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Everything about this whole thread is amazing...
Good luck to you guys!

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edit - yes it had!

WarMill wrote:How about Roads?

Roads are an interesting problem - lots of people will want lots of different styles.

Your best bet (especially given your other modular work) is to make a modular road system - seperate kerbs/pavement sections that either rest on or clip into road surface sections, or can be bought seperately for people who want to edge buildings, or use their own road surface (I've seen people using painted fine sand to look like pretty good tarmac). Also means people can choose between wide main roads and small alleys without you having to make up loads of different widths and complex segments.

A selection of long and short straight pavement sections, 30-90 degree bends (or bend segments in line with your fort corners? I can't remember the bends you have on those), a few special interest sections (sewer inlet on side of kerb/cracked paving slab/some form of damage/etc), perhaps a couple of different finishes - cobbles, large paving slabs, metal grating, etc.

Of course, if you can get much thinner (0.5-1mm?) wood/metal/plastic, you can also etch road detailing like manholes, sewer grates/etc so people can just glue them down onto their home made road surfaces (or if you are also making etched road surfaces, they can add them to yours).

Continuing with the street/urban theme, you could also look into things like vending machines, street lamps, road signs, street signs, trafic flow controllers/sensors, etc?

My current project has been making these:

from this:

I'm currently working on a 3D model to see if you can make that

Great stuff Ovion - keep us posted with your progress!

Lots to think about there Silver! Currently drawing something up now - we have a 'theme' to develop, and as you say, there are lots of people all wanting their own layouts / styles - so we're going to have to find a happy median that we can nestle ourselves into!

who said anything about selling it, I thought about your personal desks

Time for personal projects?! lets just say, 'we'll add it to the list!'

Roads huh? Well, I agree with everything WM said especially his idea about making just 'bits' for a road aka grates manholes, could be very promising!

To be honest, I am just waiting for a 40k version of the London bridge complete with moving parts!

WarMill wrote:How about Roads?

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads

Commander Cain wrote:To be honest, I am just waiting for a 40k version of the London bridge complete with moving parts!

Hmmm let me see what I can do!!! now where did I leave my friend with that Autocad CD?

Working bridges eh?! another to add to the list

Had a busy day painting up the prototypes 'hab pods' and walkways that Harry has been workin so hard on - now our backs are broke and we're high on paint fumes!

WIP pics will be uploaded shortly!

will update shortly - got some great WIP images gonna blow your socks off! we hope!!

ed

I'd better put on some socks I don't like then

OK! Well, we have a lot of images - and most of them are pretty shoddy due to my iPhone being old and rubbish, but i'll upslowd as many sort of usable ones as I can! Please bare in mind that these are WORK IN PROGRESS and do not reflect the finish of the final retail product! Harry has spent along time perfecting the design, fit and overall feel of the set, and we are ready to cut our 'Alpha' kit, which we should be able to get painted by the end of the week or so!

The kit in question is yet to be given an official title, but will fall under our Street Wars brand. Suggestions welcome - so far we have 'Hab Pod' or 'generic octagon buildings' etc

Last Thursday we went down to our local hobby club, but didn't so much as play a game but sat in the corner assembling the models, and this past weekend painting them up. We chose to paint them as during the process of refining the design, Harry cut half a dozen of the damn things, including walkways and walls and connectors and stuff, so it would have been a shame to simply waste them. Suffice to say, they'll be donated to our LHC for many games to come!

Enjoy! Comments and feedback welcome! (Any haters please make your way to the process unit to be cleansed )

Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed making them!

Signing out,

Harry and Ed!

Wow, those look awesome all assembled together

For the name...

Modular Abode Design (M.A.D.)
Stackable Housing And Manufacturing Structures (S.H.A.M.S.)
Transportable Urban Rehousing Development Shanties (T.U.R.D.S.)



Or some more serious names:
Modular Housing Units
Buildings In A Box (more of a brand name for a larger company? )


I will think of some more

holy feth that is awesome! I'd really like to see all the assembled parts seperatly because if my eyes arn't decieving me you have bolted together seperate terrain pieces to assemble to monster building in the final photo's

Thanks for the love silver

sorry about quality of spelling I have a nasty head cold and am on night shifts at work

Tell me about the spelling, 3 edits so far

Seriously guys, I really have no room at all for this stuff you keep churning out!

Fantastic stuff! Can't wait to see the alpha version in all it's glory.

I quite like that weathering...but I suppose that's probably because I like the grimdark of 40k...

We're calling it grimedark ;p

WarMill wrote:We're calling it grimedark ;p

lol

WarMill wrote:Thanks for the love silver

No worries

If you ever put together a painting guide for those buildings - that would be great - they look anazing

Love grimedark too - can just see them in a rusting container town shanty, or squeezed in between giant manufacturing machines - cool stuff.

Those 'Habitation Pods' are great! Will look good with your battlesnap stuff as well

how easily do the 2 levels separate? I bet your LGS were grinning from ear to ear when you brought that beast round!

Hello! Yeah once things settle down we'll defiantly be setting up a terrain painting video, that will also go over the how to pop out the parts and assemble them in the most efficient manner! Got a prototype of the road system cut today so will be reviewing that over the next couple of days. We didn't have much of an issues reaching in and moving figures on the lower platform, as far as the club is concerned, they were very enthusiastic as we were assembling the pieces, I think if we rock up with the painted and assembled set this Thursday we'll be best friends forever!

I really want to own a Mr Pod (TM)

Stop making so many things that I don't have the room (or cashola - damn you crappy job and university fees!) to purchase

Hey guys - just a quick update...

A snap of the WIP roads we're working on!

Ed

Interesting - raised road sections?

Any rationale behind the lines that you have etched? Or are you just going for a semi-random sci-fi road marking system?

you should try and make some sections that can be raised even higher cause then you have models walking underneath or more roads just going everywhere.