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15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls – Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

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15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

These are the last of my “desert buildings” stuff from Gale Force 9/Battlefield in a Box (until I get a few more, later on). We’ve got two sets of Desert Walls and one of Ruined Desert Walls here that I’ve spent a little bit of time weathering and touching up. As you can see here, the walls alone cover a good chunk of table space. Once combined with buildings, other terrain and spaced out, I reckon there’s easily enough for most game table setups here.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223)

A whole bunch of standard walls with grime added to the lower area as well as rain streaking.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB229)

I’ve got fewer of the ruined walls – I’m planning on getting one more set of these which should give me a lot more table options in terms of ruined areas.

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

Here’s the short walls from all three sets. Griming all of these up wasn’t difficult, but it was bloody tedious!

Here’s the gist of it on the left – doing this with Vallejo Track Primer and/or vallejo Panzergrau primer, via make-up drybrush, then using heavily watered down Panzergrau for streaks. Like I said, not difficult but bloody tedious!

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Desert Walls, Ruined Desert Walls - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB229)

I also figure that a scale shot is something useful to have here – the walls next to an array of reasonably popular models. I think the well could be used in 28mm gaming, as can both sets of walls. The gates only work for Hobbits and perhaps Goblins and Gnoblars. The larger walls are a bit too high for troops to see and shoot over, unlike the typical chest-high walls found in 40k, etc (though the ruined walls can be used in that way). The smaller walls are functionally probably best kept ignored, but can potentially add to a tabletop’s aesthetic. Even the bricks don’t look out of place!

Well, that’s another large amount of terrain parts now done and now packed away into my FoW Storage, ready to hit the tabletop (hopefully) soon! If Dave’s happy to count this sort of thing, I did these in the final days of December, so I’ll submit them for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got challenge, running from Dec 26th through to Jan 31st. Don’t worry! I have real models coming soon as well! 😉

15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box – Large Desert Building, Desert Administration Building – Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB224)

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15mm Flames of War Battlefield in a Box - Large Desert Building, Desert Administration Building - Weathered & Repainted (BB223, BB224)

Yes, it’s another one of these. Part of the “if I painted it, it goes on the blog” ethos that I have. I’ve combined these two into the one post, though right now I have two more of these to go before I need to repaint some more terrain. These were done in December, finished on Boxing Day (Dec 26) so they’re going down for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got challenge, running from Dec 26th through to Jan 31st.

As with the others I’ve touched up and/or repainted, the exterior of the Desert Administration Building got a bunch of addded grime – a bit of lower-building dirt, some darkening in the many corners around the buttresses, and some rain streaking.

I also added a bit of dirt to the rooftop, particularly in the corners.

Areas where the brickwork is exposed also made sense to have some rain streaking, as well as under windows.

I did repaint the interior floors, as they didn’t look great being the same colour as the interior, walls, the exterior walls, the roof…. I also painted in the previously bare doors and windows and added some wear marks on the floor near the doors.

The Large Desert Building got much the same treatment on the exterior, with some extra focus around the archways.

Rain streaks and whatnot. I considered clipping the odd rooftop box off entirely but as John (Justneedsvarnish) pointed out, it works as a peg to lift the rooftop out of the cavity – so it stays!

I added a little grime to the corners of the rooftop, both on the walls and floor/roof areas. It’s pretty subtle here, but you do want this sort of thing to be subtle – compared to how it used to look it’s an improvement, which is the main thing.

Given that this building had previously been sold as a Mosque, I decided to run with that option and paint the bare black walls a more tranquil colour, as well as going over the tiles with a blue-grey before weathering both a little.