Project: Scabby Terrain

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

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]

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

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.

    4 x giant rusted mines [counts as 1-2 pieces, maybe 2]

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.

    normal oil refinery or techno-organic tower type deal

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.

what

Very, very fun to paint, once I got an undercoat to stick to it (Mod Podge helped in the end).

totally ordinary

None of these are based the way my terrain usually is, because they aren't intended for regular wargaming on a board, but most likely on my black coffee table or something. Although the oil refinery did wind up with a rim in the end, so maybe it can see duty in the 41st millenium or something. A fun thing for the Death Guard to fight over.

Maybe now I'll make the boats I was going to make. Or maybe I'll finish that third Saturnine terminator. I really am not feeling these this month...