Warsenal containers: adding colour

I've had 10 of the excellent Warsenal storage containers built since about Easter, but have been slow to put paint on them with the distraction of building minis from the Dark Imperium box. The first batch of storage containers now have some paint on them...

All 10 crates (5 small and 5 large/double) got a blast with a black enamel spray primer to seal. I'm not sure if you *really* need it to be enamel, but I've read that MDF terrain hit with water based primers will absorb the moisture and swell - which is particularly bad for moving parts like the doors on these.

To give a bit of variety, I'm doing the crates in 2 colour schemes - the second batch will likely be a dark-angels type set, while the first ones have been done as a tan/blue. Group one have been very heavily dusted towards the edges with vallejo sandgelb (one of the RLM colours used for desert messerschmidt camouflage) with a lot of the black primer allowed to show through for shadowing.

Similarly, the drop-in doors have been given a few passes towards the top but left towards black at the bottom.

With the extra paint on, they *just* squeeze into the frames (with a bit of jiggling). If ever making a set of these, I'd highly recommend sanding all the edges and the inside of the 'slots' quite heavily. Particularly if using anything more than a single layer of airbrushed colour. 

As a little side bonus... a packet of 8x wooden pallets from Warsenal also got hit with a bit of the sandgelb while the airbrush was out. They might get a drybrush with offwhite later on, but could live with them just having some colour. 

Now the fun part :-)

Adding some markings to the doors. 

I took a couple of strips of tamiya masking tape and added above/below one of the stripes that are cut into the doors. Following the lasercut groove with a razor and then pulling away the excess tape leaves a single-stripe gap. 

A dabbing with unthinned kantor blue (leaving some random patches less heavy for texture) and the step is quickly done. Being lazy, I only cut out a couple of strips of tape and just reused them to get through all 24 doors for this batch. 

I guess they could still do with a bunch of chipping with brown & silver paint on a sponge but they are pretty much table ready now. And considering how long I usually take to paint minis themselves, the terrain mass production feels a bit rewarding :-)