Here are some Dark age terrain pieces, a circle of standing stones that started off on a redundant CD but was too much of a squash and a squeeze so I migrated to one of the 150mm x 150mm squares I have knocking around, 6' x 6' in old money, which seemed to work better, I chopped the corners off to make it less square, then pieces of old foamboard as the basis of the stones and then bits of slate I dug up in the garden of my old home in Barnet, most London gardens have building waste, broken bricks and bits of slate, I've got a load of Spanish slate from the outbuilding of my current house that was demolished for our extension that I've kept for terrain use, dispariged by my roofer as not being up to Welsh quality, but still better than French! Then some filler pva , sand and green masonary paint , ( except on the slate ),which I still have almost five litres of, even after 30 years, then a wash of raw umber emulsion, further emulsion paint all round, black and stone colour on the standing stones and then a dry brush with the stone colour, bit of flock and that's your lot.
Next up is a plastic Celtic cross from the Rendra grave set that didn't get used in the central European cemetery, as a marker on a small hill made from the underlay I use as thatch on a CD and some more slate.
A fun collection of terrain, Dark Ages , ancients , medieval and beyond , dressing or objectives in games like Lion rampant somewhere on the Celtic fringe, be quite nice in a pulp game I guess with various cultists? Not that I have any but you never know!
I thought the standing stones would also be good as a camp/HQ for the Celtic army I've had in a box for over a year if I was playing To the Strongest!
Of course if I have one of those I'll need something similar but different for my Romans,I've got something in mind but what do you think I should do?
All the best
Iain












Very nice scatter terrain Iain. Perhaps some tents for the Romans? They always seem to paint up OK.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence, universal tents are in the queue, but I'm thinking of something more substantial?
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Those came together nicely.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Fitz!
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I'm showing my age and nerdy anorak side here, but the first thing I thought of when I saw the standing stones was a Tom Baker-era series of four or five Dr. Who episodes where the stones in a Druidic stone circle were mysteriously moving around along with other mischief. Cool scenery in any case.
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We are clearly of a similar vintage, as something similar had crossed my mind!
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A couple of nice pieces, Iain!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Jonathan!
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Nice work, very nice terrain, should look the business on the table top.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donnie, bit of fun and potentially useful?
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Nice work on the standing stones Iain - I reckon to balance things up, the Romans need a shrine to Mithras!
ReplyDeleteNice idea but , temples of Mithras were always underground which is a bit difficult, especially if I want to keep to the 6" x 6" base size? Still, its his birthday on the 25th , we should raise a glass to him!
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Very nice work there Iain and I enjoyed seeing how you made both terrain pieces:).
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve, I like seeing work in progress in posts so I try and include them where I can?
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Yes, agree! These looking very, very nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Michal!
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J’adore. The slate hewers of France forgive you for your heresy. lol.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark, not my view but rather my roofer's view, lovely old chap, mates with the blokes who did the Hatton Garden gold job,I don't tend to disagree with him much!
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Nice work Iain universal terrain is always good to have, as to the Romans you obvious need one of their quickly constructed marching forts complete with spiky logs surely ?
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt, the thought has crossed my mind, just trying to make it a bit more universal?
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Fantastic scenery Iain, and great use of the slate, and keeping it showing in it's natural state
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, the summer of scenery in the bleak midwinter!
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A couple of very nice pieces, Iain.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Richard!
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Well, these both are most interesting and well done, they look really nice!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Suber!
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Very useful, I didn’t even know Renedra did that cross. 30 years plus for green paint offers a real consistency across projects. I have some terrain by Kallistra and S&A scenics in which they committed years ago to certain colours / shades and it surprises me that they still colour match perfectly.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm, I think so? Really I mixed it and used it on my wh40k figures and moved on in my basing techniques but decided it was a useful , speedy and economical way of adding texture to terrain?
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Great looking terrain - love the mini Stonehenge.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, a bit Spinal Tap I guess?!
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