Rural Scrawl - Fogou Scenery Set (Part 1)

If you follow the blogs of Asslessman (Leadplague) or Curis (Ninjabread), you may have seen a few blogposts recently with some forthcoming terrain courtesy of the fabulous Fogou Models. The terrain is part of a new set from Fogou, with a Kickstarter due to go live in the next few weeks (I think the 22nd of May). The set comprises some lovely ruined buildings and walls, with loads of accessories.

I've been lucky enough to get an advance set to paint up and have been feverishly trying to finish the set over the last few weeks.

Any derelict building is the target of spray-can wielding perps!

The complete Kickstarter set includes an impressive number of individual pieces, all beautifully sculpted and cast in robust resin in Fogou's signature style. You can see below that the full set includes a larger ruined building, wall sections, rubble, barricades, 1st floor platforms for the buildings and other miscellaneous scatter terrain.

I wanted to paint up my set to match my existing terrain which has an arid / desert sort of colour scheme, so I sprayed all of the stone structures with GW's Zandri Dust spray over a grey undercoat. I liberally drybrushed everything with a bone colour and picked out a few of the individual stones with some washes. Because of the excellent texture on the resin casts, this was both quick and pretty effective.

The two large sections of the ruined building. Wooden platforms are provided to allow multi-level functionality.

At this point I had a perfectly acceptable set of stonework, but I wanted to avoid the risk of the set looking too historical. Adding some graffiti to some of the walls seemed like a good way to firmly root the set into a modern or sci-fi setting. Finally I added some weather staining with a large drybrush and some black paint.

I did restrain myself from adding graffiti to every side of the ruined building, just in case I ever need a neutral backdrop for scenic photos.

I did add a few tags to one of the straight wall sections!

Corner sections.

T-sections and some retaining wall barricades.

As well as the walls themselves, the set includes a great selection of scatter terrain, including oil drum barricades and rubble. The drums are provided both individually as well as sections of multiple drums, meaning there is a lot of flexibility in how they can be placed.

A great selection of rubble-filled oil drums and barrels.

There are some nice piles of rubble included, along with some lovely little pots and my particular favourites, the ammo boxes.

I added a few random patterns to the pots for visual interest.

While I was daubing on graffiti, Curis pointed out to me that the perp known as 'Scrawler' from Citadel's old Judge Dredd range would be the perfect addition to the set. Happily I had Scrawler unpainted in one of my boxes, so I decided to paint him up to complement the set.

I painted Scrawler in a similar colour scheme to my punky mutie, 'Johnny Noggin'. I figured that the two of them would make a nice pair, probably with shared interests and music taste!

In Part 2 I'll take a look at how the Fogou set could be used in retro-gaming!