From Barks: Rusty Necromunda terrain and scenery 40 pts.

I painted a bunch more rusty scenery, with my Emperor for scale. Mostly it is brown stippled orange then washed with a orangey-brown. Mostly.

I made this table from bitz, and I'm really
happy with the aces and eights.

The Emperor and his Golden Throne.

Market stalls.

Enjoy some "Meat" or see a "Doctor".

Big centrepiece tower.

Simple platforms. I accentuated the ladders in yellow.

I'm going to see if I can get another post in before the end.

Skullz 36 (total 228)

From DaveD , jumping in for Byron. I saw this and thought I will take a look . We have been doing some Necromunda last year and it’s always nice to see some suitable tired terrain . I really like the market stalls area . No doubt there will trouble there soon. You may say it’s all relatively some browny orange and orange brown , but it’s effective . Love .it . And a title reminder for my mob to get another game in ! 

I’m gonna give ya 40 , because there is a lot of volume there to stipple and wash etc . 

Yes and crack on the finish line is still in sight 

Cheers

D

Barks - Rusty Terrain Entry (25 Points)

Some rusty skully scenery to dress my tabletop. I do like these arcane tech pieces; it is a struggle not to really go to town on them. I also painted up a fistful of crates and barrels- these were quick wash and drybrush jobs.

Did you know you can fit 125 skullz on this?

My marble statue technique is white; washed pale grey; thin sepia to cracks; then thinned grey veins.

Skullz: +147 (total 192)

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What a great and weird tech terrain piece (and knowing GW 5x the price of what it should be!) and wow that should really help out your skull count.  I like the dirty rusty paint job, but wonder if maybe you should wash the skulls and mechanicus symbol to blend in more with the dirty nature of the rest of it?  Shame to wreck the clean painting, but I think it might be more cohesive all dirty.  Just my take though, which counts for nothing :-). I do really like the marble effect on the statue though.

As for points, the tech piece looks like it is pretty sizable piece with a lot of detail to work on, so I am going to score it at 15 points (about the same points as a normal sized building).  As for the crates while simple, there is enough detail on there the count them as a small building so I am going to go with 10 points. 

- Byron 

From Barks: Giant alien fungi (40 points)

These are from a Mantic Terrain Crate. You can mix and match different alien jungle bits to your heart's content, and there are gaps for 5mm magnets. I matched rather than mixed, and stuck them together with hot glue, then hid the gaps a little with some quick Milliputting, and mounted them on MDF circles. They're decently tall, between 5"-8". I painted them with Army Painter SpeedPaints; Maggot Skin & Sand Golem; Howling Sand and Dusk Red. I also did some smaller ferny bits. 28mm figure for size.

7 tall fungi, 3 small ferns

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These are some great looking alien terrain bits Barks.  While they are simple paint jobs, they are highly effective and look great!  Great colour choices as well, the yellow and purple help with that whole alien feel.  

I am going to count each of the large ones as about the same as a figure and then the 3 small together as the same.  So you are getting 40 points for the lot of them.  Great work.

- Byron

From SanderS: Post 1 - Some Nature anyone? (32 points)

 Hoi,

As We are nearing the end of the Challenge I think I have two more departments in the Challenge Library I would like to visit and the first one is the nature department. While I had big plans for this location, I only was able to get a fraction done. 

Since I have two FDM 3D printers (one's awaiting a new hot-end at the moment but okay) I have printed a bucket load of terrain I need to paint. Did I say I totally HATE painting terrain? Well I do! At the same time I am lacking some decent terrain and therefore I needed to get cracking. With the release of the Old World I wanted some trees done and printed quite a few from different producers, as I intend to mainly play Old World in 3 locations on the Old World map, I wanted terrain to match. These locations are Bretonnia/ the empire (mostly grasslands and woods), Lustria (jungle terrain and Aztec looking ruins) and Khemri (since a friend at the club plays Tomb Kings) I ordered two new terrain mats, predictably one deserty mat and one lush green mat, and started painting trees. Now most of these I wanted without a canopy to get that spooky looking Fangorn kinda look, but I also inluded one with canopy just to show how the rest will look when I get the chance to print some more.

There's also a lot of treestumps, all but one are misprints due to running out of PLA while printing and I filled them up with wood-filler to use them as difficult terrain. 

As you can see from this picture I also had planned on painting A Lustrian Temple and Spawning Pool as well as some more ruins for Mordheim, sadly I didn't get round to them. 

Painting these trees was really simple so I cannot see me getting any more points out of them than 1 point a piece so with the location bonus I gather them to net me 32 points.

Cheers Sander

Sylvain: Despite your reluctance to paint terrain, these pieces look very good. Great job!

