Last week I painted some 28mm scatter terrain - 3 sets of wooden barrels & boxes. These will be suitable both for my
'Ronin' (chanbara skirmish games) & my
'Chain of Command' Russian Civil War collection. The pieces are a mix of resin barrels & boxes from
Fenris Games, & 2-piece plastic barrels in 2 sizes manufactured by Renedra (I purchased through
Perry Miniatures as part of a Samurai figures order). Both were easy to prepare (the resin pieces merely needed a quick scrub with soapy water to remove casting residue; whilst the 2-piece plastic barrels required clipping from their sprues & gluing together.
A nice touch to the Renedra plastic barrels is that they are cast in brown plastic, so could be table ready in a basic manner very quickly. They also look a lot like traditional Japanese barrels. However, not all of their joins fitted perfectly during assembly. I used basic drying brushing to paint mine in a variety of wooden hues. I'd been trying to decide what to do for the basing for a while, reasoning that my usual 'wilderness' look of grass & moss tufts would seem a bit out of place for barrels - they would be in a street or yard, not laying in a field or wood. Then I stumbled on a very old bag of fawny-coloured flock (from the first few years of my miniatures hobbying, nearly 2 decades ago!), & found that mixing it 3-to-2 with my dark earth flock of choice made for a pleasant 'compacted/dusty earthen street' look, as seen in many chanbara films (e.g. the Zatoichi & Sleepy Eyes of Death series). I added a sprinkle of small dark green flock plants for variety, & the look was complete.
Last week I painted some 28mm scatter terrain - 3 sets of wooden barrels & boxes. These will be suitable both for my 'Ronin' (chanbara skirmish games) & my 'Chain of Command' Russian Civil War collection. The pieces are a mix of resin barrels & boxes from Fenris Games, & 2-piece plastic barrels in 2 sizes manufactured by Renedra (I purchased through Perry Miniatures as part of a Samurai figures order). Both were easy to prepare (the resin pieces merely needed a quick scrub with soapy water to remove casting residue; whilst the 2-piece plastic barrels required clipping from their sprues & gluing together.
A nice touch to the Renedra plastic barrels is that they are cast in brown plastic, so could be table ready in a basic manner very quickly. They also look a lot like traditional Japanese barrels. However, not all of their joins fitted perfectly during assembly. I used basic drying brushing to paint mine in a variety of wooden hues. I'd been trying to decide what to do for the basing for a while, reasoning that my usual 'wilderness' look of grass & moss tufts would seem a bit out of place for barrels - they would be in a street or yard, not laying in a field or wood. Then I stumbled on a very old bag of fawny-coloured flock (from the first few years of my miniatures hobbying, nearly 2 decades ago!), & found that mixing it 3-to-2 with my dark earth flock of choice made for a pleasant 'compacted/dusty earthen street' look, as seen in many chanbara films (e.g. the Zatoichi & Sleepy Eyes of Death series). I added a sprinkle of small dark green flock plants for variety, & the look was complete.
Fabulous stands and very useful too.
ReplyDeleteCheers, Michael. Yeah, simple but handy for lots of settings!
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