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Well, my first thought was to go back to my orky terrain - cardboard tubes aplenty in my collection, and I'm relatively sure I can make one that's not too complex to take me forever

However, I'm probably going to let ideas float for a while, have a sift through the junk box sections of my bits, see what else comes up. It's almost as though my first thought is too easy....although I did also contemplate making a space station out of coke cans...scenery for some kind of game set in space (I'm thinking ISS or Mir type of thing, so not the right scale for Trek or SW).

We'll see.....

Already well into it, Riveters, and they look great already. Shouldn't be too much of a challenge, as most of the terrain I've got is like this - silos made from Red Bull cans, storage tanks made from pill bottles (see last LoER challenge), or from baked beans tins...

Although I do have this giant formula tin my sister left here. And I'm sure I can push myself to eat another tin of beans - giant silo incoming! I'll have to up my game, now that I've seen what the competition is like ;P.

I love those little dumpsters, /user/Dr H[/user], and Snrub, yours look cool already. Better get on it, and not tell my wife I'm avoiding uni work by building more terrain...

Oh, I also saw this on the Dakka gallery the other day, reminded me of your top photo, Dr H: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/692800-Hendricks%20Imperial%20Officer%20Bar%20Front.html

Oooh making stuff for the x/attack wing scale sounds pretty neat...

Gonna see if I can figure something out with my tower first though. Still need to remove the motherboard but, really, I think there's plenty of access on two sides. Just gotta figure out what building would benefit from the shape so I can decide which bits to add. Initial thoughts are maybe factory or warehouse but I dunno.

I've been thinking of having it lay flat but I suppose I really shouldn't automatically dismiss leaving it upright as a proper tower... Upright it could become an office or apartment building... If I flip it to rest on the top instead of its feet, the openings should be close to or at ground level. The clear side panel would act as a cut-away or perhaps a chic modern megawindow, could give individual rooms privacy screens, oooh in the form of advertising holos .

Might be getting ahead of myself here lol... There would be enough rooms that I'd be better off casting furniture/office equipment...


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Looking at it again... It really wants to be industrial or maybe military... Or down right necromunda salvage city.

Huh... Maybe a hive/nest for space ratmen.. Gonna have some of those from Mantic eventually... Would let me work from the scrap/necromunda angle... Now I can see sections for salvage work.. Tables and big bins of parts, maybe even part of a tank... Could be a command room up top for the head rats and a lookout post, maybe some gun stations... Hrmrmrmrmmm.

Good to see things settling down and ideas being thrown about (or floated if you're MT; you're in the best place for that ).

Welcome aboard, Graven. Good luck.

Chris': Those dumpsters in particular were made by Camkeirhi. Although I believe the original idea came from GrimDork.

Keep throwing ideas about, people. Help each other out with suggestions, and keep spreading the word.

Oh go on then, I'll throw my hat in the ring too, thanks to Monkeytroll's poking. I need to wait until monday before I can get the parts... I have a couple of old mac mini sized harddrive cases at work that might make for an interesting landing pad or bunker. I can't remember how thick they are though...

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Heh- you know what would be neat? A big 'ol Grimdark clock-faced landing pad. Pity there aren't any Time or Clock themed Imperium factions.

Actually... there is. There's the Ordo Chronos in Codex: Inquisition. This branch of the Inquisition monitors time anomalies that occur as part of warptravel. For example when a ship vanishes for years and then reappears, believing they have only been gone a day. That sort of thing

Good good. Welcome endtransmission. Good luck.

You've got until June, so a couple of days shouldn't cause too much trouble.

June huh? Surely I can come up with something this time

Getting a bit more excited about the scrap/space-rat-men junk/salvage tower thing. I can see a little mine cart type track running through the middle of the ground level, with a bunch of bins (hello pill sorters) filled with scrap for refurbishing and processing. And some work tables to make new stuff. The tracks will proceed out the far side on the ground level.

The thing is nearly two feet tall so I'm gonna have to have several 'floors', I just don't know if I want to make floors or have a 'high ceiling' and make use of the vertical space with gantries and platforms rather than proper floor/ceilings. Almost seems like I should leave the ceiling high unless I'm willing to introduce ducts on the ground floor, they'd all die from smoke inhalation from their processing...

Those little pill-box dumpsters look really good, I've now added them to the thing to keep an eye out for. :-)

GrimDork: Would it be possible for you to build it so the tower can be layed on its side(flat), or standing upright like a highrise (so it can be able to be used either way)?

TP^DC Deputy Manager: Are you going to keep the clock hands on your landing pad as some sort of turn timer?

Hm, so I've been mostly joking around as the last one I only had a strong wip by the end of the contest.

However, I'm pretty bummed about the Plasma Obliterator. I may have to find something for this contest to re-purpose into one now.

So I guess that's a "tentative," yes I'm in.

Make the tower able to be a squat lower building AND be tall? Probably not without a crapload of magnets or screws... Its an interesting idea but I dunno that I could pull it off. The lynchpin for the project's success is going to be an overwhelming amount of small bits and details, since nothing small at my skill level would ever win the comp, I have to go with the quality OF quantity

Ugh! Nothing is calling to me yet.

All of these ideas seem so neat but nothing has made me go !

AHHH all ma stuff has arrived! (ordered some water effects stuff, as i've been meaning to get some, but never got round to it - using you guys as an excuse!)

Sooooo looking forward to this

Ahoy all!
Some cracking ideas forming already!

