Hi everyone!

Sometimes you work too much on the same subject and you need to take a break. For the last two (nearly three) years I've been working almost exclusively on converting and painting Chaos Space Marines, leaving my other armies on the shelf.

Last year I found some interesting deals for AOBR orks on ebay and decided to get a holliday army I'd leave at my parents place to play with my nephews when I get back in Picardy (yep, I'm a Picard).

The next step was to build some decent Ork terrain, so I grabbed GWs Ork barricade, some sprue, plasticard and bitz and made this:





It was easily made and fun to build, so I started to think of building something bigger when something popped into my mind:


I had already thought of rebuilding necromunda terrain with plasticard (like dsteingass is doing in his awesome thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/399826.page) so it would probably be a good training.

Using my ebaying skills I found some necromunda plastic elements and went to the nearest scale models shop to get as much plasticard as they could sell (that was easy, they're rather poor on plasticard).

After asking for pics and measurements on a french forum I finally had everything I needed to start building the fort last week-end.
Here are the first results so far:





I hope this thread will be useful for all those who are willing to build some classic Ork terrain or to bring Gorkamorka back from the dead.
If anyone needs more detailed info, I'd be glad to help

A la prochaine!
Joe

This is as promising as your avatar is awesome. Which is very. I, also, have been interested in the idea of constructing orky terrain for my ork army but I have never built terraint at all. So I'll happily follow this.

Thanks man! Building Ork terrain is a lot funnier than imperial buildings IMO (and easier too ).

The measurements I've been given are divided into sections, each being detailed in order to build the fort clockwise.
For those who are interested, here are the measurements used to build the gate (using metric system and no weird medieval measurement system ) :

-two side pilars 2cm x 2cm x 9cm, each having a 7cm slot centered on one side (which will be the external side) and running from the floor

-the top is 13,5cm x 2cm x 2cm with a 9cm slot centered on two oposite sides (to allow the door to slide within)

-the door is 9cm x 12cm

The Necromunda wall element can be glued, but I prefered to build a removable junction as shown on the pics above. It fite the 7cm slot perfectly.

By the way, I'd be grateful if anyone having the original fort could post pics of it, (these pics are difficult to get on google and I have to work with the info I have and the commercial pic previously posted).

BTW if someone wants to post an equivalence of the measurements in any other system, feel free to do so (I'm totally unable to do it myself)

Cheers!

Joe

Interesting project!

I've been working on Orky buildings myself, also for Gorkamorka.

I've been trying to find a quick and easy way to make them out of foam board and papiermache. So far I'm quite pleased with the results.

As for the original fort, I have one but not here in Edinburgh. When I visit my parents either later this month or near Christmas I'll see about getting some measurements for you.

This looks like it'll be a fun ride! I'll follow along, maybe even start some of my own.

Thank you guys!

@Fox Box: I really like the classic look of your ork buildings, it reminds me of the 2nd ed days

This project is progressing faster than I expected, and I think I have done a third of the whole building.
An important note at this stage of the project: Everything I've shown until now seems too plain for an ork building: that's normal I'm still in the cutting/test assembling phase of this project, so don't worry, scrap plates, junk piles, glyphs and even a squig-hound doghouse are planned .

Here are the latest pics:
1st floor section:

1st wall section:

mock-up:



I've also cut the 2nd wall and floor sections.
This sections are dscribing a 45° angle with the necromunda wall that ends the 1st section:


I hope I'll be able to make more this evening.

Cheers!

Joe

Hey there!

I've made a lot of progress this week, and the Gorkamorka fort is on a good way!
I've finished the general building work, and still have to add scrap metal, a watch tower, cover on the 1st floor, a squig doghouse etc...

Here are some pics:





Here's also a pic of the weirdboy I'll soon work on (I have to make a GS sleeve on his left arm)


What do you think?

Joe

I'm loving how this fort is going together! Very nice so far. That wierdboy model is interesting... what is it?

Thanks Sentinel.

The weirdboy is an oop weirdboy model from the early 90s. I like the imperial commissar look.

Oh Too Cool man!! I can't wait to see more. I totally forgot that GorkaMorka came with that cool fort and Necro Bulkheads. See it is a lot easier to do than it looks isnt it?

