Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Ruined Buildings – Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

Nope, not a dupe, but you’d be forgiven if by the title you thought it was – I’ve simply finished the prettying-up of the second set of these things – as opposed to the full repaints in that previous post.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

This time, I’ve mostly added weathering – a combination of dirt and grime as well as “scorch” marks (for want of a better term) to the Ruined Buildings rather than repainting – though there’s some of that here as well.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

For example, I did repaint the doors on all of these as well as give them a wash & drybrush (and paint in the teeny widdle door handles!)

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

This stone building got a bit more effort, as I painted in slate/stones in a number of shades of grey across the whole thing, as well as adding in pale tan bricks to give a more natural variation.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

Esentially the kind of changes your eyes would tend to not notice since they look pretty natural – which is why I have to point them out! 😀

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

I’ll just drive the point home by adding in this pic of the grey building on the left (and the totally repainted sandstone variation) before I painted the different bricks in. See what a good boy I am!

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

I also added in paint on the ceilings as, in standard BFiaB fashion, they were a plain matte black. Washed and drybrushed the floors, picked out some of the debris.. yadda yadda, you get the idea.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

I did the same with the large building. Check out that warpage in the centre! Kind of annoying, but something I can live with.

Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Ruined Buildings - Weathered and Repainted (BB199)

And finally, the exterior. I kept the original blues of the building shell and simply added grime, streaks and El Scorcho. (With a nod to any Half-Japanese girls reading – especially if they’ve never heard of Green Day…)

These three were also finished post-Christmas, so more grist for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got challenge.

And dat’s dat for dis one. Now that I’ve got the terrain posts for 2021 completed, the next couple of posts will have miniature humanoidz. 28mm ones, even! Then the round-up!

 

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls – Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

These are the last of my “desert buildings” stuff from Gale Force 9/Battlefield in a Box (until I get a few more, later on). We’ve got two sets of Desert Walls and one of Ruined Desert Walls here that I’ve spent a little bit of time weathering and touching up. As you can see here, the walls alone cover a good chunk of table space. Once combined with buildings, other terrain and spaced out, I reckon there’s easily enough for most game table setups here.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223)

A whole bunch of standard walls with grime added to the lower area as well as rain streaking.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB229)

I’ve got fewer of the ruined walls – I’m planning on getting one more set of these which should give me a lot more table options in terms of ruined areas.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

Here’s the short walls from all three sets. Griming all of these up wasn’t difficult, but it was bloody tedious!

Here’s the gist of it on the left – doing this with Vallejo Track Primer and/or vallejo Panzergrau primer, via make-up drybrush, then using heavily watered down Panzergrau for streaks. Like I said, not difficult but bloody tedious!

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

I also figure that a scale shot is something useful to have here – the walls next to an array of reasonably popular models. I think the well could be used in 28mm gaming, as can both sets of walls. The gates only work for Hobbits and perhaps Goblins and Gnoblars. The larger walls are a bit too high for troops to see and shoot over, unlike the typical chest-high walls found in 40k, etc (though the ruined walls can be used in that way). The smaller walls are functionally probably best kept ignored, but can potentially add to a tabletop’s aesthetic. Even the bricks don’t look out of place!

Well, that’s another large amount of terrain parts now done and now packed away into my FoW Storage, ready to hit the tabletop (hopefully) soon! If Dave’s happy to count this sort of thing, I did these in the final days of December, so I’ll submit them for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got challenge, running from Dec 26th through to Jan 31st. Don’t worry! I have real models coming soon as well! 😉