Category Archives: Modern Wargaming

Mantic Terrain Crate (Mars Attacks!): Picket Fences

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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.

Zombicide 2nd Edition X Last Night On Earth: Character Crossover 3 – Timber Peak

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Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivors: Jake Cartwright, Sally, Sherriff Anderson, Ed Baker

More figures on the Zombie-Sided part of our collection – these four being the last four previously-unpainted figures from unrelated Zombie game Last Night on Earth‘s Timber Peak expansion.

Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivors: Jake Cartwright, Sally, Sherriff Anderson, Ed Baker

Timber Peak features a few characters from the original core set – those who managed to canonically survive the events of the initial outbreak depicted in the first box, I guess. Regardless, following on the previous LNOE Zombicide cards we made several months ago, it was time to make some new ones for these four.

Last Night On Earth Survivor Sally

So first we have Sally. Her miniature looks much the same. Slightly longer hair, slightly longer axe handle, slightly shorter skirt. Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivor: Zombicide Card - Sally, Woodinvale Survivor

We also made up a new Zombicide Survivor card for these returning survivors, with a few upgrades but trying not to go as far as the official “Ultimate Survivor” figures.

Last Night On Earth Survivor Jake CartwrightLast Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivor: Zombicide Card - Jake cartwright, Woodinvale Survivor

Same deal with Jake. He appears to have turned his fur-lined ushanka cap around, as it looks like he was wearing it inside out in his initial run. Perhaps he just found a better one. He also traded in his axes for a rifle, so we just tweaked some skills to reflect that, and have him a basic rifle as starting gear as an “upgraded” version of the survivor.

Last Night On Earth Survivor Sherriff Anderson

Sherriff Anderson has in some ways had the biggest change. He ditched his jacket but apparently was able to get leg-lengthening surgery in the interim. His hat is also a couple of sizes smaller, and so to match that he also had his head shrunk by a size or two.

 

All very normal looking – and a real triumph in boardgame miniature sculpting!

Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivor: Zombicide Card - Sherriff Anderson, Woodinvale Survivor

Again – just a few upgrades from the original in the vein of not-quite-as-extreme Ultimate Survivors.

Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivor: Zombicide Card - Ed Baker, Lumberjack

We then have Ed Baker – a new character from this expansion.

Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivor: Zombicide Card - Alice, Diner Waitress Last Night On Earth: Timber Peak Survivor: Zombicide Card - Nikki, Bush Pilot

We also made cards for the other two Timber Peak survivor models awhile ago, so why not include them in this post? Alice the Diner Waitress and Nikki the Bush Pilot. Once again, these cards were all made thanks to Wuxyteo’s website (not linked due to not secure – google it and you’ll be good).

And with that, we’re done for this post. These figures were painted in December over a few days after finishing work for the year, and so they just about fit in with Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25 challenge concluding this month. How many models do I need to post up before the 28th of February that I finished in January and February? 

What’s the date today?

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