Last time I had completed the basic structure of the walls and floor. Since then I have textured the base with bits of cork and coffee grounds.
I then
painted everything in their base colours: grey for the walls, white for the
floor and black for the base. At this stage I noticed that I had not textured
the insides of the walls very well, so the texture of the corrugated card was
showing through pretty clearly. After the paint had dried I therefore applied
some more wall filler/spackle to the inside and gave it another coat of paint. My
proper wall filler had run out, however, and due to the lockdown I could not
get my hands on a new tube as quickly as I would have liked. Impatient as I am,
I therefore resorted to using a tub of really old and almost completely dried
up filler that I found in the basement. This filler did not apply very well, so
the end result isn’t quite as good as I would have liked.
I could’ve
left it at this stage, but thought it looked pretty dull and monochrome, so I
added some grime streaks and mold to the lower portions of the walls and under
the windows. The Terrain Tutor taught me to work on small areas at a time and
to pre-wet the surface, which worked a treat! Not entirely sure about the shade
of green I used for the mold, though. It is a bit too blue for my liking.
I still
thought it was missing something, so I added flock to the base for some extra
colour. It may no longer perfectly fit my urban-themed battle mat, but at least
it’s a bit more interesting to look at. Here are some pictures of the finished
build.
I just
realised that I have not mentioned the size of this thing, so here it is with a couple of tyranid genestealers for scale. It’s a fairly big piece of terrain. But for the 2021
roundup, as Gimli put it, that still only counts as one!
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