'nids part 384 - Terrain is everything - 3D printed capillary towers - shade and BASE - TO DONE!

Afternoon #Warhammer Community I've been #PaintingWarhammer on the 3D printed capillary towers. First up sepia washes, and you can see it has not gone well. My Vallejo dipping wash is behaving just like Seraphim Sepia. It's starting to do this more often now. But I was sure it wouldn't be a problem as the AP Strong Tone wash [Agrax colour] would cover the dried out powdery bits. Except I ran out of Strong Tone.

So my solution was to mix Dark Tone [black] with my sepia to give it the higher quality glossy finish. 

For the most part that worked. I was able to cover up most of the patchy bits.

But I definitely need to start making a list of paints I need as I keep forgetting. The I order something, throw in a few paints and then when it arrives I suddenly realise there were a couple more I needed. 

Oh, and I did the Red Planet BASE! 🔴 too.

Which secures me a Great Big Chrome 'BASE' Stamps of Approval.

'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.

Terrain is everything - TT Combat Gothic Ruins MDF kit - ruin base TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I made this base for my TT Combat Gothic ruins way back when, but I never actually shared it. 

The ruins themselves come in two parts, a ground floor piece and this upper floor and I wanted an option so I could have them as two separate pieces.

This was built, primed and based for years before I finally painted the small bits of debris the other week

And for this I get a Great Big Big Build BLESSED VERDIGRIS Stamp of Approval, because it was built in 2021/22 Season.

I primed the bases with my truly awful Simoniz Red Oxide Primer. Loads of shaking and it still won't mix properly. I managed it in the end though, using a toilet roll tube to mask off the model itself and just spray the base. Then I went on with my standard Red Planet Base process. 

Here's my Great Big Big Build Base BLESSED VERDIGRIS Stamp of Approval, although I didn;t take any pictures at the time.

This sat for so long with these half dozen bits of debris just waiting to be finished.

And it's not like I hadn't done Blessed Verdigris countless times, I just hadn't remembered ti do these bits too.

Not that I'm ever likely to use it but you never know.

I mean it's the bread and butter of Red Planet BASE! 🔴

Nothing fancy, so no excuse why it took so long.

But it's done!

Anyway as I finished it this season - a Bloody Great Big Bloody Stamp of Bloody Approval!

Terrain is everything - Haemotrope Reactor - TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer my Haemotrope Reactor. This is an avoidance project - I'm already trying to avoid the last bit of metallics on my Deathwing Terminator.

But it's still hobby and its turned out so well. So well in fact I regretted not getting my Thermic Plasma Conduits to a similar starting point so I could batch the lot. 

I mean that does run the risk of burn-out - too much in one go. But even so there were milestones that I could have reached and easily swapped onto something else.

It just would have been really handy to be working on similar aspects, even if I'd focused on just the reactor when it was appropriate to do so.

Anyway, I love the colours, just the odd bit of BLESSED VERDIGRIS contributing so much.

The red glow on the outside of the coils is a mixed result. I really like them, think for just a thinned wash the glow effect is decent.

But, it might extend a little too much beyond the edges and is approaching a similar tone to the rust, so to my eyes it's almost rust, what do you think?

And here are the white background pics too.

A lot of rust, maybe too much?

If I got another I think I'd have less rust but I think this is what I was hoping for with my Servohaulers.

It's great to have all of these industrial pieces tied together. Again, I can't help regretting not getting my Plasma Conduits ready in time.

That little red glow on the bottom of his eye grill. I don't know what possessed me to do it but I love it SO much. It reminds me of something, maybe from an 80's videogame [which never had this fidelity of graphics] or action film but there is a nostalgic thrill I get EVERY time I look at it. I don't know how else to explain but it moves me in a way I've never felt before

Add in those ridiculous BLESSED VERDIGRIS stains and faked dial lenses 🤤

Additional details, plus the random selection of pipe colours. The orange ones were going to be yellow/black stripes but I didn't think they'd stand out so kept them orange, but different enough not to be rusty

Really proud of this, and another GREAT Big RUSTY Stamp of Approval .

Just one last thing to share - I love gloss varnish, especially when you first put it on and it creates this weird UV glow effect. Part of me wishes there was a paint to achieve this in one application.

Not quite as cool on the coils but still interesting. And also multiple applications of VerniDas gloss varnish to build up the dial lenses. Had to make sure gravity helped turn them into domes. Even a few weeks later there was still shrinkage and had to reapply drops. But they looks so cool.