Decrepit Cemetery – Warcry Scenery Set

With the idea galvanized in my head, I dived into the bitz box to try and salvage as much old school scenery I could. Made a loose setup on the gaming mat just to see how much stuff I might need and what is missing.

The quantity and variety seemed fine, but I felt some of the scenery lacked character – at least character I expected from the set. That was good cause in the end I like to leave my personal footprint in all hobby work I do. The more that need to be done the better. Quite frankly I need to take a break from an ongoing Hate: Board Game project even if for an hour a day. I handpicked a few scenery pieces to work on and…

…failed miserably at my first attempt. The idea behind the above piece was to combine the playability of the original Warcry starter set scenery with the chosen theme. The results were ‘Oof’ to say the least. It looked dull and symmetric. Very uninspired. I was so conflicted about the piece, not sure if I should follow up with more of the kind or scrap it. In the end I wrapped things up for the day and hit the bed. Best to just sleep on such ideas and see the stuff in a bright new light next thing in the morning, with clear head…

‘Sleeping’ on the idea gave me a completely ne outlook. By sleeping I mean I had difficulty sleeping at all, mowing the idea over and over in my head. Making peace with how I envision the cemetery, what features and themes are the most important and what feel I would like the set to convey when finished. Finally, around 04AM I was done – I had it. Let’s go with what I do best – use Tree Bark to add fancy basic shapes, combine it with plastic scenery for a coherent look and then build up with details…

The next day a power outage hit. This was actually somewhat fortunate as I was unable to properly work on commissions, but the sunlight, although scarce, was enough for me to build some scenery. I made a few basic formations, then tested a ramshackle setup to gauge the set as is.

The set looked fine but lacked in the detail department. I spent an hour scrolling through tombstone, cemetery, candles STL on my phone until I found the perfect match of highly detailed, very ‘fantasy’ tombstones and some more stuff to fit. Once the power was back on the printer went brrrr and in an hour I had a lot of tiny candles to start detailing my scenery.

Yeah – I had it. The things were going well and with each tiny candle added, each stone and mold-texture between the cricks, the scenery looked more and more like what I had in mind. A few small pieces got 2mm thick plasticard bases for durability and to make them feel wholesome and I felt ready to topple more advanced challenges such as the cemetery Centerpiece – a ruined tower, the highest two-level platform to crown the set.

In the end I also added a few rows of tombstones, detailed everything with mold-texture, candles and rubble. The set was complete in terms of modelling. Now I’m back to Hate: Board Game and the Decrepit Cemetery awaits its time to get painted. Stay tuned – I will be back with this one.

Failed to hit this one before Halloween, but at least I’m on it once again. The Decrepit Cemetery is under way and today I’ve done the initial airbrushing followed up by drybrush. Later I sat down for another spin applying The Army Painter amazing Speed Paints mixed with Speed Paint medium to metals, skulls, wood and candles. Highlighted all with a mix of drybrush and flat lines and got everything tidied up before the most important part of the process: Washes and Filters – both to follow up tomorrow.

I’m so excited for this set. Can’t wait to make the magic happen.

Stay tuned!

Whoa! This was quite a ride! I had a few hours of free time this Sunday and done my best to make it count. Started in the morning by plying washes and filters to the entire set then taking a brake to spend time with my family. Much later, when it was already dark I’ve sat down to follow up with all the rest, meaning candle lights, additional highlights and details, basing texture, jade hum and generally all the stuff done for the entire set in waves. Finally I’ve applied shrubs, airbrushed Vallejo Polyurethane Matt Varnish all over the set, applied tufts and the job is now complete!

I’m so excited to start playing on this set. Gotta paint my warband first, but I feel so much closer to my first game of Warcry now. I hope you like the set and if you wanna see some more cool pictures – head on to https://scarhandpainting.com/warcry-decrepit-cemetery/ which is the official project gallery. I plan to update the gallery in the future so stay tuned!

Cheers!

Whoa! This was quite a ride! I had a few hours of free time this Sunday and done my best to make it count. Started in the morning by plying washes and filters to the entire set then taking a brake to spend time with my family. Much later, when it was already dark I’ve sat down to follow up with all the rest, meaning candle lights, additional highlights and details, basing texture, jade hum and generally all the stuff done for the entire set in waves. Finally I’ve applied shrubs, airbrushed Vallejo Polyurethane Matt Varnish all over the set, applied tufts and the job is now complete!

I’m so excited to start playing on this set. Gotta paint my warband first, but I feel so much closer to my first game of Warcry now. I hope you like the set and if you wanna see some more cool pictures – head on to https://scarhandpainting.com/warcry-decrepit-cemetery/ which is the official project gallery. I plan to update the gallery in the future so stay tuned!

Cheers!