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Thanks, i was posting on another thread. When i came out i saw Shipping containers, I love shipping containers. I built a board based on Shipment from Call of Duty 4 that was made from AT-43 Shipping containers.
I love me some shipping containers too but they're a pain to make. I've created a master of a 40K scale shipping crate but can't really produce them at the moment. Making them a solid block out of resin would cost way too much and doing them out of plaster makes them too fragile.
fire4effekt wrote:Thanks, i was posting on another thread. When i came out i saw Shipping containers, I love shipping containers. I built a board based on Shipment from Call of Duty 4 that was made from AT-43 Shipping containers.
Do you have any photo's of the table I would love to see them .
The only poorly painted miniature is the one that is not painted.
Those look great! They are a little taller than the shipping containers I'm used to, but their scale in regards to each other looks great. (They remind me of boxcars kind of. I like it.) Thank you, incidentally, for posting the pictures! These will make amazing terrain.
Gundor wrote:Where is a good place to find the cases you used for the containers?
I wouldn't mind making some myself.
Daiso is the name of the store that I got mine . Daiso is a $1.50 store with Products from Japan we have a few in the Seattle and I believe that they are located through out the U.S. Look them up online and see if there is one near you .
The only poorly painted miniature is the one that is not painted.
Fox Box wrote:Lots of them together look great! How many are you planning on making?
As for now that is it because I am broke and have been unemployed for almost 3 months now . But once I get a job I want to build around 20 of this size and maybe 25 smaller containers as well .
Best of luck
The only poorly painted miniature is the one that is not painted.
They look great. Would love to see them painted. As for the scale, its believable. I don't think standard 18 wheelers exist in 40k. These would make sense on a galactic scale, I could see massive Titan sized loaders shuttling them of a massive ship. Maybe they hold mechanicum weapons, maybe they hold tanks for distribution. Maybe they hold chaos cultists trying to get smuggled onto imperial worlds.
I love me some shipping containers too but they're a pain to make. I've created a master of a 40K scale shipping crate but can't really produce them at the moment. Making them a solid block out of resin would cost way too much and doing them out of plaster makes them too fragile.
Perhaps one day soon I'll figure it out.
Make yourself a "plug". Basically a shape that fills in most of the empty space but leaves just enough for the resin to fill in around it. You can then ideally pop the plug out and reuse it, or just have one use plugs made out of foam or the likes that can be left in to make it more structurely sound.
I love me some shipping containers too but they're a pain to make. I've created a master of a 40K scale shipping crate but can't really produce them at the moment. Making them a solid block out of resin would cost way too much and doing them out of plaster makes them too fragile.
Perhaps one day soon I'll figure it out.
Make yourself a "plug". Basically a shape that fills in most of the empty space but leaves just enough for the resin to fill in around it. You can then ideally pop the plug out and reuse it, or just have one use plugs made out of foam or the likes that can be left in to make it more structurely sound.
A disposable plug could work. I'll speak to Jim at Hive City Terrain and see whether he can work it into his process. He's got my shipping container master I seem to recall.
It is as easy as it can be. I might do this as well. I magnetize all my miniatures bases. With this container you can magnetize the roof, then rivet a thin steel sheet to the inner base. That would make a carrying case as well as a terrain piece.
The scale is off, as in 2012 off, not 40000 off. But containers do come in all sizes; from a closet size to a tank size. I will go check the dimensions of the containers we have in the shop and see what we can do.
The Good: 8,000
Ultramarine, Scouts, Blood Angels, Dark Angels
The Bad: 8,000
Chaos, Daemons, Dark Eldar, Orks
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