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Hi folks. It has been a while since I completed the first 2 buildings of the Volkus Sceney pack. I prepared these 2 repackaged quick fit buildings as my entry for january into 12 MoH 2025. In general I am already owning 2 sets alike, which came with the Vertigus boxed set. It was 9th Ed., correct? When I painted these, I set a more or less stadard PlastCrete colour scheme that I had oportunities to disclose in some early entries of this BLog series. Nothing rocket science: mostly a marked dry brushing with SW grey over Basilicanum grey plus some whithish light dry brush on the edges. Then detailling brass pipes, red doors, cables and skulls... This is what it looked like in this initial iteration, years ago As I own a big amount of terrain now, enough to cover a city fght table probably, I did not wanted to change radically the overall painting feature. I do like homogeneity for my tables, and getting stuff too far away from the main contribution may be too eye catching. But some changes are sometmes welcome. With this in mind I adjusted the distribution of colours only: - instead of going with reinforcing bars in boltgun metal (see pic bellow), I have gone brass - and in order to balance the colours, all brass pipes have went dark boltgun metal. Looks like nothing but it is enough to get these Volkus building giving a hue and a small variation to the overall picture. As I have a moving planned soon, I did not glued these building - these are just snap fitted and will be dismounted before being stored for their big journey. But here nbellow you can see what is the result of this quick and dirty painting for the new iteration of these Volkus sprues: Not the best of my work but considering how busy the current period is, the most finished I could have afforded so far. And as a finishing note, my fav detail of the whole kit: The Volkus scenery bought from Ebay is now complete. time to shift to another project: an Harlequin KT... Read you soon.

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.