Today we're going to talk about some awesome gear Jerry Wargate donated to us earlier this year. Of course, we're not talking about it when it was done, because I'm really slow at doing this Terrain Log. However, in keeping with our plodding pace, we'll now discuss the 1992 card buildings Jerry obtained for us.
The boxes you see in the photo above were produced by Games Workshop way back in 1992, for 2nd Edition Warhammer 40,000. More than twenty years ago, Jerry Wargate, myself and more than a few others in our tiny little burg used to pine after these buildings. Of course, that was the days of coke bottle towers, book hills and cardboard tube silos. We've come up in the world (a little bit), and when Jerry saw these for sale he pounced on them.
Somehow, they were entirely intact! Both in the shrink wrap - though in that photo above I had already opened it to inventory the kit. I was pretty excited. I think our stance on leaving things in the box is known, but in case it isn't - we believe gamestuff was meant to be gamed with, not languishing in a pristine form forever. So I went to work pretty quick. Today, we'll examine the Imperial Bastion.
This particular piece is a little large by today's standards. The center portion is roughly equal to a bastion, but it also has two outside "wings". Bases of the correct size had to be created, which we took from our standard masonite sheet. It was given a coat of Rustoleum Multicolored Texture Aged Iron, which is a great material available for a few bucks at Wal-Mart.
We painted the bulkheads, which was a particularly nostalgic experience for me. It took a moment to figure out how we needed to glue them together and paint them, even though there was an instruction sheet there was definitely a better way to paint the bulkheads after they were already constructed with the building. Getting it all to go together was more challenging, and took two sets of hands.
I mixed some talus with some dark flock and flocked the inside and pathways of the base. It's more prevalent in some places than others, but breaks up the monotony of the Rustoleum coat. It's strewn around as messilly as I could manage and still secure it well with some Elmer's White Glue.
I just had a great idea. Totally should have hit the base with some weathering powders. I'm doing that now. That's a fantastic use for it. I can blend it into the Rustoleum nicely, and bond it with some rubbing alcohol. I have no idea why I didn't do that in the first place - I have at least eight more powders I haven't even opened yet...