Can't touch this - du du da du - Hobby Time!

Ok, so I have been thinking that a lot of time I blow in the evenings, I wind down from a long work day by either watching television, surfin' the web or playing World of Warcraft... so I decided yesterday that I'd put in a good 1/2 hour each night on my hobby... anything with games, miniatures, terrain, etc.

Well, last night I used the time to unpack and organize all of my hobby supplies in this killer tackle box my wife got me at Wal-Mart... and tonight? Well, tonight I have the speckles of paint on my arms from spray paint to prove it. :)

Not too long ago, I got two sets of the terrain from the Games Workshop game "The Battle of Five Armies"... the terrain is supposed to represent epic scale cliffs for the 10mm figures, but they actually look great as smaller rocky hills for games such as Warhammer, 40k, Hordes or WarMachine. In the image below you can see the unpainted hill sections. It comes with two sections which can be put together two different ways, forming a half hill or a long cliff face.

Now the cool thing about these hills, is that you can get two sets (total of 4 pieces) and make a complete mountain range (or in the larger scale figures a full size hill). So I took the four pieces that I got the other day, trimmed then down and primed the black!

Here are two more photos (I found these on the web, they are not mine)... They show the 4 pieces (two sets) assembled and with both 10mm and 25mm minis for comparison. I think these hils will make sweet additions to my terrain collection and only enhance my future games.

Now I also had ordered the 'terrain hobby kit' from Games Workshop awhile back as well...  For some reason I thought it had grey paints in it. I had thought I'd paint these to have grey rocks and grass, but when I opened up the kit from Games Workshop (image below), I realized it was all set in tones of brown. I prefer grey rocks, but brown will be just fine too.

...finally, here is a photo of a finished piece (one set of terrain). My plan will be to continue my progress on this tomorrow night by painting it all brown, the following night by dry brushing the tan on top, then the night after that flocking with static grass.  When my terrain pieces are done, they should look similar to this (in color) but have static grass and not just the green painted areas like shown here. I assume they didn't flock this piece because the flock would look way out of scale with the 10mm minis shown here.

Wish me luck! I will post photos of my progress as I continue and hopefully have finals by the weekend.