40K HOBBY: Portal Objective Markers (Video)
Wednesday, March 24th, 15:00 Central time…
Bulwark: Hey, do we have 4 themed objectives for the Team Tournament at Adepticon?
Bushido: Ummm, No?
Bulwark: Oh…
That’s about the conversation I had with Bulwark the night before we left for Adepticon. It was up to me to save the day…
I ran some ideas through my head. It had to be something I could build out of what I already had. It had to be fairly simple to build, and it had to be fairly simple to paint.
AH HA!
The Demon Portals were born. I had build a very small one out of tile a while back for our Planetary Empires campaign and had wanted to do objectives that were similar for a while now.
I started by breaking the cork into rather small pieces, leaving a larger (40+mm sized) piece for the base. I cut some plasticard into ‘portal’ shapes and proceeded to glue small pieces around the edges on both sides creating the stone arch. After the arches were complete, I flattened out the bottom edge so it would sit well on the base and glued them together as well. I used some extra glue along the base of the plasticard to give a sealed effect.
The I primed them black…
Then all that was left was the paint. I started by dry-brushing the stone colors with every gray tone in the book, a lighter coat each time. Then I painted the ‘portal’ part dark blue, followed by progressively lighter blues each time shrinking toward the center. Then I used the lighter blues to create the glowing effect around the inside of the stone. I finished it off with some flock as well as some gloss varnish for the portal and they were done with at least a few hours to spare for sleep!
~What other sort of quick and easy objectives using supplies other than bits have been seen out in the field? There was another player at Adepticon using a very different style portal as well. I think they make for some really nice Chaos-y objective markers. As always, comments are welcome.
