Media thread - 17 September 2022, 15:21

A photo of my painting desk with a bunch of industrial-looking walls in grey plastic already assembled at the right, a sprue with more walls on it in the middle, and the assembly instruction booklet at the left. The desk is covered in the little bits of plastic I've chopped off the terrain to tidy it up.

Current status: Assembling the seemingly endless amounts of terrain from the new Kill Team box.

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 15:21

A photo of all of the assembled grey plastic terrain from Kill Team: Into The Dark. It consists of a heap of interconnecting walls, all extremely detailed and steam punk-looking, with pipes and gothic-looking features and skulls. There's also extra bits like ammo boxes and little generators. The whole lot takes up almost the entire width of my painting table, which is 90cm wide.

IT IS DONE. (Miniature at the front for scale.) ::collapses in a heap::

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Posted on 17 September 2022, 21:20

A photo of a bunch of steampunk-looking terrain on a game board, it's all walls and put together to look like the interior of a cramped gothic spaceship. There's miniatures in it, vile Plague Marines and Poxwalkers approaching through the corridors from the left, facing off again several female warriors in light blue/grey armour and wielding various guns.

A close-up shot looking down one of the corridors, you can really see all the pipes and machinery and everything in the walls. One of the Plague Marines is facing a woman in a military cap who's about to blast the Marine with a plasma pistol.

Another even closer-upper shot, taken from the point of view of one of the miniatures. A different female warrior in armour is pointing her gun through a hatchway at a Poxwalker, which is a gross pustle-covered zombie thing.

Remember the absurd amount of terrain I put together from the Kill Team: Into The Dark box? FINALLY got it finished today! I realised I was massively overthinking it and that I didn't actually need to do remotely as much detail as I thought. I primed in black, did a low airbrushed zenithal highlight of this wonderful dark blue metallic colour, then a higher one of copper, airbrushed white for the lights, then picked out a few details in red, and it looks fantastic on the tabletop.

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Posted on 11 January 2023, 23:06

A photo of two of the sections of the wall terrain from Into The Dark. It looks very steampunk with lots of pipes and skulls and both are painted the lower colour being a dark metallic blue and further up the wall it fades into a lighter copper colour. The section on the left looks almost unfinished compared to the one on the right, that looks a lot more "lived in".

Also after our last game of Kill Team (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/2542), I decided I wanted to add a bit of extra pizzazz to my Into The Dark terrain because it looked a bit dull next to my friend's set that he put a fair bit more effort into. One of the things he did that I particularly liked was adding hazard stripes to all the walls above where the doors are, because it's VERY easy to miss the fact that there's a door there and suddenly your opponent opens one right next to one of your operatives and you're like "...oh, shit." Very happy with my hand-painting efforts for the hazard stripes here, I also did some drybrushing with silver (I had done zero drybrushing at all until this point) and used the MIG brand rust pigment to add some extra grime and wear, and it looks mint. Left is before, right is after. Now I just have approximately twelve million more pieces of this terrain to do. 😅

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Posted on 12 February 2024, 21:51

A photo of a bunch of steampunk-looking terrain on a game board, it's all walls and put together to look like the interior of a gothic-slash-steampunk starship. The terrain is all rusty-looking like it's been properly abandoned for centuries. Closest to the camera are the warriors of the Astra Militarium, ten heavily-armoured women in white-coloured armour wielding various guns. On the far side are six Plague Marines, huge superhuman warriors in green armour that have all sorts of gross mutations.

A close-up of two of the Astra Militarum who are about to go barrelling through an open hatchway. Above the hatchway are black and yellow hazard stripes, and the walls are all details with pipes and skulls and cabling. Next to the hatchway is a little button pad with a round screen that I've painted green and it looks like it's lit up.

A closeup of one of the sections of wall that has a series of ten smaller screens on the left half of the wall. They look like they're probably CRTs (or whatever the Warhammer 40,000 equivalent is) because they're curved and are green and glowing like what one of the old Apple IIe displays from the 80s looked like. On the right half of the wall is what looks like a round radar display along with two much larger screens, also green and glowing. Similar to the rest of the walls, there's also a bunch of cables and wires and pipes and skulls and it all looks appropriately grimdark.

A closeup shot of the leader of the Astra Militarum who is wearing an officer's army cap and has her cloak billowing out behind her. She's pointing a glowing plasma pistol directly at a Plague Marine who has a giant mouth in the chest/abdomen section of his armour and is wielding two plague knives (which basically look like mutated short swords). They're both standing at either end of a room that has two open doors where they've come in, and all the walls are the standard grimdark steampunk/gothic look with cables and pipes and skulls and rust.

My Kill Team terrain is DONE! Absolutely fucking stoked at how good it looks, I even painted the screens up to look like, well, screens! Other than the screens, all I did to the rest of it was a drybrush of Ironbreaker plus the rust pigment. I wasn't looking forward to having to individually apply pigment fixer to everything but fortunately using a solid thick coat of matte varnish via the airbrush has done the trick just as well, and with far less effort. The hazard stripes above the doors look so good too, and I made sure I dabbed them with rust pigment so they looked properly worn like the rest of it.

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Posted on 18 February 2024, 16:06

A photo of the three measuring gauges from Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. One is long and thin with stylised skulls and a red pentagon. The other two are two halves of an isosceles trapezoid with a white circle, blue square, and black triangle on three of their edges, and half of a large skull with a knife under it on either side. All three pieces fade from a dark metallic blue to a bright copper colour, on the dark blue side I've added rust pigment so it looks like it's been rusting, and on the copper side I added a verdigris effect.

The same three combat gauges as before, but without the rust and verdigris effects.

The "barricades" from the Into The Dark set. Instead of being actual barricades like in the original Octarius release of Kill Team, they consist of four stacks of large ammo crates, two things that look like a portable generator/engine on wheels, and two sets of what look like propane tanks and big lead battery type things. They're all dark and silvery.

With my week-long cold I unfortunately didn't manage to get much miniature painting done at all, but I DID paint up my second batch of combat gauges to match my Into The Dark terrain, with a dirtied-up rusted side and a clean side. Weirdly, on the dirty side where I did the rust pigment I actually went a bit too heavy-handed with the matte varnish and it actually dried white in places (or maybe it reacted with the pigment or something? All I know is that I didn't have this same problem when doing my actual ITD terrain) but it's totally worked fine anyway and just added some extra wear! I also made the ITD "barricades" look at least somewhat better with the application of some airbrushed silver, a dunk in The Army Painter's "Dark Tone", and some drybrushing.

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Posted on 3 March 2024, 19:17