Armies and Campaigns

Friday, 12 August 2022

Impromptu terrain

Ever had that moment when you're painting and before you know it your semi pained force is launching an attack through the stacks of unwashed cups of tea, coffee and unidentifiable sludge?
This happened to me but one side got to use the pile of semi painted terrain while the other had just my water jar. 
Never one to see my brave lads at a disadvantage I used the pile of offcut card I had sitting there to knock up weird little tower thing. 
It was a very enjoyable process with no real end design in mind.  I had three large hexangonal pieces from a modular terrain idea for coke cans I had (which failed) in the stack. I used these to make the basic shape and then added the scrap pieces around them


Then I painted it.  I lake's the idea of hazard chevrons on the top so printed out some and stuck them down. 
The ladder was made out of match sticks stuck onto card and then built up.

 it works really well.  I covers the top in a lot of modgepodge to hopefully seal it from spills. 
Finally  I printed off some text saying water tower and used it as a stencil. Didn't come out perfectly but much better than my previous attempts.

All in all very pleased.