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I'm not sure why the hexagons are "Infinity" but I like them much more than skulls. I find the skull motif repulsive. Too much like the totenkopf.

this!!!! so many times!!!!

and I just love how you got scale and design so cool worked out...it simply looks stunning... and also... your whole love for hexes has inspired my hex shaped turret of my current project!!!

just one minor thought... wouldn´t the sink be needed in hex shape too???...

Excellent use of pins, I wouldn't bother painting them either. Keep it up!

Hexagons > skulls for most most practical applications (can opener?).

As long as you keep the incisors sharpened skulls make great can openers........

Good job on the shower and sink.

It's so nice to see other people making scale bathroom items at the same time as I am, makes it seem more normal...

Of course it's normal. Like flying a kite at night normal....

Thanks everybody.

Vik, the orginal baneblade had hexagonal turrets on the sponsons IIRC.

 Gorgrimm wrote:

 Red Harvest wrote:
Well, I learned Castellano from Colombians and actual Castilians, so my Spanish isn't quite Central American-- which is what we normally hear in the US, obviously. Leads to some amusing situations.

Hahaha, yeah. I learned my Spanish from East coast schools in the 1990s. It turned out to be Castellano, from Spain. Spanish Spanish.Not worth much in the Western US. All of the idioms are off , most people look at me with a kind of confused, WTH is this guy trying to say expression, so I stopped trying to speak Spanish to folks. Like someone learning English as a second language from someone in England and then trying to talk to Americans. The idioms are all wrong.

I've actually had a hard time trying to understand people in certain parts of England, and we are supposedly speaking the same language!

Anyway, love your work. I am relatively sure I could not ever be that accurate working with card. Beautiful terrain.

Thanks. I find I need to turn on the close captioning for certain UK programs on TV. The accuracy of things is simply a matter of practice. Like improving any other skill, you work to improve and it happens.

 Theophony wrote:
Uses number 102, 103, 104, 105, and 106 for pins . Don't forget to use the long parts to be the granny bars in the shower or next to the toilet. You could also make towel bars out of them too. And use 4 of them with the heads being the feet going up to a piece of plastic for those elderly shower chairs.

I regret to inform you that Comfort Station Zebra will not comply with the ADA. And "Granny Bars"? Is that what you guys in the Midwest call them?

I'lll have to make door handles with them, for the chrome effect. No towel bars. Hooks. Time permitting.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Excellent use of pins, I wouldn't bother painting them either. Keep it up!

Hexagons > skulls for most most practical applications (can opener?).

Some people make drinking cups from them.

The pins are in fact painted. One of them is brass (the one used for the center handle) and all the plates are paper or plastic and needed paint anyway.



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Ah so the glass doors.

First the doorway.

Now the door, which is cut out from one of those cheap DVD cases. You know the kind that breaks when you look at it. Yeah. Those.

Hinging this will be..erm, interesting. Mayby I'll use... wait for it... Pins! I like the chrome frame to the thing too. Saw that somewhere during the research. Surprisingly, typing "shower stalls" into a search engine turned up nothing NSFW. Ah well.

Another view to give an idea of scale. As one can see, the shower stall is just right.


For you perverts out there. And I know you're out there...


One more of these doors to do, then the exterior walls with built in shelves and the showers will be done. Then the sinks.

Here is what a finished shower will look like, more or less. Insomnia struck me so, meh, I finished it off. Yay progress.


Now to find some shampoo bottles in the right scale...

Thanks for stopping by.

shampoo bottles... the resident sprue doc would recommend ...sprue and carving...

playmobil stuff would probably be too much out of scale...

or use an epic marine and but a "cap" on it and you get one of these "toy" like shower bottles...^^

and checking in for pervert status

Bottles. You know you could make them out of... Oh... Vik got in there first...

If you carve the shape of the bottle into the end of a piece of sprue you have a nice handle to hold it with. Then once the shape is right, just cut it to length.

Oh, a little SM shampoo bottle would be hilarious. I will have to remember that one.

Good work Red.

I love nite-kiting, great if you have a glow-in-the-dark kite

And aren't granny bars the kind of place you'd find Wayne Rooney hanging around in?


