completed Mantic Terrain Crate

[Sirithiliel]

i painted up some of mine. Craft paint base coat and reaper paints on top, sealed afterwards

[Rahz]

I'm starting to regret pulling out of this one...  They only have a small amount of these for sale on their site right now, so I'm going to have to wait a while now to get the few pieces I really wanted.  

 

Awesome job on painting these up folks!

[Thes Hunter]

I’m jealous of all you guys that have gotten some painted already.

 

What am I doing with my life?

[Mushu_Green]

35 minutes ago, Thes Hunter said:

I’m jealous of all you guys that have gotten some painted already.

 

What am I doing with my life?

 At least you have them :P

[Zink]

1 hour ago, Mushu_Green said:

 At least you have them :P

 

I've got no time and energy right now to paint but I'll still be happy when I get my hands on them.

[lexomatic]

8 hours ago, Rahz said:

I'm starting to regret pulling out of this one...  They only have a small amount of these for sale on their site right now, so I'm going to have to wait a while now to get the few pieces I really wanted.  

 

Awesome job on painting these up folks!

Me too

[Zink]

Yay! Shipping notice received. Supposed to arrive by Monday. I hope I'm not responsible for UPS import/duty fees. Box weighs 9 lbs!  That's a lot of plastic.

[TheAuldGrump]

On 7/17/2018 at 1:53 PM, Sirithiliel said:

i painted up some of mine. Craft paint base coat and reaper paints on top, sealed afterwards

Nice touch on using a brighter color on the central bar - I only used the shame color for all three - but that looks nice.

 

I may redo one of the bars, maybe add a heraldric decal to the brighter colored one.

 

I broke down and ordered another Town crate through The War Store - and just got an e-mail from them that the listing was a mistake - that the Crates had been a Kickstarter Only item.  

 

The Auld Grump

[canuckotter]

On 7/17/2018 at 11:54 PM, Zink said:

Yay! Shipping notice received. Supposed to arrive by Monday. I hope I'm not responsible for UPS import/duty fees. Box weighs 9 lbs!  That's a lot of plastic.

I got hit with the UPS Canada Tax.  Arrived about an hour ago. Haven't done much beside looked at the contents and gone "yup, that's some terrain bits"

[mvincent]

I'm pretty happy with my shipment. I suppose I could use them unpainted, but I'd prefer not. Still: I don't have the desire to spend a lot of time.

 

What's the quickest way to get these done? Can I just drybrush the brown pieces with light brown? Or do I really need to base-coat first?

[PaganMegan]

36 minutes ago, mvincent said:

I'm pretty happy with my shipment. I suppose I could use them unpainted, but I'd prefer not. Still: I don't have the desire to spend a lot of time.

 

What's the quickest way to get these done? Can I just drybrush the brown pieces with light brown? Or do I really need to base-coat first?

Fastest would be Dip.

 

Block in the colors you need for things like nails, barrel hoops, or anything else not made of wood.

 

Get a Miniwax walnut wood stain, dip the thing into the stain then shake and let dry.

 

Done!

[Sirithiliel]

41 minutes ago, mvincent said:

I'm pretty happy with my shipment. I suppose I could use them unpainted, but I'd prefer not. Still: I don't have the desire to spend a lot of time.

 

What's the quickest way to get these done? Can I just drybrush the brown pieces with light brown? Or do I really need to base-coat first?

 

i was able to knock out a dozen of hte wood pieces in an hour by laying down a layer of brown craft paint (i use Americana ), and then dry brushing lighter brown Reaper paint across it. I then pick out metal bits afterwards

[Darsc Zacal]

On 7/20/2018 at 2:14 PM, canuckotter said:

I got hit with the UPS Canada Tax

I really wish uk companies would stick with Royal Mail and Canada Post.

[Zink]

On 7/20/2018 at 2:14 PM, canuckotter said:

I got hit with the UPS Canada Tax.  Arrived about an hour ago. Haven't done much beside looked at the contents and gone "yup, that's some terrain bits"

 

How much did it end up being?

 

18 hours ago, Darsc Zacal said:

I really wish uk companies would stick with Royal Mail and Canada Post.

 

When I order from the states I don't use anything other than USPS either. Still get dinged once in awhile because the company uses a courier even if that wasn't what it said on the website. Worst case was a hand cranked pasta maker the wife wanted. She's very frugal and didn't want to buy one off the shelf here so I found it cheaper online. The company through in a small "free" recipe booklet which was listed on the bill as costing over $100 usd. So we got stuck with hugely exorbitant import fees. I didn't know enough then to just return the purchase. I paid it and broccolied to UPS and the company and got a small refund. Stupid pasta maker cost twice what I could have got it locally because of this and the wife barely uses it.

[TheAuldGrump]

Well, purchased the Dungeon Essentials from another retailer - since I had decided in a moment of sheer brilliance that I wasn't ever going to want it. (Megan knew better, and told me so.)

 

Dungeon Essentials is some of the Dungeon Saga terrain repackaged.

 

It is not bad - but, holy moley, they did better in Terrain Crate - side by side, you can see the difference in detail - on the bookcases in particular.

 

That said - I am happy with the Dungeon Saga terrain, too - I mostly got it for the doors, and I like what I got. The lectern is probably my favorite bit.

 

One nice touch - two of the doors in the set match the shattered doors being used as barricades in the Terrain Crate.

 

The Auld Grump