Palisades and Barricades - Season of Scenery

A few colleagues at work and I decided to give AoS Spearhead a try. We're currently in the process of building and painting our forces (I'll be fielding my Ogors). In addition to the miniatures, we also need some pieces of terrain. Spearhead has some special requirements for the number and size of terrain pieces. Instead of buying the kit from GW, I decided to look up the measurements of the pieces and craft them myself. While the original terrain pieces represent ruined walls and rubble, I went for a different look and made some stake barricades and palisade walls.

The palisades are made from different types of cocktail sticks and chopsticks, since I did not want them to look too uniform. To make the sticks stand upright, I added some Miliput to the plasticard bases and simply pushed them in (the putty was later covered in earth texture paste to make it look like a mound). After everything had dried, I applied a layer of watered-down PVA glue to give it more stability and fill the small cavities between the sticks. The wooden barricades were made in a similar fasion.

I always enjoy painting scenery, especially wood and stone, since there are not a lot of details to worry about and I can experiment with different techniques. After basecoating the pieces with some cheap acrylic dark brown paint, I overbrushed, sponged and drybrushed the wood with different shades of brown. Too make them look more interesting, I then added some green shade to represent moss as well as a yellow lichen effect paint from Vallejo. For thicker moss I glued a bit of flock on some spots and painted it dark green.

These pieces are of course another submission for Dave's Season of Scenery. Next up will be some orc-themed terrain.