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Wow. A proper retro chicken bot. Nice.

I have some old GW robots that I should paint up and add to the display!

@ Brian- That is an excellent reproduction of that robot. I have it and I've never done anything w/ it. I might have to change that at some point.

And then...

 dsteingass wrote:
See..now THAT is a proper mess where you can get some work done!!

Digging into your ol' buddy Skalk on a different thread? For shame!

I'd never dream of it Skalk!

I still can't find Gak I put away the last time I cleaned!

thats way cool brian!

Oh yeah...chicken-bots agogo

Looking sweet so far Bri

Why, yes. I am, in fact, cutting up a rare, OOP Games workshop Cities of Death battle mat.

Why do you have that look on your face?

That's a look of approval

I'm all about cutting up rare OOP stuff - there should be more of it going on

Too right. Folk are too bloody precious

Hey, look! A diversion!







The table...is set!

OOOh diversioney!
..But the bug was a diversion from the fliers, which wasa diversion from the starport, which was a diversion from the Ordinatus, which still sports my MK 1 Nuka Cola prototype?

Nice. Is that built in craters I see in the pictures?

Yes, the battlemap had craters and floors for all the buildings, open spaces, etc. It was quite the map! Too bad GW will NEVER PUT ONE OUT EVER AGAIN.

More progress.

Using 3M spray mount 77 and a rolling pin. Noticing that edges don't want to stay down. I'll have to touch up with glue, and weigh everything down for 24 hours, I think. Thankfully, the building sections can achieve that by stacking themselves up. I'll flip the 2x4 road sections upside-down for their glue setting time.

MEANWHILE...

I've painted the edges of the templates with light grey, to simulate concrete curbs (kerbs for you weirdo Brits), as well as cover up the fact that I did not use a guide to make my ripsaw cuts.



Tools of the trade.



Curbs!

I hate spray glue..never works right for me. If that fails, get one of those household trim-painting rollers (6 inches long or so) and roll on white glue.

Ayup. I have a lot of experience with 3M spray mount, so I should be set. I just need to remember setting time, etc.

Hey, look! A diversion

LOL

creative minds seldom concentrate on one thing...and you´re bloddy creative as it gets...

that robot chicken walker hopefully sees some paint sooner than later tho...

The baseboard is now complete.



After a short internal debate, I am going to glue the raised sections directly to the supporting MDF boards. The purpose of this project is to build an ultra-portable cityfight board. To achieve this, the actual buildings need to be removed from the baseboards, and then tesselate/fit into a single box easily. This means a few design considerations come into play:

1) The buildings themselves (walls, etc) cannot have floors. This would increase bulk, and difficulty of storage.
2) The buildings themselves need to have a height consideration. More than a couple of floors, and some way of dismantling them needs to come into play. Obviously with rare earth magnets, this becomes a lot easier.
3) The buildings are going to be mostly two-sided, as there is a LOT of corner space here.
4) Creating pathways between upper floors allows me to use the conveniently-labelled 4x4 section of the original map for skirmish games such as Necromunda. Look for the yellow-and-black hazard striping that separates the furthers 2x4 section of board. Good design on GW's part.
5) Land Raiders will not fit up the roads without a little work (need to set back the walls about 1/4" from the sidewalks, give or take.
6) Superheavies are RIGHT OUT.
7) Depending on the height of the buildings, many Flyers will be problematic. I kinda don't have a problem with that...

Because of #1 and #2, I can glue the floor templates down to the underlying 2x4 MDF boards. This means easier setup and takedown.

Yes, I understand I can not glue the bases down, and use the buildings elsewhere. Just lay down the floor template, lay down the building, and go. I may still do this, but the primary goal here is to get a very portable, very playable, easy to set up cityfight board into my inventory. Everything else is tertiary at best.

I will ponder this on the tree of woe, while I enjoy the snowpocalypse.




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Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd a size test. For those of you who haven't ever seen this Battlemat, here's an idea of how tight things actually are. There are sidewalks, which allow for sponsons to exist. But that land raider? NOT SO MUCH. Good job, GW.

Of course, this mat was made before the large oval base was invented...or non-forge-world flyers...



But the artwork on the mat? ACES!

Still very impressive.. thou the LR may not fit. Not every city in the Imperium with city planning needed to consider this when being built.

As for aircraft.. not many are designed for combat inside and around tall buildings ( today even) anyway so that makes perfect sense. Usually they bomb you from miles away or miles above . So I think it's very realisitc. citys are flattened or taken by boots on the ground!

(Yes, I know my avatar is still Christmas. BUT IT IS SO VERY PRETTY LIKE ME.)

Look! Bundt cake!











This building is in honor of ArbitorIan.

That is badass Brian!

I love it!

Oh very cool Brian, liking that a lot

This is image #667. The previous image is the IMAGE OF THE BEAST. And now you know.

Work. In. Progress.



Looking at my available wall sections, including the sexy necromunda bulkheads, I probably do not have enough STUFF for the table. However, I do have a lot of Necromunda cardboard terrain.

I could pull a Dave or a Skalk, and kinda go to town on replicating in plasticard...OR I could TOTALLY paint the entire town in garish 90's Games Workshop schemes, with hazard stripes EVERYWHERE...and use the Necromunda terrain AS IS.

I'm sorely tempted.

I also have the foamcore cityfight terrain templates, too.

Again, Tempting as hell.

Thoughts?

Make all the terrain! And flyers. And mecanicus.

The flyer is a bitch, let me tell you. Still pissed at FW for pulling the Aquila Lander.

Mechanicus moves forward, I have the cultists, some more servitors on the way, my HQ, two of three Demon Princes, all three Chaos Spawn, the fort (which I have to trace) and the Forgefiend. I have to build a third Daemon Prince, finish the flyer, and build a Giant Chaos Spawn. Uh, I mean, another robot. ^_^

Then, it is to the airbrush!

Now, now, don't get distracted from your distraction project.

Not enough stuff to do there Bri, you need more projects on the go......

My my Brian, I thought id come on here to return the favour of you commenting so very much on my blog and I have to say im very glad i did! Also i'm totally overwhelmed, your hobby table must be a giant rotating disk and you just sit there manically painting and glueing whatever happens to be passing at the time! I thought i was an ADD hobbyist!

So I shouldn't mention my all-girl-action-squad-inquisitorial-band?