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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

This is a simple project that i just finished that anyone can do .


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Warp-Screaming Noise Marine





Centerville MA

fix ze link

   
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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

Wow You where fast !

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Warp-Screaming Noise Marine





Centerville MA

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.

   
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Annoyed Blood Angel Devastator





Dundee

Nice simple conversion - better quality vid would have been good though. Not quite convinced the scale is suitable for 40k though.

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Sneaky Kommando





Nice one!

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.

 
   
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Hellish Haemonculus






Boskydell, IL

I'd love to see your work, but I can't watch videos on my computer.

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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

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 .

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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

I think the scale is good what do you all think .
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine





the Netherlands

if i reach out i can reach the top of a container, so i think its a tad too big...

other then that, its 40k universe! so everything is supposed to be bigger!!!

   
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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

I have a total of six done now .
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Hellish Haemonculus






Boskydell, IL

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.

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Death-Dealing Dark Angels Devastator





Where is a good place to find the cases you used for the containers?

I wouldn't mind making some myself.

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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

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 .

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Sneaky Kommando





Lots of them together look great! How many are you planning on making?

 
   
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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Seattle, WA USA

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

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Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller






The Peripheral

Nice, simple, and effective. Good find, thanks!

 
   
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws





New Jersey

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.

   
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Annoyed Blood Angel Devastator





Dundee

Fox Box wrote:Nice one!

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.

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JaxnFury wrote:
Fox Box wrote:Nice one!

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.

 
   
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Blood Angel Neophyte Undergoing Surgeries





Made something similar a while ago - if youre interested ive listed them on ebay:






http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190678050439?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649
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Bloodthirsty Bloodletter






USA, OREGON

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.

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