This stuff kicks ass. Awesome work!

Hey folks, some people have been asking if we're still alive. We are indeed and have spent the winter working on some of our biggest and coolest stuff ever, but nothing ready to unveil yet.

On the side we're refining our stucco style ork huts:







More stuff to come!

Nice! Bursting with orkiness as always!

Excellent work, very inspiring.

Nice ... looking good. Ork stuff is always fun 8) I think it needs some more guns though haha

More small works (by our standards at least!) until we catch up on our major project logs.

Growing weary of seeing people comment that the hills in our first tutorial were not easy to actually play on, I decided to whip out some flattish plateau-style hills, then I got carried away playing with erosion effects, then I just had to stick a tower on top.

Holy... this stuff is GODLIKE!

Just another awesome addition to an already jaw-dropping portfolio. Excellent work!

Hills for the hill god!

Very nice indeed your stuff amazes me each time.

I never considered terrain until I saw this. Very well done.

SilverMK2 wrote:Hills for the hill god!

Turf for the turf throne?

Continued awesomeness... Ps, where did you get the background? It must be huge!

So any other awesome project you all working on? Do tell and tease us dakka dakka folks

tree667 wrote:So any other awesome project you all working on? Do tell and tease us dakka dakka folks

Several! We have huge fortresses, display boards, fighting arenas and much, much more. I just hardly have time to update project logs, expect a new thread soon with new goodies to showcase, and updated project logs on some of the biggies we're working on.

Terraformer wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:Hills for the hill god!

Turf for the turf throne?

Damn skippy

I like, please don't dumb it down to reduce wobbly model syndrome like I have had to!

Terraformer wrote:
Growing weary of seeing people comment that the hills in our first tutorial were not easy to actually play on, I decided to whip out some flattish plateau-style hills, then I got carried away playing with erosion effects, then I just had to stick a tower on top.

Who said that? HERESY.

I followed your tutorial and the minis stand on the hill just fine.

Awesome work as always

heartserenade wrote:

Who said that? HERESY.

I followed your tutorial and the minis stand on the hill just fine.

I would love to see how they look! Many people enjoyed our hill-tutorial, but there has been an equal amount of feedback that they seem impractical for game play. I should have shown more examples of how you can modify the design to make the hills look any way you like!

I'll post photos in my P&M blog when i have the time to take them (and I suck at photography so I let my professional photographer friends take photos for me). And thanks to that tutorial, now my hills look like, well, actual hills and not multi-layered landforms. They're not impractical at all if you design them right: don't make the slopes too steep and models can stand on it just fine.

Those look great! love the errosion effects!

Do I see...FLOCK!?!?!?

ARGH GREEN SAND HATE KILL MAIM BURN OMGWTFBBQ...

Sorry. I hate flock. Anyway, nice work!

Hiya folks, I just finished another terrain tutorial, I`ll be reposting it to Dakka soon, but you can catch it on our website, here.
What kind of tutorial? Craters!

Fantastic news Z! I was just thinking about craters too...... as i sit here uploading some pics for you to check out, it's lovely to see you back Dakka-ing!

Another impressive piece of terrain. Bravo!
It's good to see this thread alive =)

Damn thats good.

That is so cool, the tutorial is awesome as usual.

Very cool as always

Looks good to me... also excellet to see Steve back again

Looking forward to the tutorial.

Here is my first attempt to do a 3T hill

Looks good! Keep it up.

tree667 wrote:Here is my first attempt to do a 3T hill

That's great! I can't wait to see it painted. Please paint it.


So much unpainted terrain out there :(


Why don't you all paint your terrain?? Why??

Terraformer wrote:

tree667 wrote:Here is my first attempt to do a 3T hill

That's great! I can't wait to see it painted. Please paint it.


So much unpainted terrain out there :(


Why don't you all paint your terrain?? Why??

Pretty much why people have unpainted miniatures: no time!

I currently have a 75% unpainted army, plus two other commisioned armies, plus two boxes of DnD miniatures I swore I would repaint (because prepainting of DnD minis are horrible) AND a bunch of terrain I should finish.

Terraformer wrote:That's great! I can't wait to see it painted. Please paint it.


So much unpainted terrain out there :(


Why don't you all paint your terrain?? Why??

It looks like it might be a snow hill.

I love what y'all are doing. Great tutorial. I ned to make me some craters!

Maybe some tutorials on jungle terrain in the future? I'd love to see what you can do with it.

