Aaaaand, we’re back. And let’s GOOOOOO! into September’s models. We have another piece by Fabricator’s Lair from the Epic Sector Sanctuary set. This one is called “Botanicae”, which translates to “Botanical” which I assume means it’s either an enclosed Botanical Garden-type building for the planet’s elites to enjoy some greenery, or perhaps a food production facility making something higher-quality then corpse-starch.
Either way, it’s a Greenhouse of some sort, so I painted it as such. How do you paint a “greenhouse” in Epic 40k’s design language? Well, I guess we paint all those windows in, and in this case, I went for green instead of blue/silvered windows, kept them metallic for the attractive shiny effect, and painted it in much the same manner otherwise than the other Fabricator’s Lair buildings. Oh, I also used AK’s paint markers for all those window frames to keep it a touch neater an an attempt to retain a small amount of my own sanity.
Scale shot with the usual suspects!
When Dave Stone put up his his most recent post about his Season of Scenery ’25., lamenting that he might not have much time to do any terrain himself, I suggested thta he follow the Mel Brooks Rule of “It’s good to be The King” and just arbitrarily extend the challenge to cover September as well. And then I arbitrarily extended my personal Scenery challenge, and I know at least a couple of others have also done the same. So the next run of terrain posts that go up for September will also have the little Dave Stone linky at the end.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
That’s a very cool effect on those windows. It looks very labour intensive but hopefully you managed to get it done in a reasonable amount of time.
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Thanks mate – it was surprisingly straightforward – I just masked off two halves of the building and sprayed them separately with the usual bone and also metalliic green spray. Then it was AK paint markers to the rescue on the window framing – gunmetal for the darker first run, and then an aluminium for the brighter highlight/top layer.
The sheen comes from the whole thingbeing sprayed in a semi-gloss, and then once dry, I used a brush to matte varnish the non-window parts of the building.
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Now that is really nice, particularly that impressive glass canopy! 🙂 I really like it! I am trying to get a move on myself and reckon I might just get my September project finished in time!
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Cheers, John – credit to Dulux Metallic Green Spray for the hard work there!
You can do it!
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Nice. I bet those windows were a pain to paint?
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The two “halves” of the building were masked and sprayed separately. The metallic green came from a rattle can, and then it was a matter of using a paint marker to go over the window lattice frame in gunmetal, and then again with aluminium.
Not exactly enjoyable, but also not terribly difficult or painful either.
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I’m impressed. This piece is really beautiful! Wonderful work, seriously
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Thank you – it’ll make for a nice splash of colour in the eventual city!
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That looks great! The green metallic does a good job of selling the look, which is not what I would have expected “on paper”.
How are you finding the ak markers? I heard about them but I don’t think I’ve read about anyone using them yet.
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Thank you Nicolas! As someone who buys a lot of hobby tools, they’re something I’m happy to have added to the toolbox. I’m not the klind of person who will try to use them to paint entire models, so I’m going to treat them like I do contrast-style paints.
I’ve used them for edge detail on buildings mostly so far (many to be shown shortly), and a bit of work on some little generators when I was too lazy to use a brush and thought I’d give them a try.
I think for edging, trim and the like they’ll make life so much easier (Chaos Marines!!!) and I intend to give them a try for some hard-edged camo patterns shortly where I think they’ll work really well, since you don’t need to reload them or worry about thick-thin paint as you do with brush application.
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That’s cool, having right thickness paint for painting edges on demand does sound pretty good. Might look out for them in the future.
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Yeah, they’re something I’m glad I picked up. You can get both types of AK markers individually or in little themed packs for far less than the big sets, so I’d recommend picking up something in a colour(s) you may find useful to try them out.
The Sharpie ones are so cheap I’d consdier them a no-brainer – AU$25 for a set of 12 on Amazon. Also regular metallic Sharpies in Gold/Silver are something else I picked up recently and have been using to edge some of these upcoming buildings…
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Oh that is brilliant mate – great job on the glass!!
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Cheers Alex, I’m happy with how it all came out!
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Wow, that glass looks outstanding!
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Turning to metallic paints for those windows was a great call, mate. It really makes the building look eye-catching and trying to accomplish that same effect with non-metallic paints would have been a fair bit of effort, I reckon. The gothic details on this building work nicely on a botanic garden which is not something I was expecting as well.
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