From lorenzo: I claim everything in the library - because its a library! (must be mega points - actually 60 points please)

After real life intervened in the last two weeks I am back with another surprise - thats for me of course. More building and less painting - what is going on? Well AHPC14 is what has happened to me. Yes I have painted which was the plan and yes I have painted more often since the December start. BUT........ I have made more, I have diverted into some unexpected themes and now I have scratchbuilt something out of nowhere. Lets start at the beginning. AHPC14 piqued my interest a bit more than usual and probably propelled me into joining up. The reason - the library theme. Libraries or rather books have driven my interests in wargaming. I was a reader who discovered gaming rather than a gamer who discovered the books. So the demise of libraries is sad for me personally and though book reading is picking up again, most people now consume and discover reading through image led internet systems. We should not be too concerned as human kind got by without "print" until the 1550's. Back to the challenge, I am told (Maybe apochryphal given my love of books) my first library visit was in a pram to a local Nissen hut like this one maybe: I found online a new library opening in an old Nissen Hut near Thetford Norfolk as recently as 2019. But this idea has stuck with me and when the library option appeared in the AHCP challenge, this unwanted thought simply landed in my head and stuck - "make a library" (secretly of course I would then be able to claim every part of the challenge by saying "they are all inside the building - heh heh). Yes AHPC14 has driven me mad to the point where I have scratch built a Nissen Hut I don't need, but hey ho it has been fun and I may even start building some scenery again. Right so what exactly did I build? first up how did I build it? first I dug out some old mounting board squirrelled away - I got a load of offcuts at an art framers for a few quid.

then it was find my compass set.

I had no idea how to make a Nissen Hut - wikipedia has some useful information. I decided on a skeleton and went big on it. This included deciding the cover would not be the structure. As it turned out this was wise as corrugated cardboard does not like to be curved much.

I have tons of unused corrugated cardboard for as yet unbuilt mediterranean towns......but as it happened a new hoover/dyson promptly offered up the exact corrugation I was looking for. So a piece was fortunately intercepted before it went for recycling. Mind you it only just fitted and was already damaged......

and curving corrugation suddenly seemed to make this side project rather complicated. Fortunately a spare tube and some rubber bands from a post office/newsagents (another dying piece of social fabric) came to the rescue. I had by this time decided on the base - the edge of the hut would be a concrete plinth and one end would be the backdoor with a slightly bigger area at the other end, for the main entrance. Now I had to paint it - more choice - too much choice. In the end I went for military grey and decided to try some contrast paint despite the absorbancy of the cardboard surface. Now I happen to know that you can get all sorts of tarry painted steel and so by chance I ended up with a look of "this was painted with tar paint over some grey paint but now its an ageing mess".

Now I was gaining a feel for this behemoth. I suddenly decided I would have a library entrance at one end and then a military style back door at the other. This even extended to the three quarter view foliage differences. Railway modeller grasses helped here. Bright bushes for the library and wintry scrub for the military end. Two Huts in one!

To add some character and reflect how Nissen Huts were made to have some light, I embarked on some dormer windows. Colouring pens helped here as they did for the library door.

Things were coming together in my head and I opted for simply a grassed site. I used Javis turf and added a footpath as well. I decided the worn ground would be pale, maybe sandy like the heathlands of east anglia. Paints wise I used a selection of craft shop paints - some showing their age but still viable while that new pot of GW contrast basilicum grey made the roof effect I wanted.

In my search for all things nissen huts I came across Wymondham College. If you scroll down a bit you get an eyeopener into the 60,000 US troops based in east anglia during world war two and that Wymondham College used former hospital nissen huts after the war to house its pupils. Britain had borrowed itself to death and the country was skint while army surplus was, well, surplus. You can also find out here what happened during the war years as well. time for some retro pics.

What about that pram visit to a Nissen Hut library - well its no longer there but I would like to think it maybe started life as a base for the home guard in the eastern counties bravely awaiting the arrival of the german army under operation sealion...... Above all, I remember my first library visit once I was walking - all those books stacked on shelves and you could just take them home with you - any of them (well only from the childrens section of course) and I was hooked even though I did not know it then. So I give you the nissen hut library.

The building dimensions are sort of 9" x 4" x 2".

So my points calculation is local history entry 20 points please then building scenery = 72 cubic inches or 2 x 6 inch cubes? = 2x20points GRAND TOTAL = 60 points? oh does "squirrelled" cardboard count? finally my map is as shown below  

Sylvain: You may indeed be diagnosed with "squirrelism" and I would encourage you to take part in the squirrel duel next challenge as a treatment. Very interesting description and very good looking scratch built project. I really like how you provided a detailed account of the building steps as well as pictures of the material you used. You may inspire a few challengers out there. As for the points claimed, the rules are calling for fractions when it comes to "volume". I would say your project would fill 1.5 "cubes" (6"x6"x6") for 30 points, plus the "local history" bonus for a grand total of 50 points. However, all the scratch building you've done is easily worth 10 points. So there is your 60 points. Excellent work!