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Hi

I (with some freinds) have built a lot of scenery to our own 2nd ed 40k hybrid games, the setting is on some desert type planet, somewhere in the vast dark (evil, only war) future 40k universe..
i got tons of pictures from finish to start, but its a ongoing project so i will be posting as its moves forward... starting with some settlements. this is how i mainly been building these houses, qutie simple. with foamboard or cardboard, then carpenter spackle/putty and varius plastic caps and tubing.

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more to come

Awesome!!!!

inexpensive terrain that looks good!

Post more, more more!!!

Also, would love to hear more about the Spackle you use, and how deal with;
* It soaking tons of paint (depending on how porous)
* does it chip? do you seal it?
* Do you spread it with a small trowel? or by fingers/hand?
* how thick is the base?

thanks for sharing!

"Spackle" covers a range of plaster-type fillers.

They range from thin "skimcoat" (to cover taped joints) type stuff to your thicker filler (holes and stuff). The thin stuff can often be rolled on with a paint roller.

Are the Roofs on the rooms remove able? Are they supported by something underneath?

Yes all roofs are removable, they are supported by bits of balsa or beechwood. I use a peice of card, knife or my fingers to spread out the spackle, sometimes i also use plaster. Then i use sandpaper on the surface to make it smoother. The base and roofs are 3-4mm masonite. More pics will show up soon!


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heres some more pictures of half-finished civilian type houses, maybe i will do another thread to show finished stuf in, or maybe i show it all here...


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some may notice that i ditched the cardboard(but still usefull in lack of foundings!) for foamboard here, i generaly use 2 difirent types, one thats 5 mm, and one thats 10mm.

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This blog is full of win! and cardboard. I love it!

This is god stuff. Thanks for the ideas. Time for me to try this.

nicely done, looking foward to seeing more terrain!

Very nice. I use a water based spackle that I thin and brush on things like this.

thanks all! yes, more terrain.

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these are bits from bottles, old ship models, and just alot of plastic junk that you can find outside.. if you fix your eyes at the ground

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one thing that puts the soul in this type of terrain is the scrap, all the junk. I try to catch the feeling of a really drty place, references are alot of real afghanistan, iraqi pictures. and star wars, tattoine, inspired me alot!


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you know that scene in the first star wars movie, when luke returns from seeing Ben, to his foster parents and its just burned corpses left of them, i loved that scene so much... t was strong, and that is what i had in my head when i started with these terrain

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aah smart, didnt think of that, have to try it, on bigger areas like walls and such!


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More details, croc skin, made in sculpey.

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Some ingame photos!

the SM are my compadre´s, a link to his ubercool stuf, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/473679.page Check it out, his Skaven is the bomb!

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The tau will get their own thread, if someones intrested
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So after building some of these type of settlements, i wanted to go big. So why not build a chrashed spaceship...

The sketches looked like this

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the ship comed up as a idea when i found a Tractor toy in the yard, i "obtained" it.

The thing i was after, was not to do something too much of sci-fi, i wanted it to have the feeling of a freigth train or a cargoship, so the tractor peice was right up my alley.

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The base is cardboard.

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then i proceeded with more carboard, in different layers and plastic details.

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The cargoport in the front was made with balsa and masonite, i wanted a heavy look.

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The thrusters in the back was made from plastic pipes and the wheels from the tractor!

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this peice was becoming my baby, i painted it, and nonetheless i cut it in two

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I started with the interior, where the ship was broken

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I "lifted" in the peice when it was painted

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After tihs i fastened the peices on a base of masonite and further painted it with both airbrush and brush.

The port

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I really wanted the gritty look, so i did alot of weathering...

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A nob searching for... other nobz maybe?

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A tank busting up!

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This is all great. The size of the gaming pieces is really impressive. the realism to all of it would work really well for modern wargaming. The crashed spaceship reminds me of some old second edition terrain in white dwarf. I image its a inter-system transporter. Why did you change the paint scheme on the ship? How long do you usually spend on each peice?

Also did I mention this looks really cool!

Great scenery, simple but effective and the crashed transporter is spot on, love the use of the old tractor toy, have an image of some poor child rummaging through the yard in search for his toy O well there loss

Cant wait to see what comes up next have you considered some tall tower like building for the desert scene, great for snipers.

Dear god man. Phenominal work. I just might borrow (steal) some of these ideas.

hi and thanks for the kind words!

zwan1one: the ship was really time consuming, i got tired in the end.
The first colour i wanted was a ligther industry like grey, then i wanted it darker, but in the end i didnt have the time (becamed a father right then ) so i just weathered it down to a rusty peice of wreckage.
I dont know the hours spent, but its quite much!
Before this sets of 40k buildings i did alot of houses for Mordheim, the time spent on these varied from 6-7 hours, to maybe 25h on some.

@lone dirty dog, there are a few higher peices ideal for sniping, i will post them soon, i made them this summer to the very same themed table!

and ye, steal away, i stoled it and got inspired from a bunch of stuf and thanks again, it makes me really devoted to continue with all the cheering! and excuse my (sometimes) bad spelling bcuse im not english speaking

I'd be interested in a tau blog on those models they look nice

Greetings, Here comes the snipers nest, two different but quite similar radio/satellite control stations!

This summer i was invited to attend a summer camp for kids in norway, it was everything from roleplaying to miniuature wargaming to dressing up like a vampire (or something like that) a really nice oppurtunity to get away and build for some days, i held a workshop in building scenery! so i did these two stations like a example on wath you can do..

The basing is styrodur, (it has different names everywhere) then just foamboard and detailing like metal fence and so on!



I sculpted the styrodur with a knife!


Then onto the airbrushing, saves a lot of time but you could prime it with a brush first so the airbrush colours stick to it bether..




this is how they eventually turned out



The smaller station


the bigger one


outdoors playing rocks!






I will be posting the factory soon....



Thank you for looking













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Tau cadre will emerge soon, just have to put up some more terrain peices

Nice lookouts like the use of rock to give the elevation, making them radio towers was a clever idea indeed gives reason for the hight.

I think a round tower (toilet roll shape but higher and wider) would still be a cool addition to your scenery, but thats just my opinion.

thanks! we have something like that, a couple of silos a freind made. ( the only other guy making scenery for this table, skimutis.)




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So i agree with you i actually put snipers on the right one last time i played

Wow your fast, these are do cool and that space ship is amazing!

Thank you but all of this was done from januari to now, so i dont work That fast

Amazing stuff. Your pieces will be a great help for building Lut Gholein from Diablo II.

Are you serious! That would be real heavy, what are your intentions with a table like that? Some mordheim type game would be cool, wasn’t it a expansion like that if i remember correctly?

Man great looking table. Really like what you did. Subbed.

Those are some mighty solid terrain pieces! Very inspiring! Good to have your thread here, keep up

That wreck is so cool as is the other bits you have made keep up the work

Wow thank you guys, more pics are coming tonight!

Eagerly waiting update...

That crashed ship looked like the resource harvester from the game Homeworld (the first one)

Hi!

Been away for some time:/

Heres four more settlements, one painted the others are patiently waiting











a tau character


another one


Thanks for having a look!

//christian

HA HAH AH HAH LOVE EM !!! look like crazy pilots this just keeps getting better