Warhammer Fantasy – Forge World Ruined Chaos Temple

I was able to pick up another Forge World terrain pieces, and this time it was the Ruined Chaos Temple. This one was initially released in 1999, as TR WFB S 017 (while the old online shop listed it with the Reference FWW019/MO and sold through the 2000s.

It started at 38 GBP but quickly was moved to another price bracket, at 42 GBP / 71 EUR / 84 USD for the eight resin pieces. The Chaos Temple was designed by Simon Harris, who did quite a few pieces for Forge World, among them some of the scenery pieces later collected under the Warhammer Forge brand.

The ruined chaos temple is made from a large base, which is roughly 18 x 23 cm in foot print, along with six pillars in different height and a ring for the pit.

As this is a resin piece and we want to make sure that the paint / primer properly sticks, we cleaned it up. First the casting aids and then gave them a wash in luke warm soap water to remove any release agent.

Due to the amount of detail and crevices it took a bit until it proper dried. But here are a few pictures of the unpainted piece. I like the aspect, that the inside of the pit is filled with detail. It is a variant of the Chaos Symbol offered by Forge World back in the day.

And to give you an idea of the size, here are a few shots with miniatures. The temple itself is more of a line of sight blocker, as it has not really enough space to properly put miniatures on it. Even for Mordheim it would be tricky to interact with.

I have found very little information on the Ruined Chaos Temple, let alone pictures of its painted. But Jonathan Hart had some on his flickr account.

Mine is already primed, and I think I'll give it a try with the wet-wipe marble effect. I'll keep you posted. Beyond that I am very happy about how this fits in the middlehammer era aesthetics.