Old World Terrain! Painting some old school Walls and Fences for

[@Swarbie8D]

You’re so right on setting aside time for hobbying; I’ve been doing that the last month or so and suddenly my Warriors of Chaos army is fully painted, just in time for an event on Saturday! Gonna do some touchups tonight and tomorrow but doing a little bit often is so helpful at making big projects fly by!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yeah for sure! Chipping away every day is way less stressful than facing a day of painting trim too 😂 good luck with your event!

[@gabriellasampayo3542]

I do have this set! Thank you for sharing this video! I have every paint, or one similar. I'm very excited to share my work when it's all completed. 🎉

[@MediocreHobbies]

Aw awesome! Very glad it helps and can't wait to see the results!

[@rupertjones5197]

More terrain! Would love to see some old world boards etc if you enjoy it! Also with the wheat fields, a great idea is to make a square piece removable in the centre then on the 4 outer edges have single pieces of the wheat so when you get down on the table edge still looks like a wheat field then from above you can still see your units!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thank youuu great idea!

[@SinglemSolis]

Thanks for your lovely TOW-content. I painted a few of these sets awhile ago and I also added moss to the stones with the recipe from Geek Gaming: you pass clum foliage through a siv and mix it with some pva glue, some matte medium and water. It really makes terrain pieces pop and breaks the kind of smoothness of large flat surfaces making them look more interesting imo :)

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ohh will have to try that out on something, thanks for that tip! 😊 glad you’re liking the old world content, lots more to come!

[@jamesn2830]

I enjoy old world content on this channel. I’ve just started an empire of man project myself

[@MediocreHobbies]

Oh nice! We can get them finished together! Hope you’re enjoying yours!

[@ImrahilToChaos]

Built these fences and walls in the run up to own world, absolutely adore them! Hope we get some of this scenery back in the Old World Range! Especially the manors and ruins!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yes!! We need stuff to fill up our tables!

[@Retrosicotte]

There's something really nice about all your videos painting things you WANT to paint, old and new, not always just the new thing (which of course, we get it, the algorithm and GW's creator connections create that, and thats fine!). Seeing personal passion is fun too mixed in so I love all the TOW/DoW/terrain stuff.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yeah the new thing isn’t always the most exciting thing for me to be working on especially when I’m so into the old world right now! Glad you understand and hopefully as I grow bigger I can keep the balance more over to the passion side of things! Thanks man!

[@mjhsinclair]

Worth trying an oil wash on terrain. Quick, cheap and beautiful for a board full of terrain.

[@MediocreHobbies]

I really need to learn that but it scares me.

[@willb2049]

These look great - my only advice would be to add some additional washes to the stone and wood, in various shades of green or brown. It will help break up the large areas of grey. I did this on mine and it made a huge difference. I learnt this from the post on the Warscryer Citadel on Rob Hawkins' Hobby Blog.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ye I’ve done that before. Its a great technique

[@VoltanIgnatio]

Love this, great video - very happy to see scenery!

[@MediocreHobbies]

Great, more to come so!

[@gbirdnonsense1084]

Old world scenery really floats my boat. I need to get some grassy hills and evil looking black towers made up for my dark elves

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ohh yes they definitely need some of that!

[@Firedrake-f4g]

We have a stack of scenery from Old Hammer, 40k and an old licensed game called Battle Masters I think. Anyway, when feeling really creative we use the 40k ruined church from 3rd Ed, the Tower from BM and the cementery (Cause lets face it, they're not going anywhere) to set up a ruined strong point and all the fences and walls to create country roads. The combatants have been 40k, old world skirmish and of late Bolt Action. It just works. But where you went brown with the fencing and gates, we treated them as aged and the wood has all silvered, so shades of grey it is. We also do have a bunch of stuff pending build and paint, even back to the Old World Castle.

[@MediocreHobbies]

I love all of that.

[@donkratos5627]

Diorama’s & scenery are ALWAYS worth a watch… Tear it up brotha’! 🤙🧐

[@MediocreHobbies]

I'm on it!

[@scroggie_mini_painting3983]

Awsome to see these older scenery pieces. Love a terrain video and making it a more narrative experience. Cracking work man 👍🏼

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers man, yeah terrain is a lot of fun as a project!

[@looselycollected7505]

I tend to just make smaller stuff like this. I made a bunch of stone wall sections a couple years back. I made them look a bit more like the stacked stone walls you'd see in old farming country. The sort of thing where the walls were made of stacked up rocks farmers had cleared while plowing fields. And I made them out of three layers of cheap foam board that I drew the stone lines into with an ink pen. A bit of carving. Alternating stones like bricks. Some holes and gaps cut into them. Glued them to craft sticks that were basically tongue depressors. Added texture to the bases. Some dark tones, some washes, and a bit of drybrushing and they were done. You can use them to set up walls on a board for miniature combat games. But, because of how I made them and the different sizes I made, I can use them to lay out corridors for a dungeon crawl sort of D&D or RPG game. Cheap and pretty easy. I really need to make some more in another color scheme.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yes you do I’d love to see them.

[@looselycollected7505]

@@MediocreHobbies They're on Instagram somewhere from the last year or two.

[@metajock]

Always interested in seeing how others put their terrain together and paint them, please.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Awesome, and yes totally agree, it’s such a fun part of the hobby

[@brianv769]

I remember planning on buying some of these long ago and just never did. Hopefully they will come back.

