Boarding Action Terrain

One of the reasons that the last attempt at the Badab War Campaign didn't get off the ground was the requirment to take on the daunting task of creating terrain to simulate the inside of space ships for the brutal boarding action missions that dominate the first part of the campaign. I never found the time to really get stuck in to this mammoth project so the terrain avaialble ended up fairly bland and uninspiring. Forgeworld has made this a bit easier of late with the release of the Zone Mortalis set and I've invested in enough for a 4' by 4' board.

 I painted my first piece over the weekend and I'm fairly pleased with the results. As you can see from the photos it's a bit rough around the edges and I'll make no apology for that. If I want to have any change of getting things done a certain amount of haste is required and once you've got a table full of this stuff no one is likely to notice a few slips here and there.

The board has been undercoated in Army Painter Desert Yellow with the metal areas being based with Charandon Granite and then Boltgun Metal. The pipes are Orkhide Shade and the whole models been weathered with Forgeworld Dark Earth Weathering Powder. I'm a recent convert to this stuff and after getting used to how the apply it can see lots of potential for an easy way of improving the look of alot of terrain pieces.