Lake Town in need of Spring Cleaning!

And here’s where we’re going with it. Snakebite Leather fir all basic wood work. Cygor Brown or Wyldwood for the main beams.

Roof basecoated in Incubi Darkness.

The whole thing is then given a light drybrush of Wraithbone so I can add some depth and tone over the top.

This one of the Dunsmouth buildings I picked up. They’re pre-coloured laser cut MDF. Scale-wise, a little on the large side, but again I’m going for variety and ramshackle. Not every building in LakeTown is identical.

Using the same colours as listed in earlier post, this will start to tie the whole table together in a nicely themed way.

Another beautiful day here, so priming and basecoating some more pieces. This time, small boats (back-off Braverman and Sunak!) and scatter.

Zenith primed and then stained with Snakebite Leather – I’ll let them all dry before drybrushing and weathering.

And here’s the first 99% finished piece (I’ll keep tinkering as the other buildings come along).

Really pleased that my simple techniques of zenith, contrast and selective drybrushing have come together so well.

You can see I’ve picked out a few details here and there, but have kept the piece very tonal and subdued.

Paints used:

• Snakebite Leather (wood)
• Cygor Brown (dark wood, ropes)
• Incubi darkness (roof tiles)
• Wraithbone (drybrush all over, re base baskets and nets)
• Aethermatic Blue (roof tiles)
• Gryph-hound orange (side tiles)
• Skeleton horde thinned with Medium (all over wood work, nets and baskets)
• Aeldari Emerald – curtains and glass fishing float.
• Warp lightning (algae/mildew)

Here’s a finished barge. It’s a resin piece from GrandManner. Painted using Snakebite Leather contrast and weathered with Warp Lightning for algae. I added a little freehand scroll on the prow to make it fit the world a little better.

Next post will contain some good close up shots and steps I e taken, but I’ve now got 4 houses all completely painted, weathered and (if I do say so myself, looking lovely)

Really pleased to have got to this stage. It’s given me a real boost and shows me that the work I’ve put in will pay off over a larger table. Admittedly, these are all the very textured plastic GW kits – but I know the weathering, details and little pops of lighting will tie all the other buildings together.

Method was the same as listed previously, only here you can see some extra details:

1. Bird poo. Thinned Wraithbone, with a centre of Ratling Grime
2. Lighting glow. Light drybrush of Trollslayer orange. Light drybrush of Averland Sunset. Light drybrush of Wraithbone. Glaze with Iyanden Yellow.
3. Leaded windows. Black sharpie over the leading.

Really pleased with how this came together. It’s not as complex as some examples I’ve seen online, but really does add extra variety.

I don’t have two turntables or a microphone, sadly.

With the end of the Spring Clean Challenge now in sight, what I’ve done so far is where I’ve got to. It’s not as much as I hoped to get done. But, given I took a detour to do a whole WarCry terrain project, and have been struggling with mental health and work pressures – I think I can say with full confidence that I’ve really dug into this sizeable project, and have certainly started spring cleaning and reducing the pile of potential – turning it into a small pile of hobby goodness.

This project doesn’t end, and I will keep going with it, so hopefully you’ll follow along as I continue to build out LakeTown.