I'll be back, busy at work right now but subbed and looking forward to being part of the conversation. Great work so far!

dsteingass wrote:Oh Too Cool man!! I can't wait to see more. I totally forgot that GorkaMorka came with that cool fort and Necro Bulkheads. See it is a lot easier to do than it looks isnt it?

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I'll be back, busy at work right now but subbed and looking forward to being part of the conversation. Great work so far!

Thank you guys.

The main difficulty was to work without a proper visual support. I had measurements, general instructions and 5 pics (commercial pic included). Otherwise, it was an easy job, quickly done. Now that I have built the general shape of the fort, the funny job will start, orkifying the whole stuff.
The walkways are the next step.
Since I don't have textured plasticard for the floors, I'll glue some pieces of the plastic net the shallots are sold in:

and add a plasticard frame with flat rivets on it.
What do you think?

I think the grocery netting will work really well. Don't get all tied up about measurements and such, they are orks after all!

Don't stress about the measurements. The original fort was a really awkward shape and too big in some places making it rather difficult to use on a 4' x 4' table.

"Inspired by" will probably get better results than "Plasticard version of", if you understand what I mean?

Ok, I'm back!

The core structure looks absolutely perfect and is going to be 100% WIN for the base of your project. You have a lot of options available to you right now, even more so than Necromunda I think becasue (I feel) there has to be some sort of continuity and symmetry. When you get into Outlanders stuff that changes of course, but for the majority of the Underhive there has to be some sensibility to it becasue it was once the center of Imperial society.

I had an idea that I was looking up for you and then it changed a bit and stuck me that I can do this as well.



Self-adhesive drywall tape! Will glue very easily, and look at the squares! Turn them on angle and you have faux diamondplate!

I'm going to try this on my Necromunda stuff at home because it just happens that I finished a drywall project the other day and have tape to spare.

I think it's great that you're doing this project right now, the timing is pretty awesome and the crossref between threads is going to help everyone.

Skalk that is an awesome idea! Man, the more I read this thread the more I want to make my own orky fort.

The tape is a great idea!

That tape is a fantastic idea, thank you for sharing!

Thanks for the replies guys!

@Skalk:Thanks for the tape idea! I'll try to go as soon as possible to the local hardware shop








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Here's the first test with grocery plastic net:



What do you think?

I think wait to glue it until after you try the drywall tape. The plastic on those mesh bags you are using doesn't stick to hardly anything very well and you might be disappointed. I tried the drywall tape on a few things tonight and wish I had tried it years ago. It is pretty awesome and works great!

really awesome work. what is the thickness of the plasticard that slots into the necro terrain?

@Skalk: I'll try to find some drywall tape today, I can't wait to try it.

@Orinoco: The best thickness is 1mm, but 1,25 is fine too.

When building the fort "cabin" I used 0,5 (or 0,75 I'm not sure) and tried succesfully to bend plasticard to a 90° angle without breaking it and without any reinforcements required, using a technique to fold paper and cardboard which is basically pressing the plasticard instead of cutting it, following a line with something pointy but not sharp (I think it's also used in scrapbooking but I don't know much about it)

This way I could build it with a single piece of plasticard. I think it's particularly appropriate to build things like the dome/shaft entrance for necromunda. I'll try to post pics for those who might be interested.

Damned... Yet another thread to subscribe to...

If you have good, heavy pliers (no grippy teef) you can bend it with those too, it works like a miniature metal brake press. I like the mesh idea! There has got to be a way to make that stuff stick, there just HAS to be.

@Yggs: Sorry, I promise it won't be too hard to follow

@Dsteingass: Pliers? I'll think of that! I'll make a test with PVA glue to stick the net flat on a plasticard surface.

Ya, I used my new pliers to bend the plasticard around the center pipe on my latest Necromunda tower. Not 90 degrees, but it works. It would probably work even better with a bit of heat applied.

In fact the technique I've used only works with reasonably thin plasticard (less than 1mm). I'll try the pliers next week, my father must have the right kind in his toolboxes. Is it how you've bent the doors of your tower?

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I think I bought my pliers for $5 or so. remember no grippy teeth! The grippy teeth will leave an imprint in your plastic.

dsteingass wrote: remember no grippy teeth! The grippy teeth will leave an imprint in your plastic.

