Terrain Perfect for Trench Crusade and More! | Printable Scenery's Darkness & Desolation

Hey y'all, welcome back to Miniature Game Montage. I am Jimmy, and today I'm gonna show you how I printed and painted some new terrain that I'm gonna use for Trench Crusade by Printable Scenery. And before we get started, no, this video is not sponsored. I found the Darkness and Desolation set, which is now available on their website, so you can take a look at that. I'll put links down in the description for everything that I am using in this video, but this is some amazing terrain that when I first saw it, I said, yes, I have to get my hands on that terrain. It prints out so easily, and if you're familiar with Printable Scenery, they've been in the game for some time now. They make real quality terrain, real quality STLs and 3D prints, and they wouldn't have been around as long as they have if they didn't. I printed these pieces using my Bamboo A1 and my P2S, and I've been busy over the last few weeks just printing pieces to really make this table something impressive. And I'm not quite finished yet, but I'm getting close enough to where I can show you what the finished product is going to start to look like. As always, if you have any questions about anything, feel free to leave those below, and I will be sure to answer them. Okay, the terrain is nothing short of beautiful from a detail perspective, and I've printed out a ton of the different trenches that they have to offer. Some of them have altars and shrines. There was that trench bell that you saw. There's gonna be a lot of unique pieces that go along with this trench system as well, but everything has been very carefully crafted and really good details on all of the models, from ropes to chains, even banners here on this trench tomb. The pieces use system hex, which is something that Printable Scenery has designed for the trenches to lock together, and all of this terrain is compatible with this design, but it is super strong, much more so than the open lock system they had designed previously, and that if you're a 3D printer for terrain, we're all familiar with. I printed a lot of different things from the darkness side and the desolation side, as well as the trench system, including this Gothic castle, which is gonna look really cool when I get this painted up, and I know painting things like this can seem daunting, but I'm gonna show you a really quick way to get it done, and a big piece of that starts with an airbrush, and I know that I've given Galeri some shout-outs in the past, and this is another one. This is 3.4 millimeter nozzle airbrush. I've been using it for a long time now, and it is a super good entry-level airbrush. I absolutely love it for base coats. I love it for my zenithal highlights, and I also love it for terrain. If you are thinking about getting an airbrush, and you wanna start on something maybe a little more forgiving, like terrain, I certainly recommend this airbrush to get started with. We're gonna use Skeleton Bone from the Army Painter, and it's a Warpaint's Air Range, and you can see how quickly the paint is laying down on this kind of textured area on the walls. There's a little notch on the back that actually allows you to control how far you pull back on the trigger, but you will absolutely rip through terrain pieces using an airbrush like this. I'm gonna flip this around and be sure that I get all of the sandbags as well, and this footage is not sped up. You're watching it in real time, and I will quickly get done with one piece and move on to the next. I got this terrain done so quickly. Up next, I'm gonna grab Regiment Gray, and I'm gonna go through and get a lot of the stone areas, concrete areas on the back. There's gonna be some stonework, so I'll get that as well, but just very quickly going through and giving this a very quick blast with this gray. This is what the back looks like. You can see how quickly I am moving through. This does take just a little bit of practice, and if you happen to spill over, it's not going to be a big deal because we've got a method to really help clean that up super fast in a later step, but again, this is just going on so fast, and this is gonna look great when we're done. Up next, I'm gonna go with Barren Yellow. This is another War Paint's air from the Army Painter. I'm gonna get a lot of the dirt in this color, just kind of being very irregular. I'm also gonna go along the ground to give it a little bit of separation and a little bit of a darker color, if you will. Now, I should note that I did prime this in a brown, a Rust-Oleum Brown, super cheap. I did not go with black because the majority of this is gonna be kind of that earthy brown color, so that is what we wanna start with. This is a super quick step before switching over to Husk Brown, and with Husk Brown, I'm just gonna very quickly go over the wood areas, and we don't have to get it all because it's the majority brown anyway, unless you sprayed over with some of your Skeleton Bone. You can clean that up now, and I'm just gonna use this to get a lot of the logs, any wood areas that are on the ground, any kind of planks, just very quickly giving this a little bit of a different color tone than that base brown that we used to prime. You can see here that I'm not covering all of it, just in some areas, giving it really quick bursts because you're gonna want those color variations, and that's what's really gonna make it look realistic. This is another shot of a front piece where I'm just going over some logs, and