I get so disappointed when I see people play on a green cloth with some random unpainted terrain pieces.
This is how it should be!

SilverMK2 wrote:
It looks like it might be a snow hill.

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dicewar wrote:I get so disappointed when I see people play on a green cloth with some random unpainted terrain pieces.
This is how it should be!

I couldn't agree more! We're trying to chance the terrain culture in this hobby once piece at a time.


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stewy37 wrote:I love what y'all are doing. Great tutorial. I ned to make me some craters!

Maybe some tutorials on jungle terrain in the future? I'd love to see what you can do with it.

Thank you! We've touched on a little junglescape in our Warmachine Orgoth ruins project, but we're going to revisit that project soon and do some more jungle work.

I did paint it....its grey and snowy....maybe I should add some color.
Everyone at the store loved it on the ice table I am building there.


PS please keep building awesome stuff. I want my wall !!!!

tree667 wrote:I did paint it....its grey and snowy....maybe I should add some color.
Everyone at the store loved it on the ice table I am building there.


PS please keep building awesome stuff. I want my wall !!!!

I had no idea it was you! Don't worry your big giant vibrating wall will be awesome.

Yes Yes my vibrating......errrr wait it not suppose to vibrate.

Lol. Well they updated my X-Board project! FINALLY¡!¡! It looks great!


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It was almost a year since the last update, but its all good. Since it was in time for my birthday I will let it slide ;p

Lysenis wrote:Lol. Well they updated my X-Board project! FINALLY¡!¡! It looks great!

Oh the joys of scratch-building. For those of you wondering, Lysenis here commissioned a Space Hulk X-board project from us way back when we just started taking commissions, and at the time I had no real way to judge how long or involved some projects will be, so it's stretched out into one of our longer-running projects, partially because of design and layout delimmas and partially because there's just no way to speed up some kinds of work.

For example, this kind of piece:

takes several weeks or more, and it's just a few areas of pipes and trusses. For the X-boards we're completely covering an area about 22" x 15" with intricate spaceship interior, including pipes, machines, LEDs, corridors, labs, and any other kind of details you can imagine. I'm finally out of the design phase and making good progress, so expect to see the project log as we have it so far re-posted here on Dakka within the next couple weeks with new updates as well.

I believe it has stretched longer then the Battle Board right? That was what 18 months? First update on the project for my X Board was July 2010 So its been about 2 years. I think I got everything started around this time then.

Do not be discouraged to get things commissioned. My stuff is so indepth and they have so much leeway that it was expected. At least by me anyways. . .

so stumbled upon this i cried i laughed i even got scared for steve a few time. but its great makes my cardboard building look like crap and need to be tossed in a dumpster somewhere. anmy way great stuff hope to see more soonish...def looking forward to the next project log.

Because i know how much you guys appreciate good terrain, check this out:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/443805.page#4194743

I really love that stone tower. Like, so much I made the picture of it my iPad background image. Man, that's nerdy!

Terraformer wrote:

stewy37 wrote:I love what y'all are doing. Great tutorial. I ned to make me some craters!

Maybe some tutorials on jungle terrain in the future? I'd love to see what you can do with it.

Thank you! We've touched on a little junglescape in our Warmachine Orgoth ruins project, but we're going to revisit that project soon and do some more jungle work.

Awesome. I've taken a closer look at that project and look forward to seeing more. I saw some really cool terrain inspired by Pandora from Avatar, and I really want to make something along those lines. I've found several threads or articles online since then but not the original one that inspired me. I should have saved it. *shrugs shoulders*

Exalted!

Quick question: how did you guys do the posters and newspapers in these photos:



Of course they have to be printed, but is there a specific kind of paper you used? I'm more curious about how you achieved the lightly crumpling effect, and how the posters are slightly peeling: is it in the adhesive used or what?

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Because i know how much you guys appreciate good terrain, check this out:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/443805.page#4194743

That's a neat looking project, sub'd to see how it all looks in the end!




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heartserenade wrote:Quick question: how did you guys do the posters and newspapers in these photos:

Of course they have to be printed, but is there a specific kind of paper you used? I'm more curious about how you achieved the lightly crumpling effect, and how the posters are slightly peeling: is it in the adhesive used or what?

