07/30/2026
Necromunda has an update, and the fact that we continually see Warhammer 40k players play on unpainted terrain, I thought I’d share with you guys the quickest, easiest - and most importantly, low effort to high reward ratio painting method for terrain. After all spend months on your army only to ruin your experience with boring unpainted terrain?
Look, each to their own but I can’t personally understand why competitive, and even casual 40k players will spend countless hours painting miniatures so they have a force they can be proud of. It also makes the whole experience more enjoyable for their opponent.
But then they play with unpainted terrain? Immersion ruined!
You’ll need the following (available from art and hardware stores)
Black, grey, and white rattle can primers. A flat finish is preferable.
Satin varnish
Brown and Payenes Grey oil paints
Odourless solvent (You can also use artists white spirit or artists mineral turps - but odourless is best.
Prime the terrain black. Then let it dry, and lightly spray it grey. Finally with the white, give it an ultra light dusting, from much further away. About 80 cm/ 30 inches away. If you’re painting MDF it dries quickly. We should technically let it dry for longer but the people I want watching this are either time poor or don’t care too much. After all, you’ve been playing on unpainted terrain. Let’s just get it done!
Finally, when it’s touch dry hit it with a satin varnish. THis helps the oil weathering flow much better.
Once dry, you can use your prepared oil wash to give it a real quick weathering pass.
If you don’t have one, just mix 1/3rd paynes grey, 1/3rd van dyks brown, and 1/3rd burnt or raw umber. Mix it with the solvent and now we drip or use the brush to give the terrain a liberal wash.
Because this is a terrain speed painting tutorial I’m not going to go into doing heaps of tiny grime streaks. We can get a similar effect by placing more of the wash at the top of the walls to create the grime streaks. Because we varnished the terrain capillary action makes these streaks flow well, and create cool organic pooling effects.