you can see where I did spray a little bit into the sandbags, and that's totally okay. This is terrain. It's not the center focal point of a battle report, for example. Your eyes are more drawn on the miniatures, so things like this I don't really worry about too much. That's why these airbrushes are really good for learning how to airbrush and kind of refining that initial skill. And in no time at all, we're done. We're gonna move up to another speed painting hack, and I'm gonna be using these paint markers from AK Interactive. First, this dark aluminum color. There's gonna be a lot of chains or certain metallic areas on these pieces. Like here, there's a chain on the back. I'm gonna go through with the marker and just very quickly give this a good once-over. It's gonna look really good. Now, some of these chains may be brown, and that's totally cool because it's gonna look like rust, and they're just gonna look really dirty and dingy. So just work your way around. You're gonna find more metallic areas on some of these prints than others. You can already see how the terrain piece is coming to life. I find using these markers to be almost kind of therapeutic in a way. It just allows you to quickly put on the paint without having to get the paint out and worrying about water and everything else. You just pull the cap off and go to town, and I really like the look of it and the speed. All right, the next color I have is Dunkelgelb, which is kind of like a German panzer-type color, and these prints have so much detail in them. For example, in this opening here, there's a ton of candles, and some of the candles, it's so detailed, they even have a flame on them that you can use a little bit of yellow to get that. But I'm not trying to be super careful here. I'm just trying to go to what your eyes are going to be drawn to when you look at the terrain piece, and just giving that quick little line to really give the candle just a little bit of color. You don't have to worry about getting the backs and the sides and all of that. You just want it to pop a little bit. But there's gonna be a lot of other things in here as well, such as skulls, and if you missed any sandbags or if you had any spillover, you can use this color to color in those sandbags as well. They're gonna look great, and it's gonna really blend in with the skeleton bone that we used previously. I will also use this color to quickly go over the ropes that are holding the wooden pieces or the logs together. I then grab the light gray color that they have in this range to quickly give some edge highlight to some of the concrete and to the stonework. This takes a few seconds and just gives a little bit more visual interest to those areas. We'll also use this color on the back on the stonework, just randomly picking out some stones here and there to make them look a bit of a different color. I just feel like that this kinda adds a little more variety and just makes it a little more appealing. I'll then look across the ground and just kinda randomly get some rocks in this color as well. Now, I mentioned that the terrain is very detailed, and sometimes you'll find pots, books, and numerous other things. So they make a lot of accent colors, like this red, for example, that I've used a green in some of them. I'll use brown on the books for the leather, but just very quickly going through and getting some of those and some accent colors just to add some visual appeal. With all that done, the last piece is to get a really big brush. I've got a little bit of skeleton bone from the army painter out on my palette, and I'm gonna quickly just go through and give these terrain pieces a dry brush of this skeleton bone. And this is really gonna hit the raised areas and kinda give it some weathering, some dust and dirt, debris. I'm gonna go through the dirt areas along the wood, and this just really kinda helps bring the piece together. Now, this isn't something where I'm worried about putting on too little or too much, just going through and giving it a solid once over. I really do wanna get those wooden planks down at the bottom to give them a little bit of highlights. And then once that's done, we are ready to hook these together. And again, using the System Hex, the way that these things print, no supports required. It just loads into your printer and you hit print, and then a few hours later you get a terrain piece. It's really incredible. I love the system that they have designed. I love the way that this pieces together. It can give you a unique battlefield every time. I thought about several games that we play when I saw this bundle being offered for Trench Crusade, for 1490 Doom, for the castle and other things. Frostgrave was another one that came to mind, and several other games that we play. Overall, I'm really pleased with how this turned out, and I hope you have enjoyed watching it. I will put some links down below. Some of them will be affiliate links, so if you decide to take a chance maybe on buying your first airbrush and you wanna try something out like this, or maybe you wanna get into 3D printing, you can use those affiliate links and they'll provide a few bucks back to me at no cost to you. Again, I wanna continue to bring our games to life visually through some really good scenery, and I'm so glad that I stumbled upon this by Printable Scenery, and that's why I wanted to share it with you today. All right, that's gonna wrap it up for this one. Thank you so much for watching. 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