Multiverse Shipping Containers Painted

The other day I shared some pictures of the Multiverse Gaming Shipping Containers. In that post, I’d gotten as far as base coating them and talked a bit about my painting process.

Here I’ll show off the mostly finished containers. 

Process

After airbrushing the colors on these, I applied a variety of number and letter decals from Fallout Hobbies – I figured that shipping containers needed some kind of identification codes, even during the Horus Heresy. 

Once the decals were applied, I did some sponge chipping in various places using a few different colors; Rhinox Hide and Skrag Brown, specifically. This adds some much needed wear and tear; in the Warhammer universe, many of the capital ships are hundreds of years old, and I suspect that the same applies to anything cargo-related. These containers have seen thousands of voyages across the Warp, and that age needs to show. 

I went a little heavy on the glue when putting these together, and instead of wiping it off like a smart man, I left it to dry. And then promptly forgot to scrape it off before priming. Whoops. So I need to cover some of the uglier glue spots – which is where oils, and possibly weathering pigments, come in. No pictures of this part of the process – yet. 

Painting wargaming terrain is still a new learning process for me, but I’m enjoying it so far. And it will make for an epic game table someday. 

Back at it Again

It’s been a long absence, and I feel like there’s a lot to cover regarding what I did in this long blogging lull. It may take more than one post. But that’s ok, right? 

Looking at my post history, it looks like the last thing I talked about was the Orc Troop Transmitta from Tabletop Scenics. I regret to inform you all that despite my excitement, I never did end up picking one up – I think I found that shipping from Poland on a $60 terrain set was …a lot. I know that my friendly local gaming store has one on the shelf, and it tempts me every time I visit.

On the subject of terrain, I’ll be talking about that  today, so stay tuned. Over the last eight months I’ve also put in a good amount of work on my Alpha Legion, and I’m excited to share progress updates with you. But first, more mdf terrain! 

Multiverse Gaming

Multiverse Gaming is a company based in Poland that does a variety of pieces of mdf terrain, including their “Forges of Prometheus” line. They recently had a sale, and I took the opportunity to grab a couple of sets of shipping containers and some catwalks. Here I’ll be showing off the shipping containers. 

The containers come in sets of 2, and I grabbed the SIT Containers(Gothic Pattern B) – I think the pattern determines what the side accessory panels look like, and the doors are slightly different from Pattern A. 

Build and Paint

Assembly looked intimidating at first, but I quickly got used to the process, and worked on the last two container simultaneously – this let me assemble other sections while my glue dried on the first portions of the process, and was altogether a bit faster than doing them individually. 

These containers are a great size for your games of Warhammer 30,000 and will make excellent pieces for line of sight blocking. They stack as well, through a genius system that almost locks them on top of each other. 

I’m still working on finishing each container, but my basic painting process has been to prime outside using black Krylon spray primer, then apply colors afterwards using my airbrush. In the future I may look at doing more of the basic painting with spray cans, since they’re big pieces and take a bit of work to cover even using an airbrush. 

To give a bit of an accent color, I’ve added some stripes using Tamiya masking tape, and followed this up with a coat of gloss varnish. I’m going to apply some oil weathering, chipping, and decals on each container, and then finish them with a seal of more gloss, followed by matt varnish. They should stand up to gaming use fairly well. 

Final Thoughts

I can definitely recommend these as an affordable method for putting more terrain on your game tables. The price is right – about $15 or so for two containers, and shipping from Poland is more than reasonable. I’m now thinking about getting another few sets, and vague ideas for a shipyard filled with shipping containers comes to mind…