Battle at the Farm

its been a while since i have posted. After my last post i had to get busy getting ready for Call to Arms in August (will do a post on this soon), and then i decided to double the size of my business, more staff etc and had no time for anything.

I did some assembly on various things, and got inspired by the delivery of an awesome KickStarter from Fogou miniatures - of their Battle at the Farm set. i have not done the barrels and stuff yet, but they are undercoated ready to go.

Having played 40K since Rogue Trader, i have played BATF many times, even with the original carboard markers, so it was great to get some real terrain for this.

I was very pleased with the quality of the pieces, i had to do next to no cleaning of the pieces, other than poke out the windows on one of the larger bits. this was a blessing compared to the issues with the Cars in my last post.

i was unsure how to paint them, and did not want to just do boring old grey, and then i came across an amazing video on Youtube from Black Magic Craft, and decided to follow it.

I forgot to take photos of the WIP, but i was able to do this in two nights, one night for all of the stone, and then another night for the wood bits (which took only a small amount of time), so it was a perfect technique, being fast and looking good, while being relatively easy.

Painting:

Below are the paints i used - i pretty much use artists acrylics for my terrain painting. i did not have exactly the colours the video used but i think they were close enough. the good thing about most artist acrylics is that they use a universal coding for the colours so they should be the same across ranges (other than the Semco stuff which seems like a cheaper range i get at the local Spotlight).

Step 1 - i spray undercoated it all in black

Step 2 - Base coated with the ‘Toffee’ paint - a light coat at first and then an irregular 2nd coat, so it did not cover all of the black on every bit.

Step 3 - Pick out random bricks with the Tan, Yellow oxide and Grey paints as per the video (Yellow oxide replacing the golden brown as per the video).

Step 4 - Drybrush the lot very lightly with Titan Buff

Step 5 - Drybrush the lot very very lightly with White

Step 6 - make up a wash with the Vallejo black wash, water and Airbrush flow extender, washing it over the model, and wiping it off with a tissue to scale it back a bit.

Step 7 - do the same wash with Burnt Umber paint instead, but a lot more sparingly and in less places. Also stipple a little burnt umber in places to darken up any odd bits.

Step 8 - Stipple bits of green over the model, in corners and other parts to give the appearance of moss etc. do some with a bit of a mix of the burnt umber and the green and some pure green. you cannot see it much but it gives an impression at least.

Step 9 - paint the wood - i used a brown i cannot recall, inked it black and then drrybrushed it lightly with a cream paint and then titan buff.

Below are the pics, let me know what you think and any feedback. personally i think these are the nicest bricks i have painted.