All looking good here by the way Red

at the doc... I really have to remember that full length of sprue carving... that is so much more useful then carving from the needed length... (no pun intended...)

It is an old carving trick actually. I learned it doing wood-carving in Boy Scouts. WE were allowed to have knives back in the day when common :censored: sense still prevailed and people knew the difference between things meant as tools and things meant as weapons...

 monkeytroll wrote:
I love nite-kiting, great if you have a glow-in-the-dark kite

And aren't granny bars the kind of place you'd find Wayne Rooney hanging around in?


All looking good here by the way Red

Thanks. Granny Bars are where you would find Cougars, and not the feline kind . Nite-Kiting is a Class C felony in Maryland.

A q-tip (not sure the UK term... cotton swab on a stick) shaft, or a lollipop handle is about the right diameter for the bottle part. Find a way to put a cap on it, and a label (printed label. There's no way in the nine layers of Hell that I could paint that kind of detail) and I think it might work. Now, those round areas of a sprue piece are about the height and right diameter for the lotion and cold cream jars and tins though. I still have some sprue lying around -- too useful to throw out -- maybe I'll give it a go.

Thanks for the C&C guys. Much appreciated, as always, even if I don't always say it.

 Red Harvest wrote:
It is an old carving trick actually. I learned it doing wood-carving in Boy Scouts. WE were allowed to have knives back in the day when common :censored: sense still prevailed and people knew the difference between things meant as tools and things meant as weapons...

That's probably where I got it from then. That and my cavalier attitude to tree pruning that I mentioned somewhere else on DD.
Knife, Axe and Saw ftw.

Nite-Kiting is a Class C felony in Maryland.

That only makes me want to do it even more...

Ah no man, you don't want to end up in Supermax. Strangeways is a Club Med facility by comparison.

Anyway, it just occurs to me to use clear plastic straws like those that come with brushes. They may be about the right diameter for bottles ~2-2.3 mm dia. Fill them with a tinted epoxy, make a cap and boom, shampoo bottle. Or roll up clear plastic tape? Hmm, going to try it anyway. But that is down the road. Can't distract myself from the task at hand. Making sinks and toilets thrones.

A class C felony? Really? Umm, I'm at a loss there, or am I missing something...is nite-kiting slang for something I'm not aware of?

Brush protectors are possibly edging towards a tad on the big side, but should be workable.

 monkeytroll wrote:
A class C felony? Really? Umm, I'm at a loss there, or am I missing something...is nite-kiting slang for something I'm not aware of?

Brush protectors are possibly edging towards a tad on the big side, but should be workable.

No not a felony. As slang for anything, nothingt that I am aware of, but y'know, it sounds like it should be.

So more progress, well, of sorts. Proof of concept for the sinks. I used some...wait for it...paper and needles... (Surprised y'all, eh?) 110# paper anyway to make the sink part.



And painted it. For the sink drain I just punched a disc out of that nice chrome contact paper (which I used for the frosted shower door frames too) that I got in the supply drop from the LoER. (A lot of useful stuff in that drop. And I intend to use all of it ) I need to put a few coats of gloss varnish on it of course, to get a glazed porcelain look.


Unsure about the counter top though. Probably just treat it like a laminant surface, which is a pretty common thing in facilities. Although, making it marble might be kind of cool...

Anyway, the sink areas for the comfort station can now proceed, since I've figured out how to to the sinks.


They will have back splashes of course. Mirrors above and I may need to put some sort of cabinets below, so that they will stay in place when I need to take exploded view pictures-- ie the walls are pulled away.

I will add that the one bathroom for the adobe guest-house is starting to creep me out a bit. It is getting too realistic for my eyes. Hmm, maybe the goal should be that people cannot tell it is 28mm scale just from looking at the photos. Now that would be cool.... and a bit creepy too, but mostly cool.

C&C welcomed. Thanks for stopping by.

Doh...you got me

Sink looks great, that whole bathroom is looking excellent.

This continues to be impressive, good work

It's from Victoria Plumb...

(If you watch English TV you'll know the annoying reference...)

Nice sink work. Looks good.

