Another sale, another purchase… While at my FLGS, I came across a set of AoS terrain marked down and decided to pick it up for my Pulp gaming. The set I bought is not longer in production (hence the sale price), but all the parts have been packaged up in GW’s Dominion of Sigmar line.
The kits come in injected grey plastic and have great detail and really no flash. You of course have to clean up the mould connections from the true, but this is normal for plastic kits. As this is ruins, you can do this without being too careful!
The kits go together quite easily and you will be done in no time with assembly. With that said, not everything goes together without gaps. The small side platforms on the large platforms attach easily, but do have some gaps. This is not terrible, as it gets lost in the painting and a gap in stone makes sense for build up ruins. Where it is quite bad is on the gryphon statues. These neither fit together well and have terrible gaps. I had to do a good deal of shaving to get the pieces to fit to the platform. In addition, I had to get putting to fill in all the gaps on the gryphon itself and some of these gaps were quite large and obvious. A little extra effort and I managed to fill these in with putty. A little discounted with the extra work, as this is not common in new GW kits, but I got it to work.
Next came the painting. I want mine for Pulp gaming. I think it will make a nice forbidden ruined magic temple deep in the jungles of Asia! I even have some cultist to paint up to go with it! As such, I opted for a stone effect and went with grey.
I started with some Krylon gray primer. I then hit the whole thing with a heavy black wash from Vallejo. Once try, the dry brushing began. I started with a darker Vallejo London Grey, followed up with a lighter grey. I then hit all the metal bits with a GW dark brown contrast paint. This was then overpainted (after drying), with the GW technical brown aging. I then went and added some GW earth shade and camo shade here and their to give some variation. I hit the whole thing with a light gray dry brush and finished off with Krylon flat sealer (which gives a nice satin effect).
I now have my own temple platform for pulp gaming! Overall, the kit went together and painted up easily. The temple itself is an easy jo. However, those gryphons… Yikes. If our going to add the kit to your collect, you will not be unhappy. Just be ready for some extra work. Then again, you can just leave out the parts you do not like!
- Manteuffel