Warsenal Comanche Bunker Scout Platform

A quick splash of terrain for you today, something from my near-complete 'Endor Table' project for Infinity! This is the Scout Platform for the Bunker building which importantly enables its inclusion into the walkway system the Comanche terrain is known for. 

 

The Scout Platform replaces the roof of the bunker, adding a level and enabling access to the interior of the bunker via the roof.

The Bunker can no be integrated in the walkway system!

I have Scout Platforms for the 2 pillbox's I already have built, so I'll be getting them painted up next!.

More soon!

The GunGrave

Comanche Terrain from Warsenal

Its time for something a bit different this week, a splash of terrain! Well, a bit more of a splash, there's quite a bit of it!

Back in the tail end of last year the madness that is Black Friday descended. I normally don't take much notice of this, but this year I noticed that Warsenal were offering 25% of ALL of their products, with free international shipping for orders over $50! I live in the UK so getting this stuff over to me is quite expensive (I think this order would've cost me around £95!!) The free shipping was my starting gun to start shopping, and then I got the 25% as well! Happy days!

I've eyed up Warsenal's terrain offerings for a long time. Its quite different from anything else on the market I feel, with an attention to detail and aesthetic which fits so perfectly into the Infinity universe! I will be doing a proper terrain review soon, but for now I want to share with you what I've got done so far. I went a little mad admittedly, carried away with the great offer Warsenal were running, so I've got enough terrain for a packed table, maybe even 2 if I spread it out with some decent scatter terrain.

First up is the Pillbox Bunker. This is quite a large building with multiple firing pints out of the front of the structure. I also picked up the Scout Tower that sits on top of this building, but I haven't put that together yet.

I chose a simple colour for the interiors, with the browns and beige's contrasting nicely with the greens!

No Comanche table would be complete without some walkways and towers! These 3 here the are Comanche Octagons. I have another 5 square towers to build and paint, all of which can be connected with...

Walkways! What you see here are 5 short narrow walkways, suitable for 25mm based mini's. I have some of their longer cousins to build up, as well as some short wide and long wide walkways which will take 60mm bases.

This is the Spetsnaz Sniper Tower. I didn't allow my lack of actual Spetsnaz from getting in the way of buying one of these! This building will give some much needed height to the table. I have to admit as well, it was a bit of a pig to put together!!

These are the 2 smaller cousins of the Pillbox Bunker, the Pillbox's! As with the bunker, I have the Scout towers to go on top of these at some point.

The interiors were done the same as the Bunker, with browns and beige's. These buildings also came with lockers! (random!)

One of my favourite buildings from the Comanche range now, the Black Eagle Landing Pad. This piece is quite big, so I should've put a model on there to show you! I couldn't decide for a long time after I finished painting it up wither or not to decorate the centre of the pad with an emblem, but as you can see I went ahead in the end! That part was a lot of fun, and I was very pleased with the end result!

There is a bit of scatter terrain available for the Comanche range as well, so I picked up 2 packs of these barriers to break up the table a bit. This time I did remember a mini for scale!

Every single one of the Octagons, Pad's and Towers comes with a ladder! Now this is a really nice touch, because it doesn't force you into having to by a system of walkways to link your buildings up. They can stand independently with a ladder access from ground level. However, this does mean I have a butt load of ladders!! They're a bit of a pain to paint, so I think I've painted all the ladders I'm willing to for now!

Here's the whole lot together! You can see in the background the next lot of walkways ready to be primed. I'd say i'm about halfway though this terrain set ) I subsequently orders a bit more after the first lot arrived !) It's going to keep me going for a while, but I should have a pretty sweet table at the end of it!

More soon!

The GunGrave

The Sands of Istvaan 5: Salamander Vehicle Wrecks

After the completion of the Warlord i quite honestly felt like i didn't know what to do with myself anymore, like my only purpose in life was now compete! So to try and find my hobby direction again, i turned back to my old friend, Terrain!

The Sands of Istvaan terrain set is pretty much complete except for the addition of a bit of battlefield debris. I had a few old vehicles that i wanted to smash up for terrain, so they were allocated to this project.

Believe it or not this is a Forgeworld Predator! A mate of mine butchered it trying to force it together without reshaping the warped parts....schoolboy error. He asked me to try and fix it, but i couldn't really salvage it fully. So he said i could just keep it! So i chopped it up a bit, and set fire to it - literally! This will be a fine wreck.

