Small Scenics: More Mantic Terrain Crate bits and pieces…

Mantic Terrain Crate

Once again I have a whole bunch of little bits from Mantic’s Terrain Crate Kickstarter – as with last timne, these are not from any particular pack – just from the stuff I considered “ready to paint” without a bunch of additional preparation like resetting with hot water, etc.  Evenb though I painted the shackle tables identically, I painted the “tool” tables as though one was old-timey surgical equipment, while the other perhapos used for Torturer’s Tools.

Mantic Terrain Crate

These are hedges. Really.

These hedges are fine for moulded plastic. I retextured the ground with Vallejo paste, and added some flock in patches to the ground. I could have covered the actual hedges in flock as well, but it would have been messy and the stuff would probably continue to fall off for a long time to come. Not worth the time – if I’m going to flock hedges, I’d probably do my own fron scratch…

Mantic Terrain Crate

This little wheelbarrow and bucket could go into a corner almost anywhere across a lot of genres.

Mantic Terrain Crate

A pile of bedrolls and pouches and a lantern. x3. Painted them with the same colours but with all of the individual components being different colours across the three, though the lanterns each use different palettes.

Mantic Terrain Crate

A pair of Iron Maidens. Done in brassy-coppery tones for a bit of extra colour over doing them in boring old silver-iron tones.

Mantic Terrain Crate

And a pair of coffins, with optional skellingtons. They also fit into the Iron Maidens.

17 more little Mantic pieces in 21 bits. Although these were finished across August, you can see why I saved them for a compilation post at the end of the month – and those Skeletons were finished in the last moments of August! These are my final pieces for Dave Stone’s Winter of Scenery Challengeand I should have a post up tomorrow with all of the items I finished for that challenge over the two months.

Small Scenics: Archon Studios Ramparts – “Kazumi’s Stairs System”

Archon Studios Ramparts - "Kazumi's Stairs System"

Archon Studios don’t really have the greatest rep. Essentially a renaming/legal rebranding of Prodos, architects of one of the recent WarZone revamps as well as the fulfilment and licencing abortion that was AVP with some backers apparently just never getting their stuff. So when they rebranded and came up with a terrain KS in hard plastic that looked just too good to be true, I assumed it was, and went with “fuck those guys” and ignored it. Fast forward some length of time and they actually fulfilled that KS with quality product and then started a second one. I still skipped it. But then people started getting their “ship existing product early” stuff while the Late Pledge manager was still an option.. so I gingerly went ahead and added some stuff to my cart, and asked them to “ship existing product early“. And whaddaya know? Just as COVID was starting to hit the world, my parcel went out and a few weeks later was safely here.

And like I said, COVID hit. And so I never got around to even opening the parcels. Until a few days ago. I still haven’t opened the stuff I got from Vic Minis around her bushfire relief offer (and then some more shortly after that to support Vic more directly).

I found in amongst all of the really actually very nice stuff, these staircases. So I got to work on painting and weathering them quickly. There were also a bunch of other cool little scatter pieces like statues and stuff from the first campaign but I didn’t get any of those finished in time for the end of August. But I did get these finished. So here they are. Done not in the South American style of this scenery’s theme, but as pretty bog-standard stone/dungeon style, which is why I picked up these particular add-on-extra sprues. Suitable for historical through fantasy through modern through apoc and even 40k-ish sci-fi. Including any places with Minas in their names, as illustrated by today’s models.

Yadda yadda Dave Stone’s Winter of Scenery Challenge yadda yadda.