Continuing with a Village Set from Iliada Game Studio, across the Aegean, in Turkey. This, belonging to the Kingdom Forgotten range has larger doors, closer to 18mm range, but the difference is not evident between buildings as with miniatures. All my 15mm/18mm buildings fit together on the table fine.
These are 3mm MDF, very finely detailed, with the roofs on thinner 1mm stock.The set is medieval fantasy, and they have great detail, with separate windows, doors, and big external chimneys. The set includes 2 dwellings, a workshop, and 2 outbuildings that can be attached on the dwellings at whichever side you want for some variety.
Went with a simpler aged wood approach with brown basecoat, gray drybrush, dark wash and white drybrush.
WorkshopSmall dwellingLarge dwelling (with small outbuilding at side covering one of three windows)Workshop (rear side showing the large outbuilding)
This wooden cabin style Russian Village set from Red Vectors (Pendraken) is set at WW2. Despite some “clean” lines, it can easily be used in earlier periods, and in fantasy, wild west, or sci-fi and post-apoc as well. It’s 2mm MDF, and the buildings include bases, and the roofs are removable.
For the aged wood finish, I went with a dark brown base, gray drybrush, brown wash, tan drybrush, and finally a soft white drybrush.
The set includes 2 houses (small and large), a barn, a stable/workshop and a pig sty. I’m overall very happy with both the designs, quality, and the painted end results.
Large houseSmall houseBarnhouseStable/workshopPigsty
If there’s one thing that’s plentiful in terrain buildings it’s churches. I chose this one from Red Vectors. It’s 2mm MDF, without a base. Under normal circumstances, the roof isn’t removable. I glued it in place.
The model is based on a true historical church, the Escomb Church. I went ahead and looked it up as a reference.
I found the etched bricks to be too few as related to the real church, and decided to use my sarissa precision stencils to add more stones using gray paint. Unfortunately, I did this after I had glued the assembled model, so I couldn’t reach some places especially near corners.
Again with a WW2 small house, this low country cottage from Sarissa Precision uses 2mm thick MDF. It has a base, and the roof is removable despite its small size. It is true 15mm scaled.
I went with a yellowish wall colour and wooden timbers, and a grayish slate roof tile.
The wooden beams are etched onto the MDF, but painting them requires fine motor skills. Perhaps I should have used masking tape to get cleaner lines.
This one could also be used for games set on earlier time periods without breaking immersion.
Continuing with part two I went with a sci-fi single pod from Warbases‘ Starbase 962 sci fi range. It’s thinner, 2mm MDF, with a base, and the roof is removable too.
Sports a ladder at the back, a radar antenna at the top and several door hatches and windows.
One of my first sci fi painting attempts I went with a blue and metallic silver combo.
Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time preparing laser cut terrain. While still my latest batch is a Work in Progress, I came to the realisation that I’ve not shared my previous works, at least not in the same manner I’ve done with my painted miniatures. You may have seen them in my various actual plays, but with the exception of some DIY items, my laser cut terrain never got the attention it deserves.
As you understand this series of posts will be more often as we begin and will slow down as I reach WIP items.
The first item on my list is a WW2 Town House. I still haven’t worked at all on painting my 15mm miniatures range as I haven’t decided on how to base them, however terrain can be used in a variety of setting and themes. This particular town house from TTCombat could be used in a late fantasy setting.
It’s closer to true 15mm, so it can be a bit smaller for my 18mm figures, but that’s minor, as the 3mm thick MDF also include a base at the bottom, raising the entire structures height.
I went with white walls, brown wood windows and red roof tiles. The roof is removable, so I painted the interior gray. However the ground floor is not accessible. I guess it’s meant for WW2 wargamers who place a squad or two inside the roof, essentially declaring that the house is occupied and they’re in cover. It’s not meant for visual realism as much. On the same topic, I can’t think of placing furniture and other items in buildings unless the figures are based on very small bases, prone to falling down, or you’re making a diorama.
Perhaps I overdid it with texturing the walls with plaster and with the washes, but I think the end result is good enough.
For the rest of the non human adventurers (dragon kin, turtle guy, goliath), I went with green tones. They can double as lizard people and the goliath can work as a big orc that will fit nicely with my white orc warband.
Dragon kin warriorDragon kin mageTurtle kinGoliath
Real life got so busy that hobby time (or to be more specific, energy for hobby time) got reduced to a pulp. Nevertheless I managed to steal away some time to finish some 15mm mens. These are some peasants from Khurasan miniatures.
I used earth tones mainly. I wasn’t too careful with the wash and they turned out a bit dirtier than I was aiming for.
Peasant with scythePeasant with flailPeasant with pitchfork Peasant with polearm Peasant with quarterstaff Peasant with axe
Here’s a Warbot from Alternative Armies HOF range.
It’s the first time I’ve tried chipping and weathering. After my priming, I did some silver & tin drybrushing for metallics, followed by orange and brown for rust. Then I dipped the mini in water to dampen it, and sprinkled salt and baking soda at spots. I followed it up with the base coat of reds and beige, and then I removed the salt by brushing it off and followed up with washes.
I should have used some water when removing the salt masking, as it wasn’t removed well and I had some flaking odd afterwards during the varnish stage. I also wasn’t very happy with my Army Painter washes – they dirtied it up a lot more than I’d like. Overall though I think it looks good to me.
War bot frontWar bot rearWar bot left sideWar bot right side
I’ve had these lizards in my lead pile of shame for a while now. A Dragon Newt from Alternative Armies and a Hunting Dragon from Ral Partha Europe. I wanted to get some proper bases for them in oval or rounded rectangular shape, but since I never got to doing so, I decided to use their own bases as is and base them in a future date if I so desire.
Dragon newt Dragon newt other side Hunting dragonHunting dragon other side
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