Workbench: Modern Ruins and the Ghar

With the high temperatures and humidity in the Northeast last week, I just decided not skip on any hobby until it was over.  Beyond it just generally being really oppressive, I wasn't sure how it would effect paint drying and such so a break seemed like the best bet.

Thankfully last weekend it cooled down considerably and I was able to break out some of the modern ruins from Mantic.  These were originally produced for Mars Attacks but they did expand the range some to include some complete buildings as well as the ruins.  Though they say that they can be rearranged, I'd read some reviews that said the concept was better than the execution so I decided to just go ahead and glue them together.

Yeah, there was supposed to be a picture of them here but I haven't had a chance to take one yet.

Overall I'm very happy with how they came together.  There were more than enough clips and a few nice little details that you can add (store signs and fuse boxes for example).  There was also a good amount of terrain just in the basic game though I had also picked up their Ruined Village set so that I would have some more options available.  Eventually I'll get some paint on them as well though for now I'm happy with just getting them assembled as I'll be able to push around a couple of scenarios for Mars Attacks so I can finally see how the game plays.  Plus these should work well for the Terminator Genisys miniature game as well which is a nice plus.  I'll take two birds with one stone any day!

This past week, I've gone back to my Antares miniatures and I've been making some headway with my Ghar.  Currently I only have a few of their minis but I'm planning on buying Xilos Horizon in the next month which will give me a solid core of battle and assault suits to build off of.  I'm also really liking the paint scheme that I choose for them; red with some black accents.  I still need to paint on the lenses, reactor lights, and the like but its good to finally have a direction for painting them in mind as I've been having a heck of a time deciding on the paint scheme.

I'm also going to try to work on some terrain for them as well.  While I have a good amount of generic terrain laying around (mostly fantasy stuff I'd been making for Song of Blades and Heroes) but I'd like to make pieces specifically for Antares.  At this point the thing that is actually stumping me is coming up with an inexpensive but durable way of basing the terrain pieces.  Warlord has some nice looking pieces that come with MDF bases but I haven't been able to find anything comparable online where I could just buy the bases.  It seems like its go to be out there somewhere, the trick is just going to be finding it.