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Decided to start a blog of my various terrain projects that are created in my basement as a way to have a record of them all in one place.

Over the years I have hoarded a large stash of Necromunda bulkheads. In the past year or so i have decided I need to stop hoarding and start building with them, which spawned many of the projects below.

To kick it off I managed to finish up a piece of LOS-blocking industrial terrain tonight using some of the many Necromunda bulkheads I have accumulated as a base, with some COD components added:


Nothing special but it serves it's purpose(blocking LOS/being an obstacle) and it will integrate nicely with my other urban/industrial pieces...

Below are some of my other projects to add a little more varied content to the blog.

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Fortified perimeter defense gun:



Some of my urban/COD terrain:



Imperial pulley device:





Sniper's roost:

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More Imperial "sprawl":


Moving forward I will be adding new projects and pieces as they are created.

Finally managed to get a bigger ruin together. Here are some WIP pics of the basic structure:


This is based off of pieces from two GW Shrine of The Aquilla kits, with some added pieces from other gw ruin kits and various bits, etc.

As usual I had to strike a balance between making it look rubble filled and being optimized for playability.

In these pics I have just base coated it thus far.

makes a nice central ruin for COD games, etc.

C&C welcome.

Really cool buildings you have there, makes me jealous . Any more pictures of the imperial sprawl?

Blitza da warboy wrote:Really cool buildings you have there, makes me jealous . Any more pictures of the imperial sprawl?

I'll be taking some more soon.

I just made a large purchase of terrain kits for use in some new projects, so Ill post some pics as I add new pieces.

Great work CT! Always nice to see more terrain threads of a high quality. The Aquila kit bash looks interesting and I love the maintenance garage! Keep up the great work friendo

would we be able to post our own terrain here? I like to see others terrain but there are to many jumbled up threads to do it properly.

The new building looks a bit too symmetrical to me. Have to say your other buildings look pretty damn cool though.

Would love to see you take on some kind of machine shop/cargo interchange type building.

Looking great!

SilverMK2 wrote:The new building looks a bit too symmetrical to me. Have to say your other buildings look pretty damn cool though.

I had the same thought when I went back to look at it the other night.

I have been doing some work on it to break up the lines a bit more. Once it is finished I'll post some updated pics.

Great stuff man! I especially like the tank servicing building!!

Some updated WIP shots of the buiding:

That's some realistic terrain. Really liking the grimy feel of it.

Thanks.

It seems my latest order has been delayed due to out of stock items, so my progress has been slowed for the time being as far as new projects.

Stay tuned...

Destroyed beauty! Love it!

I don't know what Silver is talking about...I like the symmetry! Tall square building = grim dark future

Some cool pieces, I already know what ideas I'll steal

I love the look of Necromunda bulkheads and cities of death bits. Really comes out nice.

Keep up the good work man.

Finally after a slight delay my next shipment of plastic crack has arrived:


First up I think will be to get started on planning/dry fitting a modified Fortress of Redemption that will have the robed DA tower replaced with a tower made from these:


WIP pics to come...

Nice, new kit smell.

jabbakahut wrote:Nice, new kit smell.

Yeah, that IS a great smell.

Still working out how best to mate the new tower to the fortress cleanly, so for now a few pics showing the latest building fully weathered and amoungst my other pieces (and with a few models for flavor):

Love the pictures! You get a real sense of atmosphere, like a desperate battle has been won or lost depending on your alignment.

Kudos buddy, and I can't wait to see how your kit bash turns out

Cool stuff I'd game at your place for sure!

Thanks for the feedback.

Did a little dry-fitting work on the replacement tower for my "Fortress of The Aquilla" (more generic Imperial and less Dark Angel):



The heavy bolter emplacement pieces from the bastion fit into what used to be the doors of the Aquilla tower nicely and will need little work to make seamless.

I will be adding some additional buttressing eventually, but still working out the details.

Still a fair amount of work to do, but I can sort of see my vision coming together.

C&C welcome...

The tower of the Aquilla does look good

Also love the shots of the table "in action" - good atmosphere.

With summer break here decided to get started on a New project: A large Imperial structure for use in an upcoming scenario game in the family 40k campaign between my sons and I (my biggest to date using GW kits).




The piece is designed as a "partial structure" that is placed against a board edge as shown. It is just under 3' wide allowing movement/roadways on either side when placed.

This is still very much a WIP as what you see above is the basic layout blocked out.

Much detailing, battle damage and adding of rubble to come as well as the need to design a partial/damaged peaked roof of corrugated metal.

In particular I plan to add two more openings (breaches) in the front wall that could be used by infantry to gain access bringing the toal to five access points at ground level spread around the three sides.

C&C welcomed.

WOW! That is a lot of SotA kits!! Looks great though! I love the bitz in that kit!

dsteingass wrote:WOW! That is a lot of SotA kits!! Looks great though! I love the bitz in that kit!

It is a great kit.

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Managed to finish up a post-apocalyptic battlefield themed board I wanted to build:







I wanted a board that looked like a blasted and burning wasteland, perhaps ravaged by orbital bombardment, etc. Not a lot of intact structures, just a few jagged ruins and burning craters .

Wanted a sort of desolate and scoured/barren look.

Closeup of the ruins:


The five GW craters are imbedded in the table surface and blended in via the texturing:



Smoke plumes are big enough to block LOS and we will play them as dangerous to non-vehicles. We will play the craters as "impact craters" and the ruins as "unbased ruins" as per the 6th edition rulebook.

Motivation: I had those old GW ruins and the craters sitting in one of my bits boxes, so this was an excuse to put them to use. Besides an area of our Golov campaign setting will make good use of this table.

Ruins and plumes are NOT affixed and thus removable (Craters are built into the table as already mentioned).

C&C welcomed.

Absolutely delightful!