Understood

When I'm bending large pieces of plastic into angles I immerse it in hot water first to slightly soften the plastic. Hot tap water will work fine, I haven't found it necessary to boil water.

I've also found this trick works well for creating "damage" like dents, impacts, etc.

For tight angles, try to keep it in the same form until it completely cools to prevent "springback". Sometimes I will exaggerate the bend a bit so if it "springs back" it will still be closer to the desired shape.

Gorka Morka fort looks top banana , i missed out on the original stuff , so thanks for bringing back to my attention ,i didn't even realize there was a set for it.

sounds cool once hot how do you make the damage

Are you planning on doing the crashed spaceship from Digganob, by any chance?

A crashed spaceship?

If you can provide me pics, scans or any material I can work from, then I'd like to build it!
I have a general interest in every GorkaMorka, Necromunda and 40K cardboard buildings. Actually, the 40k buildings (imperial bastion and firebase, even the powerplant from the Storm of Vengeance campaign...) would be really interesting to work on. So if anyone can provide me visual material from which I can work, please tell me!

Linky!

Thanks for the link Fox Box! the crashed spaceship should be easy to build, I'll save these pics for later
BTW if there's any other gorkamorka building that I don't know (I confess I know far less about GorkaMorka than Necromunda) please, let me know!

I've managed to grab some gorkamorka original building but I'm not sure of what it is. I think it's the watchtower from a WD but I can't google a proper pic to be sure.
I'm affraid I won't get enough time to go buying drywall tape until next week

A good point however: I've received some more plasticard sheets and got a free stock of solid cardboard.

Cheers!

Joe

I have just bought both the imperial bastion and firebase from ebay, will try to get some pics of them for you.

I'm planning on scanning the parts too.

I think that I'm missing about 2 bits on each one, but I did get the booklets on how to construct them too, so those will be scanned as well.

I just need time :(

Hyenajoe wrote:Thanks for the link Fox Box! the crashed spaceship should be easy to build, I'll save these pics for later
BTW if there's any other gorkamorka building that I don't know (I confess I know far less about GorkaMorka than Necromunda) please, let me know!

I've managed to grab some gorkamorka original building but I'm not sure of what it is. I think it's the watchtower from a WD but I can't google a proper pic to be sure.
I'm affraid I won't get enough time to go buying drywall tape until next week

A good point however: I've received some more plasticard sheets and got a free stock of solid cardboard.

Cheers!

Joe

There's a scan of the watch tower that came with WD kicking around in a torrent somewhere I think, should you want to build it in plasticard I mean.

In terms of card terrain for GoMo there was the fort, the crashed ship, the Mutie tents, and the watch tower. As far as I know there's nothing else (and I can say that relatively definitively, that's how big a geek I am!).

I only still have a few of the Gorka Fort's cover bitz. But if they help you for measurements I'd be more than glad to share.
My cutting mat is marked out in Inches though, sorry I don't use metric unless i absolutely have to.

Thank you guys!

MrDrem wrote:I have just bought both the imperial bastion and firebase from ebay, will try to get some pics of them for you.

I'm planning on scanning the parts too.

I think that I'm missing about 2 bits on each one, but I did get the booklets on how to construct them too, so those will be scanned as well.

I just need time :(

It would be awesome!

Fox Box wrote: There's a scan of the watch tower that came with WD kicking around in a torrent somewhere I think, should you want to build it in plasticard I mean.

In terms of card terrain for GoMo there was the fort, the crashed ship, the Mutie tents, and the watch tower. As far as I know there's nothing else (and I can say that relatively definitively, that's how big a geek I am!).

I trust you
Sure I want to build it in plasticard! Is is provided with assembling instrutions?

dsteingass wrote:I only still have a few of the Gorka Fort's cover bitz. But if they help you for measurements I'd be more than glad to share.
My cutting mat is marked out in Inches though, sorry I don't use metric unless i absolutely have to.

Thank you man! From what I see they're easy to reproduce

One thing is for sure, you're at no loss for support or inspiration!

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

Here you go...

Warning!

Bastion PDF is 15.6mb!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30417086/Bastion/Bastion%20Instructions.pdf

Firebase PDF is 17mb!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30417086/Firebase/Firebase%20Instructions.pdf

Be warned, these two take something like 28 bulkheads between them!

