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Mantic Terrain Crate (Mars Attacks!): Picket Fences

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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.

Kings of War: Vanguard – Battlefield Objectives Runestones/Standing Stones

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Mantic Games Kings of War: Vanguard – Battlefield Objectives Runestones/Standing Stones

I did manage to paint a small amount of actual terrain in August – I managed to leverage Dave Stone’s Season of Scenery Challenge enough to get me to finish this set of 12 Runestone/Standing Stones/Menhirs. I painted them in greys and then added both browns and greens via both paint and weathering powders to give them some visual interest by representing dirt, moss and other outdoorsy muck

Mantic Games Kings of War: Vanguard – Battlefield Objectives Runestones/Standing Stones

Or perhaps they’re better described as two sets of six? Here you can see both sides of each of the three sculpts. The interesting thing is I can’t for the life of me remember where they came from. I mean, it’s pretty obvious that they came from a Kicjstarter, especially since they’re made from PVC. It’s the pretty good PVC that CMoN tends to use, rather than the cheap, sticky, garbage PVC often used by Mantic or Reaper, but I’m still not sure where they came from. I did check the campaign pages for HATE, Blood Rage and even Mantic’s Terraincrate, but couldn’t see them in any of those, which doesn’t mean I didn’t just miss seeing them… but if you recognise these, please do let me know in the comments and I’ll be able to amend the post title. 🙂

– edit – thanks to Kuribo who recognised them from Mantic’s Kings of War Vanguard Kickstarter – so they’re Terrain Crate-adjacent. Here’s the current bundle that they’re available from at retail.

Mantic Games Kings of War: Vanguard – Battlefield Objectives Runestones/Standing Stones

My Vikings are a tad inaccessable to me at the moment, so Kirashi kindly helped me by grabbing some Barbarian types to pose with the stones and provide scale. As with a lot of other scatter, these are pretty versatile for use in both fantasy and historical games, as well as the more fantastic side of sci-fi, such as 40k… There’s a little more of August’s stuff to post up yet, which I should get done over the next week or so.