Have got my parts ready..... going to be using the 2 printer cartridge packets as the main parts... but as you can see... there are a load of other bits amd bobs going to be added.

Not giving away too much but its going to be a power / fuel relay station....

Going to start to bring it together this afternoon! Good luck everyone!

So I'm sure you'll all recognise this...




That's right, a Mk IV Warhamster Tank with Goliath Sonic Projector.....


Or maybe it's just my pile of starting bits. I think I'll go with the cardboard tube and a CD as my two items. My original plan for these bits included several pieces of textured plasticard, but I'm now thinking that I'm going full green on this one, and only plan to use recycled bits. We'll see if that works........

You could build a refinery from all that Monkey. Use the cup and tube as a distant pipe, the cd for bases, the main tube being the storage tank.

Don't mind me though, I'm dumb.

I have a couple of potential pieces just need to work out what to do with one of them though I have 2 pieces the same but they are counting as one piece for reasons that will make sense later.

Plus Got to eat an extra pudding

Hi all... wip of the power relay.... got the first take om the base put together. Made from polystyrene pizza bases (unused) and then a first coat of wall filler to make the first idea of terrain and levels. One of the power relays is going to be destroyed and the other still imtact. Got a lot of piping and other little detaisl to add.

IMHO its goimg to be a nice one to do and hopefully fits the bill!

Cheers all!

& MonkeyTroll..... I like the look of that so far!

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TP^DC Deputy Manager: Are you going to keep the clock hands on your landing pad as some sort of turn timer?

The plan had been to remove the clock face and use the plate as a pad that could be moved up and down so it could double as terrain and a fortification. I can't figure out an easy way to make that happen though. I may resort to leaving the clear glass face and remove the mechanism and face behind so the landing pad is clear and almost a force-shield pad (or something )

Not a dumb idea at all Stormwall - that was what those bits were earmarked for The very fact of that being the plan for them is why I changed the plan for this comp

So, in lieu of plasticard I wrapped a sheet of paper round the tube using evostik, to help hide the give-away twirly seam that comes with cardboard tubes. And to try and texture the cd I covered it in bostik, then placed some wet kitchen towel on it, liberally applied pva glue and added another sheet of kitchen towel.



After that I tried to add further texture by applying a mix of black ink and pva to the surface (once it had dried) then pressing it against some aluminium mesh. Wasn't the greatest result, and was further compounded by a 'little' spillage when adding some metallic paint......guess I'll just have to corrode the feth out of it





Added a further sheet of paper to the main tube, as the first hadn't hidden the seam that well. Chopped the end of the brush holder at an angle and stuck it to the dessert cup. Sanded a flatish area and stuck the j-bend pipe to that, then filled the space at the top (once the bottom) of the cup with a screw cap from some small container and the blue bit of plastic - think that was once used as part of an DIY eyehole for putting in plastic sheeting.

And that's where it is for now.......

Solar Shock - let me know how those water effects turn out - I'm always looking at products like that, and disappointed in my 'layer-upon-layer of PVA' turns out!


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Here are a couple of things I've been working between last round and this one:



Sorry about the phone-quality photos!



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And here's the rough form of what I'm working on this time - an even larger silo, with a couple of smaller tanks and what-not.

It'll need some pipes and doohickeys, and I'm planning a stairwell made of granny grating, with handrails and supports made of sprue, and I've got a Rhino top hatch that I'm planning on making into the doorway on the ground floor. And rivets, of course!



And, just for scale, the Predator lurking next to the formula tin




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I also made some shipping containers:



There, I'm done, I'll leave you alone for a while!

Corrugated cardboard as corrugated iron? Nice use.


Also- watch your pipe joints there- that first pic has a pretty obvious gap between the straight side of the horizontal pipe and the curve of the vertical tank- fill that in with GS, put a hole in the vertical pipe, or just stuff it with glue and sawdust or paper-maché- something to cover or fill the gap, to allow it to join properly. Rougher textures can be passed off as corrosion, but smooth edges on gaps like that...

Anvildude I wondered how the hell I was going to fix that without resorting to mathematics! I've got some greenstuff in the freezer I was going to turn into some sandbags - I'll definitely try to fill that gap.

Is it too late to sign up? I will join this one

Good progress people. Nice ideas.

Never too late to sign up (except for when the competition has actually ended).
Welcome aboard, Keltikhoa. Good luck.

Bah. So much for my prediction of "completed in ~4 days".

That's ok, Snrub. We like ambition around here.

Inspiration has hit!

I wish my inspiration would happen to be things I know how to make, but what the heck right?

Sorry my pic is blurry. It is an ice cream container and the protective edges that come from a new laptop.

I am thinking jungle temple ruin. What do you think?

great starts constructors.
Any idea is great and with interesting materials for build.

something new from me
shield generator is rising....

Is that a Squat, Tek Thornison? I've never seen one - do you have an entire Squat army?

Hi guys, I need some advice regarding size of final piece. If I use the clock it's going to be at least 12 inches to start with. By the time you add in a ramp to get up to the landing pad it's going to end up being about 2 foot by 15 inches. I don't play games of 40K due to a lack of time and nervousness about starting at a late age, I'm therefore a painter/modeller. This means I don't factor size into my plans. Is this too big if I ever take the plunge and play a game, or is that ok?

Here's my plan:


The clock will be on a central column and there'll be a ramp connecting to lava rocks the pedestal will be in a lava field. There will be a sensor drone tower on a nearby rock.

Would be grateful for thoughts. Cheers