Down on the Farm

I've painted a fair few buildings over the last couple of years for my Hyam's Landing setting. These have pretty much all in the same style as the unreleased 40k habs I was lucky enough to pick up. The general vibe is space western / frontier town. The buildings are low-level, run-down & rusty! After painting the sheds/barns from the other week, I decided I wanted to pull together an out of town set. It will eventually comprise of the sheds/barns, fences, possibly some livestock and agricultural vehicles. Most importantly though, I needed a farmhouse centrepiece.

My new building is a modified lasercut kit of a Mediterranean farmhouse from Warbases. Built as supplied, the kit looks like this:

I build the kit pretty much as above, just leaving off the wall, and cutting down the base a little. I then detailed pretty much every surface with styrene strip and textured styrene sheet, nail art beads, flexible tubing and resin & plastic accessories from my bits boxes. The resulting unpainted building looked like this:

Then it was just a case of painting the farmhouse to match my other terrain pieces - all big brushes, sponge stippling, drybrushing and the odd wash:

I also painted up a 3D printed water tower at the same time so I can start to accessorise my farm!

I'm looking forward to adding more pieces to this set, as well as some farm residents, in the near future. For now, here's a couple more shots using the farmhouse as a backdrop: