On the Kludging of Terrain

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Let it be known that this was from me having brown acrylic paint on my fingers as I typed and then I got it all over the place and those letters are from me wiping it down.)

Ahem.

Got some stuff done, mostly tinkering around with terrain ideas and that kind of thing.  Downloaded some posters and printed them out on this stuff, which is great for literally painting propaganda onto every square inch of your underhive:

Here is a semi-finished minor project, probably a platform to connect with some shady-ass gantry to another shady-ass platform.  The figs look right at home on it, and it's good to see.  Now, only a hundred more like that and I'll be happy happy happy.

Uh, I think everybody ought to have access to the posters 'n' stuff that I found, but part of the process is finding out what works best for you, and maybe I will do up some old vintage ads in the form of GW-universe appropriate stuff.

Here's a great one to get you started and may Bull Gorg hear this being's pleas for mercy when the time is nigh:

http://recalcitrantdaze.blogspot.com/2011/08/propaganda-and-information-posters.html
 
The Emperor Protects!

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BONUS

Classic vs Recent Figs

I got a bunch of old Genestealers in the mail from eBay, the kind of thing that I get all twitterpated about since it was such a steal. In went the worst of the bunch into the piney, briny drink to get rid of what appears to have been a coat of light blue Testors or some really thick and chunky acrylic paint.

Some interesting things stand out right away.  These GS are blue-green on the insides; maybe signifying from an old edition of Space Hulk or something, I'm not exactly clear.  Also, I dig the movement of the newer ones but the older ones have a charm and stick out in fun ways (the tail protrudes instead of laying flat against the leg). The older ones are a little chunkier and more compact and have cooler greebles, IMHO

Also, this paint job is probably about on par with what I am able to do a couple years ago without dissemination into my brain-zone of key painting memes, and I actually like the splotchiness of it.

Anyway, probably going to try a black undercoat and hit it with some directional two-tone and a bunch of washes to build it up. I'm a classical, conservative Purist when it comes to coloration on these, as I think I have stated in the past. I might try to give them a little more on-purpose mottling and veins and such.  If I don't paint the 2 catachan squads up as tainted Traitors, then it's going to be all Dug-In Claw-to-Claw action.