Back to the Pet Store #1: Desert Bluffs

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Not long after I posted up my Pet Store terrain find back in December, Marouda, Pyro and Orez took a detour to the Pet Warhouse where I got that first one after grabbing something to eat. Orez came inside with me, and we took a look at what was on offer.

I’ll tell the more interesting story with the next post on this stuff, but I managed to pick up a few pieces again as they had a pre-Christmas sale going. I thought this was a nice, impressively-sized piece of terrain that allows for gameplay in, around, and even over the top of it. It’ll go well with yesterday’s Shardwrack Spines.

I really need to get a few more mats, as my only desert mat is this one. The texture is nice, but it’s also very plain.

I intended to post this up before Christmas, but after all the bullshit that December brought, I’m showing this piece now in January. While it does fit the month’s theme it doesn’t count as something that I’ve done as this is untouched, and as bought. Even though this is a desert-ey bluff, I’m actually quite happy to leave the plants completely as-is, as they add a nice bit of interest and colour depth to the piece, and makes it a bit Oasis-ey. Wonderwalls and Pet Barns FTW!

Shardwrack Spines: January Terrain 2019

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Games Workshop Citadel Death World Forest Terrain Shardwrack Spines

Inspiration-credit for the models in this post goes entirely to Thomas, from High Times on the Eastern Fringe. When GW released their (apparently now discontinued as a standalone set) Shardwrack Spines kit a couple of years ago, my reaction was somewhere between indifference and thinking that they were a bit shit. Over time, I saw a few that looked decent through to good, such as the ones on Sho3box’ blog. Even then, though – I still had no interest in the kit.

Games Workshop Citadel Death World Forest Terrain Shardwrack Spines

Then I saw Thomas’ ones. And all of that changed. I thought his made what I thought was basically a shitty kit look pretty fucking amazing, to be quite blunt. Not too much later, he posted up a tutorial on how he did them, and the wheels started turning. A little while later, I bought two boxes, and then did nothing with them for a year or more. Last year (2018) I got started with the spray cans, but then got delayed for months because I didn’t want to buy two or three pots of Rakarth Flesh to do the drybrushing. Later, the Killzone: Death World Forest box came out with a few more, so I picked that kit up and then got the new ones up to the same point.

Games Workshop Citadel Death World Forest Terrain Shardwrack Spines

After we had some time, Marouda did a Bunnings run for me and matched a close-enough square of Rakarth Flesh into a sample pot of house paint, a couple of tubes of craft paint (white and when normals call “cream” and we hobbyists call “bone”) and then last week, I finally got it going – with Thomas’ instructions as my guide on the PC screen – and a couple of days later, we were done!

Clearly, these are really only of much use for Sci-Fi and Fantasy gaming rather than Historicals or more grounded gaming, but I’m good with that. In closing – thank you once again to Thomas – because of you, I now have a solidly decent-sized set of very spiky terrain. If anyone stabs themselves badly while gaming with them, I’ll be blaming you for that, too!