Level up your Terrain with Dirty Down!

[@johnbursi2804]

Maybe do a video where you paint a couple sets of the old trees and then combine those pieces with this tower and the manor and fences you painted up previously to show a board with a crossroad on the edge of a forest. Then even do a quick battle with 2-3 units. Perhaps 8 minutes to paint, 4 to set up and then 8 minutes for a small skirmish. Your pink squig proxy and a unit of brettonian footmen might have a misunderstanding over right of way. Just a thought for a fun video to pull it all together. Scenery, set up, battle. Your channel is great! Appreciate all your hard work.

[@markspooner2027]

I love your old world series and work. These old kits bring up a lot of nostalgia. Thanks man.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Glad to hear that, I'm loving working on all the older stuff so it's great to hear people enjoying it!

[@aero821]

Gorgeous well done

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thank you! 😊

[@SgtMaj22]

I may have to get me some of that Dirty Down product, I think there is definitely potential with some of those.

[@MediocreHobbies]

They're very cool, there's also a yellow rust as well!

[@paulofreire7520]

Great job. Don’t you love when you recover an old kit? 👍🏻

[@MediocreHobbies]

It's such a good feeling!

[@lynnhavard3684]

Frostgrave and Morpheus content would be really cool to watch on your channel.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yeah I'd love to make videos for them

[@TronsTableTop]

Looks amazing!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thanks man, really happy with it

[@teessidetyrants1989]

Absolutely fantastic work fella. I would be tempted to add a few streaks of earthshade, to represent stains where rain water has ran down.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Great idea, might try that out soon!

[@sethran9447]

Looks fantastic! - can’t wait to see it in action in a battle report soon! (Perfect tower for that scenario)

[@sethran9447]

Also, Mordheim is my favourite game! Would love to see that

[@MediocreHobbies]

It'll happen soon!

[@scroggie_mini_painting3983]

Cracking terrain piece. Always love a terrain painting video. You will need to pick up the 250ml dirty down bottles 👍🏼

[@MediocreHobbies]

Haha yeah i think I'll need them for all my plans!

[@AM-uw3gp]

Nice one 👍🏻 I have a video idea you should kitbash the new Grombrindal White Dwarf mini onto a Square Base, I’m planning to do mine at some point and will probably need to cut him off the base and maybe magnetise his feet so it can go back on the display base when not playing

[@robertbrook574]

Absolute banging video Andy, loved it. I've got an old Wizard tower thing lying around that I'm definitely using these techniques on. Thanks!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Aw sweet, love hearing more stuff getting painted out there from these videos!

[@jaanikaapa6925]

Sprue goo would work well for building something like this. :)

[@MediocreHobbies]

Hmm it might actually!

[@rupertjones5197]

Keep up with the old world content!! Would love to see a board built and more scenery etc! I’m still working on my averland army and when my extension work is done at the house I cannot wait to start a board built myself. For me looking at the minis is cool, but having a really cool board diorama is where it’s at! And 100000% you should get into mordheim, making the war bands and the cool ass scenery etc! Keep up the amazing work dude

[@MediocreHobbies]

I keep looking at and downloading stls for terrain 😄 just working on getting space for everything but so excited to do some really cool setups too!

[@countjinto991]

I'd love to see more terrain videos for your old world table!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Sweet, more to come!

[@mjhsinclair]

This would make an excellent tower for the really fun tower special rules in the Old World book. You could do a simple narrative battle report with those rules and the hold the tower scenario.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ohhhh yes I’d love to do that!

[@rayshouse4933]

First, great job! Second, Frostgrave would be great! Just getting min to it myself!

[@MediocreHobbies]

I need to play it soon for sure!

[@JewelKnightJess]

Looks great! Maybe some tufts could also go into the rock crevices? I wonder if the skeleton arms are a calendar of sorts for the old world based on the position of the celestial bodies.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Tufts are a great idea Jess! Oh that could be it

[@JohnPC00]

The tower looks really fantastic. Now that I'm a homeowner, I have a lot more space for boards and terrain, and I'd really like to pick up kits like this. In the future, I think it would be neat to see the still images of the "finished" model and then at the end you have the "really finished" model to show the difference between techniques.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Sorry for delay in reply! That's a great idea about the photos-will try to remember that!

[@TheMichaellathrop]

So I know there is also a yellow rust color, I think a little bit of that dappling in the moss could give a very nice lichen appearance.

[@MediocreHobbies]

I only learned about the yellow one yesterday-that’s a great idea for using it!

[@Toshiba1976]

Great stuff

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers Tony!

[@thegreatangel8251]

This is so awesome! Would love to see more scenery

[@MediocreHobbies]

so much more to come!