[@MediocreHobbies]

I think it would be an easy sell for them, we need to fill tables!

[@tikiwiki7428]

i hope the skull mountain comes back i did a set with my aunt as a kid and want one of my own

[@MediocreHobbies]

Oh that would be awesome! Seriously hope so too 🤞

[@willpenn966]

It would be absolutely amazing to watch you and your friends do a Mordheim campaign.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Will have a chat with them and see what they think!

[@Jason-man-in-black]

Somewhere in my pile of potential I have the resin ork barricades they did for 40k, I was given them by somebody that was getting rid of his ork army. Sadly I have still never started my own ork army and so I’ve never dug them out, one day lol.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Oh you gotta dig them out, I love those barricades! Y out could still use them as terrain even if you don’t have orks! Make them a future enemy or threat in your games

[@davidwasilewski]

I’ve got 4 sets of these painted up, along with two sets of the old forge world resin ‘country lanes’ road sets. Really glad I kept these from back in the day.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Oh lovely! Yeah they don’t make them like they used to any more!

[@cillamccarthy6987]

Nice vid, I plan to make some walls out of either xps foam or maybe eva foam. Also foam board would work. Those kits are nice and if the price was right I'd probably buy some but a crafting project can be fun. As for scenery videos those techniques are always applyable across multiple genres so always worth a watch. Also I enjoy watching you paint stuff mate it makes me feel like my painting is more approachable. You've definitely started to take my own personal stress I used to find around painting away. Mainly I used to get fear of messing a piece up/ making poor model choices. Or that I had to paint every mini upto a high standard which would just cause so much stress for me. Now I'm enjoying putting down a basecoats and wash and taking it from there. Im not sure if it's just me but alot of other painting videos and social media content can make u feel like your not living upto the expectations of everyone else. You don't do that Andy, u make the hobby very accessible for everyone whilst still getting lovely looking models out for your army and boards. Keep going dude I'm glad I found your channel back over lockdown and although I wasn't really doing alot of gw games at the time I subbed and I'm glad I did. Thanks for helping me to find joy in my own hobby again.

[@cillamccarthy6987]

Ps some more games branching out from GW is a win in my book as I love historical games/ alternative fantasy settings

[@MediocreHobbies]

Ye they will look great.

[@madmerlinsart]

Lovely job. I've actually had these on my table since Christmas, but when I cleaned up back in March, they got shoved in a box. Think I'll get around to them now. I was kinda stuck for inspiration, but this really helped.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Great to hear that, hope you get them done and off your backlog soon!

[@Bluecho4]

It's unfortunate these aren't available anymore. The sculpts are so flavorful. Alas. If people want easy plastic fencing, even if not this distinct, Renedra manufacture fencing kits in a variety of styles. Including wood, and wattle (the "wicker" as described in this video). Renedra is also a great place to acquire tons of other terrain pieces, like buildings, gambions, bridges, etc.

[@MediocreHobbies]

I knew it wasnt wicker but I could t think of the word 😄awesome thanks for that, will check them out!

[@bryanquick3349]

awesome! looking forward to more old scenery, it gives me inspiration for sprucing up my old army :D

[@MediocreHobbies]

Love hearing that 🙌

[@jonmattison3939]

I have been cleaning out my hobby closet through the spring; focusing on 40k 10th edition and finding homes for all my non-40k GW stuff. I just stumbled across 2 of these wall sets and the other foreground set you had at the beginning; two sets of the watch towers and the attachable houses. I never got any of the larger/newer towers you had in the background. Maybe my next Combat Patrol will take place in an Old World village...

[@MediocreHobbies]

Hahaha please take photos if you do that with your combat patrol 😂 surely there’s a planet out there that resembles the old world…

[@jonmattison3939]

@@MediocreHobbies Will do. Countdown to Tuesday game night...

[@teessidetyrants1989]

Great video. Please do more

[@MediocreHobbies]

More on the way, thanks so much 😊

[@kabrinski]

Love it, always more scenery!

[@MediocreHobbies]

On the way, thanks pal

[@Kitbash.Carnage]

Amazing video again ❤🔥

[@MediocreHobbies]

Thanks 🔥

[@jmc7034]

Great vid

[@MediocreHobbies]

Cheers man

[@brianbrinegar6086]

I installed them on paint-stirrer sticks, covered the sticks in turf and called them good. They've been used for years......

[@MediocreHobbies]

Simple is sometimes the best!

[@Chr1s_90]

👍

[@MediocreHobbies]

🙌

[@WilhelmScreamer]

GW may not give a lot of terrain in a box, but damn if their kits aren't lovely. Nobody else hits the same notes they did.

[@MediocreHobbies]

Yeah they really set a great tone with these!

[@xcumulusx]

i have the old wood for the old world next project for me

[@MediocreHobbies]

😂

[@Guru_Swami]

Are you using the Contrast Paints straight from the pot or mixing with Contrast Medium?

[@MediocreHobbies]

Straight from pot.

[@Guru_Swami]

@@MediocreHobbies 0h wow, you get such a smooth finish from then[ot. Mine turns out very patchy from the pot. 🤔

[@jennireland94]

More terrain please

[@MediocreHobbies]

On the way!

[@AM-uw3gp]

I’d buy all the scenery if anyone from GW is watching

[@MediocreHobbies]

I think we all would!