25/28mm - Citadel/Games Workshop - Walls and Fences

These used to be quite common and I've passed on them numerous times at stores and at cons. And then GW did it's dirty old trick and took them out of production. Whenever I find an old game shop I used to take a look and see if any were left around. At GW stores themselves I may have asked for some Chasseurs à Cheval de la Garde Impériale! They had no idea what I was talking about  - one guy told me they never made them! 

Not a year ago I went to GW's site on a lark and lo there it was in my search results. I should have bought two, but one arrived shortly later in a plain white packing pox sans the original photo box that many are familiar with.

Today, I look it up and the site comes up blank. Bah! I experimented on his set, thinking I could get another one and do it properly. So this is more dear to me than it was not 10 minutes ago.

The "experiment" was to black prime then pre-highlight in white which my daughter helped with. This amounted to a pretty heavy drybrush that made me think of a wood cut with sharp, alternating lines of sheer black and white. 

This was followed by Citadel Contrast Colors - Basilicanum Gray for the stones, Wyldwood Brown for the wooden fencing, one of the yellows for the wattle fencing. They could have been finished at that point but there were a fair amount of details to pick out, ubiquitous skulls, iron rings, logs and misc.

Pumpkin folk by Reaper

I drybrushed over it all again with various highlight colors building up to close to white/tan to finish.

I like that you can make two enclosed spaces with this set - a small graveyard in the stone one, then something else in the wooden fences. Or you could just line a road withe either or both in combination. Pretty versatile. Those are a mix of Citadel, WestWind/Old Glory and other gravestones there featured already at this blog. 

The wattle bits were far two yellow in my original pass so I attempted to get more tan on there.

This method looked fine everywhere except for the sun emblem thing - the black/white didn't look great with a yellow Contrast but it's the part of the wall I'll likely leave off anyway for most games. The broken wheel came out ok though.

Maybe you saw the snotling under the log there at right - clever touch from GW of course.

All in all I'm pretty happy with this set and do regret not having another. 

Yet MORE walls and linear obstacles to come! I do everything but paint soldiers it seems.

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