Terrain Showcase: Star Wars Scrapyard, Part 6

In this final installment, we'll take a look at arguably the most important aspect of the scrapyard, the scrap– Vehicle wreckage piled up and waiting to be salvaged.

 

 

This is another element of this build that I had written a Transmission about for Atomic Mass Games, but I can't seem to find it on their website. Atomic Mass had sent me a bunch of Star Wars: Legion vehicles, and the wrecked AT-ST piece of scenery.

I've sung the praises of the A-A5 Speeder Truck before; to get the most out of these kits, I assembled the exteriors only, and left off one facing. Since I had two spares, I built one with its top off (to be places upside down) and one with it's side off (to be placed on its side.

 

 

The spare components for the speeder trucks provided extra material to fill out the wreck piles. The edges and corners were cut up and distressed to make them appear damaged. I also used a wood-burning tool to melt some blaster burns and lightsaber cuts into the plastic.

 

 

I set up four wreck piles– Two of them are mostly impassible, but I designed the other two with plenty of flat areas that models can stand on.

 

 

The parts were based on a piece of foam core board, and some pink insulation foam, coated with construction adhesive was used to prop up some of the parts.

 

 

The bases were then filled up with tons of scrap.

 

 

When painting, I used mostly sprays to apply the base colors– cream for the droid tank, and greys for the rest. Then applied tons of washes and rust, and picked out the various details.

 

 

This scrapyard just might be my all-time favorite scenery project– So many different elements that can be configured in numerous ways, and I think it was the first time I built a dedicated "backdrop" segment. (The Marvel "Ultron City" table had backdrop buildings, but they were stand-alone pieces. I think this one is much cleaner with how it seamlessly joins up with main board.)

 

 

I hope you enjoyed seeing how this terrain came together. Thanks for following along!

'Til next time!