The Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge

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Wednesday, 6 January 2021

from RayR - Rocky Scatter Terrain

For my second entry into the 11th Challenge I thought I'd get some terrain done.

I bought these Woodlands Scenics plaster cliff faces, from a Railway shop in Chatham, ready made.

They were only a few quid each.

They're based on some spare bases I got cut from Warbases, for some jungle terrain I made last year.

To paint them, I first run them under a tap for a few seconds as plaster is very porus. This allowed the inks and paints to flow free, rather than dry instantly as it soaked into the plaster.

Then slapped on various black, brown and grey inks. and other greys, browns and greens

using watered down paint.

Gotta admit, I didn't think they'd look this good?

I originally bought them as I was looking for some scatter terrain to fill out a small table for some Donnybrook FIW games I put on via Zoom last year. But just couldn't find the time to get them done.

These are some 25mm Native Americans, shown just for scale.

And are these 15mm Natives, just for scale. I think they work quite well for both scales

Now the hard bit......the points.

Placing the 3 biggest on top of each other makes approx 2 x 6' boxes

with the 3 smaller pieces making approx 1 x 6' box, I think?

So I'd guess at 3 boxes, which equals 60 points?

But it might well need adjudicating???

Mr Minion, where are you?

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Thats CAPTAIN minion to you - so lets start by taking 5 points off shall we? Right then...

I've played with these particular plaster casts before and never got them to come out anywhere near as well as yours. I like your technique of running them under water before painting. Clever - I'll give that a go. You get 5 bonus points for sharing this tip, so now you are back to zero.

They are really cracking - useful for so many games but particularly at home for FIW.

I will cautiously agree to your claim that is comprises three non-metric terrain cubes. Thats 60 points.

I am also awarding 5 points for the very nice basing

Additionally, I have a submission from a well known hobby-blogger in Ireland who requested that I "Take 5 points off everything that fecking bloke submits"which I feel obligated to honour. So tallying up, thats:

-5+5+60+5-5 = 60 points. Good job!

Cap'n Wednesday