This is one of the questions I get asked the most, I'll probably do a step-by-step at some point. Yes they are printed, but really nothing fancy past that. I use a crisp, good quality all-purpose paper. I cut and hack at the posters a little for rips, tears and holes, dip the back of the poster in PVA glue watered down with a tiny bit of sepia ink, add spots and stains or darker edges, and apply. There's no trick to making them look like they're old and peeling, I just take the time to bend corners or crumple them in realistic ways. Additional staining or dusting with MiG pigments, turpentine washes Etc. can make them look even more old, dusty and faded as well.

Hiya folks, a quick bump to show off a recent project completed by Mismuse, a 3 piece set of display boards for an Ogre Kingdoms army.
There's a full project log over in the P&M blogs, go check it out if you want to see how this was all put together.

Go Mismuse! The best artist there imho (nicest too)

Top notch! The attention to detail is amazing. This would take any gaming surface to the next level, even a simple coffee table would look great with these pieces on it. Great work!

Woot! Congrats MisMuse, it looks jawdroppingly great!

Thanks boys.

I recently picked up the game Limbo in the Humble Indie Bundle, and in honor of such a creepy game, we put together this big set, a return to our Dangerous Terrain series with a creepy creature that keeps freaking everyone out who leans on our table and notices it.

Ewwwww, spiders

Awesomely done though.

its steve what has he gotten into now.

great job

HAHAHAHA poor poor steve, he should pick a new path and soon!

i think steve's stories start out like this when he gets back to the craft world "So no sh!t there i was..."

Here are some more pics

Great job! These are always nice to see as I eagerly await updates for the X-Board

Probably the best terrain maker I can think of right now.
Would be nice if you shared your knowledge more though

"Gods damn it Steve! This is the last time I go through the webway with you!"


Seriously freaky spider - makes me shiver just looking at it

that is one creepy ass spider.

just a question about it, how long did you study real spiders and what spider is it based off of in real life?

That is too real

Makes me shudder just looking at it.

Amazing stuff best terrain I've seen!!

KrimsunBaron wrote:Probably the best terrain maker I can think of right now.
Would be nice if you shared your knowledge more though

They are the best, they have more creativity together then any store worth of people I know of, and I have been around the world playing games.

WOuld be nice if they shared more but they are busy bees and do not have much time.

alabamaheretic wrote:that is one creepy ass spider.

just a question about it, how long did you study real spiders and what spider is it based off of in real life?

After playing Limbo, I spent a day looking at pictures of black widows and orb-weavers/wolf-spiders, combining the creepy, thin look of a widow with the beefy body and oversized fangs of a wandering hunting spider, the kind that live in burrows rather than perch on webs.

I'm quite done looking at pictures of spiders now, thank you very much.

Lysenis wrote:

KrimsunBaron wrote:Probably the best terrain maker I can think of right now.
Would be nice if you shared your knowledge more though

...they are busy bees and do not have much time.

Right you are, we far underestimated how busy this endeavor would make us. We are putting up more and more guides, DIY articles and tips on our website, not to mention the project logs, with a lot more in the works. If anyone wants to see guides on anything in particular, let us know so we know what to prioritize

lol i can imagine you had enough of looking at spiders but it does look great.

if you have the time would you care to elaborate on how the spider was built?

I want that Necron Temple for a monolith...so good.

I can't wait for my wall!!!!!

alabamaheretic wrote:lol i can imagine you had enough of looking at spiders but it does look great.

if you have the time would you care to elaborate on how the spider was built?

Sure, here's a better view:



I made a rough body shape out of Super Sculpey, then added in details with Green Stuff putty, such as fang sheaths and eyes and ridges. Then with the body wedged into the cave I used long armatures of metal wire to make the legs, which I then coated with Green Stuff, shaped and smoothed, and before it had set fully hard, I made adjustments to the wire to bend them a little closer in the shape that I wanted. I drilled holes in the body, inserted the exposed wires and then blended the joints with more green stuff. I used little bits of polypropylene plastic to keep any bits of still-soft putty from sticking to the cave while it set, then pulled it out, removed plastic, primed and painted.

nice, you make this look too easy.
is there a particular brand of sculpting tools you would recommend for gs work?

Your terrain is overflowing with WIN. Keep it up.

I think that the most horrible thing about this piece is that you can't really see much of the spider - that was the worst part of the creepy, long limbed monstrosity in Limbo, and you've translated it perfectly. Great job!

*shudder*

How did you do the web, if you don't mind me asking?

