The rerelease of the Realm of Death terrain for Spearhead: Sand and Bone was the perfect opportunity for me to make a few enhancements to my set from Warcry: Crypt of Blood. In this showcase post, I’ll show you the changes I made.
Some time ago, I painted a set of Realm of Death terrain from the Crypt of Blood Warcry starter box, which I reviewed here (remember Warcry? Pepperidge Farm remembers…). Since then, I’ve painted quite a bit more terrain for Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (see my showcase post here), and I wanted to make a few tweaks so that the Realm of Death terrain fits in better with the rest.
How to paint rusty metal
The first change was matching the rusty metal to my recently painted Azyrite Ruins. For this I used Rhinox Hide as the base layer, followed by a thinned-down coat of Two Thin Coats Fur Cloak (equivalent to Tuskgor Fur), then TTC Iron Oxide (or thinned-down Fire Dragon Bright), and drybrushed with Vallejo Mecha Color Steel.
You can find how I painted the dark green masonry in this tutorial. I always like the effect when terrain blends naturally into the ground, so I also drybrushed the lower third of the walls and fences with Mechanicum Standard Grey and applied a thinned-down wash of the same colour.
If you want to see how I painted all the details, feel free to check out this tutorial on Patreon. And if you’re curious how the models looked before the overhaul, you can find that in this post.
Unfortunately, I haven’t had the chance to try Spearhead yet. I’ve only heard good things about it, and now that I’ve got a fully painted terrain set, there’s nothing holding me back (well, apart from painting a Spearheard force ;). Next up for my Shyish scneery collection is painting the Cursed Sepulchre (review here), which would be a perfect match for my Nighthaunt and Soulblight Gravelords collection. But first, Saturnine.
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