it finished so I can fuck it off out of the way.

Warlord/Italieri Bolt Action 1:56 scale "Wrecked House"

So here it is! Done! Finished! Completed! it doesn’t even look too bad, especially given how much of a pain in the arse it was to get painted. There’s one small(!) problem with it, though.

Warlord/Italieri Bolt Action 1:56 scale "Wrecked House"

The scale. I don’t have any of my Bolt Action models handy, but it looks to me like it’ll be a bit small even for them. In any case, it’s too small for me to use with… really anything else. Actually, even looking at the promo pics of this thing over on Warlord’s website, it’s a bit small for those models, and they’ve had to use some …creative layout of the models to make it fit. Well, the link is there, so if anyone wants to buy an undersized, overpriced (£20.00!!!) terrain kit, off you go!

Grendel(?) 1:300 Resin Sci-Fi “Power Building” (Circa 1990’s)

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Another piece of “Epic” scale scenery today – we have a piece from Grendel that I picked up in the 1990’s which appears to be OOP these days – I can’t find it on the Scotia Grendel site, nor on the Lost Minis Wiki. As always with these sorts of things, anyone who can identify the name/code of this piece (or a link to where it may be sold today) will get a thank you edited into the post.

 

We can see the ladder and hatch on the side of this thing, as well as what looks like capacitors all around the perimeter of the piece, as well as inside the panels and on the roof. I can’t say I particularly enjoyed painting this one, so rough and ready is good enough for me, particularly as it’s just a bit of random terrain.

Here’s how it looks alongside some figures of the appropriate size. It’s okay as far as size goes, and completely “fine” aesthetically.

It’s also one of those pieces that kind of also works in a scale-agnostic manner, though in larger scales it’s more of a skirmish scatter piece good for LOS-blocking individual models.