Crates from Lego

Lego is a great source of bits that you can use for scenery, even the more basic bricks. I had a few pale pink 4-stud square bricks in a batch of secondhand Lego.  These don't really go with any of our other bricks so I liberated them and provided a new lease of life as scenery for my games.

A small stack of crates.

The bricks had a flat tile glued on top as a lid and were undercoated with Wilko grey primer spray.  A quick coat of old GW blue grey paint was followed by application of a few waterslide transfers from my decal supply, a mix of tank markings from various WWII kits. Broken wiggly lines of white were painted on some to give an appearance of labels.

Paint chipping around edges.

 

They were shaded with a wash of black ink thinned with matt varnish - experience has led me to do this after applying the decals because using a decal fixing medium often reactivates the wash and removes some of it, leaving odd pale patches. Some of my ancient pot of GW chainmail was dabbed around the edges for paint chipping effect.

Lego!

So there we go, a set of crates for only a few pence.  The groove around the edge of the tiles enhances the lid effect and they're ideal blocking scenery for 15mm games.  They'd do as smaller crates for 28mm games too.