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Barracks/Hab-complex

In IA4, the barracks are implied in size, never really playing a part in the story, and shown to be partially built into a hillside. So I took the liberty to make it fairly large and long to set it apart from the sideways sample storage rooms.


Since this pic, I’ve decided to make one end a full airlock, by dropping in an inner wall, with a single bulkhead. And the other end to have a single large airlock door on the outside, for dropping off supplies and storage using a Sentinel Loader, then two bulkheads on the inside for in/out shuffling of supplies.
http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/TrooperPX/Anphelion%20Base/DSC01025i.jpg

This end will be dedicated for supplies.
http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/TrooperPX/Anphelion%20Base/DSC01026i.jpg

The other end will be set up with living quarters along with a communal eating, prep area down the center. Dressing this room shouldn’t be too bad, I just have to decide on what to use to define the room separators.
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Here you see a slightly different style of soda crate used for living quarters rooms.
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Landing Pad

Here is the “completed” landing pad with a coat of textured spray paint.


I kept the loading ramp simple and low profile. Since I’m still not finalized on what will be landing on it, I kept it utilitarian and to the point.


Once I found the angle I needed (… not too steep for minis to stand on), basically a 6” move, then I glued some ¼” tile styrene sheet then sculpted in the mating shape to fit snug and flush for themost part.


This is how I resolved the deck being weakened by cutting it in half in order to fit into my storage totes. As seen in the first pic above, the cut is pretty had to see.


To get the support the same height as the center of the relaxed tray, I added a 1” sheet of blue foam, a ¼” sheet of luan and then a few pennies right at the edge. Now there is little to no movement when you put something onto it.


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Generatorum Control Room

This is the generator/engine room I made for the ship table. For this, all I did was add end walls with large airlock doors. Since this is meant to be out on it’s own, I do not have any connecting airlocks. It is exposed to the standars atmosphere and should be tended to by maintenance in Terminator armor… of a crew of Servators.


This tray is for 2-litre bottles. Yes, those are collapsible travel hair brushes. Then I ringed the whole tray in the matching brass sheet.
http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/TrooperPX/Anphelion%20Base/DSC01045k.jpg
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Each flat surface between the supports was the same width and a COD wall section, so I added three Manufacturum walls and one Mechnica wall to each side.
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General Storage

So here is an in-line storage unit


This room has two bulkheads on each end to facilitate better in/out flow of resources. I will have remote helpers, small forklifts, etc. that are small enough to fit through the bulkhead. These will be throughout the base as the ferry crates and canisters to and fro. “Supply Servators” if you will. Might throw WALL-E in there as a clean-up bot (… I found a PEZ topper just the right size).
http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/TrooperPX/Anphelion%20Base/DSC01055l.jpg
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Here is some gak that I made up for the ship table game. Now to actually paint it.
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Yet a third style of tray was used for storage. Here you can faintly see more Hirst Arts elements between the verticals and at the end. This is to represent a low lever containment field to help preserve rations, supplies, medical materials, etc. I just wanted to something different to the inside. Unfortunately, after putting in the work to do all of this, only then did I realize it would no longer stack or nest with the other trays (… I can nest and store the two sample rooms and both Hab pieces together in one deep tote, along with all of their door ends.) But this will have to be on it’s own. That works out as I can also fill it with all the gak that will be in there anyway.
http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/TrooperPX/Anphelion%20Base/DSC01060l.jpg
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Cant wait for this to be finnished, it would be awsome to play a game in it

Wow, this just keeps getting better and better

Love those coke boxes - they look really great.

I've been toying with the idea of building an arena and haemonculi lab for my DE, and this is really inspiring. I'm going to have to swipe some ideas.

Here are some new pics of the primed and textured rooms on my new Tyranid Hive terrain table:














And with the final colors on. (...at some point I'll be weathering this a bit, but for now this is the color and texture for the complex: Painter's Touch grey primer - Rustoleum black textured paint - dusting of purple - dusting of navy blue - dusting of black.)






Just completed the roofs for the corridors, crossroads and Specimin Containment. Those pics next.

Some sample pics of the completed - and painted - Anphelion Base.

I have enough rooms and accessories to fill a 24' table now. Enteriors will happen when they do, and with a club-painting day I'll get some weathering on the outsides. But for now it's 100% presentable and playable!

Every structure has a cover. For gameplay, I wanted the option to put a "surprise" inside different rooms and corridors: maybe one or two Genestealers, a remnant squad of IG, lonley Servitor...







A couple of shots with the flash... really picks out the layers of blue and purple, while the black top dusting shows up more in regular lighting from above. Here is my Sky Talon comming in with another supply container. My power loader warms up to help offload supplies.







The one unique corridor section leading to the Admin room, with the COD wall sections facing in.



Sample Holding Area and the Xenos Laboratory Sanctum. Reinforced airlock on either end, leading to the lab. The lab has a cut-out raised roof, to accomodate the various servo and droid arms that will be about the discetion tables inside. A unique corridor section leads from the lab to the rest of the complex. This will have various monitors and biometrics referencing what's happening inside.











Lastly for this update, the Habbitation section. A double-long room made from the Pepsi trays. It was walled up using individually cut out pieces of plexi and snapped in place between the can seperators inside. This made them flush, but preserving the really cool industrial details outside. One loose wall piece was kept loose, so the two sections can be stacked and storred. The piece fits in like a shim, locking the pieces together almost seamlessly. The room is two sections while the roof is three sections. This was the only way I could equally space the three domes I wanted it to have.

Looking good - can't wait to see it all painted up inside

Wow !!! What and EPIC project !!!

I'd love to play on / in that terrain !!!

Can't wait to see how you detail out the interior. Have any specific ideas ? Science wing? Bio lab? Containment cells? Troop barracks? Armoury?

Great work !!!

Yes, yes and yes...

I have two gallon-bags of gak to sort through and put about. Lots of ammo crates, stowage boxes, widgets, etc. Not sure how to theme them up yet.

Im struck