On moonless nights, when the air is still, vessels from across the Turnip world disappear, sucked down the rusty plughole of death to a forgotten ship’s graveyard far below the world known as the Abyss.
- Scabz, Apocrypha_Now and Max Fitzgerald
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| normal oil refinery |
Ages ago, famous internet miniatures weirdos Max Fitzgerald and Apocrypha_Now collaborated on a game of rusted hulks fighting each other on an oil-slicked black ocean. It's called SCABZ. I got very excited about it, along with the new Turnip-universe game Max was working on called Swill - and then Swill got put on some kind of indefinite hiatus and I lost a lot of emotional impetus.
I still haven't built the ships I intended to buy, although I have gone through a lot of cans of fish.
But, somewhat unusually for me, I did build a lot of scenery first (wild, I know). Some of it I mentioned in my year-in-review for 2025, where I decided not to count it until I finished the final piece. Which I did, a few weeks ago. It's the normal oil refinery, above.
Scabz calls for 3-7 pieces of terrain measuring roughly 5”x 5”, representing wrecked ships, sunken row houses, corroded naval mines, decaying docklands or islands of rotting fish. I've made:
6 x various sized bits of rotting vegetation [enough for 4 of these]
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| rotting vegetation |
These are from the Dungeons & Lasers Swamps of Doom set. Previously, you've seen the rotting fish as part of my Turnip terrain.
1 x giant toothy flesh starfish
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| regular starfish |
I was buying my cat food and looked a little too long at a dog toy, and it looked back. This was really fun.
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| giant sea mines, all rusted up |
This is literally a couple of my son's bath toys he'd kind of gotten bored of, and two dryer balls. Covered in metallic paints and rusty effects. I should probably varnish them or something but it's not like they're hard to touch up. Very easy and fun to make.
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| normal terrain |
My son's outgrown formula (he's nearly two!), so this is made from one of the last cans, together with some spare bottle teats. I was originally going to cover it with more greebles to make it more technorganic, wires and tubes as well as flesh, but I'm really lazy and tired. The pipes are a variety of plastic straws, of course, together with a couple other plastic tubes.
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| what |
Very, very fun to paint, once I got an undercoat to stick to it (Mod Podge helped in the end).
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| totally ordinary |
