Lockdown measures are slowly easing across the country, and the world is beginning to reopen. Despite the steps begin taken to return to normal (or whatever the new 'normal' will be) I suspect it'll be some time before Games Workshop stores are able to host games, and gaming clubs across the country reopen their doors.
With house-to-house interactions now allowed and social bubbles opening up to allow visitors it's looking like gaming from home may become viable within a few weeks. In preparation for that occasion I've spent some time painting up the Corpsewrack Mausoleum, one of the Warcry Environment boxes (and yes... it's from my backlog!)
Let's dive in and check it out.
For those that don't play Warcry, or haven't yet picked up one of the Kill Team/ Warcry Environment boxes, let's quickly take stock of what you get.
Each Environment Box comes with a 22"x30" board double sided board, enough scenery to populate the board and a set of tokens to play the game.
For Warcry Environments the box also contains a set of Terrain Cards, allowing players to generate terrain layout in line with the Warcry core rules.
In this way each environment box represents a complete expansion to the base game, providing a player with the full table set-up to play.
Perfect!
The Mausoleum
The scenery components of the box were pretty impressive:
- Three different types of Mausoleum building (two of each, giving six in total), including three molded bases (one per building type)
- Four long lengths of fence, one small piece of pence and one medium piece with a gate
- Four brick wall sections containing one small straight piece, one small curved piece, one medium straight piece and the gateway/ archway
- One Statue centre-piece
My fully painted kit is show in the photos below, displayed on the board which came in the box
I chose to paint the models in a grey/green scheme, really looking to embrace that cold spectral/ ethereal look of the mausoleum, even going so far as to liberally paint the metallic roofs with Nihilakh Oxide to keep that green running throughout.
The kit itself is absolutely covered in skulls, and these I've clearly picked out in a dark bone. The Mausoluem board has a snowy look and I imagine any remains (or tributes) left within these unhallowed grounds would be a dark, almost moldy bone colour rather than a the whiter, sun-bleached tones you would see in other places across the Bloodwind Spoil.
I also chose to paint the flowers and vines across the model in palid greens with dirty yellow flowers. I wanted to the model to retain that unhealthy, dead look, and vibrate purple flowers didn't really fit. Whilst these ruins would formally have been seeped in magic from Shyish it now resides in the Eighpoints and is saturated in the warping powers of Chaos. I wanted what little life remains in the ruins to look sickly and warped, as if affected by the clashing magical energies swirling between the crypts
I've got pretty mixed feeling about how well this kit has been painted.
I knocked the whole thing out in a week using mostly shades and drybrushes, which is pretty good going.
But I'm pretty unhappy with the verdigris on the rooftops; the brushstrokes look pretty clean (especially in these photos) which kind of breaks the illusion of the tabletop.
Will I go back and touch them up? Maybe! I think I'll get a few games on them first and see how much it annoys me when I'm gaming. The models will be the focal point with the scenery providing a backdrop to the game, and any imperfections in the scenery will hopefully fade from my mind!
Final thoughts?
Not a bad buy! Boasting an impressive amount of scenery and a full rules expansion the kit (or others like it) is definitely worth it for the Warcry players out there.
With it painted I'm now set to host some Warcry games and, even better, it's another chunk of Lockdown Backlog completed.
And a welcome distraction from the Blood Angels!
'till next time all - stay safe and happy hobby!
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