'nids part 383 - Terrain is everything - 3D printed capillary towers - prime and basecolours

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer. I got these 3D printed capillary towers on the 6th September 2025, just 8 days after I published my TO LIST, at the time I talked about terrain and said:

I have some other 40k terrain to do which I would mention but as we don't play it seems misguided to allocate time and resource to it with so many other things [that equally we don't play with but y'know...?] to do.

And I think this was the terrain I wasn't planning to do, but here we are. As I look back at that list I realise how I have managed to ignore the vast majority of it and just do whatever the hell I want. But that is OK. It's only a guide afterall, but maybe I need to get back on track after these...

 I started with one of the medium sized towers. Primed it with Red Oxide and then used a yellow 'filler/primer' to try to smooth some of the print lines. But how drop dead gorgeous does that look? I think I need to invest in a yellow primer for when I do my Mechanicum.

Anyway, the print lines are still visible, apparently multiple coats of the filler/primer are more effective. But, I suspect this will be less noticeable when I do the actual aquamarine and turquoise striations as they will run in a different direction, causing a baffle effect 🤞

This is the first one. I know we just did Old Stuff Day but I can't help being reminded of Warhammer 39,999's own pre-dipping basecoats.

Anyway, they've all had Vallejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Red on the fleshy bits. Bone colour on the bone bits and Bahama Blue craft acrylic on the chitin plates. Rest assured, this will be the 383rd time we have basecoated a project, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

So  much so I got the rest [mostly] basecoated.

However, it was at this stage I started to lose my mojo. Having just got it back with pushing the Osgiliath Terrain over the line I couldn't face the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 Which is why I painted the Goblin Town goblin I shared yesterday. But that wasn't the only avoidance miniature. I had a few other things too that I used to distract me from getting these done.

#MESBG Middle Earth Goblin Town - Tha missing Goblin - TO DONE! ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community Remember when I was missing Goblin Town Goblin? Well he's been sat basecoated since September/October last year. Having finished the ruins of Osgiliath I was supposed to get onto my Tyranid, which I was just about to link to a post and it turns out I haven't shared it 😲 Anyway, I'll get to that but I was clearly avoiding it and thought this little guy could get finished. I had half a mind to convert him to a 2-handed weapon, because that would be useful. But the pose is a little awkward for that. So I started to add all the red raw bits and got a bit carried away

So had to tone it back. Which is still good. You'll have to take my word for it but he does match very well to my existing goblins. Although, the base is a bit warmer looking because I used VGC Leather Brown for the highlights

Close up this looks awful, but luckily from a distance 'table-top' ready is pretty cool. All the washes, the purple, red, brown, green and grey from the prime help give the skin a mottled translucent colour. I do love these little guys so I'm glad he's finished.

I didn't feel right just giving this the usual stamp, so instead it gets the Great Big MINOR Chrome Stamp of Approval worth 1 point. This brings me up to 187 points for the season so far.

Adeptus Titanicus - Cream battlefield assets, terminal pins and markers - TO DONE! 🔴⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Adeptus Titanicus - Battlefield assets, terminal pins and markers and no, it's not deja vu! Again... We had another set of battlefield assets and I thought they'd look cool in cream and bronze.

Also, Liam needed a Titan head marker that matched his basing style, rather than the one I did on Red Planet BASE! 🔴

I did want to go with more Blessed Verdigris 🗽 for these but forgot just how much I'd done on the red assets. 

Serves me right for only looking back at the grey assets.

Still, I really like doing these and getting to explore different colours schemes for them.

It's a shame you don't really get to use more than a couple of them per game.

Also, Otty made his own Eldar themed ones. Which is as it should be, but it does mean that our current game is only using one of my sets.

And even then I put a Void Shield Generator in the wrong place so my Titans are getting ZERO benefit from it. Liam is very grumpy with me! 🤣

I am very pleased I managed to match his basing though. It's not a 100% perfect but so close it's almost weird trying to work out why it's not spot on.

Arc templates. I wanted something that was a bit more 'steampunk'

And I just love these ones so much'

The patinaed bronze, cream and then the red glass inserts, fabulous.

Now, I did not do the terminal pins. As annoying as it is that we have another set that is unpainted they have all bee cut from the sprue. Finding a way to paint them all individually was not a task I was willing to do when I've so much else I could enjoy painting instead. So they are left for now, we've more than enough.

A Great Big Chrome Stamps of Approval according to my spreadsheet this is worth 13 points. Plus a 5 point terrain bonus, it's a bit cheeky under the circumstance. But, the premise of the bonus is you are doing something for the benefit of everyone, not just painting your own grey pile of shame. These are terrain pieces and they are for other to use, so it qualifies. Therefore, this brings me up to 186 points for the season so far.

 

Here are the pics on a white background.

Terrain is everything - Middle Earth Osgiliath Ruins - Viaduct and Ruin - TO DONE! ⚪

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I know it's been a while but I've actually been #PaintingWarhammer on some MESBG terrain I was lucky enough to get for Christmas. These were all 3D printed sets on Amazon that my wife and my mate Pete got for me. Alternatively you can pick them up at www.qp3dwargames.co.uk The last group of pieces, the viaduct and a ruin.

I know the 'soil' is a bit weird here. But it hides the print lines and adds a bit of colour.

Again the yellow lichen, but I did add a bit of orange in places as the image search did show variety in the lichen to be much warmer colours. I do like it here, even if again there's a lot.

I shaded the grass a bit with green wash to add variety.

It's a bit clumsy, the wash didn't spread and blend as much as I expected but I do like it. 

The corner ruin.

I should have put some flowers on the mound now that I look at it.

Some white Kingsfoil, but I only had the mixed flowers from my Halfling Blood Bowl Team which would have been a bit too fancy.

There are still a few pieces from QP3D I could add to the set but I think I'm done for the time being.

We do have an unpainted Elven tower as well that needs attention. Liam 3D printed it years back and it's just sat there doing nothing. I may ask them for it...

A Great Big Chrome Stamps of Approval according to my spreadsheet this is worth 20 points. Plus the 5 point terrain bonus, but I am applying that just once for the whole Osgiliath Ruins project. So, this brings me up to 168 points for the season so far.