Grimdark Outhouse

I'm not sure where this heavy card outhouse came from, but I've been wanting to do something with it for a couple of years. I mused about putting it on a base with a few gravestones to be part of the Graveyard Project, but it didn't really work for me. Recently I was going through some old 28mag articles and the idea of a grimdark outhouse hit me. So I started thinking about what was needed to make that happen.

I didn't want the outhouse to be flat on the base, there had to be a bit of a tilt to it. And maybe some skulls scattered around, A little crater to the side? What about some spears sticking out of the wall? And there had to be a bucket too. Some of the above came to pass when I got bits together and found a base that was big enough. 

The next day I went through bits to find what would work well with the outhouse. I found an 80mm base, so that the outhouse and the crater would have enough room. I mashed up a strip of aluminum foil to make the edge of the crater and provide something for the outhouse to be tilted on. The bucket was a dental floss core trimmed to be at an angle. I used a couple of ancient Warhammer Skeleton spears for the spears. The little broken pottery is a 3d printed bit I picked up at an Adepticon. There's a little spiky spine bit that came from an old Trinity Battleground monster figure that got placed in an empty area of the crater wall. The bucket in the back was a piece from a dental floss dispenser. Why is there a big bucket out back? No one knows. And the chains with hooks is a plastic bit likely from some Dark Eldar kit.

Finally the painting could begin.

For the crater area, I wanted it to be charred more than the rest of the ground. I accomplished it with some darker washes. The little spine bit is unexplained, but something was probably blown to pieces by whatever caused the crater.

The outhouse itself was simply drybrushed up with lighter browns or brown-grey mixed paints. There was a dark mixed wash (a blackish brown with a browner-brown) and then a gutter version of a pin wash for the gaps between the wood. I watered down a black wash for this not-really pin wash and used a thin brush to apply it.

On the left side of the outhouse, this broken pot got some mix of orange paints to make it look old. This side was intentionally left pretty blank.

On the backside, the bucket has a bit of glowing green goo in it, the color is my still active Ral Partha flourescent green. The hooks and chain bits turned out fine, but not as rusty as I wanted them to. The streaks of rust turned out better, though.

To help show just how big the outhouse is, we have some 28mm figures. Above is a Monkey Miniatures guy, a Primaris Marine, and a BTGOA Freeborn Domari. Below is a group of Trench Crusade figures- A Victorial Miniatures kitbash, the official Observer, and another kitbashed with Frostgrave and Victoria bits.

Now the Grimdark Outhouse can be unleashed in various games...