Hello! This article will be about the largest painting project I have written about on this blog thus far. Last year I had the privilege of acquiring a Sector Imperialis Realm of Battle board. This was the first, and biggest, step of the years-long project of acquiring, building, and painting all of the necessary terrain needed to create the Cities of Death board of my dreams.

For those of you that aren’t aware, Cities of Death was a Campaign book released by games workshop in 2003 highlighting how to play games of Warhammer 40k in the cities of the far future. Filled to the brim with pictures and artwork of beautiful terrain pieces, this book really inspired me to make a city board of my own.

Years later, I’ve been in the building stage of my city for over a year now, acquiring and building structures of all shapes and sizes. A healthy mix of buildings both old and new, along with an ever increasing pile of scatter terrain are the starting point for this project but I plan on adding to this table for years to come.

This post will cover the painting process for the base 6×4 board that will eventually become a full size city battlescape.

Finally done! This project ended up taking a lot longer than I originally thought, taking me 3 weeks of hobby time. Happy to be done and absolutely love the finished product! Stay tuned for the next posts as we bring this board vertical!