You are doing a brilliant job, and giving us all a masterclass in modelling while you are at it.

Please keep it coming.

Victoria Plumb. Sounds more like the name for an 'escort' service eh? Man, that commercial is lame. But the music is even lamer. XD Good for a laugh though.

Thanks Doc. The tub will be coming soon enough Doc, and urinals too. Not sure about making she-inals for the lady's side of the comfort station though. (you'll have to google it.)

Thanks Cam. Progress is always slow and steady with me.

But here is a bit more. The purple is just rubber band to hold it together. Can't glue it all up until the inside is done. Figured I needed to finish the outside of the comfort station. So I started the roof


Made it to look similar to that of the hab modules of course. Then added what I think will be skylights. But I may make them vents, and put skylights on the slanted parts. Have to play around with that.


Also as seen in the last photo, whether to put windows over the sink and urinal areas? Undecided on that too.

A few shots for scale and comparison with the Hab Module.


Still need the stairs and the intakes for water and electrical, and the out-take for water too.

But it's closer to completion today than it was yesterday, so, me gusta.

Thanks for stopping by.

Damn fancy stuff, lookin good. I think I like the middle as sky lights.

Everything looks great.

Those hab modules ahve tons of tiny details

Thanks guys. I went with a mix of vents and skylights.

Hey Adamsouza from Massachusetts, do you know a Bill Souza? I vaguely recall somebody by that name from Massachusetts at the NOVA Open 2012. Can't remember what his army was though.

Anyway, a few WIPs


The skylights don't show as well as they should. Lighting, lighting, lighting. Also the stairs are in place. I simplified them from the orginal plan, and made them solid, so they can provide cover in-game. The *glass* is orange so it matches the original Porta-potty I did with the Hab modules.

EDIT: better look at the skylights/vents... and a need for a little filler work to Going to put solar panels on the sloping portions. I think they'll be a neat ( and one hopes, easy) detail.


Anyway, this is for Vik-- goblin is lower right

and why you should never let the Incredible Hulk use the Comfort Station after he has had a dinner at Taco Bell


Thanks for stopping by.

It's really impossible cool, Red. Way to set the bar!

 Red Harvest wrote:

........................Rhino.............Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Length.............6.55m...............6.55m
Width..............4.23m...............3.6m
Height.............2.72m................2.98m* (*includes turret)
[how the do you set up charts on this forum anwyay )

1. Setup chart in a text editor with a monospace font (any text editor is like that by default, just not Word and stuff), using tabs
2. copy paste into forum
3. put in a Code block
Rhino Bradley Fighting Vehicle Length 6.55m 6.55m Width 4.23m 3.6m Height 2.72m 2.98m* (*includes turret)
4. enjoy


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Also, your stuff is awesome.

The vent and skylights are excellent , nice work on the roof too, I think the hexes are starting to grow on me I will resist infinity I will resist infinity I will not open another browser window for miniaturemarket.......I hate you

Thanks guys and merci beaucoup Morgoth.

Theo, to help undermine your resistance, here is the blog for the Corvus Belli painting genius Angel Giraldez http://studiogiraldez.blogspot.com/. His stuff looks even better in person too. So I hear from, well, everybody.

So, are these believable as solar panels? I need to paint the frame of course, and add some wiring. I have some really thin like 30 gauge copper wire that will be just right, scale-wise.


I know it would be cool to use real panels, like those in solar powered calculators and all. Seriously a solar powered piece of terrain. Yeah. Definitely need to try that sometime. In the future. Gotta finish this first.

Thanks for stopping by.

I'd say they look pretty good for it.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Hey Adamsouza from Massachusetts, do you know a Bill Souza?

Souza is a common Portuguese last name. In Massachussetts there are a ton of us. Oddly enough, I can't say that I know a Bill Souza.

why you should never let the Incredible Hulk use the Comfort Station after he has had a dinner at Taco Bell

How did you do those solar panels? "Just" fancy painting or what else is involved here?

Also, with so much cheap camping equipment around these days, a guy that is half heartedly firm in electrics could probably use some to power his terrain for real...saw so much lanterns or garden lights....