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After a long while I come back to dakka, to show my latest work (and the first one worth posting):








what do you think?

That is quite incredible. Even though it's not painted the attention to detail is fantastic. Your usage of CoD pieces have made a great scene.

I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Cheers,

Jack.

Some really great ideas in here. I love how the use of polystyrene packaging as simple 'stone platforms' for your buildings really increases the height and granduer of the CoD bits...

Excellent work, beautiful integration of existing buildings into your new designs.

Nice, very nice.

I like the mix between GW and non GW stuff.

Great setting and scene I agree. I wish I had such a board with such detail to play on!

Very impressive! I like the combination of scratchbuilds and plastic kits. Roughly how high are the buildings compared to minis?
And any chance of a front view of the statue in the last pic?

Keep up the good work- can't wait to see it painted!

The structure of the table is based on 30x30 cm modules, just like this:


for scale purpose you can see a IG on the balcony, in the front shot of the clock tower, or down there in the middle of the board


The statue is a 40 mm plastic figure, some WW2 german officer I think, the only shot of him is the following:

Absolutely awesome.

looks excellent. What are your painting plans? With buildings this nice, please do not go the usual route of painting everything monochromatic grey...

That's awesome

Great looking stuff! get some paint on it!

What are you going to do paint wise for the statue? Like are you going to go for a green verdigris or an iron, rust or something else?

That is so awesome.

How long did it take to do?

absolutely beautiful! love it!

Lexx wrote:What are you going to do paint wise for the statue? Like are you going to go for a green verdigris or an iron, rust or something else?

DOn't really know yet, I think I'll go for a dark metallic like boltgun, but I'm not really good (or patient) on painting.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:How long did it take to do?

5-6 months, working o sundays afternoon, holydays and such, while watching old star trek series (lot of dialogue, very good to keep you company while wasting time with toy soldier)

lasgunpacker wrote:looks excellent. What are your painting plans? With buildings this nice, please do not go the usual route of painting everything monochromatic grey...

I'm afraid that the plan for now is a good passage or two with grey spray and then a lot of drybrush, and then some detail.
I need to finish it by march for the Imperial Battle (Italian private event) and I still need to do another 60x30 block, texture the street, paint it all up and then do a whole new board webway themed, so I'm pretty much pressed at the moment (in the meantime I still need to go on with the rest of my life, you know: work, university, fencing, kendo...).
Hope I'll not find a girlfriend in the meantime.

I promise I'll get creative with the drybrush colors anyway

while its amazing at the moment i cant help but feel that the roads are too clear, with the battledamage to the buildings maybe add some rubble etc?

big mek boomsnikk wrote:while its amazing at the moment i cant help but feel that the roads are too clear, with the battledamage to the buildings maybe add some rubble etc?

you are right, as soon as I finish the last block I'll give some texture to the streets

I like how you ripped up some electronics cushion foam and placed building ruins around
that. Hope you have a plan for paint!