Terraformer wrote:

I made a rough body shape out of Super Sculpey, then added in details with Green Stuff putty, such as fang sheaths and eyes and ridges. Then with the body wedged into the cave I used long armatures of metal wire to make the legs, which I then coated with Green Stuff, shaped and smoothed, and before it had set fully hard, I made adjustments to the wire to bend them a little closer in the shape that I wanted. I drilled holes in the body, inserted the exposed wires and then blended the joints with more green stuff. I used little bits of polypropylene plastic to keep any bits of still-soft putty from sticking to the cave while it set, then pulled it out, removed plastic, primed and painted.

I think the gloss varnish on the carapace is that finishing touch that just threw me over the edge. That and the spiderwebs. Very creepy.

Grugknuckle wrote:

Terraformer wrote:

I made a rough body shape out of Super Sculpey, then added in details with Green Stuff putty, such as fang sheaths and eyes and ridges. Then with the body wedged into the cave I used long armatures of metal wire to make the legs, which I then coated with Green Stuff, shaped and smoothed, and before it had set fully hard, I made adjustments to the wire to bend them a little closer in the shape that I wanted. I drilled holes in the body, inserted the exposed wires and then blended the joints with more green stuff. I used little bits of polypropylene plastic to keep any bits of still-soft putty from sticking to the cave while it set, then pulled it out, removed plastic, primed and painted.

I think the gloss varnish on the carapace is that finishing touch that just threw me over the edge. That and the spiderwebs. Very creepy.

See and this is what I LOVE about 3T-Studios! They ALWAYS come up with taht one little detail that makes EVERYTHING come together so flawlessly that it is amazing!

Limbo rocks.

As does your terrain.

alabamaheretic wrote:nice, you make this look too easy.
is there a particular brand of sculpting tools you would recommend for gs work?

I have a lot of different tools that serve special purposes, but the ones I use the most for general shaping and moving putty around are moist fingers, moist wooden tools with either tapered points or curved wooden spatulas, and my favorite is a tool that has silicon nub or points on either end that's sold for sculpting with sculpey. I can't find a picture right now but I see them for sale at art supply stores. Again, keep everything moist but not wet.

Scarper wrote:I think that the most horrible thing about this piece is that you can't really see much of the spider - that was the worst part of the creepy, long limbed monstrosity in Limbo, and you've translated it perfectly. Great job!

*shudder*

How did you do the web, if you don't mind me asking?

Keeping the spider partially visible adds a lot to the creepiness, sometimes showing less is more.
The webs are simply cotton fiber strands, applied with a toothpick and a brush moistened with PVA glue and a good deal of patience. Once dry, I blended the webs in with a little bit of paint and pigment powder.


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Lysenis wrote: They ALWAYS come up with taht one little detail that makes EVERYTHING come together so flawlessly that it is amazing!

Speaking of which, as I have your boards in front of me, I was thinking about a nice "friendship is magic" MLP theme to pull everything together, whatcha think?

Terraformer wrote:

alabamaheretic wrote:nice, you make this look too easy.
is there a particular brand of sculpting tools you would recommend for gs work?

I have a lot of different tools that serve special purposes, but the ones I use the most for general shaping and moving putty around are moist fingers, moist wooden tools with either tapered points or curved wooden spatulas, and my favorite is a tool that has silicon nub or points on either end that's sold for sculpting with sculpey. I can't find a picture right now but I see them for sale at art supply stores. Again, keep everything moist but not wet.

Scarper wrote:I think that the most horrible thing about this piece is that you can't really see much of the spider - that was the worst part of the creepy, long limbed monstrosity in Limbo, and you've translated it perfectly. Great job!

*shudder*

How did you do the web, if you don't mind me asking?

Keeping the spider partially visible adds a lot to the creepiness, sometimes showing less is more.
The webs are simply cotton fiber strands, applied with a toothpick and a brush moistened with PVA glue and a good deal of patience. Once dry, I blended the webs in with a little bit of paint and pigment powder.


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Lysenis wrote: They ALWAYS come up with taht one little detail that makes EVERYTHING come together so flawlessly that it is amazing!

Speaking of which, as I have your boards in front of me, I was thinking about a nice "friendship is magic" MLP theme to pull everything together, whatcha think?

What "friendship in magic" idea??? Send me an email.

Lysenis wrote:What "friendship in magic" idea??? Send me an email.

Too late, it's ponies. It's all ponies.

Completely ponies.

that spider is creepy as hell. It literally gave me the willy's just going through the pics people sadistically reposted when quoting.. shudder... eggh

Terraformer wrote:

Lysenis wrote:What "friendship in magic" idea??? Send me an email.

