Over a barrel

I completed  the test barrels and pallet. They turned out pretty well as a test. I am still trying to decide if I want to stick with the 4 barrel setup or if I want to go with a 9 barrel cluster. The smaller setup is a little easier to work with but it is a little small for a 40mm base to sit on. Either way I now have 2 new molds to make, 1 for the pallet an one for the barrels.

The painting on these was dirt simple, just a silver primer and blue top coat. I then dipped them. When they were dry I hit them with a boltgun metal and browwn/orange mix to give them a little weathering. If only the rest of the army was this easy to paint.

Pallets and Barrels

I am working on a group of terrain projects for a warehouse/storage yard. This is the first little piece for it. The pallet was originally going to be wooden but then I thought about it and realized that I need to make allot of these. Doing a traditional wooden pallet involved cutting a bunch of small pieces of wood plus assembly. I simplified the design and when with a metal pallet. This way I could do a simple one-piece mold and cast as many as I need.

The barrels are from a military kit that includes gas cans and pails. They are a little tall but with the compressed/stretched scale used in 40K this isn't that big of a deal. I may take a few and modify them to get a different look out of them.