Friday 21 January 2022

Oil drum stacks

Every modern or sci-fi wargaming table needs some metal barrels/oil drums, they can make a useful objective to destroy or steal, or just act as another piece of scatter terrain that provides something to hide behind.

Barrels.

These little stacks were 3d printed at 50% of their original (28mm) size and painted in a variety of colours.

More barrels.

 I painted on a few labels in various colours, and the odd bit of grafitti. A black ink wash added a few shadows, followed by burnt umber & burnt sienna to create some little patches of rust.  HB pencil was rubbed on edges for a worn/rubbed metal look.

Even more barrels.
 

I printed a few more individual barrels, these are not exactly the same as the ones in the stacks but the're close enough and once painted, they all look fine together on the board.

Single barrels too.

I sliced some at an angle and printed the partial barrels to give me a few that can be added to scenery for that part buried abandoned / postapocalyptic look, or glued into a pool of toxic waste to look part-submerged.

 

Partial barrels.

2 comments:

  1. Those submerged/buried are particullary effective. I will steal it.

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    1. Please do! Much easier than what I used to do fiddling with a razor saw and never managing to get the edges straight!

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