Too late, it's ponies. It's all ponies.

Completely ponies.

Ah gak, after 2 years I think not!

Join the Herd...

beware the mutant, heretic, pysker, and the bronie

This stuff is beyond belief!

If you don't mind my asking, what are the buildings made from and where can I get some?

I believe that they are a good starting place?

Cheers!

caminacambob wrote:This stuff is beyond belief!

If you don't mind my asking, what are the buildings made from and where can I get some?

I believe that they are a good starting place?

Cheers!

Thank you for asking! All of our terrain is custom and original, and if you mean the urban ruined buildings, they're predominantly made with different kinds of foamcore, plasticard and good deal of our own resin components and trim pieces.

We sell pieces on eBay and cycle through different themes, and we take commissioned orders as well, so if you're interested you should drop us a line or visit our website

Thank you for a speedy reply!

Sorry I should have been more specific, I did mean the ruined urban buildings. Would that be a foam core filling in a plasticard "sandwhich"?

caminacambob wrote:Thank you for a speedy reply!

Sorry I should have been more specific, I did mean the ruined urban buildings. Would that be a foam core filling in a plasticard "sandwhich"?

Sometimes, in other cases it's f spackled with light filler, or just lightly textured and the structure and resin parts give it durability.

I would ideally like for you to post some tutorials and guides on bases.
I figure that terrain skills could be transfered to bases?

Anyway i saw the toxic tutorial looks cool for the bigger models/bases/terrain.

But i've only seen two tutorials posted I can't find more. Have you done two or are there more?

Thanks.

Terraformer wrote:We are putting up more and more guides, DIY articles and tips on our website, not to mention the project logs, with a lot more in the works. If anyone wants to see guides on anything in particular, let us know so we know what to prioritize

The handful of tips and tutorials you've put out already have been fantastic. There are hundreds of tutorials already floating around the net on making specific features, though - various building types, woods, hills, etc. (though none compare to yours in terms of realism or flavor (warning: floss thoroughly after chewing pine bark), in my opinion). I think a great deal of what sets yours apart is the planning and the groundwork. More advice on those, I think, would be of the greatest benefit to the DIY community. We can vaguely see what you're doing and why through project logs, but something simple, designed from the ground up to clearly demonstrate the process (with explanatory text, to match), would be a huge boon.

oadie wrote:

Terraformer wrote:We are putting up more and more guides, DIY articles and tips on our website, not to mention the project logs, with a lot more in the works. If anyone wants to see guides on anything in particular, let us know so we know what to prioritize

The handful of tips and tutorials you've put out already have been fantastic. There are hundreds of tutorials already floating around the net on making specific features, though - various building types, woods, hills, etc. (though none compare to yours in terms of realism or flavor (warning: floss thoroughly after chewing pine bark), in my opinion). I think a great deal of what sets yours apart is the planning and the groundwork. More advice on those, I think, would be of the greatest benefit to the DIY community. We can vaguely see what you're doing and why through project logs, but something simple, designed from the ground up to clearly demonstrate the process (with explanatory text, to match), would be a huge boon.

As a long time supporter of 3T I have to agree with Oadie on this one. It would help improve the quality of everyone's DIY work, the only thing they would need to comprehend whats going after that is the Vision which 3T has an almost never ending supply of.

alabamaheretic wrote:nice, you make this look too easy.
is there a particular brand of sculpting tools you would recommend for gs work?

LOEW CORNELL has wooden and metal sets that we've used for sculpting as well as other things. I also have some rubber tipped tools not sure of the brand name since the name rubbed off long ago. I'll research it further and i'll just do some product reviews later on.

I can't believe I found it. The brand we use is AMACO clay shaper. Although it's due for us to try other products and other tools just for comparisons sake. Okay it's shopping time!

thanks you mismuse for doing that you are truly a goddess among people

Lysenis wrote:Great job! These are always nice to see as I eagerly await updates for the X-Board

Much progress made with the boards, I'm not sure if he posted more pictures for you yet but I'm sure there will be addition to the logs soon. I've backed off from designing it because I realized I started leaning heavily towards mecha-scifi style. We were butting heads too often because the project started to look "wrong". Finally he was able to explain what it should look like and his vision, I have to admit, was right on. He kept reminding me of the grim darkness of the future. He finally made some sketches (thank god) and I gave it one look and nodded.

