How To: Mechanicus Board II

This time we delve into the board itself and some basic weathering on the terrain.  Here we go...

Unlike the KoW city board all kinds of plastic was already primed black on this one so it was time to just jump into the texture spray paint.  Again Rustoleum grey stone texture was used with a larg amount sprayed around the edges of the grates to create some build up and mask the over glueing.

 Next some black spraypaint was used to clean up the grates a little bit and create a final undercoat before...

Hitting all the grates with metalic silver.  You won't need to be even with coating these so keep your distance and make sure the spray can is moving as you go to add some variance for later.

So red was the color of choice for this board (Mars? I don't know!) which facilitated the red spray can as the next weapon of choice.  As before keep the can moving fast and be careful not to cover up too much of the silver on the grates.  A little overspray will create a bit of red dust going over the grates effect so don't be 100% accurate!

Next I took the black again and hit up the grates and areas around it.  This will give them a little more of a dirty metal look.

Finally I repeated the red through black steps again, this time spraying a little black all over the board for variance sake, and finally a light spray of grey texture paint to make some rocks scattered about the board.

Next it's time to do some weathering on our shiny Tonka esque terrain.  For this we need a black, silver and a chunk of foam.  This one came from a battle foam tray.

Put blob of black on your pallete and on top of the same blob put a blob of silver down.  Next just dunk that foam into it, give it a little twist and dab it off on a piece of paper towel until it starts to get light as above.

Now start dabbing the foam onto the model so that the paint transfers in random chunks. This will create a very easy and convincing chipped paint effect.  Your accuracy will improve based on the size of the foam obviously.

Now spend a decent chunk of time and paint doing it to all the terrain!

Afterwards you get a nice bit of wear all over your once shiny terrain without really doing any detail work at all.

Just one piece needed a bit of hand work so I painted up the crane chains with the same silver.

And smothered it in black wash before gluing it together finally.  I also took this opportunity to dry brush a bit of silver over the grates on the red board to make them stand out a little more.


And viola we have a finished 'mars' board with terrain!