![]() It would end up costing a fortune using miniature paints on large scale terrain. For my terrain I tend to use emulsion house paint for priming and large coverage and then cheap student colour acrylics and inks. Coming back to the hobby after a twenty year gap I’ve restocked with Vallejo paints and inks which I’ve always found pretty good value. My basing has moved on a little from some flock and goblin green and I now tend to sculpt a surface using milliput, paint, add sand and flock and then some grass tufts and skulls of course! Paint wise I really use anything that works, there’s still the odd old pot of citadel colour, liqutex concentrate, some of which I’ve had for over twenty years! It’s amazing how much that stuff waters down and the intensity of the colour. The only changes I have made are using home made flow improver and weathering effects. It’s a case of base colours, ink wash, highlight and details. Michael: I’m still really pretty old school with how I work, think Eavy Metal circa 1990. The techniques to paint the old school figures I’ve always loved the picture of the eldar dreadnoughts breaching the fortress wall so recreating it complete with smoke was a big hobby goal. At first I found the smoke rose upwards too quickly so I used some lichen bushes to slow it down and then found it drifted like fog. It’s pretty bulky so I built a small ruin to house it, which includes a mesh grate to diffuse the smoke a little. #Michaels milliput putty generator#The mist is created using a Faller smoke generator intended for model railways, it’s pretty much a large scale vape that runs off a 9v power supply. #Michaels milliput putty plus#Plus I look at anything I’m throwing out and think ‘does this look like terrain?’ I could talk all day about terrain techniques, mostly I’ve learned everything from online tutorials and have a good stock of foam, filler and sand. I can imagine a table without plenty terrain and am amazed at how empty some tabletops are nowadays. Coming back to the hobby I have really got into terrain as I thought it was amazing growing up but just didn’t have the knowledge or money to create it. it’s all temporary and can be packed away,or used on any table. I mounted it on some hinged pieces of MDF so it wraps around. Michael: The backdrop is a simple model railways back scene from ebay that I picked up for around £10, I think it’s the Rocky Mountains. I was also very lucky that my older brother gave the majority of his collection which I’m keeping as it is, as I feel it would be disrespectful to strip such wonderful paintwork.Ībout the backdrop and terrain setting the scene of the battles I feel like I have everything I really need right now but if I saw a bargain I would not pass it up. I’ve bought a lot of the early RT 40K stuff about seven years ago when it was a bit cheaper and have a pretty big stock of stuff to paint. When I came back to the hobby after a twenty year deep freeze I started hunting down all the stuff I wanted when I was younger but just didn’t have the funds to buy. I ended up progressing into 40k RT where my main passion was Space Orks ranging from the start to the beginning of 2nd edition, those miniatures just have so much character and are really nice to paint. I’ve got a really broad collection of NPC stuff because of this such as citadel villagers, weird monsters and even a pack of dogs from the McDeath collection. As I got a bit older I started to play Warhammer Fantasy Battle so the first army I put together was a small undead force made up of the classic 1988 Skeleton Army Box set, some kindly gifted metal Citadel undead, and a Tom Meier Zombie Dragon! We then started to play RPG’s so many of my miniatures were characters rather than armies. ![]() Thankfully we never sold much off and I’ve still got much of that early stuff. ![]() Like many folks my age I started early in the 80’s with airfix 1:32 WW2 toy soldiers and would setup dioramas, no camera back then! Around ‘85 my older brother started collecting some of the old stuff like Ral Partha, Grenadier and Citadel and I would pester him or my parents to buy me some too. ![]() Michael: So I’ve been collecting miniatures on and off for over 35 years now. I asked Michael how he got his start in wargaming ![]()
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