Boy I hate being wrong! ugh

Mismuse wrote:

Lysenis wrote:Great job! These are always nice to see as I eagerly await updates for the X-Board

Much progress made with the boards, I'm not sure if he posted more pictures for you yet but I'm sure there will be addition to the logs soon. I've backed off from designing it because I realized I started leaning heavily towards mecha-scifi style. We were butting heads too often because the project started to look "wrong". Finally he was able to explain what it should look like and his vision, I have to admit, was right on. He kept reminding me of the grim darkness of the future. He finally made some sketches (thank god) and I gave it one look and nodded.

Boy I hate being wrong! ugh

Wait Mismuse was wrong O.o Who are you?

Good to know whats going on there

KrimsunBaron wrote:I would ideally like for you to post some tutorials and guides on bases.
(snip)
But i've only seen two tutorials posted I can't find more. Have you done two or are there more?

I've gotten enough questions on bases that I'm probably going to start branching into custom basing, resin bases, basing tutorials, etc. But only when my current workload allows. That workload is also why I only have a couple of in-depth DIY articles up, but I have a lot more in progress!

oadie wrote:I think a great deal of what sets yours apart is the planning and the groundwork. More advice on those, I think, would be of the greatest benefit to the DIY community. We can vaguely see what you're doing and why through project logs, but something simple, designed from the ground up to clearly demonstrate the process (with explanatory text, to match), would be a huge boon.

Lysenis wrote:I have to agree with Oadie on this one. It would help improve the quality of everyone's DIY work, the only thing they would need to comprehend whats going after that is the Vision which 3T has an almost never ending supply of.

I really appreciate the feedback, it's hard to gauge what parts of what we do are of interest to the community, I often take for granted the little things like planning, design and the artistic/engineering side and focus on talking about the mechanics of layering materials, etc.in our guides and logs.

Right now we're trying to put out a few more actual guides, rather than just project logs, which are really just glossed-over stories about how we make a piece. In our future guides we'll focus more on the step-by-step art of terrain making, and talk about the how/what/why parts of what we do.


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Lysenis wrote:Wait Mismuse was wrong O.o Who are you?

This has to go into the project log, it was by far one of the most stunning moments on any project. I was all heated up from one of our regular arguments about this board, something ridiculous like the shape of the laboratory walls, and finally after nearly shouting out what my plans were, and sketching some crappy thumbnails, she pondered for a second and then went "Oh, okay then. You're right. Carry on." and strutted off like nothing happened.

I called back "Right about what??"

"All of it."

Anyhow, yeah I'm finally making good progress on my X-board days, so next update incoming in a day or two.

Terraformer wrote:

Lysenis wrote:Wait Mismuse was wrong O.o Who are you?

This has to go into the project log, it was by far one of the most stunning moments on any project. I was all heated up from one of our regular arguments about this board, something ridiculous like the shape of the laboratory walls, and finally after nearly shouting out what my plans were, and sketching some crappy thumbnails, she pondered for a second and then went "Oh, okay then. You're right. Carry on." and strutted off like nothing happened.

I called back "Right about what??"

"All of it."

Anyhow, yeah I'm finally making good progress on my X-board days, so next update incoming in a day or two.

We should count that a win for all "man" kind.

On that note I need to see more and an eta would be lovely btw.

We require more awesome terrain! 14 pages of awesome is not enough to appease the Dice Gods!

Terraformer, considering in 6th people want to have fortifications and ones to match their army perhaps that would be worth a go?

I was wondering if you could custom build an orky fort to the dimensions of a Fortress of redemption.
Roughly 24" long and 14 high. Not sure about the other widths from my head though.

I will PM you this question also, thanks.

KrimsunBaron wrote:Terraformer, considering in 6th people want to have fortifications and ones to match their army perhaps that would be worth a go?

I was wondering if you could custom build an orky fort to the dimensions of a Fortress of redemption.
Roughly 24" long and 14 high. Not sure about the other widths from my head though.

I will PM you this question also, thanks.

The new rules for fortifications have created quite a stir around here as you could imagine, we have some projects in the works and we're getting a lot of calls for custom bastions, fortresses, landing pads Etc. We'll discuss your idea further, I'll PM you

hey...hey ...less typing more building my project!!!!

Just kidding....seriously if you do terrain for 6th ediion I would love to add a set for 2 of my armies to my existing order.


now get back to back to the sweatshop!!!

Thanks, will await PM

Lysenis wrote:

On that note I need to see more and an eta would be lovely btw.

