My first, and rather mundane, terrain entry; a set of 28mm railway tracks.
These were part of my effort to create a Russian Civil War Armoured train set, though they will have much use for other WW1 and WW2 wargaming scenarios.
2 Metres in length, composed of seven sections, each 28.5cm long and 6.5cm wide. In creating these I was very much inspired by an article that appeared in the Lardies 2014 Xmas Special by Pat Smith "Building the Deutsche Reichsbahn."
The tracks are from Sarissa Precision. I used model rail ballast to fill out the base, and then mix of cheap paints from the hardware store and stationary shop (all tones mixed from basic black, white, brown and beige bottles). Painting them was straightforward enough, but time consuming, starting from dark brown layers, through mid gray, to stone gray highlights, and rust for the tracks (a drybrush of Vallejo Cavalry Red). Ballast though is a devil to paint if you don't want to completely drown and warp the track and base.
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The tracks look awesome Mark, and having worked with ballast before I can sympathize with how much of a pain it is to paint! Mainly because for model trains it is not usually painted, or even glued down a lot of the time, but rather just laid in, which obviously does not work for our uses.
As for painting time, it sounds like you spent a ton of time on them, but I have to judge based on an average paint job, not the great job you did. I am going to award 7 points per strip because I think if I was to soak these in glue first to make painting easier, each strip should take a bit more than painting a figure. Not sure how you did them, but I would paint the ballast area quick and dirty and messy, then paint the ties and tracks after neatly. Therefore 7 strips would come out to 49 points but I am going to round it to 50 points. Great work.
- Byron
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