Rogue Trader Campaign: Terrain - Gothic Ruins

With my girlfriend's Rogue Trader campaign nearing its impending start date I am frantically painting models in order to expand both sides military forces before kick off! However the campaign will have a strong narrative element to it and so I wanted to prepare some new terrain so as to set the scene for this conflict. Without giving too much of the story away I am aiming for a strong gothic theme to the setting and so I have sourced some appropriate buildings to facilitate this. 

To start with I found a couple of the old Gothic Ruin sets that were produced by GW back in 1998, these were glued to a Warhammer modular movement tray (these are an excellent basing resource for scenery as they are already embossed with a natural tile effect). They were then sparingly scattered with sand & PVA and painted. Personally I think that these are some of the best pieces of terrain that Citadel ever produced...they are simple, basic and fit the old school 40k gothic image perfectly...they are also very reminiscent of the custom terrain that used to appear in set pieces within White Dwarf and assorted Codices in the mid-nineties. 

This piece came out really well in my opinion and I was so pleased with it that I wanted to get some more terrain that fitted in with the same theme. Now don't get me wrong, the new GW scenery is okay and I have a fair few pieces of it in my terrain box...but in truth they are a real bitch to put together and I personally feel that they deviate from the dark gothic image of the nineties that I am trying to emulate in this campaign setting. 

With this in mind I dug out a box of Pegasus Ruins that I bought about seven years ago and hadn't gotten around to using (like so many models in my man-cave). On looking at them I could see they would fit perfectly next to the earlier Gothic ruins and so I set about assembling them. Compared to GWs kits they are a tad crude but they go together quickly and easily and still look great.

You get two sizable ruins in each box, and I stuck these on half a modular movement tray each to tie them in with the other piece.

Painting was fairly simple, I sprayed the models with a black undercoat followed by a grey base. Once this was dry I gave the buildings a liberal wash in Devlan Mud. This was followed by a heavy drybrush of codex grey and a subsequent light drybrush of bleached bone. Once this was done I again waited for the paint to dry before super gluing on some green flock to simulate moss and make the terrain pop. The wood was painted in the same way as the rest of the model before being given two heavy washes of Devlan Mud.

Overall I am very happy with the way these buildings turned out, I was able to knock them up relatively quickly and I reckon they'll add a real sense of atmosphere to my campaign setting. I am considering getting a few more of these Pegasus buildings as they are a joy both to put together and paint...and are also considerably cheaper than current GW terrain (no surprises there then!)

Let me know what you think!