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How to Paint – Renedra Outbuilding

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Wattle & Daub Outbuilding from Renedra

Returning to my occasional series of How to Paint, I’ve picked something a little different.

Renedra are a foundation of the UK lead belt – based in Cambridgeshire … not everything makes sense! But they have been around for a long time and are known for their bases and scenery.

Whilst purchasing the basing equipment for my Blood Angels from the ever reliable Firestorm Games, I picked up their Outbuilding to paint.

Following a successful painting year last year where I completed a Horus Heresy force (Blood Angels) and a Legions Imperialis horde (Solar Auxilia) this year I have challenged myself to get a 2,000 point army of Blood Angels for Warhammer 40k.

Renedra

As mentioned, Renedra offer loads of stuff and I have used them extensively for simple bases and plastic bases for historical models.

This is the first time I have taken a bigger leap and decided to paint one of their buildings. And it was all for my Silver Bayonet games.

Silver Bayonet requires a lot of scenery (in common with lots of skirmish games). And Renedra offer some great historical offerings from the Outbuilding to a full castle.

Renedra’s pretty castle… but it’s big so comes at a price.

Pictures

What can you use it for?

I’m planning on using this for Silver Bayonet, but any Skirmish games set in Medieval or Fantasy settings would benefit from this. It’s a great line of sight blocker and wouldn’t be out of place on an Old World table or for Kings of War. Used as an impassable terrain feature probably.

Paints Used

Scenery needs to be painted quickly to keep me interested… otherwise I spend too long on pipes and then don’t paint any toys. I also like it to be interesting but also blend into the background. So I needed a colour scheme which wouldn’t overwhelm my drab (dark) Russians for Silver Bayonet.

Starting with an undercoat Black, I gave it a very heavy drybrush of Rakarth Flesh (this could easily be done with a rattle can too).

Then I added some Dyrad Bark for the wooden beams, and finally added the roof. This took a little longer with Aggaros Dunes (Contrast Paint), and then a Drybrush of Screaming Skull. This is great for some stark highlights but also to make it not quite fully dark.

The basing is mostly Russian Mud from Vallejo Diaroma, with some static grass and tufts to add a little variety. Keeping with the simple approach. This took about 2 hours to paint in total, including waiting for the Contrast to dry, and I’m very happy with that.

It also helps with my Woepoints Challenge.

So that’s How to Paint a Renedra Outbuilding — graphic below.

Buying a Box?

This is a great little kit and with an RRP of £6 its also good value for money. Solid plastic which is easy to glue with poly-cement. I just added a 5″ blast marker as a base but any, thing suitable can be used.

As always ask at your local FLGS, directly with Renedra or use our affiliate link with Element Games for a small collection of Renedra buildings.

— Declan and Eeyore

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Hobby Update – Monstrous Worms for Silver Bayonet

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5 Monstrous Worms for Silver Bayonet

Two hobby articles in two weeks. If I’m not careful we’ll put our friends at PlasticCraic to shame. But… best not celebrate until I have more than two of these under my belt. This week I have painted some worms… big scary worms definitely perfect for a fantasy setting… or perhaps even gothic.

Silver Bayonet

This is my second week of painting models for Silver Bayonet and I am enjoying the freedom of just painting monsters which are simple and allow a (very) limited pallet of colours… plus lots of drybrushing.

Blacklist Miniatures

Blacklist have run a few kickstarters over the years to bring miniatures to RPG / miniature groups. Like the wolves and werewolves last week, these worms were from their ‘Fantasy Series 1’ that was launched in April 2020, with a planned delivery of December that year… somewhat optimistically … I got mine a year late in December 2021 but I always expect miniature kickstarters to go late – especially ones that use stretch goals to add more toys.

These worms are mono-pose so I decided to paint them in 3 bold colours (red, blue & yellow) so have a little difference and also check out which of my paints hadn’t survived the house move… fortunately most look okay and I can still remember how to paint red & blue… I do like the yellow here though. As ever, the recipe is at the end of the article.

Pictures

5 Giant worms in all their glorious technicolour wonder…. Spice anyone?

How do they play?

And… I still don’t know yet… as per Peter I am just starting out on my journey into Silver Bayonet. I am intending to use these as ‘generic’ monsters who don’t have muskets so they can fit a number of roles within Silver Bayonet. Their different colours could allow me to design a scenario where they act slightly differently too… nothing too complex but the red one could head towards a ruined church, and the blue ones towards a swamp (for example)!

Paints Used

These are very simply done with 2 colours per worm (plus the Rakarth Flesh and grey for the bases). As I am just getting back into painting, I wanted a scheme that was easy… but that stood out as well. These guys are not hiding, whatever swamp they are slivering through.

Buying a Box

As I said last week with my wolves update, it is not easy, but there appears to be stock in some online gaming stores, and there was a retail pledge so maybe your FGLS has some hidden away that they’re looking to sell.

— Declan and Eeyore

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Hobby Update – Wolves for Silver Bayonet

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5 Werewolves and 7 wolves for Silver Bayonet

And… breathe…! I’m back with some more hobby. It’s been a difficult year so far for actually getting paint on toys but that is what happens when you move house. And that is finally over – bar the boxes, and the inevitable putting stuff on Ebay (or equivalent), so I managed to get paint on some toys.

Silver Bayonet

If you’ve read Peter’s article on Silver Bayonet you will know what it is, but if you don’t it is a skirmish game with (often) game controlled monster in between two units (played by the players). As it is gothic horror, a common enemy is wolves… and a less common one werewolves (who I don’t really want to meet).

Like Peter I have just started reading the rules, and making my unit but before painting anything complex, I decided to go for drybrushing… grey… so wolves.

Blacklist Miniatures

Blacklist have run a few kickstarters over the years to bring miniatures to RPG / miniature groups. The wolves and werewolves (mostly) come from the first fantasy themed kickstarter ‘Fantasy Series’. Unfortunately Blacklist don’t sell the sets after they are released, but you can still find some of the sets around if you google them! They also appear to have hit a few snafus with Fantasy Series 2 (which I didn’t back), but hopefully they will get these resolved.

The other two wolves are from Reaper Miniatures (the larger of the two)… and I can’t remember where the second one is from … I think another kickstarter I did with animals… or possible Blacklist Miniatures as well.

Pictures

7 Wolves ready to eat unwary units in Silver Bayonet
5 Werewolves from Blacklist miniatures… one has already had a run in with some Napoleonic fighters and lost an arm!

How do they play?

I don’t know yet… as per Peter I am just starting out on my journey into Silver Bayonet. They are not designed to kill entire units of player controlled men & women but the werewolves do look scary and will definitely need to be hit with silver bullets and weapons before they die.

Paints Used

Lots of drybrushing on these chaps… so a limited colour pallet… which is no bad thing.

Buying a Box

As above, it is not easy, but there appears to be stock in some online gaming stores, and there was a retail pledge so maybe your FGLS has some hidden away that they’re looking to sell.

— Declan and Eeyore