A decent little chunk of 40k terrain today – something a little different for a change from all those 3D prints! We have a big chunk of the larger terrain pieces from the Warhammer 40,000 Urban Conquest campaign expansion from 8th Edition.

For some reason I appear to have aquired four of these sprues, and obviously I only picked up one of the Urban Conquest sets. I’d guess that one or two probably came backed-in with the Kill Team boxes they were putting out for a time that contained a sprue of models, booklet, cards/tokens and some terrain. Either way, we know how GW loves to repack terrain sprues, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with that, either.

I have painted one of these vent pieces before, back in 2019 – and it even got its own blog post. How very quaint. I obviously have no recollection of painting the thing this many years later, so I compleyely abandoned the idea of consistency and just painted all of these in their own huge chunk.

Having pointed that out, it’s probably a good idea to write down how I painted these – totally for interested readers of course and nothing to do with my own future reference.

They started pre-cleaned and pre-sprayed black, which was nice of Past Me. I then heavily drybrushed them with Vallejo Model Colour French Mirage Blue, then AK 3rd Gen Intermediate Blue, then final highlights with Warpaints Fanatic Ash Grey and AK 3rd Gen Off-White. Metals were simply Citadel Leadbelcher and detaily-bits painted in whatever I felt like. Everything was then washed with the 1:1:1 Vallejo Dip of Black, Sepia and Future, left to dry, sprayed with clear acrylic, then weathering pigments of various types added, then sprayed again to seal it all in (which is why you can barely see the pigments).

I originally planned to paint all of the statues in Copper, then drybrushed with Citadel Canoptek Alloy, but later decided to go with some heavy verdrigris weathering on some of them. I did this by using AK 3rd Gen Pastel Blue, Pastel Green, and adding Off-White again. There may be something else in there, but I don’t recall what it was, if there was.

In the container containing these pieces, there was only one of the navigator statue, and zero of the four “upright” Angels of Death statues – so I guess I’ll have to find those somewhere, someday. I do recall seeing the AoD statues, but I have NFI where that may have been at this point in time. I’m also missing one of the larger rubble piles, so hopefully they all turn up eventually so I can paint them out of the way.

Speaking of the AoD statues, I painted two in the copper/bronze finish, and then verdigris-weathered one of them. The other two, as you can see, I painted in a pale stone kind of way.

As regular readers know, I’ve been on a bit of an Epic-scale terrain kick as of late, getting the table ready for both Battletech Alpha Strike as well as the one-two of Legions Imperialis and Adeptus Titanicus – so I was curious as to how well (or not) these pieces would work alongside the teeny-tiny army mans and tanks and walking wobots. The answer seems to be …okay, actually. The smaller ruins seem a bit more thematically appropriate for Battletech as opposed to the gigantic statues, but I think they all work ok for the 40k-themed games.

These 23 bits of terrain all count towards Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery ’25.