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These cliffs look great and that ruin is really coming along. I especially like the way you've made the cliffs actually look like cliffs instead of painted styrofoam, which so often the case with this particular type of terrain. Your stuff is very inspirational; I appreciate a builder who consistently goes the extra mile for quality.

Terrain is coming along very well. I get more and more jealous of Psyker Bob's awesome collar every time I see him.

Love those cliffs, very natural looking. Your block molds are pretty sweet mixed in there too!

Very, very nice stuff! I'm excited!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:These cliffs look great and that ruin is really coming along. I especially like the way you've made the cliffs actually look like cliffs instead of painted styrofoam, which so often the case with this particular type of terrain. Your stuff is very inspirational; I appreciate a builder who consistently goes the extra mile for quality.

Thanks Man, I do try. Woodland scenics has some lovely rock face molds that I've used here. I'll be making myself some more custom ones once the weather gets better (the source rock is currently entombed in a snowbank...)

Moltar wrote:Terrain is coming along very well. I get more and more jealous of Psyker Bob's awesome collar every time I see him.

Heh I know right. and he does too...

dsteingass wrote:Love those cliffs, very natural looking. Your block molds are pretty sweet mixed in there too!

Thanks Dave! I hope all is well with your stuff since the job and so forth.

Lorek wrote:Very, very nice stuff! I'm excited!

Thanks I hope you like it even more once you get it.

On to Pics

Finished (minus some spot painting of "roots and trunks" of foliage bits) with Guardsman Castle for scale ref.
Med Hill 1














Medium Hill 2










Med Hill 3








Large Hill 1














Short Large Hill






WIP
Large area terrain (adding waterFX)


Smaller Area Terrain (adding Water FX)




Small ruin 1






Small Ruin 2






Small ruin Area Terrain

Pics of the Current State of things.
Commission is largely complete, just a few small touch up and finishing painting on the foliage to do.

Small area Terrain
With guardsman Castle for reference
Small Area Terrain 1




Small Area Terrain 2




Small Area Terrain 3








Small area Terrain 4




Small Area Terrain 5




Small area Terrain 6






Overview of the two Big Hills


With guardsman Castle for reference


Tree hill top


Tree hill bottom




Tree top






Guardsman Castle and tree


Small ruin (masonry) 1






Small Ruin (masonry) 2






Total OVerview with Psyker Bob for scale

All looking great.
Like how you got the water rippled and some of the plants look very realistic from the right angles.

 Dr H wrote:
All looking great.
Like how you got the water rippled and some of the plants look very realistic from the right angles.

Thanks Doc. I'll be shipping these to the client on Monday.

Well the jungle stuff has been shipped. Im going to build some other stuff to sell on the ebay to see what it gets. Tomorrow i'm also going to be doing some more rearranging and cleaning in my workshop...

Well I'm going to be beginning to build some scenario table components and some stuff to sell. also installing an actual dust collection system in my workshop. OoOo...
I'll be posting Pics as things get completed.

Finished installing Phase one of the Dust collection system in my Shop













also building, a building

Looking good! Just make sure you've got a fire extinguisher handy if you're using a dust collection system.

 dsteingass wrote:
Looking good! Just make sure you've got a fire extinguisher handy if you're using a dust collection system.

absolutely.

In the next week or so I will be beginning construction of two specific Scenario tables for 40k.

"Siege of Port J35" and "last stand of the Prandium 51st"

These tables will be at Captain con 2014 (link to Dakka thread here

I would gladly take sugesstions on special rules and objectives for the scenario tables.

If the port has a huge crane(could also do forklifts), then whoever controls it should be able to swing on of the objectives around/away from the enemy, or be an objective in itself as its control will be vital to enabling re supply efforts/ cutting enemy re supply. Ou could also make multiple piles of crates/containers which have a number under the base. Each game the numbers match a if fervent chart, but some are more valuable point wise than others. Players don't know which to grab in the thick of the fight, hey might get the weapons stash, or they might get the plasma tvs(which are outdated by imperial standards).

 Theophony wrote:
If the port has a huge crane(could also do forklifts), then whoever controls it should be able to swing on of the objectives around/away from the enemy, or be an objective in itself as its control will be vital to enabling re supply efforts/ cutting enemy re supply. Ou could also make multiple piles of crates/containers which have a number under the base. Each game the numbers match a if fervent chart, but some are more valuable point wise than others. Players don't know which to grab in the thick of the fight, hey might get the weapons stash, or they might get the plasma tvs(which are outdated by imperial standards).

That is a very cool Idea. I think I can work with that!

On to Pics of current WIP

Lego support columns , a truly lost STC in 40k. I could just see a tech priest be all enthrall end by the Lego and singing the praises to the omnissia .

Those cast pieces look like they work well. Good job.

Theophony wrote:Lego support columns , a truly lost STC in 40k. I could just see a tech priest be all enthrall end by the Lego and singing the praises to the omnissia .

Indeed. They do make for an easy way to get consistant floor heights.

Dr H wrote:Those cast pieces look like they work well. Good job.

Thanks doc. They really do work quite well. Very durable too.

Just got this PM from Cmdr Cain he painted up some of my bases and here's how they came out.

Commander Cain wrote:Oh boy, I painted these beauties of a base ages ago and completely forgot about them instantly after!

Anyway, after a bit of cleanup they turned out really well but I'll just let the images speak for themselves...







A few spots are still asking for a little more detail but in general they are pretty much finished.

Pics of the Ruin I was building. I need to kludge a "clean" backdrop to take pics of it for use in the Ebay auction I will be selling it in.

Nice work Galorn. I like how that last poster is cut off with the wall.

I may Have lost my Mind. Details to follow tomorrow.

 Galorn wrote:
I may Have lost my Mind. Details to follow tomorrow.

Welcome to the group, its a requirement around here.

Sanity is for the weak

I think that was from DoW

To sum up, I have committed to make two (6ft by 4ft) showpiece level tables for the convention I am helping launch (captaincon) that will take place on July 26-28th in Taunton Ma. as of now there is zero done on them. I'll be blogging the build progress.


Oh Right also Paint and texture 28 additional 4ft x 4ft table toppers.

Progress on the Build for the Con (http://captaincon.com), I've gotten all 28 4ft by 4ft table toppers blacked out on one side (for use as Xwing or other "space" game tabletops. Starfields will be added later.

Five table toppers have had sand added to texture one side. so Basic stuff aproximately 50% complete.

Scenario tables are still at 0.

Am at gencon this week working at the games and gears booth. Come on by and say hello if you can.

Well life has certainly gotten... interesting. With Da Boyz GT coming up as well as other projects I think I may have the motivation I needed to get disciplined with my time. I'll be starting to Post pics of the stuff I'll be building as I do so. Man it feels good to come out of a funk.

glad to here your getting in a better spot man. trust me i know how rough that can be. looking forward to seeing what comes out of your workshop.