Lyse, working on your update right now bud, the construction is painfully slow going but coming together much more quickly now that I finished the last (hopefully) round of custom resin parts. An early - mid Fall completion actually looks pretty realistic at this point.

In the meantime, we have a few more Ork huts Mismuse has been working on between display boards, refining her technique.

X-boards are still in construction but the end is in sight. I cannot wait to be able to start painting this. The painting will be a breeze, its the construction that takes up all the time on something like this.



I updated the project log on our web page, I still intend on reposting the whole thing on Dakka soon too.

The SH board has come on in leaps and bounds since I saw it last! It is looking pretty impressive I must say!

that archway is really cool, I love all the gears and gismos, it looks like it will move and reveal some amazing secret!

Quick bump with a nice set we finished between big-ass commission projects we're still working on.

Love the iron face in the ruins, and the various ladders, doors slightly ajar and abandoned caves do a lot to make you feel invited to 'explore' the terrain, making it way more dynamic.

 Meade wrote:
Love the iron face in the ruins, and the various ladders, doors slightly ajar and abandoned caves do a lot to make you feel invited to 'explore' the terrain, making it way more dynamic.

Thanks! The face is an original sculpt from a new line of products that we're slowly working on.

Also, I can think of nothing more inviting than a dark cave strewn with giant webs and skulls

amazing work, How do you do the cobwebs?

The iron face really draws you in nice touch and the slightly ajar door really does give depth to the piece, I also like the small opening in the ground like a small shaft whats down there then ?

The cob webs are great little touches like that brings life to a model, or in this case the lack of life any chance of a how to ?


I have seen some where lately about making Cob webs using some solution and an airbrush, but you have to be careful as it can damage your airbrush is this the same stuff

bRianStorm wrote:
amazing work, How do you do the cobwebs?

Little bit of cotton, PVA glue, some toothpicks and a brush and about several hours of cussing like a sailor. I'll probably do a DIY article soon about making webs.

I would love a web tutorial! They are one of the things that stood out as being really unique to a terrain piece, of course, everything else about the piec is equally amazing!

The amount of talent you guys have makes me weap in jealousy. Though that won't keep me from trying my hand at making a hill and crater the way you all showed.


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Oh, and when my fundage improves, I will be buying some of the smaller bits you all sell on ebay.

Awesome as always

 Terraformer wrote:

bRianStorm wrote:
amazing work, How do you do the cobwebs?

Little bit of cotton, PVA glue, some toothpicks and a brush and about several hours of cussing like a sailor. I'll probably do a DIY article soon about making webs.

Do you mean cotton thread? sounds really difficult. i would probably require a microscope to be able to do that much detail on my stuff!

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Do you mean cotton thread? sounds really difficult. i would probably require a microscope to be able to do that much detail on my stuff!

Please do! The cobwebs would be perfect for my Garden of Morr. Are they sturdy, though?

Super awesome tread! So many gorgeous photo's of scenery. Very inspiring and frustrating at the same time!

I hope you dont find this presumptuous, but as fans of proper terrain done right i thought you'd appreciate this:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1470/318718.page#4853027

Stunning.

 Vitruvian XVII wrote:
I hope you dont find this presumptuous, but as fans of proper terrain done right i thought you'd appreciate this:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1470/318718.page#4853027

Stunning.

I spend a lot of time looking at the great works of other terrain makers out there, there is a wealth of inspiration to receive as well as to give

Hey terraformer, you've gotten me really inspired with your stuff and blog tutorials. I'm wondering how you make the stone blocks, like what that tower is made out of? Are they cut from insulation foam and textured somehow, or is it all one piece?

Thanks and keep amazing us!

I just went through all 15 pages, this is very inspirational work!

 Cave_Dweller wrote:
Hey terraformer, you've gotten me really inspired with your stuff and blog tutorials. I'm wondering how you make the stone blocks, like what that tower is made out of? Are they cut from insulation foam and textured somehow, or is it all one piece?

Thanks and keep amazing us!

In the old days I would make some stone blocks out of blue-foam, but I didn't like the lack of durability, so I started sculpting and casting resin cobblestones, pavers, sheets of wall texture, etc. The tower for example is made from these pieces (shameless plug) that have been heated and wrapped around a tube.


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Vel'cona wrote:
I just went through all 15 pages, this is very inspirational work!

Thank you, it means a lot to us that we continue to inspire, get ready for our winter megathread, which will really knock some socks off!

