40k Leman Russ Wreck

I've been wanting to do something like this for a long, long time. So one day randomly, I decided to do it.

I had an old Russ around that I'd gotten assembled and primed. So I chopped it in half and stuck it on piece of masonite.

Some Citadel crackle paint, some drybrushing and some rust effects later and we have this gem. Super happy with how it came out.

Age of Sigmar

My gaming mojo was reinvigorated in 2016 with Age of Sigmar. The advent of points values and the establishment of my gaming space, along with a load of painted terrain, has seen me playing more gaming than I have since high school. I'm in love with the streamlined ruleset, the sense that the entire game was designed around the principle of "does it make sense?" and the fact that the games are very tactical and the units feel like they should. I've been playing dwarfs and warriors feel stout, slayers feel like the berserkers they are (deathblow!) and cannons are terrifying. the flame cannon is nearly broken, but when it's on the table it becomes a prime target, so it's damage output tends to get limited as it's destroyed early in the game. Or it doesn't do much damage... Needless to say, I'm hopeful that 40K will undergo a similar treatment as WFB did, not blowing up the entire world. but a streamlining to make playing the game more fun.

Not dead yet.

It's but a wild, rough, fun year. Moved house last October and didn't have a hobby space operational until May or so. Been working on that since and getting my hobby mojo back. Age of Sigmar has been a breath of fresh air and inspired me to get moving on some fantasy projects.

Terrain from GW, 6 forests, some walls and a tower, and Tabletop World, windmill, house, and well. And a big block of Skeletons finished in just 2 days.

And playing a bunch of games, more than I have in years.

Secret Weapon Tablescapes

I backed the kickstarter way-back-when and receive 3 themes for a total of two 4x6 foot tables. The tiles themselves are great, the clip together really nicely and are a joy to paint. And dice don't even bounce all over the place on them... I pulled some from each and got to work painting them up. I based them with a flat dark brown spray, then drybrushed them with Calthan brown (custom mixed gallon), a medium brown and lighter brown and then an ivory (hooray craft paint). I painted all the details and got the scrap piles nice and rusty, before everything got a nice ivory drybrush to make it look all dusty to blend it into the terrain. before flock, I painted on a solid coat of an acrylic varnish followed by Army Painter matte sealer. Indestructible. I had a tile fall on other tiles from 3 feet up and there wasn't even a hint of damage. So these should withstand years of gaming without need for touchups. After that, I added 5 layer of fine turf flock and 2 more on top of that of a coarser flock. PICTURES!

Necromunda Platform Terrain

Continuing with my die cut terrain, this little platform, again, drawn from the original card terrain fro the Necromunda boxed set. The pump and piping underneath are from Pardulon, and the handrail is some O scale stuff made by Plastruct.

Experiments with a Die Cutter

You may all remember a few years back when I had an old piece of GW terrain, laser cut. If you don't, go take a look, here So, fast forward to today, and with the aid of a die cutter, and some thin card, we have the following. Necromunda Tunnel Entrance. Just the raw card, assembled with the GW bulkhead. I went along and added rivets (252) and a few resin detail parts (Pardulon and DragonForge) And with Paint. Base was textured with a mix of Vallejo Oxide Paste and Black Lava.

2nd Edition Terrain in Progress

So a while back I started picking up the old terrain sets. Cause they're awesome.

A while after that talking with a friend, we discussed the idea of replacing the cardboard with styrene, and on top of that, cutting out each layer of detail to make them more 3D. So, after some thought, and me finding a lasercutter on etsy, I took the base kit from...


To the following. Still left to do are the addition of a load of rivets, which I hope to finish up in the coming days and update once the build is complete.

Club Terrain

So, my clubs tournament is tomorrow. Looks like a full booking of 30 players.

Got this table finished last night for the club. Can't wait to see people playing on it.

How about some Terrain - Ork Mek Shop

I built this guy for a terrain competition over on the-waaagh.