Terrain is everything - Middle Earth Osgiliath Ruins from QP3D Wargames

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've 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 I started with prime with of yellow primer, filler to help cover some of the FDM printer lines. I should have read the supplied instructions that recommends 2 to 3 coats of this. But I didn't. That said, for FDM, the lines aren't that bad at all and one coat managed this.

I then sprayed it with a cheap grey primer and then a zenithal white to get the pale grey/white Osgiliath colour I was hoping for. I even added some splatter spray effect, to give the impression of  mottled stone. Two further coats of spray helped with the lines even more, but if we were up to 5 coats with 3 filler/primer who knows how smooth they'd look.

Each piece was then washed with a grey/dark tone mix. Here the top building has already had a Stonewall Grey drybrush. Here I realised I'd need to mix a similar colour from cheap grey and white craft acrylics, as I'd use all my Stonewall otherwise. I was a little disheartened that a fair bit of my spray pattern and zenithal highlights were erased by the wash and subsequent highlights.

With my Stonewall mix I drybrushed the entire tower. Then used my Miniature Paints Cream to highlight to top. Realised the same issue about using up my good paint and actually switched to a B&Q emulsion tester pot of Ottawa paint. It's an off-white and was great,

I then added some AP Green Tone wash to create mildew stains on the stone, with some Basilicanum Grey Contrast paint added to make some variety in the colouring.

The rest of the tower was still to be done.

Here I added Vallejo Game Effects Dry Rust [similar to Typhus Corrosion]. Its a fine texture paint, which did an amazing job of smoothing out the FDM Lines - the entire model would look great in this after a prime. It would give it that fine texture on the stonework too.

Naturally I want to paint the dome as Blessed Verdigris🗽but that brown does look awesome as a dull bronze, challenging my usual proclivities. We'll have to see what comes next.

Adeptus Titanicus - Grey 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! 

This is a second set of battlefield assets, this time in grey to better match some of Otty's other boards.

I also wanted to try out more use of silver. If I ever get round to my Cerastus and Warlord Titans I want to use silver more.

Not to mention my Guardians of the Covenant in silver. Stretching myself with a colour I rarely use so I'm more comfortable with it is never a bad thing.

To be fair it's not rockets science, gun metal, dark wash, gun metal highlight, silver highlight. Maybe a little more shading.

And, at a pinch, some Blessed Verdigris 🗽.

The good thing about Verdigris is it doesn't just appear on copper and brass.

I'd go so far as to argue it looks even more impressive on silver. But that's because it adds a splash of colour to what is essentially monochrome.

I also did a Legio Krytos Warlord Titan crew for Liam.

Priority badge.

Which again looks better when you can see the verdigris.

And the titan fire arc templates. They would have been so tiresome without that patina.

The extra shading provided sufficient contrast to make them more exciting.

The counters too. Maybe the verdigris was a bit too much on these but I'm not going to lose sleep on it. This will count as 2 models.

And another 44 terminal pins. I'll be treating this as 7 models in my hobby season count.

They look pretty cool.

As we reach the exact halfway point of the Season of Wood another Great Big Wooden Stamp of Approval. How are you doing in the hobby season?

Here are the pics on a white background.

These do look better n a white background.

Adeptus Titanicus - 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.

We've actually been playing with unpainted ones - now THAT is heresy! But as I'd foisted my Red Planet BASE!🔴 on Otty and his shed, then the next thing to do was paint my assets accordingly.

Alongside my own penchant for Blessed Verdigris 🗽

Void Shield Generator. I had no plan for glow effect. When I ended up with a 'radar' spin I realised one of the arms was going in the wrong direction... I ummed and aahed for all of 5 minutes before I was compelled to fix it.

Plasma Generator follows suit on my red glass insulator coils, rather than blue or even orange plasma glow FX.

Comms Radar Dish.

Command Bunker.

Missile Defence Battery.

Lost titan crew.

Titan firing templates, all shiny and gold. 

So much better using painted versions of these.

And fun to play around with gold. 4 new things painted.

OK, so here is where things get a bit tricky. Some numbered counters and triangular [or should that be hexagonal?] data pins. When I'm counting up 'models painted' should this be 11 or 2? 

Similarly, there are 42 pins here. How would you count them? Individually it seems like I'm gaming a system I have long tried to avoid for these very reasons. However, they are very fiddly to paint, even if small, so what counts when I come to my end of season review?

And another Great Big Wooden Stamp of Approval.

Here are the pics on a white background.

If you didn't already know, I love 😍 Blessed Verdigris 🗽

I'm so lazy when it comes to cleaning up models, you can still see lots of bits of sprue I should have trimmed off.

I think they all look so cool in close-up detail.

I had considered full on verdigris buttresses but thought red all the way. Maybe I'll get to play with some more and be adventurous next time...

My fallen titan head. I'll have to do a Warlord to go with it now. The Red Planet BASE!🔴 is a bit ropey here, which is a bit disappointing, but less obvious when on the mat or board.

The varnish is a bit more noticeable here, it seems to have clumped in some of the recesses. But it's a cheaper, thicker varnish so somewhat expected. 

We've got loads more of these but they're not on sprue, which will make them 10 times harder to paint, and even prime. Maybe they are worth 'one completed model' each! What do you think?

More TO DONE's to follow.