The Chapel and Watchtower

Terrain, Warhammer: The Old World

Between Baldur’s Gate 3 sessions I’ve been doing some more terrain painting for Warhammer. This time around a couple of kits that came out a few years before last post’s Skullvane Manse: an Empire chapel and watchtower. These two also came out as a combined kit where extra parts liked them together into one bigger building, but I don’t own that variant!

These are both great models and I was pretty chuffed when a friend gave me his seeing as I never picked them up when they were still being sold by GW. Just like the Skullvane Manse I took my time painting these hence the 3ish week gap between posts (the aforementioned Baldur’s Gate 3 sessions did not help!).

I think the results are worth it though, and I’m excited to put these on the table! Here’s some 360° shots of the buildings.

Had some fun adding gloss varnish to the windows, I think that worked pretty well
Wouldn’t be a proper Warhammer building if it didn’t have skulls all over!
I felt bad oxidising that clock, but the mechanisms are all exposed, what else could I do!
I picked out a few tiles in a darker brown and a few in a lighter terracotta to add a bit of variation.
The lower stone areas got the green enamel wash treatment to get that mossy/licheny feel.
The copper oxidisation is done with Games Workshop’s Nihilakh Oxide, slightly watered down.
The skeleton enshrined in the wall is quite small, I choose to believe it must have belonged to some sanctified halfling.
The variations in tones on the cream sections of the wall are a result of first airbrushing Vallejo Desert Yellow over the undercoat colour, then washing it with a brown wash, and highlighting it with some very thin (a glaze effectively) Vallejo Desert Yellow. The wash left some great grimy patterns all over the walls of both buildings which was a pleasant surprise!

I hope you’ve enjoyed these! I’m not too sure what I’ll be painting next but I think it’ll be models rather than terrain. Time will tell!

14 thoughts on “The Chapel and Watchtower”

  3. I’m glad you were able to pull yourself away from Baldur’s Gate to do a bit of hobbying, Nic! 😉 These buildings came out great. I really like how you handled the weathering though I think you also picked a good color for the buildings too. I don’t know what you call that color but it fits the feel of the houses perfectly!

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    1. Thanks Jeff! It’s desert yellow from Vallejo, effectively an ochre of some sort. I’ve been looking at a lot of photos from the east of France and Germany to get inspiration for these Warhammer buildings, lots of medieval timber and stone buildings painted fun colours!

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      1. I don’t know if GW has a close match to that color or not. Maybe like Tau Ochre? I think that is a paint color I own and have basically never used. Clearly I should put it through its paces! Researching is not a glamorous part of our hobby and you’ll rarely be complimented for doing it but it does often pay off.

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      2. Just looking at my paints it’s somewhere between Zamesi Desert and Tallarn Sand. I don’t have any tau light ochre on hand so not too sure where that sits in comparison, but must also be pretty close!

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      3. I think you’d have to mix it using the two paints you mentioned. I dug Tau Light Ochre out and its too dark and not yellow enough to work. For as good as Citadel paints are, they definitely have some tones that are lacking and Vallejo is all to happy to help with that problem!

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      5. That is very true! Its funny how many paints are “X” Uniform to me anyway. Vallejo really helps with NMM metals too. I couldn’t do a lot of the metal stuff I’ve done on the last two display projects without the versatility of their range.

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      6. I’ve mostly switched over to Vallejo too, I do still like GW washes and contrasts over the alternatives though (more of an army painting thing though, not sure how much you use these for display!)

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      7. I mostly have Citadel paints still so I’m the opposite of you. My collection of Vallejo and AK Interactive is growing slowly but surely though. I do like GW’s washes and use them even on display pieces as glazes. I don’t use Contrast a lot but it is helpful. I’ve mostly used it on Hellboy stuff though its getting harder since I don’t have anymore “units” like the frogs where there are twenty plus models that all have the same color scheme. The Contrast paints are too expensive to use on 2-3 minis and then sit around waiting for some other use so that is the main reason why I don’t have many.

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