Necropolis Warcry Board, part 4

I know I've previously said it was finished, but maybe it wasn't finished.

I made a 4th block of terrain for my Necropolis board.

As with the other parts, there's a block of pink insulation foam inside. For this one I used the arches as a template to draw their shapes on the foam with a sharpie, then carved out alcoves with a Stanley knife. I lined the flat parts inside with plasticard stone slabs, and filled the gaps with PVA and sand. The arched roof of each alcove was just coated with PVA and sand.

When the PVA had cured I added piles of bones from the Bone-tithe Nexus.

It's hard to see, but I did the same with the "window" opening on the short side. There's a single skeleton (from the OG Warcry ruins bell-tower) lying inside.

And this time, I'm not going to declare it finished: I might add some more small scatter pieces, like the tree and fountain.

Necropolis Warcry Board, part 3

I finished building the 3rd block of Necropolis scenery on Friday evening, and got it undercoated grey before the sun set. As soon as the undercoat was dry I applied a coat of the "Ossia Stone Green" (which is just a small jar of home-made Nuln Oil I modified slightly by adding an extra drop of Windsor and Newton blue-black ink, and a couple of drops of Daler-Rowney yellow ochre ink) that I've used on all the pieces in this set, and left it for the night.

Unusually, I had Saturday almost completely free, so I was able to paint the piece from start to finish between Friday evening and Saturday evening.

I also painted a fountain (from Mortal Realms magazine) at the same time.

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The Ogresuns explore the necropolis...

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These photos are the 3rd block after the build was completed, but before I undercoated it.

(A few days ago I had a small panic that I'd run out of plasticard, before I'd finished the flagstones! But I spent an hour rooting through older storage boxes and thankfully found several WFB movement trays, so I was able to finish building without a delay while I acquired more!)

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I'm calling this terrain set completed for now. There's a good chance I'll come back to add some more components at some point!

Necropolis Warcry Board, part 2

The second "block" of the Necropolis is painted. I'm still working on the third block - building them takes way longer than painting (even though that doesn't feel quick while I'm base-coating the metal parts!).

I'm really happy with how it looks already though.

I've also re-painted one of my old Harrowmark trees - the free-standing one that's on one of the 1990s 60mm Adeptus Titanicus bases, that are only 2mm thick.

I stuck with the same colours as the other pieces:

• Halfords grey primer (spray) undercoat; Luxion Purple Contrast on the sand and the tree with a coat of Basilicanum Grey Contrast over the tree bark; 
• a home-made green wash on the stone (a mix of blue-black ink, yellow ink, matt medium, and water, with a tiny amount of washing-up liquid); 
• a light purple wash into the corners - made of Magos Purple, Wraithbone and water - to match the lighter areas of the Spearhead Sand and Bone board; 
• a drybrush of Ushabti Bone over the sand;
• Ushabti Bone basecoat on the (single!) skull on the base;
• and finally, when everything is really dry, Magos Purple over the drybrushed sand, the skull, and some of the lighter areas (the Magos Purple/Wraithbone/water mix).

Necropolis Warcry Board, part 1

I've been working on a new set of Warcry scenery, on and off, for over a year: a Necropolis board. It's still nowhere near finished but I realised that I haven't shared even a single WIP photo of it.

At the moment there are only three parts built, out of the five or six I've planned for the set. But one is now painted (after a bit of a misstep and a partial re-undercoat), I think the sand colour looks close enough to the new purple-toned Spearhead board, and the stonework matches the objectives on it.

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Before undercoat this chunk of scenery looked like this:

The ingredients list:

• A block of pink foam forms the core
• Part of a Ruins of Dol Guldur kit forms one end
• Cut-down steps of a small dais from Shattered Stormvault scenery forms the other end
• Part of a mausoleum from the Garden of Morr / Corpsewrack Mausoleum set
• Half a small Ossiarch Bone-tithe Nexus column
• A brazier from the Shattered Stormvault scenery range
• The cracked flagstone pathways are made of 1.5mm plasticard, with the edges carved with a hobby knife

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There's another chunk waiting for paint (I added more flagstones, sanded and undercoated it since taking these photos).

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And a third chunk still in the assembly phase:

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I have plans for some much smaller scatter terrain for this set, like a dead tree and a statue, but I'll get these parts painted up first.

Dark Skies Over The Harrowmark - part 16, Megadroth Remains

Orruk Brute for scale (it's a BIG skeleton!)

I've wanted one of these big beauties since they were first previewed, but somehow only just got round to actually pulling the trigger.

I added a few branches from old Citadel Woods, so it looks like the forest is overgrowing the skeleton a little. I think that, once mixed in with the Wyldwood trees in my collection, they will help sell the idea.

Like those trees the Megadroth Remains will serve double-duty in both The Harrowmark (because a big skeleton is never out of place in the Realm of Death) and The Prowling Forest, in the Scarlands (because a big skeleton is also never out of place in the Realm of Beasts!).

Update: I was asked for the bone painting recipe on Facebook, so I will add it here too.

• Spray undercoated black, zenithal primed grey.
• Painted the bones with Wraithbone then Skeleton Horde Contrast.
• Dry-brushed with Ushabti Bone all over then White Scar on the sharper edges.
• Painted a little Plaguebearer Flesh Contrast onto the lowest parts, but with a "ragged" edge so there wasn't a "tideline".
• Horns and spines then got a coat of Snakebite Leather Contrast.