A quick paint job later, and we have a nice Salamanders wreck!

But whats a burnt out wreck without some burnt out corpses! These were fantasy skeletons bought cheap from my FLGS.

Miraculously i actually found a random Salamanders brass etch as well! Not so fire proof now eh lads?!

Some anti-tank weaponry has also had a crack at this Predator, just to make sure its dead!

After thoroughly enjoying the Predator, i quickly raided my bits boxes for an old Rhino i knew i had lying around. This is a proper old school Rhino, so fitted perfectly with the Heresy theme.

The Rhino's  cause of death is a little more obvious than the Predators. Its been hit head on by a very powerful anti-tank weapon.

Right the way through the Rhino! Ouch!

A few bolter holes for good measure from an over enthusiastic Traitor!

It looked like this over enthusiastic Traitor was also packing a Multi Melta!

I'm really pleased with these simple bits of scatter terrain, it'll really liven up the terrain set. As i was on a role, i chopped up an old 40K Land Speeder as well! Fortunately for my poor collection i'd now run out of tanks and vehicles to kill, so this will be the last one!

As soon as i get a game with the terrain set i'll get some pictures up!

The GunGrave

Tyranid Terrain: Spore Chimney

I've decided to take a quick break from the Warlord to cleanse my hobby pallet a bit, so i've returned to  my other love; Terrain. 

I always intended to make a second Spore Chimney for the Tyranid Terrain set (see the first Spore Chimney here) I had all the bits, so i started putting it all together. 

I started with a polysturene ring glued to an MDF base. I cut out 3 wedges around the edge where the capillary towers will fit in. 

Next i added the end of some plumbing pipe to the center of the ring. This will provide the structure for the mouth of the chimney.

A large polystyrene cone was then quartered and three of the sections were glued to the base to form the capillary towers. The top of one of the cone quarters broke off, but i'll just model it as battle damage!

With the basis of the structure complete, i moved onto the clay work. I coated the outside of the pipe piece in clay to give it some texture, then did the same for the polystyrene ring.

A bunch of tenticles were made using my tenticle maker to make it Tyranidie! (new word there, feel free to use it!)

Texture was added to the inside of the capillary towers using PolyFilla.

The outside of the towers was covered in clay and shapped into typical Tyranid chittin!

Plenty of bullet and shell holes were added to the chittin, the last efforts from the worlds doomed defenders!

Thats as far as i got for now. I took the oppotunity to effect some repairs on a couple of exsisting capillary towers that had got a bit battered through use!

I'm going to try and break up the Warlord project a bit more with projects like this to make sure i maintain my enthusiasm! More on this soon!

The GunGrave

Terrain: Industrial Generator

Its been AGES since I've knocked out a piece of new terrain. This is mainly due to storage constraints, but when i saw this bit of junk i couldn't resist!

I was in the Technicians Room at work the other day and found this in a box marked for disposal. Its a small pumping unit. As soon as i saw it i started thinking how i could repurpose this - to me it looked like a Grimdark Generator! So i boxed it up and took it home to see what i could do with it. 

A  Terminator Chaplin for scale. as you can see its quite big for 40K. It would even be big enough for some LOS obstruction for Knights.

So first things first, it was cleaned and undercoated. I used Army Painters Plate Metal for this.

Once dry i removed the smaller motor units, blocked out the middle section in black and tapped it up ready for hazard stripping.

Chucked on some yellow. I went old-school here with one of the old GW Foundation Paints 'Tausept Ochere'. I think these are one of GW's better paint ranges, i wish they still did them. They're nice and thick, perfect for stuff like this.

Finished hazard stripes.

For the smaller motor units i sprayed them bronze with the airbrush.

Then reattached to the main unit. They were screwed on, so dead easy to remove and attach.

Finally, a generous wash of black oil paint diluted with white spirit. I also applied a small bit of GW's Oxide paint to some of the rivets and joints.

Voila!!! An Industrial Generator ready for the battle field. I'm very pleased that i managed to make something this good looking out of a bit of junk i found in a box at work!

When i was next in work i had another rummage through that box and found another pump unit! I'll be having that! I quickly made a second.

When i manage to get them in a game I'll upload a few pics.

The GunGrave