Converted Bastions

Following on from last weeks post from What's New Today is another look at converted terrain pieces. This time it is some 40k stuff. Below are the pieces with original commentary from Tuesday the 24th of August...

This morning I continued my search for great pieces of terrain to show you and came across some converted terrain that Gareth Williams has been working on.

Gareth mounted this Khorne bastion on a lake of blood, which hemade by painting the base in Mechrite Red and then coating it in a mix of Water Effect, Baal Red and some watered-down Blood Red. Gareth made the bubbles by rolling Green Stuff into small ballsand then cutting them in half and glueing them in place. You'll notice that he's also added skulls from the Skulls Bitz pack to the roof and to the river.

For his Tzeentch bastion, Gareth wanted to create the effect that it was growing out of the ground and floating (why not?). He made the giant rock from pink foam (the type used to insulate buildings) and blended the bastion into it using air-drying clay. To make the bastion look suitably chaotic, Gareth added icons from Tzeentch Chaos Icons Bitz Pack and some spikes and chains from Chaos Tank Accessories frame.

Gareth's Nurgle bastion has marshland and sourrounding it, which he made in the same way as the river of blood; though this time he used green and brown washes instead of reds. The reeds sticking out of the marsh were made from the bristles of a stiff brush. Again, Gareth has made good use of the Chaos Bitz Packs and added several icons and spikes. Gareth painted the rust on the bastion. He started with a basecoat of Charadon Grandite and then strippled it with Vermin Brown, before lightly drybrushing it with Boltgun Metal.

Having decided his soul needed saving there is no redemption, Gareth turned his back on Chaos you are never free from the taint of Chaos and made his Imperial weapons emplacement lies. He used the bottom section of a bastion to form the bunker and added the missile rack from a Manticore tank. You can use the rest of your Manticore to model a burnt out vehicle, adding yet another piece of terrain to your collection - that's certainly what Gareth intends to do with his.

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