A second set from my pledge in the Dungeons and Lasers Woodhaven Kickstarter, another of the smaller kits I was able to assemble and paint them quickly for Dave Stone’s annual Season of Scenery challenge. Added an updated pic with weathering with pigments and moss effects – added when I went back and added more after “finishing” them (and posting) earlier.

Here they are when I finioshed them the first time. I go by the completed date of the models for these things rather than blog post date because varnishing is weather-dependant and photography and blog post writing are dependant on how fucked I am after work, so I’ve still got a couple more things to post…

Again, these stairs were a €5.00 add-on, and came in this small, thin box. Inside, one fairly simple sprue.

Once clipped, you’ve got enough bits to make two small stairs and two small platforms – both with a footprint of 25mm square. I’ve push-fit one of each together here

s with the wooden stairs, I purchased two sets. Again I’m showing the small stairs and the platforms both as built, and also joined up as in the box renders. To finish, I glued both of my sets as seen on the box art, so I can use them as two smaller sets of double stairs, or shove them all together for a more Warhammer-sized set of single steps…

Before painting, I textured these with AK Interactive’s “Easycast Texture Medium. I just dab it on with an old brush and it basically does the same job that many of us were relying on Liquid Greenstuff for (since it’s useless for gap filling!) so the super-smooth plastic stone now has a roughed up texture.

These stone steps don’t allow for the “climbing stairs” thing with bases wedged into a little gap, due to the lack of a little gap. I felt they looked a little plain solely in the drybrushed greys, so I added a couple of other stone variations in there. As you can see from the final pic, once again, they look …fine. They’re clearly made to work with a 25mm grid, and so are more oriented towards D&D with minis rather than fantasy miniature wargames that often tend to go a bit bigger with their bases these days, but they do work for models on 32mm bases when glued together so the top step enlarges the platform.

I think the Kickstarter price for them of €5.00 was fair, and again, truthfully about as much as I’d be willing to pay for them. Like the wooden stairs, they’re smaller than I’d hoped they would be, and as such are going to just kind of be there for my own gaming purposes as something to “drop in” to various games. They did at least paint up quicly and easily as I got them from primed black to finished (Just Need(ing) Varnish) over Monday evening after work.