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A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @[email protected] for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo of one of the two larger pieces of terrain that comes with the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's made to look like a ruined gothic-looking building made out of metal concrete with steel reinforcements with rivets everywhere, enclosed on all four sides but the two sides facing the camera have been blown clean away down to a bit below shoulder height and it's completely open in the middle. At the rear is the second level of the building with twisted metal coming out from where the floor ends, and there are tall thick gothic-looking barred iron windows that end part-way up the wall where the roof also has been blown off. Three ordinary human-sized miniatures are standing on and in the terrain for scale, showing that it'd be a somewhat high-ceilinged building if it was fully intact.

I have finally gotten another piece of the Hivestorm terrain done (sans rust effects and weathering)! 🥳 Now there's just the really big piece left, plus the small pieces of scatter terrain. I'm quite looking forward to having a go at the single-player mode on an open board, even though Into The Dark is my favourite way to play Kill Team.

(All this just in time for the Tomb World box to arrive next week. 😅)

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Posted on 16 September 2025, 21:50

A photo of one of the Vespid Stingwing miniatures from the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's very insect-like with an exoskeleton and two pairs of almost dragonfly-esque wings extending out from its back. It has both arms out, one is holding a gun, and it's crouched on a piece of ruined wall like it's above to leap up and take flight. The whole thing is painted in a muted grey/blue colour, with a set of horns in a darker richer blue, and it has six red eyes positioned in pairs on above the other. The base is covered in snow.

First Stingwing is done! I wasn't sure about that base colour to start with, it turns out it's one of the Contrast paints that is REALLY pigmented and so the underlying zenithal highlighting doesn't really show through very much. Additionally on the rest of the squad I think I'm going to make the feet and hands the same darker blue colour that the horn things (?) are, but otherwise I'm actually quite happy with how it's turned out!

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Posted on 6 March 2025, 21:24

A photo of the eleven miniatures from the Vespid Stingwing squad from the Kill Team Hivestorm box, undercoated but otherwise not painted. There's one drone off the side, but the other ten miniatures are all insectoid aliens with six eyes, exoskeletons, and big wings. They're holding and pointing various guns and are in very dynamic poses like they're mid-flight.

Huzzah, that's the Vespid Stingwings from the Hivestorm box finally assembled and undercoated! Next, I need to actually finish painting the entire squad. 😅 Given how organic they are, I'm hoping a judicious deployment of Contrast Paints will make it pretty quick and painless.

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Posted on 19 February 2025, 20:18

A photo of a dining room with two tables set up on either side, two people are sitting around the left and another two and a child are sitting at the right. There are a bunch of paints and miniatures and things scattered over both tables.

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table. They've been primed black and then had three layers of drybrushing done in increasingly-light greys and it looks mint, if you were lazy you could totally use that on the tabletop as-is.

Today I went over to a friend's place for a painting day! I got the drybrushing for ALL of my remaining Hivestorm terrain done, and then we finished the day off with a good hour-long splash around in the pool.

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Posted on 27 December 2024, 13:10

Slow going (I have too many other hobbies completing for my time 😅) but that's the second piece of the Hivestorm terrain finished!

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Posted on 11 November 2024, 21:20

Right, I think I'm calling my first piece done! (Miniatures on top for scale.)

I might go back and add some rust or otherwise general weathering, but I'll get the rest of the terrain finished first.

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Posted on 20 October 2024, 20:15

A photo of the two corner pieces of the Kill Team: Hivestorm terrain. They're simultaneously gothic and also sort of steampunk, with pipes running over them and two huge skulls designs. The pieces have been heavily drybrushed in grey, the metal doors and barred windows are an orange/red colour and the pipes are a rich brown. They're not fully finished yet, but look absolutely striking even in their partially completed state!

For a handful of hours work, this is coming along absolutely smashingly!

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Posted on 19 October 2024, 22:11

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table.

Right, that's the terrain assembled and undercoated! Next stop, attempting to replicate @[email protected]'s method with minimal effort via the magic of drybrushing.

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Posted on 19 October 2024, 13:55

Yasssssss.

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Posted on 11 October 2024, 10:12