Oldhammer Lustria

Moving on to some of the more iconic lizardmen centre pieces, I decided to tackle the pyramid first.

I printed off the Alien Throne from printable scenery https://www.printablescenery.com/product/alien-throne/ which was almost perfect, although I wanted a flat top so that I could place regiments atop in a fairly stable position. I cut off the throne, leaving a rather large hole in the print. I filled this with a mixture of foam bricks, sand and PVA. I later decided to cut off one of the pillars that went too high, not only did it look out of place but it would also make it slightly more awkward to store. I filled the resulting hole with sand and superglue so I could get to painting it quicker.

I wanted a scheme that was fast, easy and repeatable. I started with spray cans, firstly a black undercoat, followed by a light to medium covering of Stone Grey Dark from Molotow. I then applied a heavy dry brush of Gobi Brown, followed by a heavy but lighter dry brush of Zandri Dust and finished off with a light dry brush of Pallid Wych Flesh. I went on to pick out the vines with a muted brown.

To finish it off and make it blend in with everything else, I followed the same steps of texturing and flocking the base. I also added rocks, trees, plants, some small leaves to the vines and a few static grass tufts to the pyramid.

Onto some of the final pieces now. If his bolt throwers get hills then my skinks get some pools. So lets start with the spawning pool. This was constructed out of XPS foam bricks, hot glued together and fixed to some PVC foam sheet. All of the XPS foam was then coated in a mixture of Mod Podge and black paint. After bevelling the base, it was painted and flocked the same as the previous pieces. The stone of the pool followed the same painting steps as the pyramid and I simply painted the bottom of the pool black.

To create reeds; I hot glued to the inside of the pool some of the same brush fibres I used for of the trees.

To finish off this step I poured the first resin layer, making sure the table was level.

To finish off the spawning pool I stuck some lily pads and a swimming frog to the top of the first resin pour. I then poured the second layer of resin to cover the frog but not the lily pads. Once this layer had set, I brushed on a layer of gloss Mod Podge and spayed it with compressed air while wet to get a rippled surface. While the Mod Podge was still wet I sprinkled on some fine foam flock around the edges.

Finally I glued some trees, plants and rocks to the base so that it matches everything else.

The final piece for this project (at least for a while) is a pond. I made this at the same time as the spawning pool because they both involved resin pours. The base of the pond was a 3D print. This was painted green and black. I then added reeds, foam flock and sand before pouring the resin.

Once the resin had set I added the gloss Mod Podge in the same way as the spawning pool and while this was still wet I placed a few lily pads.

For some reason the Mod Podge dried a bit cloudy this time. Luckily it wasn’t too bad and it will still be usable.

After this had all dried I flocked the border.

And there it is, the project is finished (for now).

There is plenty I want to add to this set of terrain like rivers, more jungle and a few scenario pieces but there are just too many miniatures that need painting, so I’m calling it done.