144artist paints Mantic’s Terrain Crate

Having finished a set of Wreck and Ruin as well as one from the Crumbling Cottage of the Mourneville Ruins Box I photographed them together.  I really like how Mantic has made wrecked versions of their other terrain pieces.  Could make for some interesting Before and After table set ups as well as objective markers.

A quick detour into the Mourneville Ruins box led to a bag of Wrecks and Ruins. I like how Mantic has made destroyed or repurposed versions of the pieces from the other sets.  The blown apart guard post and furniture barricade are nice examples of this.  One could even do before and after versions of a scene.

I’ve finished up the small bed and bedroom furniture set from Cozy Cottage.  The plaid I put on the bed was easy and made me pull out the large bed to receive a similar treatment.  I’ll document that on my Freehand blog. I’m making good progress one these sets and have now washed the last pieces from the Bellevue Square set.  Keep in mind this doesn’t mean they are painted just ready to be painted.  Of course this does mean they are in line and not in the Closet of Potential so it will happen soon.

Bellevue Square is the location of the Market and I can’t resist a chance to paint tiny produce. The bronze statue and British phone box were bonus.

Continuing to work on the Bellevue Square crate from Mantic’s second Terrain Crate Kickstart I’ve painted some of the Cozy Cottage pieces.  The kitchen and the master bedroom now have finished furniture.  I really like the tiny details like the knife block and roast beef dinner.

I finished up the first bag of pieces from the Bellevue Hospital set.  There are two more of this set as well as another which looks to be the nurses station.  While these are cast in a firmer plastic than the first campaign there are some bent bits, though these are really easy to fix with hot water

It’s been a while since I finished any Terrain Crate pieces so I’m happy to say part of Peaceful Park is finished.  I painted it to go with my Wolsung cafe run by Italian halflings.

I thought I would take a break from Terrain Crate once I had finished painting all the rewards from the first Kickstart campaign, maybe store the new pieces away for a while.  Nope, as soon as I started going through various packs of miniature terrain I was hooked again.  The new pieces are made of a slightly firmer plastic than before and the detail is sharper.  Plastic bags worth of pieces have been emptied into my soapy water solution, scrubbed, dried, and put into the Painting Queue.

Coming off the Spring Cleaning Challenge and all the urban gardening I had done it is not surprising that the first set to grab my attention was Grim Garden from the Bleakwood Hall crate.  The pieces fit right in perfectly with what I’ve built AND answer my problem of how to replicate tiny lettuce gardens.  No really, I’ve been puzzling that one for a while.  So the gallery is made up of pictures of individual bits while the single images are group shots. Somehow the watering cans got left out of those but I will make sure they are part of the complete documentation once the trees are complete.