[@jacklitchfield7931]

It looks awesome! Would love to try this someday on Skullvane Manse

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ohhhhhhh please do, that’d be so cool

[@Revenant77x]

Absolutely love Comrade Djarin in the background there. This was such an interesting video. Always fun seeing the retro stuff done to modern standards.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Hahahaha no-one else has commented on that yet! Yeah it's cool seeing what we can do now compared to the old days :D

[@Jason-man-in-black]

Cool video Andy, would certainly like to see you work on a mordhiem board.

[@MediocreHobbies]

It's happening, just a matter of time!

[@redboxer-ux5qw]

Fantastic work Can we see more please

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yes indeed!

[@Oldhammer57]

Looks great, can't wait to see it in the next bat rep.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers man, me neither!

[@pileofshamehobbies]

Really enjoying all the old world stuff. Got me looking at Mordheim too. So any work done for that game would be awesome. Keep up the amazing work!

[@MediocreHobbies]

I'm going to have to start working on some!

[@madmerlinsart]

That's insane! It looks like it's spent years in a fish tank which is amazing.

[@MediocreHobbies]

That’s what an Irish summer feels like so I think I achieved my goal 😂

[@madmerlinsart]

@@MediocreHobbies I'll have to try one. Surely can't be as bad as a Devon summer.

[@seanoneill8169]

Great video. I am trying to create a table for Mordheim and would love to see more vids on premade terrain.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Oh very cool! Yeah I'll try get more videos out on terrain!

[@ArneMandell]

The skeleton is a Signal, the symbols themselves would be unique to an army, and there relative positions would indicate formations and battle tactics from general command to unit level.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense!

[@darylpage6117]

mordheim scenery would be amazing!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Agreed! Gotta make it happen!

[@arleydial1124]

It’s a tower of the vampire lords. This tower is most often by either the empire or the bad moon orcs. The semaphore indicates which faction is currently attacking

[@MediocreHobbies]

That is so cool, thank you

[@daytona675ism]

Awesome love it

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@colinplatt1963]

Great video Andy! I think about the only thing is that it is a Skull Tower... I'm pretty sure that health and safety isn't a concern, so it seems counter intuitive to me to have hand rails on the stairs. If someone falls off, meh! More terrain videos would be great especially on large features that have to be fought over, rather than treated as impassible.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Hahaha very true, maybe that's where all the skulls came from- the bottom of the stairs :D

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

That moss really added something. Do you think the [catachan?] green contrast paint with a green recess wash would do the same thing?

[@MediocreHobbies]

I have no idea...only one way to find out!

the "clockwork devil" is a semaphore, an ancient communication device, you can see it in action in the Hobbit movies used by the bad dudes at the big battle

[@MediocreHobbies]

ohhhh of course-yes! thank you!

[@simonwiltshire3674]

That looks awesome. May have to try the moss out when I build and paint some arcane ruins and dreadstone blight. May I ask what the three stages of grey were for the stonework?

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers man! I cover them properly in this video but if you have any more questions let me know! kzbin.info/www/bejne/poPZoKuept16eNk

[@Bodkin_Ye_Pointy]

Always fun to see how people do the old buildings, I have a stack of them myself. The one thing that gets me a little bit though, and this is a GW fault not hobbyists, is that their version of brass is actually bronze. Bronze made from mostly copper and tin has that orangey metal look, with the tin being added to retard the corrosive effects of verdigris. Brass, made from zinc and copper. is a more golden colour. Kind of like gold that ran in the wash and now looks too pale. But I did like the moss type finish you did. Never been quite so sure as how to apply it, though I don't have those technical paints.

[@MediocreHobbies]

It's worth picking up some to test out! I know what you mean about the brass as well, just a weird thing they have done for years!

[@canuckchuck8836]

Awesome! Have you figured out how to seal the Dirty Down products so they do not get reactivated through handling/humidity/accidental water splashes? Everything I have tried takes away all the colour variation and makes the DD products look as dark as they do in their bottles.

[@mikewicked.x]

Looks amazing - agreed, hope this (and others) come back as MTO. Do you seal the Dirty Down paints? I've had issues with some of the "old" paint jobs I've got where I used it where it looks like ambient humidity has reactivated it on the model. It's changed colour with time anyway.

[@TheAlterspark]

I have a version of this but it's a bit bigger? Got it from a friend who was getting out of the hobby but have yet to paint it

[@MediocreHobbies]

There’s a few different towers! You might have the Witchfate Tor Tower?

[@TheJohnlegg]

Looks great! Is the skeleton waving in a landing Pegasus Knight?

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ohhh he needs a bright orange vest now :D

[@FeinarCelion]

I have ALL old terrain of GW!

[@MediocreHobbies]

That's some collection to have!

[@Chr1s_90]

👍

[@MediocreHobbies]

😊

[@Hoggezilla]

I'd devour any Mordheim content you made, big or small

[@MediocreHobbies]

Awesome to hear that!

[@Spacepup18]

Whelp, better watch this video to learn how to paint the terrain being re-released!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yes please! More to come as well!