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Most of my scenery is ~ten years old now so time for an update.

Phase 1 is finished:


Phase 2 is finished:


Phases 3&4 are finished (better photos to come soon)


Some other projects:

Imperial Guard http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/326362.page
Raven Guard http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/561399.page
Tau http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/603764.page
Inquisition & Grey Knights http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/650657.page
Knights and Household Infantry http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/672856.page

Jealous! I'd need a bigger space and a bigger budget, but this looks like a great table coming together. I'm basing my current army for a ruined cityscape with a board like this in mind, so I'll be watching this one!

It's going to move pretty fast!

Here's a couple of ruins using the sanctum sprues:

Basilisca:


Sanctum & SotA:


Basilisca & SotA:

Basilisca:




Basilisca, Sanctum & SotA


That's all of the ruins assembled. Just the statue to put together and then painting can start.

Did you plan out the buildings before assembly? Or just put them together as you went?
I ask because I'm just not sure where to start with mine, I've had them for years, still unassembled.

Looks great! Myself, I'd board up some of the ground floor windows to block more line of sight, but that's me.
Excited to follow this project!

Joyboozer wrote:
Did you plan out the buildings before assembly? Or just put them together as you went?
I ask because I'm just not sure where to start with mine, I've had them for years, still unassembled.

This makes five imperial sector boxes that I've built. You've got to have at least a rough plan to make sure you don't run out of floor pieces. Also, do remember that the more intact the building is the more wall pieces it'll use. It's very easy to use up a lot of your walls building a more intact building so decide beforehand how many buildings you want and roughly how large you want them to be. Most of these ruins took around three wall sprues and 1.5-2 floor sprues.


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Looks great! Myself, I'd board up some of the ground floor windows to block more line of sight, but that's me.
Excited to follow this project!

Thanks! I generally play that ruins can be shot into/out of but not shot through so it's not as important. A lot of the ground floor walls are the blocked pieces though and every ruin has at least one solid wall on the ground floor.

Statue


That's all of the assembly done for phase 1, painting to commence shortly.

Here's the test building. Came out okay although the interior is a little more yellow/orange than I had in mind. I think I'll use a variety of this (Zandri Dust) and Rakarth Flesh. As totalitarian as the Imperium is I don't think they'll demand the exact same shade of institutional beige in every building!

In the pics below the building is almost finished - just waiting on some rust effects once the last few bits of wash have dried.

I like the worn look of the interior walls.

Looks great! Is it one colour and a wash for the process?

Mechanicum standard grey + drybrush of Kazak stone + details + agrax wash for the exterior.

Zandri dust + sponge of mechanicum grey + details + agrax for the interior.

Quick and easily repeatable.

I was planning on using the army painter quickshadefor the wash (cheap and protective) but I tried it on a test piece and didn't like it all. I'm going need about 5 of the large bottle of agrax...

Those terrain boards are great, but could you store them in stacks without damaging the paint and texture? I don't have a permanent table right now, but after seeing the blog I keep going back to their website. Are the shipping boxes something could be used to store and transport the tiles?

Looking good!

I'm still figuring out how to store the tiles. The boxes hold the tiles on their edges which will make it very easy to damage them when pulling them out.

I need to make some kind of tray that they slot into. Next best thing would be something that I can stack them in with a separator. Looking for a box or tray that's about the right size that I can modify before I go and fabricate something from scratch.

Ruin #2

Ruin 3/10 finished.

Half of the ruins (all of the 2-story ones) finished.

Number 6


I started preparing the baseplates for the ruins (each ruin will have a specific baseplate with magnets) and hit a snag. All of the plates are slightly bowed (high center) preventing the ruins from sitting flat. To fix this I glued a 1mm thick additional magnet to each attachment point. This provides enough clearance to avoid the bowed surface. It also raises the ruins above the bulk of the small bits of debris moulded into the bases so far less needs to be removed.

I also got a whole table of tiles out to see what laying them out is like. They clip together much more easily than the RoB. (the floating buildings in the pic below have 2mm spacers - the 1mm spaces look much better)

All of the buildings and baseplates are magnetised and I've got a suitable supply of primer, spray paint and varnish so as long as the weather holds we should see some progress on the urban tiles tomorrow.

Finished all of the damaged urban tiles yesterday. Just waiting on the Army Painter quickshade drying (it'll probably be tuesday, I deliberately made it pool in the craters) and then matte varnish and some final weathering.



If you're planning your own these were the supplies expended:
~1.5 cans of primer
1 can of grey was adequate to cover all of the paved areas
The tube of acrylic used for the roads would happily cover several sets (two was definitely overkill)
~3/4s of a tin of quickshade
~1.25 cans of sealant

That puts the material cost of painting a set at ~£60 (assuming that you don't need to buy paints for details, drybrushing, rust, etc.).

For those that are interested here's what you get in the Tablescapes Damaged Streets 4x6 box.


4x straights with manhole cover. I like the intricate cracking around the damaged portion of the sidewalk.


1x straight with rubble. I quite like this one but it's let down by being a 100% copy/paste of the one above.


4x straights with... craters? Except the damage doesn't look like explosive damage on asphalt at all (explosive damage on ashphalt generally has a distinct edge and that edge is forced upwards by the compression of the substrates) - it looks like compression damage. So either very small airbursts or an imperial knight has been playing hopscotch.


2x crossroads with more hopscotch


1x t-junction with better damage. I would have liked to see more damage like this showing the layers separating. I'd also have liked more t-junctions and less cross roads.


5x baseplate with light rubble


5x damaged baseplate


2x baseplate with rubble pile


Also, here's building #7

Phase 2 - Zone Mortalis is here

Barricades


Ruins 8/10

I haven't updated this thread in a while so there's lots of progress to post. I got sidetracked by the ZM tiles which are quite time consuming to paint even for a very simple paint scheme.

The last two ruins:




That's the urban table essentially finished - pics to come tomorrow.

Here are some containers and pallets of crates:


Some Zone Mortalis doors:



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Finished Zone Mortalis table:


Some details:

Wow! What an update!
Looks amazing!

Urban Board

Those boards looks pretty amazing, really like the color schemes! I also like the diversity of smaller tiles vs the larger one like the RoB board, I currently play on a GW grass mat with a couple of buildings (on your old base plates ), and some of the GW forests/mountains. How well do these tiles take such flat plates, or would they become really wobbly?

Not that I really have time to build/paint one up myself but these tiles look really good, seriously considering getting a set anyways (you can never have to much spare plastic ), did you directly import them from the US or did you find a EU retailer? Not looking forward to having to pay import taxes on such an order.

Flat bottomed scenery pieces are a massive problem on the damaged streets and rolling fields board sets.

Painting the damaged streets was really easy, the bulk of the painting was done in a day, and you're right - the modularity of the 12x12 tiles works much better for streets than 24x24.

There are a couple of UK stockists for these (I got mine via a friend that has an account with one of the big distributors).

Fantastic looking terrain, Scott-S6! The sheer amount and quality are something to be very proud of. I especially like your ruined buildings. Also, your kitbashing skills, as well as, your forethought of how the buildings will be built are superb. I'm looking forward to seeing more awesomeness from you!

-LostCarcosa