One of these days I'm going to get out to Hobby Lobby and try to find the bark that you used for rocks in your hill tutorial... The other more conveniently located craft stores don't have it but I really want it.

 AduroT wrote:
One of these days I'm going to get out to Hobby Lobby and try to find the bark that you used for rocks in your hill tutorial... The other more conveniently located craft stores don't have it but I really want it.

Can't you just get it at home depot?

 malfred wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
One of these days I'm going to get out to Hobby Lobby and try to find the bark that you used for rocks in your hill tutorial... The other more conveniently located craft stores don't have it but I really want it.

Can't you just get it at home depot?

Lowe's, Home Depot, or various garden centers and nurseries have it, as well as landscape suppliers. I found a large stock in the garden center of wal-mart recently, just make sure it's the "large" variety if you plan on making sizable terrain.

I'll check the other home stores, but when I tried Menards their stuff didn't look very good.

I'll let this one speak for itself.

Hahah that's creepy but also sort of cute =D

Reminds me of Maxxx by image, the Ids.

I bet Halloween at your place is all kinds of fun.

Fantastic! You are an inspiration to us all..

I bet that was an eye opening experience for Steve the Eldar

Wow, that mouth is creepy! But you also need some creepy hands to catch stuff for it!

Whilst pounding away at our big fall projects, we still make some time to do some sculpting, scratch building and stretching our creative muscles. i swear every time i upload pictures of blood pieces it looks just slightly too light in the pics. Just imagine it darker.

Brilliant!! Although i cant help but feel there would be some disturbance of the blood around the bloodfall and the monster

The head statue pouring blood from his mouth is great however the monster rising from the blood pool does seem rather clean and no disruption of blood around him is a bit odd.

But it does look cool still and nice paint job

Okay, the head in the rocks spitting blood from its mouth genuinely creeped me out. Very nice.

i agree about the blood disturbance, I'm still in process of experimenting with ways to make realistic ripples, waves and other liquid motion effects that wont break the bank in terms of being even more time intensive, and still have the realistic appearance I see in my head, so for now still pools look better than something substandard :p

I understand what you are saying but it was only an observation as you seem to enjoy lifting the bar on terrain building, also I felt (as good as the paint job is ) the mouth and tentacles would have a degree of blood stuck to them after raising from the blood pool.

I dont want to seem like I am trying to rip it to pieces as I think it does look great, I just felt I needed to be honest.

It is a great piece and I cant wait to see more like this.

I love the observations! We always want to improve, and getting the opinions of others is how we get there. It's one reason why we put out stuff on auction and such.

My original plan for the blood was to sculpt the splashes and ripples, then cast the sculpted parts in the same colored, slightly translucent resin, but like I said... budget-wise that would be overkill for pieces that I want to keep attainable.

WOOOOOOOW, This thread is mega aweesooommeee!! Your work is keeping me amazed time and time again!

Incredible work. I love the blood any chance of giving up that secret?

All I can say is WOW just WOW!!!! Two thumb's way way up!!!

Yes, I can see that raising the cost considerably but the idea is an interesting one, although you would have your work cut out with that.
Do you mind sharing the recipe of how you did the blood pool

 lone dirty dog wrote:
Yes, I can see that raising the cost considerably but the idea is an interesting one, although you would have your work cut out with that.
Do you mind sharing the recipe of how you did the blood pool

I may make a set of splashes and ripples at some point, then design my pieces to fit them, rather than the reverse, allowing versatility.

The blood is epoxy resin, I used opaque resin dyes of blue, red and brown, but I didn't follow a formula I just added a little of each until it matched my sample I had made previously, which I based off real blood from a hobby wound... so yeah, blood sacrifice.

This thread is brilliant, i admire your work.

 Tyranidcrusher wrote:
This thread is brilliant, i admire your work.

Great to hear! Keep an eye open, before the year is up I'll be making a new thread to showcase all the amazing commission projects we've been working on over the year.

Cheers for the info that makes sense to do it that way around, however will that not dictate future designs a little ? but on the up side will save time

My thoughts exactly! There are always a lot of decisions to weigh, I swear we spend more time debating the best way to do something than actually building.

 Terraformer wrote:
My thoughts exactly! There are always a lot of decisions to weigh, I swear we spend more time debating the best way to do something than actually building.

I do it the other way around, chuck it together then work out a better way to have done it, I guess thats half the fun LOL

I have to say your eye detail is amazing, I cant wait to see these commission pieces