More Mantic Terrain Crate stuff originally sourced from Mars Attacks again today – These were painted before the picket fences shown in yesterday’s post – these being painted in January and February – as with those fences, these are now available from Mantic’s various “Cityscape” sets from their modern/post-apocalyptic range.

I started cleaning these up in late 2024 with the idea to get them painted over the Christmas break into 2025, which is exactly what happened. As we’ve moved further into our campaign playing through all of of Zombicide 1st edition, including all expansions, all addons and all DLC, we got to the point of barricades a little while ago, but I only have the pair that came with one of the Kickstarters.

So since I had these, it was time to get some of them done. They’ve come up decently well in the end. I varied the colours of the various elements so they hopefully don’t immediately read as a pile of duplicated pieces. I do have a bunch more of these, but before I go near those, I’ve got a few other sculpts to paint and then mix in! In the meantime, these 14 pieces also qualify for Dave Stone’s Paint What You Got Challenge 24-25.

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.

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.

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.

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.