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Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets & Urban Streets Damaged – Part 1

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Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

Today we have the terrain that I managed to get completed in January. None of the usual sort of thing – instead I managed to start and finish 18 of my Secret Weapon Tablescapes tiles, from that Kickstarter campaign oh so long ago. They are very much something that I’ve wanted to get painted for years, and unfortunately the combination of limited work space, work making it difficult to mentally “spin up” enough to just spend time focused on getthing larger projects like this done due to the large number of tiles and repetitive nature of the project.

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

I was fortunate enough this past January so that the whole Crosis Protocol enthusiasm thing was enough to help me to get these shown tiles done from start to finish. Unfortunately, there still lies the small matter of all of the road sections, all still very much WIP – So I need to really get that enthusiasm going again since I’ve been back at work. I know that there are people out there who can paint a set of tiles like this in an afternoon. I’m not one of them

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

I have one 16-tile set of the Urban Streets – Clean, one 16-tile set of the Urban Streets – Damaged, and one 4-tile “Display Board” set of the Urban Streets – Damaged. I also have the 16-tile sets of the Ruined Temple and Rolling Hills themes, and as you can see here, I nicked 2 of the Ruined Temple tiles to use as a pair of “Demolition Site” tiles to give a bit more variety to my layouts. Here you can see a theoretical Marvel Crisis Protcol battle in action.

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

Similarly, I also have a pair of the Rolling Fields set picked out to turn into a pair of “Parkland” tiles to provide options for layouts with a bit of extra colour. I’m looking forward to having time to get the roads finished. Hopefully sooner than later!

Secret Weapon Miniatures Tablescapes Tiles: Urban Streets, Urban Streets Damaged

The 36″x36″ layout of standard Crisis Protocol games will allow for a lot of variety even with the tiles I already have done – but obviously it’ll be far more aesthetically pleasing once there are roads to mix in! These 18 tiles are the last thing I have to show for the January component of Dave Stone’s Paint what You Got challenge.

Micro Art Studios Processing Plant

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Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

My next post is another set of terrain from Micro Arts Studios. This time it’s the Processing Plant (which seems to be OOP). Once again it’s a pretty decent, but slightly wonky casting of a solid bit of wargaming terrain.

Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

In a nice bit of versatility, the two parts of the kit can be arranged either next to each other, for a double-silo effect, or separated – either to make them into two distinct pieces, or perhaps to link via the use of a walkway (I couldn’t easily find an appropriate sci-fi walkway when taking the pics).

Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

In a less nice example of execution, the two halves of the piece didn’t actually fit together nicely at all, and so I added some textured plasticard to both segments. I did this both so they would fit more flush against one another, and also so they would not look like complete arse when not flat up against another piece of terrain.

Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

I also added some ladders from a Prodos/Archon terrain kit, in order to enhance the “playability” of the two pieces and give some specific points that models can climb up and down.

Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

Like the two Crate Heaps just shown, (and why does the old invoice I just found from 2019 list FOUR crate stacks????) this set of two pieces sat on my side desk for two years – with the same situation at the start of November of me deciding to force myself to knuckle down and just finish the fucking things.

Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

So it’s not too flashy, but it’s a decent pair of finished terrain bits now that they’re done. I went for my preferred “Necromunda Blue” kind of look, and added just a couple of decals from some ancient military kit along with various weathering products.

Micro Art Studios Hardfoam Processing Plant

It’s certainly good enough to use in 40k, Necromunda, or any other sci-fi game – and would likely be just fine for most post-apoc or near-future settings as well. Not too loud, but a bit of space to climbs around on and fight over. Most importantly – finished and off my damned desk!