Sadly lots of the card is already glued, so will have to be carefully cut apart. I will start on this sooner than I might have done, so that I can get you some scans of the card pieces so that you can start cutting it. It'll also allow me to store it flat, which would help...

I'm going to try and work out a way to change it to being a flat pack kit for both when done in Plasticard, not sure how that'll work, but better to try than not to.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:One thing is for sure, you're at no loss for support or inspiration!

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

I must say I didn't expect so much interest and support when I started this project, it's really helpfull and motivating!
I hope you won't be disappointed by the final result

MrDrem wrote:Here you go...

Warning!

Bastion PDF is 15.6mb!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30417086/Bastion%20Instructions.pdf

Firebase PDF is 17mb!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30417086/Firebase%20Instructions.pdf

Be warned, these two take something like 28 bulkheads between them!

Sadly lots of the card is already glued, so will have to be carefully cut apart. I will start on this sooner than I might have done, so that I can get you some scans of the card pieces so that you can start cutting it. It'll also allow me to store it flat, which would help...

I'm going to try and work out a way to change it to being a flat pack kit for both when done in Plasticard, not sure how that'll work, but better to try than not to.

Yeah, more plasticard rebuilding thread!
Thanks for the link man I highly appreciate your help!
I'm not able to open the link for now, but it'll be done soon!

Now let's talk about orkifying the building. I already have a set of glyphs, at least 2 truks rear platforms, some barrels, ammo crates, wheels... What about an iconic Ork skull above the fort? And if yes, should I stick it just above the door or built a scaffolding to hold it somewhere?
Another question, I really want to build a small squig doghouse, but where to put it? Inside or outside?

Hyenajoe wrote:

I must say I didn't expect so much interest and support when I started this project, it's really helpfull and motivating!

You are the mighty Hyenajoe and all things you do are awesome. People like your work.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

Hyenajoe wrote:

I must say I didn't expect so much interest and support when I started this project, it's really helpfull and motivating!

You are the mighty Hyenajoe and all things you do are awesome. People like your work.

This my friend should be sigged!
Don't you know this kind of comment can make a french guy head explode with pride?

@MrDrem: the firebase pdf seems broken, but the bastion works fine, thanks a lot!

Odd, they both work fine from here, although being quite large, they can take some time to load. Has anyone else had problems getting them?

The Firebase and Bastion are both now up, see my thread for details. The original locations for the instructions still work for the moment, but I have also moved them in with the other bits. I've updated the links higher up in this thread, but they may now work for you. Certainly worth a try!

MrDrem wrote:
The Firebase and Bastion are both now up, see my thread for details. The original locations for the instructions still work for the moment, but I have also moved them in with the other bits. I've updated the links higher up in this thread, but they may now work for you. Certainly worth a try!

MrDrem, it's more than worth a try, It's a duty to build these
Now I'm starting to think of making and casting my own bulkheads. If anyone has already tried something similar and wish to share his/her experience then please do so!

The fort, in its actual state will be tested in game next week, so I'll see where to add weapon platforms, shooting position, cover etc...

Cheers!

Joe

@ Mr Drem Thanks for linking those , i liked the fluff that went with them.

@Hyenajoe wow even more cool stuff to make

I am interested in the casting of the bulkheads, since they are OOP , I think this is a great idea that I support!

Doing an exact cast (meaning slots, etc) I think would be doomed to fail until you are using a more advance casting technique (meaning expensive) but to cast a facade (the front or back side of a bulkhead to use as decoration) is something that would be really easy and I have been thinking about a lot lately. It could be as "advanced" as a modge-podge latex mold, or as simple a a impression pour. Either way, bulkhead facades would be extremely awesome.

Meh I don't use the slots, could fill them in with plasticard before casting as far as I care.

As soon as I'll get enough casting material, I'll try to build my own plasticard bulkheads and to cast them.

Now, back to the fort, here are the latest progress:





And the weirdboy (with his full uniform)



Skalk, I really like the small rivets method you've posted in your thread, I'll have to use it on the walls.

Dsteingass, I've tried to build rivets like you've done with RSJake method here

But I've failed to produce more than two correct ones , so I'll try to make a GS mold to produce them in quantity.

