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Ruined Terrain Work In Progress

 For Christmas this year I received a pretty decent sized set of various filament printed terrain.  In terms of presents, it was easy for family to acquire (Amazon is easier to navigate) and I didn't have to send them exactly what I was looking for.

Unpainted Review

The scale is generally 28mm or so.  Some are a little smaller, some a little bigger.  But nothing seems so crazy that I wouldn't put 32mm or 25mm on the table with them.  I sized them up, but forgot to take pictures so will try to grab some at the end, with MESBG LoTR, Age of Sigmar, 40k, Highland Miniatures and Beastarium Minis.  Nothing was so far out of scale that I wouldn't place them together.

Almost no cleanup was required, just a few stray filament strands or print lines that didn't quite stick.  Probably the whole set took 10 minutes of cleaning.  

Print lines are very noticeable on the rock ruins, but given that they are rocks, it didn't really bother me and I actually like the additional 'texture' it brings.  The houses had much smaller print lines and again, add some nice texture, so I left them

Basing

This turned out to be harder than I expected.  I have another set of 6"x6" terrain tiles, so, given the larger pieces I thought, easy, just bump to 12" tiles.  The initial set I bough from Amazon of 12" boards was ridiculously sized.  They were all various sizes, and ranged somewhere from 11.5" to 12.25"!  I bought a second set, which ended up being just about 12", but then I found out, that the 6" tiles were actually about 6.1".  Not bad when standing alone, but double up, leave me a little out of square.  Live and learn I suppose.

The boards themselves are just wood glue brushed on, and then covered in coarse sand and small rocks.  I like the texture the rocks give over just basic sand.  But, I could definitely see doing some more just basic sand ones at some point.

Before priming the houses, I then black primed the edge of all the boards.  It's less to keep them black, more that craft paint just doesn't cover and this is much easier.  

Priming

Nothing exciting here, just primed with a Krylon Flat Gray Primer.  I ended up having to prime with a Krylon Painters Touch Granite for the top of the stand alone two story ruins, as until putting everything back together.

Painting (So far)

So far I've mostly been doing a gray on the stones and getting some luminance profiles onto the rest to accept contrast paints.  As such, it's been:

1. Overbrush Folk Art 50862 Smoke Screen, mostly a neutral gray that is slightly lighter.  I used a rough 3/4" round brush for this.
2. Heavy Drybrush with Folk Art 50861 Gray Frost, a light grey with just a touch of blue.  This is, weirdly, a very opaque paint for Folk Art, so wiping it on the boards before brushing helped for testing how much was on the brush.  For the brush, I used a large makeup brush

And, here's what it looks like so far



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