The hills have eyes....14

Quick update I've now finished painting up the wind/power station for my mutant town. I added a brass etched warning sign to the front door and went for a rusty dirty paint job. Unfortunately the wind station didn't quite fit in the spot I'd set aside for it so I had to build a balsa wood platform for it to sit on (and still needs painting)

Cheers Jon

The hills have wind.....13

I decided that mutant town needed a power supply to run things like heaters and maybe a few lights (could be used for air purifiers too but it's probably a bit late for mutants to worry about such things).

Luckily I got my big box of random resin bits from Ramshackle games yesterday. Among the things I had ordered was a small resin bunker/building which I decided to use as a power station/generator. At first I thought about making it run on pig poo (like Mad Max 3) but in the end decided a wind generator might make sense in the mountains.

So up are above are a few pictures of the station I cobbled up out of junk and some ramshackle bits last night. It's been primed with Humbrol silver spray and just need painting now.

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The hills have eyes...... 12

Having got my package from Black Cat bases I set about creating my rubbish tip under the housing shacks. I wanted the area beneath the shacks to look like somewhere the mutants would dump their rubbish.

I started off by carving some irregular shapes from polystyrene packaging and then carved out holes to sit the larger pieces of rubbish, like the freezer and sofa, into. I textured the polystyrene with floor tile grout and sank cork boulders into it. When the grout had dried I painted up the pieces (easier than doing it when they're stuck to the board) and then glued then down to the terrain board.

While the glue was drying I started painting up lots of extras pieces of junk (look closely at the pictures see what you can find). Then I used more tile grout and cork boulders to blend my polystyrene humps into the board and then painted them up to match the rest of the hill. Then I glued all my extra junk in among the rocks and added bushes and grass tufts to finish off the whole effect.

To be honest my crappy photography skills don't really do this little area of mutie mountain justice. I'm really pleased how well it came out. My package from Ramshackle games turned up today so now I have a load more detail/junk to add still loads more to do before I'm finished.

Cheers Jon

The hills have eyes......11

A little more progress last night. My order from Black Cat bases arrived yesterday so I can start detailing the shacks. So first up I finished of the Chop 'ouse with some interior detail. It would be very easy to go overboard on the detail but this is a gaming piece and there needs to be room to move miniatures around. So I've tried to give an impression of what this shack is used for while leaving plenty of floor space for miniatures.

Next up putting some detail in the housing shacks.

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The hills have eyes 10

Well I'm still waiting on various bits to finish my mutant hill town. In the mean time I thought I'd start painting some of the shacks. I've started on the side with the toxic waterfall and hopefully the pictures can give you an idea of the look I'm going for. Lots of browns, rusty metal and the odd bright colour from some piece of scrap.

I've still got a ton of stuff to do on this project. Including

* detailing on the shacks

* sorting out the two cave interiors

* detailing the mountain with rubbish and rock piles

* adding vegetation and dead trees

Loads to do but my enthusiasm levels are still high so I'll keep chipping away at at taking breaks to paint up more miniatures or build small scenery pieces when I need a break. I have no idea how long it will take to finish but I think (hope) it will be worth it.

Cheers Jon

More Mutants

Finished off the latest batch of mutants yesterday. From the top we have a Mongoose Judge Dread mutant, the next two are LAF miniatures and the last two are from Hasslefree. I now don't have any miniatures left for this project to paint from the first order I made but I'm already eyeing up some new ones to buy.

Cheers Jon