One of the things that really got me hooked on the Joan of Arc (JoA) Kickstarter from Mythic Games was the amazing visuals they created with the terrain elements of the game. My 15mm terrain collection is a bit dated and I thought, if the game was awful, I'd still be able to use a lot of the components in other 15mm games. Fortunately the game is actually pretty good... maybe even very good... maybe even awesome!
The core set comes with a church, a large farmhouse, two small farmhouses, a ruined church, a well, 5 low walls and 7 defensive stake lines, 5 bushes, 4 rocks, 10 trees, and a small shrine.
I've managed to knock out: Church, houses, walls, trees, bushes, stakes, and rocks.
All of this was painted directly onto the plastic models without trimming, cleaning, or primer. I wanted to paint these fast and leverage the pre-colored plastic where possible.
Paint adhesion was excellent and I think they'll hold up well to use. They were sealead with Krylon Satin Clear Coat but I'll probably zap them with a final light coat of Dead Flat.
To get the variegated roof tiles I used three basic colors and rolled some dice to decide where they went! A fun little exercise that turned in a good result.
The trees were pre-colored green and brown So they got some highlights and some Secret Weapon Washes. I wanted to mix some green highlights and blew my color theory check and made a large batch of a totally wrong green....
... which resulted in a frantic look round for something to use it on... I located a box of "Battle for Skull Pass" which I think is something like 5th edition Warhammer Fantasy Battles and set to painting up the horde of Night Goblins it contained. The sculpts are actually very entertaining and really marked the beginning of GW's shift in hard plastics from were awful to very good. Now, of course hard plastics are amazing and the sculpting takes full advantage of the material's properties to give us things very dynamic posing and flying/levitating models.
Not being able to let the pile sit I finished up the spear, bow, and character models from the set all the while thinking about Night Goblins as the poster children for keeping serious religion and greenskins separated. The Night Goblins have created a society that does not need orcs! They are successful in their own right and field armies that are a potent, and all too successful, adversary to the powerful Dwarf Kingdoms.
Back to the brushes!
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