Gale Force Nine makes a number of terrain sets for various scales of gaming. Many of these come with two flexible resin sections to allow you to delineate the area of the terrain on the table. I have collected many of these over the years, as I have purchased their sets. One of my gripes about the line is that I feel they take some short cuts with their painting and most of their models need a little pimping to look right on the table. Probably a even bigger issue I have is that the miniatures often do not have matching paint jobs to what is shown on their boxes. This is definitely the case on all their old 15mm desert terrain (their 28mm does not have this problem), which they no longer sell (maybe because of this issue!).
All the desert sets used to show the terrain in a nice tan color (what you would expect for the desert!). However, in all cases the terrain pieces are used in other sets (this applies to all bases), this in not the case. Instead, you will find a dark brown piece of terrain with one level of tan dry brushing done. Looks OK for the muddy fields of Flanders, but not so much in North Africa.
With that said, it is not the end of the world and these can usually be touched up with more dry brushing. Alternatively, you can just repaint them! For this project, I went to my storage room and pulled out four of the bases from the stack that I have, as I wanted some desert section to add to my pulp table. I also wanted them to match the new forbidden city terrain that I recently purchases.
Since they were only bases, it did not bother me to repaint them. So, I hit them all with some Krylon camo tan and then hit them with a couple layers of dry brushing. A spritz of spray dull coat later and they were done. A few minutes of time and I now have some matching bases!
- Manteuffel