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.
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.
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.
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.
Azazel's Bitz Box. 