Some New 40K Terrain

Today I finished off some more terrain for Kill Team. First up, this building from the Sector Frontiers set. 

Very serviceable piece, and a fun model to paint up.

I also did a set of fortifications from the Aegis Defence Line boxed set.

As you can imagine, they painted up very quickly...and they provide plenty of purpose-built Kill Team cover.

Work continues (slowly) on the Blackstone set. Here are the four Spindle Drones from that box.

Yesterday I picked up the Shadowspear set. GW...STOP RELEASING SO MANY COOL NEW MODELS! Anyway, I started building up the new Primaris Marines in that box...such awesome figures.

'Til next time.

Burnt-out Rhino

Last month, a friend of mine gave me several boxes of Games Workshop models to distribute into the Edmonton hobby community. One of the models I kept to do myself was this Rhino APC. This is a short step-by-step article on turning it into a burnt-out terrain piece for my Kill Team game boards.

First...build the model.

Second, primed brown. This gets the base rust layer down quite painlessly. After the primer dried, I sponged on some latex.

Next, I sprayed on the base layer of the camouflage colour. When that was dry, I rubbed the whole model to get the latex off and create the first rust chipping layer.

Another latex application, and then sprayed on a couple of camouflage colours. Not shown here, but then gave this layer a rub to expose the base light camo colour through the subsequent camo oversprays.

Next came lots of weathering effects. First, sprayed the model with Glosscoat and got the decals on. Then applied a dark pin wash to pop out all the panel lines. Then started into the mud splatters. These were done in three shades of Vallejo spatter mud colours. After that came rust pigments, dust and dirt. Also painted the tracks with Vallejo track primer and then weathered with AK NATO wash and a steel drybrush. Everything was settled in with pigment fixer and some Dullcoat.

The APC interior was initially primed off-white, and then "burnt-out" with successive layers of soot and rust pigments.

The final layers were done with pigment fixer and AK interactive White Ashes. Also did a final dust pass.

One more Dullcoat pass finished off the whole thing.

And so, the intention was to get a burnt-out vehicle onto my Kill Team boards to act as a flavourful terrain piece.

Mission accomplished!

'Til next time.

Deathwatch Kill Team Complete

As the year draws to a close, I finally finished my Deathwatch Kill Team 12-man campaign roster. I'd completed 5 of these guys previously...so finished the last 7 today.

And here they are. Team now includes 2 Primaris figures: one Intercessor and one Reaver.

Well, a fun project. I like how each member of the Kill Team is completely different from all the others.

Now onto something new.

'Til next time.

Catching Up On Some Terrain Pieces

Hello!

I haven't posted for a while. I've been slogging away on a couple of large projects...all having to do with Kill Team terrain. First off, I wanted to paint a Kill Team board. I started with this section of the Realms of Battle board. It's 2' x 2'...and it took forever to paint.

I've also spent the last couple of months working on this Basilicanum terrain piece, on and off.

Very happy to finally call it done. It actually is a cool model, and I'm happy to add it to the collection.

I experimented with some marble painting effects for the interior floor panels. Not perfect, but it gives me a direction to work in for future projects.

I also painted this small ruins piece from the Kill Team boxed set.

The Death Watch Kill Team expansion came with some alien trees, which were pretty fun to paint up as well.

I feel like I'm finally getting to a place where I can play some Kill Team with some nice painted terrain.

For scale reference, a few Primaris Marine models.

'Til next time.

Deathwatch Figures for Kill Team

All right. Time to get some Kill Team on the game table.

My first set of models for KT is this group of Deathwatch figures. To get the black armor, I sprayed Oil Discharge (a dark blue-black) Ghost Tint over silver. Then a final coat of Nuln Oil was sprayed over top of that to darken it down. I picked shoulder pad options that kept the red-white-black theme going for the entire team.

The Deathwatch 5-man kit is perfect for putting together a 100-point Kill Team.

Sergeant with Multi-melta and Power Sword.

Black Shield with Power Maul.

Veteran with Deathwatch Shotgun.

Veteran Gunner with Heavy Bolter and Flamer.

And another Veteran Gunner with Frag Cannon.

Next, I have to get some terrain finalized.

'Til next time.