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Hi folks. Why Part 1.2? No, you did not miss anything; it is just ythat, as the first building was painted as part of the 12 Months of Hobby Challenge, this blog entry is not really Volkus Part 1. But starting at Part 2 directly woulmd have looked odd. And as Part 1.2 is an intringuing title... It might boost the reader counter! As all the Volkus pieces or terrain this one is no exception to the rule: low to zero custom assembly. It is somehow a very different design mind set vs. old Sector Imperialis sprues. Even if modularity as its pros and cons. It the present case the footprint is the one of a square; not too big though. As an area terrain it make sit well defined. As an above ground struture I am a little bit disappointed by the limited amount of space to set models on the upper parts. less than 20 percent of the floor space potentially available as been traslated to the upper storeys. It might be enough for KT, but, for 40k setting, I am less convinced. I tried this time a slightly different recipe: instead of dry brushing with SW grey, I used Russ grey. The result is a tad clearer than my usual ruins. A tad only as, frankly speaking, the colour difference is not that obvious. Probably due to the final Uµlthuan grey dry brushing that is unifying everything and contributes to dillute the chromatic difference between the 2 fenrisiqn named colour pots. The assembly as been less comfortable then for the first building: the sprue came bended and although I recoverd part of it after a gentle heating, I did not fully recovered a good planar shape for the main side of the building. as a consequence, glue did not fit well when setting the floor and the overall stuff was too flexible. I has to glue the whole " sides to get enough stiffness and avoid the scenery to dismantle once and again. How does it looks now? Well, see by yourself: It is not obvious on the pic bellow, but the floor is not touching the wall from the right of the door to the right corner. Well, now it is, more or less, as I filled the gap with hot glue. But it is not because hot glue has glu in its name that it really glues anything... The most puzzeling stuff in this building? this door that leads to nowhere on first floor: I may eventually fantasy that it will be an achoring point for a balcony or a gantry bridge in a future Volkus environment expansion... But I guess I am conting myself fairy tales... That's it for today. Next will be... I do not know yet. I kit bashed an Archon and I am waiting for some Corsairs and scourges to expand my Ynnari force, so; may be. On the other ahnd I also primed some mysterious sprues that goes with the remaining mysterious base I disclosed a few post ago... See you.

Hi Folks, The week has been a productive one and I finally managed to complete all the pledged items and even a little bit more. The 2 henchmen could have been enlisted in a éh painting challenge as they were sorted out very fast. The enlisted Volkus building has also been painted fast. Getting a painrt scheme already well established makes things faster: benefits of being trained upstream I guess. The scheme remains the same as the one I used in most/all my ruined buildings. something very related to the way the building were painted in SW blue at a time the official buildings were card board made and provided in WD magazine. What differ from my previous buildings? Details such as Bolguun metal bitz are vvery limited - being short of paint is also a good reason for this. More gold and copper on windows frames. As skulls are bigger I treated them as architectural items rather than as imperium leal servant skulls embedded in niches... I did not glue the whole building; it makes it easier to store. But fragile. The barricqdes and rumbles were also painted fast. And the little bit more I mentioned is made out of the 2 collapsed florr tiles from the seconf Volkus genuine building; the ones with the AdMech symbol on it. The second building is out of the pledge. But I have it just primed. It will be my occupqtion with Old World's dwarves for the rest of the month. See you.

Greetings all. I thought I would share my progress on my Necromunda box set - so far I've only done anything with House Goliath, I'll be working on the Escher when they're finished, and then try my hand at sorting some terrain out. The gang so far. I'd say these guys are about 90% done at the moment, I keep finding new details to pick out. Some close ups; I'll be building the last set of Goliath's soon, hopefully today but we will see how things go. C&C welcome