Necromunda: The Halls of Hive Primus
Aim for the Red ones!
If video games have taught me anything, barrels and crates should be EVERYWHERE! and this should be even more true in a hive city. I wanted a good handful of oil drums to group together and place next to barricades to add in an extra level of detail and realism.
I put together a simple oil drum shape in Blender and printed it off on my 3D printer, once i was happy with the size i made a rubber mould so i could run off as many copies as i like.
I wanted a bit of variation so I did 20 barrels and painted 10 yellow and 10 red, the base coat for the yellow was more of a brown ochre spray paint while the red was just a standard hot red, The base coat was followed by a wash of agrax earthshade and/or strong tone from army painter and then finally drybrushed.
To weather them a little more i did a light drybrush of light silver just to give the impression of paint fading/chipping in places.
Next step was to paint the cap in the same silver then using a sponge i dabbed on some rough iron paint around the barrels to act as more aged darker chips and scratches.
As an extra touch i printed off some hazard labels on standard printer paper and applied them to the barrels using PVA (don't add water to the mix. it ruins the prints) i used two standard hazard warnings, Irritant for the yellow and naturally the red barrels were flammable/explosive.
The completed barrels ready for the next step....
Since barrels are small and light it would be a pain to position them loosely on the board since they would probably keep on getting knocked over and rolling about everywhere so i decided to group them together and glue them to some of the board tiles, there were a couple which had a casting defect here and there so i added on a little bit of extra detail and had them leaking goo here and there, it is 40K after all.
The completed barrels ready to provide...questionable cover to the gangs of the underhive, I'm playing around with the idea that these might be part of a mission where you have to save as many as you can, any stray shots could strike the barrels causing either an explosion, a poison gas cloud... or an exploding poison cloud!
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