Cheers!

Joe

Well, I used three different slices of rod rather than punching them. Your punched rivets on the walkway look a lot better than my uneven ones though! That drywall tape is worth every penny isnt it? Looking awesome!

Thanks!

To be honnest I didn't use Drywall tape since I couldn't find the right stuff at my local hardware shop. Instead, I've used tulles ribbon (I don't know the english name of tulles). Basically it's this:

I'ts mainly used for wedding decoration and I found a small piece of it at the bottom of a drawer.
It's really cheap, and, while it's not self adhesive like drywall tape, it's rigid enough to be easily glued with half dried PVA (plus if you're not married yet, your fiance would be glad to make some hobby purchases with you for once )

I have 2 free days home ( no wife, no kid, no duty) and I'm really trying to atke the best advantage of it to work on the fort so...stay tuned

I have been thinking about your desire to scratchbuild Necromunda Bulkheads. I was bored at work, so I stashed a Necromunda Bulkhead in my coat pocket and decided to measure and draw it out on Visio (in Metric even!). While it appears to technically be possible to scratch build a Necro Bulkhead, I'm not sure how practical it will be to mass-produce them. Casting would definitely be your best option. This is drawn as-is, including the channels. I hope it helps, If I can give you any more measurements, please let me know.

The Anatomy of a Necromunda Bulkhead










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Something is wrong with my measurements though, the entire bulkhead should measure 72mm square

Man! That's awesome! (and in metric system )

As soon as the fort will be finished, I'll have to start this!I'll make the necessary corrections and post it when I'll be working on. I already have the silicon, I think it's time for a resin order.

You can be sure of my gratitude!

I've finished the shooting platform of the right wall:


And I have started to orkify the walls:




There's still a lot to do but I'm confident that I can finish the fort before Wednesday.

I'm totally excited to see the final of this blog. I've been silently creeping on it for some time, just wanted to tell you to keep up the good work!!

Man that firing step is looking completely badass!

I re-measured and fixed the drawing, I still seem to be missing 1mm somewhere I can't quite figure it out, so I split the 1mm on either side of the ladder, more room to fudge the numbers there I supose.


This was a good excersize to reverse engineer the thing, I can tell that the GW Studio guys at the time must have had a bunch of metric strip material when they designed the master. I think 1995/1996 was too early yet for Computer-designed injection molding, but I could be wrong.


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It's been a really slow day

Your scratchbuild is amazing. I am really wishing I could get my self back in high gear. I've left my Zombie project consume me. I need to finish that this week so I can get goingagain on the awesomeness of scratchbuld terrain.

This is an inspiration, GorkaMorka is where I started 40k, ah the memories... 'Needz moar teef!!' Looking seriously good! can't wait for more. I still have one of the books 'Da Uvver Book'.

Gorka Morka.......what a fantastic idea for a project, well executed so far as well! I do love large line of sight blocking terrain in my 40k games, you've got me day dreaming about a new fort for my table, Thanks.

sweet looking fort youve got here count me as subscribed

Awesome!

also- Subscribed!

That is all for now

.... MOAR!!!

Another AWESOME terrain plog. Totally subscribed!

Thank you guys for your kind comments (And Dsteingass for correcting the measurements, you're awesome!)
The orkification of the fort is in progress. I've started to work new rivets making techniques (I mean, new to me, I guess the rivets masters did it in kindergarten )
Basicalli i ct a plasticard tube in 1 to 2 mm pieces and put it around a thin plasticard rod like this:

then, a point of glue at the end of the rod, and cutting with an exacto knife leaving a small length of rod out of the tube and, ta-dah!
Orky rivets:


I'll post pics of the walls later (stangely, it's the most difficult part of this project until now)

I really think I'm going to have a go at casting facades. I've given it a lot of thought and at the very least it will free up 10 bulkheads I am using for my miniatures photo backdrops currently.

If it works I'll be sure to post about it. If it doesn't I'll just let the idea fade away and hope no one ever asks me about it.

