Mantic Terrain Crate (Mars Attacks!): Picket Fences

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Mantic Mars Attacks Terrain Crate: Picket Fences

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.

Fallout February – Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

A quick one today – some barrels I 3D printed several months ago that I got from Imitation of Life’s Patreon several years ago. While that sculptor seems to have taken a break from Patreon these days, I found what appears to be at least two of these sculpts for free over on MyMiniFactory in a sample STL set. Seeing how they came out, I can certainly recommend them!

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

I’d sprayed them and they were prepped for painting for some time, but it wasn’t until Thursday when I managed to do some blog reading that I saw Kuribo was doing a “Fallout February” thing that I decided to kick it into gear, starting these Thursday evening and then finishing them, spraying them and photographing them Friday morning as I had a day off work. Sure, they’re not specifically Fallout models, but they fit the setting and I’ll even go so far as to say that the colour chosen is close enough to one of the barrels in Fallout 76, easily one of the Fallout games of all time.

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

Not that these are particularly unique, but I mirrored them when I printed them so I could get a few more onto the plate and also have a small bit of variation, though only the set with fallen barrels manages to have any actual variation. Still – better than a complete repeat!

Barrels (Imitation of Life 3D Prints)

They’re a good fit for Post-Apoc games, and will work as barricades for Zombicide, though they’re a bit small for games like 40k and Crisis Protocol, especially with the tall bases many of these figures stand on. I’ve upscaled a set of these as well, but not yet printed them yet. These are of course, February models, and so these queue jumpers have gotten slightly in front of some January pieces that Kuribo will also be interested in.

As they were printed months ago, they also fit in with with Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25. As will the next half-dozen (at least) posts!