AT-43 Shipping Containers

AT-43 Shipping Containers

A quick one today (if delayed) – my final completed pieces for February – A set of four shipping containers from various AT-43 sets I picked up a number of years ago before letting them sit (for years, again) until finally getting to the weathering stage a couple of weeks ago. A couple of them may be a little over-weathered, but I guess they’ll still look fine on the tabletop, especially alongside the Reaper Bones ones I painted a couple of years ago.

AT-43 Shipping Containers

I wanted to get these up over a week ago, but the wargames table is covered in stuff from inside that had to get moved until the AC guy came to fix the AC. Well, he finally turned up yesterday (almost 2 weeks after getting in contact with them) and it’s now hopefully fixed. A loose wire on the board outside and a dessicated gecko corpse across a board on the inside(!) and $240 later, and it’s now hopefully sorted. We’ll see, I guess. It’s not like I would have known which wires to check on the exterior unit high up on the outside wall…

AT-43 Shipping Containers

The motivation for these came largely from continuing to get ready to play Crisis Protocol. If I ever get the minis and terrain done and actually set down to play, it’ll be a good looking setup!

AT-43 Shipping Containers

So now the schedule is Monthly Round-up tomorrow – which doubles as my part 2 for my Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. – And then right into March’s (small) backlog of models – starting with my first model for Swordmaster’s Monster March 7 challenge…

Plasticville USA: O Scale Water Tower #45978

Plasticville USA: O Scale Water Tower #45978

Something else purchased awhile back for my Crisis Protocol games, we have some O Scale train terrain – apparently O Scale is roughly the same as 1:48, and I’ve seen people talk about using O Scale buildings and such for MCP. Since a lot of the better stuff either isn’t available here in Australia or is prohibitively expensive to purchase from the U.S., I picked up a few kits via Amazon that were affordable, although for way more than American shoppers. The first of these is this Water Tower. made of de-sprued HIPS plastic, this kit was simple to assemble, didn’t assemble properly anyway (that ladder is not straight) but such a background piece that I decided that IDGAF. I did texture the concrete by stippling with “AK Easy Cast” texture medium which helped a bit. Pretty simple job with a few layers of drybrushing and washing. I cut away the spout and added a couple of extra pipes made from sprue since I envision this piece being something I might just as easily stick on top of a building or amidst an Industrial sector as in a field since this thing can work reasonably well from any setting from WWII to Modern to Post-Apoc and Fallout-alikes – which is why I’m skipping any form of signage.

The Ariele and Tony Storch minis are here to provide us with scale for 32mm and 40mm. Size 3 for MCP, you reckon?

One more post to go for the February stuff and the final models for Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge. Which this is also a submission for…