I would be willing to build the master bulkheads, we just need someone to make molds and cast them. My hobby budget has been blown (or rather capital invested) in my new hoard of styrene. This could be a collective community project, Who knows, maybe we could sell them? It's technically not GW's IP anymore if we build the master.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
If it works I'll be sure to post about it. If it doesn't I'll just let the idea fade away and hope no one ever asks me about it.

You know we're as cruel as little children, we'll ask anyway.

I can't wait to finish the fort and to start making and casting my own bulkhead.

@ Dsteingass: I have gathered all the material to make a mold, but must still find resin to pour in, and good casting resin is really hard to find here in France.
I like the idea of a community project, I think it's something we should discuss further.

Looking at the wall I felt something was wrong, and after two days, I realised what it was... The scrap metal plates are too regular! I should have filed them before glueing
I'll have to use my dremmel tool to file them on the wall...

Pics to follow as soon as I'll be satisfied.

This is awesome. Awesome enough that it has inspired me to start my own orky fort. Well, start it and then put it on the desk with the other forty-odd projects I have going... Anyway, I don't know if you've seen this yet but here's another guys fort that I find extremely inspiring: http://www.ironhands.com/gorkfort.htm

He's got some amazing terrain in there.

I forgot to mention earlier that I took out my Gorkamorka box and started to re-read the rules. I absolutely am not going to do this. I refuse to.


...but I sure am tempted. If I could get someone in my area to play...

The Necromundicon website is one of my all-time favorites! It is one of the first sites I looked at when starting this 10+ years ago.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I forgot to mention earlier that I took out my Gorkamorka box and started to re-read the rules. I absolutely am not going to do this. I refuse to.


...but I sure am tempted. If I could get someone in my area to play...

If you want some help finding some people I can put up a post on tUGS to see if anyone else would be interested.

/baits the hook with gubbinz and casts it for updates.

...sorry...I did just a little more scrap-walling, but some sleepless nights (of the kind that every parent has to face quite regularly ) took the best of my motivation...
I'll post some pics tonight, but don't expect something terrific

BTW, I have a question, do you think I should add some plasticard ladders or the bulkheads are enough?

Now a more positive point, while I was unable to work with plasticard, I found some motivation to work on my casting skills (I'm quite good with pewter). I also went to the nearest DIY store to get some more silicon and bought some cheap resin (probably not the most adequat but it's probably fine for a first attempt -besides, it's the only one you find in stores around here-)

Functionally, the bulkhead ladders will be used to quickly climb in-game, but more ladders can't hurt.

That fort looks to be coming on really well.

Beautiful stuff.

As promised, here's a pic of the latest progress on the walls.


What do you think?

Hyenajoe wrote:BTW, I have a question, do you think I should add some plasticard ladders or the bulkheads are enough?

Yes, and make some in illogical places. Orks have "good idears" that we zoggin' Humies just don't understand. Like a ladder leading to the top of wall that has no platform on top, or something like that. Adds a level of detail to a plain wall piece as well.

looks awsome man

MrDrem wrote:Here you go...

Warning!

Bastion PDF is 15.6mb!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30417086/Bastion/Bastion%20Instructions.pdf

Firebase PDF is 17mb!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30417086/Firebase/Firebase%20Instructions.pdf

Be warned, these two take something like 28 bulkheads between them!

Sadly lots of the card is already glued, so will have to be carefully cut apart. I will start on this sooner than I might have done, so that I can get you some scans of the card pieces so that you can start cutting it. It'll also allow me to store it flat, which would help...

I'm going to try and work out a way to change it to being a flat pack kit for both when done in Plasticard, not sure how that'll work, but better to try than not to.

THANK YOU !

Great work on the wall. Looks really nice. I second the motion for ladders, if not to just see your take on building them.

Incredible terrain building! Keeping an eye out for more progress!

Looking really good!

Thank you all for the kind comments!

@Skalk, I'll go for ladders leading to nowhere

Now guys, I'd like to share with you the joy that was mine today, when I received my latest acquisition on ebay. I won an auction concerning the Digganob supplement, and since I had just been looking at the title of the item and the picture, I was just expecting to get the book...here's what I got for 0,99£ (don't look at the mess around ):



So now, it might not just be interesting to try to rebuild the digganob terrain, I will rebuild the digganob terrain! (and make scans!)
You can also notice an exemplar of the WD watchtower I mentioned earlier came along, that was an extra bonus! Hurray!

