Greetings and welcome back. Today I'm sharing a group of Adeptus Titanicus buildings that I am painting up as part of
Season of Scenery 2024. This scenery is also suitable for Legions Imperialis, although it provides more line of site blocking than garrisoning terrain. Of course, you could certainly garrison these buildings so long as you can agree with your opponent as to how that works.
Here is the full range of buildings I'm hoping to complete by the end of August. The more "churchy" buildings were sprayed with an off-white rattle can from the local hardware store (Rust-oleum brand, in the US). The more "administrative" buildings got a similar rattle can spray coat of light grey. I then made two simple washes - brown for the off-white buildings and black for the grey buildings. For terrain, I planned to use a lot of wash/shade so I needed an effective but cheap solution - NOT GW Agrax or Nuln Oil. I chose to use the "
Les Wash" recipe for this. I made up the medium mix a head of time, then just added the sepia and black ink to suit my taste. I didn't follow the exact number of drops used in the video I linked. You can see how the brown/sepia wash affects the off-white buildings above. The Black wash is shown below.
After shading everything, I started looking at the details I wanted to pick out.
Here I used Proacryl Transparent Black on the doors, and Proacryl Rich Gold on the dome. Then I used Dirty Down Verdigris on the dome. I covered all the gold with the verdigris, then before it fully dried, I used a wet paintbrush to remove the Verdigris from the center of each panel. This left a pleasing effect in the cracks around the panels where I thought verdigris would collect/build up. I went back in with a matching Proacryl light grey here to clean up the areas around the gold.
Here I used more transparent Black on the doors and a bit of rich gold on the imperial eagle wings. Then I went to work with some Proacryl Jade. on the tower roof. This was shaded with the same black wash as the building to tight things in. Agrax Earthshade was used carefully on the eagle wings. I ended with some more clean up with the light grey.
This is a piece of terrain from the Epic days that I built from sprues I found on eBay back along. Here, I was going for a tower that was hit and burned out. So I used used layers of Proacryl Coal Black dry brushed heavily on the inside, and then lightly with upward brush strokes only following the windows from bottom to top. I wanted it to look as though smoke billowed out of those windows and rose up along the side of the building. I finished up with the Proacryl Transparent Black on the inside of the wall bases and GW Agrax Earthshade on the outside of the wall bases. Simple but effective for easy tabletop terrain at this scale.
Then I spent more time on this "Generatorum" building. You can see Proacryl Transparent black used on the doors and all the roof details. The black "Les" wash was applied in a few layers on the roof. I then carefully dry brushed Proacryl Dark Silver on the roof pieces, followed by Rich Gold on the Imperial eagle wings and the generator thingies. I used verdigris on these gold parts again, though with the large generator bit, I used it sparingly in between and around the base of the "tubes". That doesn't show in the pictures much, it's subtle.
I used some thinned Proacry Transparent Black in some of the wall details that looked metal. I then dry brushed those a bit with Proacry Dark Silver, or left them black totally on whim, and the likelihood of not getting dark silver all over the walls. I used Dirty Down Rust around the large pipe coming out of the wall and dragged it along corners and down the walls where I though crud/oil/rust/etc. might drip down the wall. Again, not going to win a Golden Demon, but a quick and effective way to add a little interest to the building.
Here is another look at the grime work on a similar panel on the other side of this building. I spent a lot more time on this building, hoping it stands out a bit as a focal point among the general look at the rest of the Civitas buildings. I should add that I used roughly matching off-white and light gray paint to touch up and spots on the buildings where I thought the wash pooled or simply dried in unpleasing ways. This was mostly along the top railings and occasionally dry brushed here and there to lighten the surfaces some.
So that's where I'm at so far. I have these four buildings done from the collection of 14 I'm planing to complete by the end of August. Swing by Wargames Terrain Workshop to see what else Dave Stone is up to, and maybe catch an update on the Season of Scenery 2024.
Cheers and Happy Gaming!
