Building a world on a budget.
For the fifth piece in my terrain building project,
I decided to move away from my usual single building projects to some scatter terrain. Also, unlike my previous terrain building
posts I have not made these pieces, but rather they were a lucky find that I
have weathered, for them to give good service on my gaming table.
Project five: One-hundred-yen shop shipping containers.
Weathering
The shipping containers were originally designed as stationery tins, but the minute I saw them I thought that they would be perfect for my gaming table. The first thing that I had to do to get them table ready was to try and dull down their shiny new look.
I started the weathering process by
applying several coats of Vallejo black wash.
I tried to vary how much wash I put on each container, after I received some
excellent advice on weathering shipping containers from the OldHammer Facebook
group, to give the containers the look of varied age.
As an experiment I decided to try out a brown wash, the wash was a bit thick after I applied it and it looked quite a mess. So, I tried wiping a lot of the ink off and the finish was quite pleasing.
To further weather
some of the containers I took my hobby knife to some of them and scraped some
of the paint away. I tried to do it in
places where the containers may have got damaged in use. I then experimented with two Vallejo rust
effect paints to, again, vary the aged appearance of the containers. An important lesson that I learnt from using
these paints was that the particles in the paints, that give a great rust
effect, destroy paint brushes. Sadly, I
did not realise that until I had destroyed one of my good brushes.
These containers were a nice alternative project that look good on the table and allowed me to experiment with some paints and techniques that I had not used before. Of course, I ended up buying a few more of the containers than I had planned when I first saw them, but they have already done some sterling service on my table.
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