Hi folks,

A small insight on my plodding along vow for 12 MoH 2026. among the uncontrolled growths of this project it is worth mentionning the addition of a set of second hand Ryza pattern ruins. These I believe were initially released in Moon Base Klaissus (or is it Kassius?) . They have been then sold as a separate boxed set (latter reworled and lossing some parts such as the barricade with briken door and the sas entry) and finally re-released through the Hachette suscription.

As far as I am concerned, I believe that the one I bought on the second hand market/flee market from the attic was from the last batch (due to the burgundy colour of the sprues). Being second hand, some parts were assemblied, some were partly painted, some were iddle parts with missing counterpart... Indeed, the wall panels are assemblied by a pair of groove and counter groove (or opposable slits?) and I ended up with two large panels that were of the same kind. A good clue that the batch was heterogenenous. Other clues were some accessories from Battle for Maccrage set included, wall panels very similar to Ryza pattern ruins but released in other set of similary designed / getting their inspiration from the intial set (with a climax with Fronteris battle zone).

But the bargain was attractive.

As I recently bought a hand saw for PVC tube cutting, I was tooled up to hack and saw these ruins. Note that, due to the sheer thickness of the molded pannels, cutting with any unadapted toold could have been dangerous. I werefore cut were the slits were located and ended with the "end-of-pipe" buttress and the half ruin panel. Twice.

Then superglue to build back the stuff and putty work to restructure the top of the ruin for compensation of the missing part (that should have been on the part of the ruin that never came...)

Painting has been quite swift and rapid. I have already painted many kits of this type with my Fornteris STC bunkers, Ruins and Mekboy workshop. Only thing is taht I have changed a little bit the colour selection to get these ruines in the blueish plascrete tone I appreciate for my Sector Imperialis buildings. Recipe has even been simplified this time: I went Mechanicus Standard grey washed with Agrax earthsahde  instead of sky grey washed with Basilicanum grey. Then the usual steps of dry brushing with the Fang, Russ Grey and Ulthuan grey. Plues detailling of a few metallic details and limited weathering.

The modified kit ended-up like that:

For sake of bitz managment and for getting a possible platform, I also used all my left broken floor sections left from the Fronteris kits.

This has been a fast paint job, the longuest step being waiting for the putty to polymerize. ANd it leaves enough eleme,nts to get 4 ruined blocks that will fit with the new scenery shadow patterns proposed for 11th Ed...

Next job will be different: some special characters for Aeldarii.

See you