I'll try to get some work done on the fort on Monday.

Cheers!

Joe

Nice cheap score man! Congrats!

Wow. That is an amazing score!

Ohhhh, do you have a scanner?

Could we get scans of the pieces?

I've not managed to do anything with my stuff yet :( too much stuff to do getting the house finished sadly :(

What a steal on ebay! Thanks, in advance, for the scans. That stuff should be more widely spread, imo.

Time for a small update;

I found some time to file the edges of the plasticard scrap plates (at last).
It's only a detail and I think it doesn't deserve a pic for it, but now that it's done I feel free to go over, finish the walls and work on another element.

Cheers.

Joe

I disagree. I love pics. Based on what you've done so far, this little thing could be... amazing. Moar pics.

really, there's no big change to the previous pics of the walls , the scrap plates are just looking, well...more scrappy.
However, I promise I'll post new pics as soon as I'll have done something new on the fort.

Quite anecdotic, but I broke the flexible of my dremmel like tool while filing the plates

Cheers!

Joe

you broke a flexi-shaft? How the hell do you do that?

In fact the cable whithin the flexible broke at the level where it gets out of the locking device of the tool. Now the cable is about 1 inch shorter and the flexible is out of use...
I'm looking for a new flexible, but since it's a Ryobi and not a proper Dremmel brand tool, it makes it complicated (anyone knows if the flexible are compatible?).

Yeah, they should all fit the same collet. I have a cheap Milescraft flexi-shaft. Ryobi is supposed to make quality stuff? I would ask them to replace it, good tool companies will have a good lifetime warranty.

I'll see about it.

I managed to do some more work on the walls during my lunchbreak, using some Rhino spare bits and clippers. I'm quite happy with the result so far, but you guys will tell me what you think tonight when I'll get time to post pics.

Cheers!

Joe


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As promised here are the last pics of the walls:



I still have some blank spaces to fill, but it's probably the way I'll go to finish the exterior walls.
What do you think?

I also have found this in a drawer:

I was thinking of using these on the interior side of the walls. Opinion?

Chopping up rhinos is good. Nice walls

These are looking great. Have to admit I'm painting up a bunch of Gorkamorka Orks at the moment which i got ages ago to do up vehicle crews with. Now I don't particularly plan on using the vehicles and haven't touched them in several years playing with my Ork forcce I decided to make a new Shoota Boyz mob.

I really like those strut bitz, personally, they look too cool to not be front and center. Maybe just hack and chip edges of scrap plasticard and have it bolted and riveted on haphazardly. Don't feel you have to follow the original graphic art 1:1, you'll drive yourself nuts...Trust me

dsteingass wrote:Maybe just hack and chip edges of scrap plasticard and have it bolted and riveted on haphazardly. Don't feel you have to follow the original graphic art 1:1, you'll drive yourself nuts...Trust me

Well, the more I progress on this project, the less I care of the original cardboard fort. Now I'm trying to make as orkish as possible
I'll try to use some of the structures as you suggested, but there's not as many left as on the pic above some have already been used for the interior walls (the bottle of wine I spent a part of the evening with told me it was a good idea ) I'll post some pics soon.

Tomorrow is a public holiday and my wife declared it would be a thematic day, the theme being "cleaning all this mess"... I hope I'll manage to get some time to make more rivets (I feel the rhino bits are missing rivets) and to finish the exterior walls (TBH working on these walls is starting to get boring - but good work need patience...)

Cheers!

Joe

Hey Dsteingass, is it what you had in mind for the metallic structures?

I've add some more like this one on the walls.
H'ere's what I've started to do on the interior side:


I'll probably do the same as on the first pic, with riveted plates, the add some barrels, ladders, pieces on engine (and a squig doghouse). Any other idea?

Joe

Hyenajoe wrote:Hey Dsteingass, is it what you had in mind for the metallic structures?

Yea dood, that looks great!

thats an awsome looking ork fort man!

Do you have a kitchen yet? Da chef boy's gotta cook up those fungus burgers somewhere!

Dem walls iz lookin good, by da by. How does the whole lot look together these days?

Thank you guys!

The Good Green wrote:
Dem walls iz lookin good, by da by. How does the whole lot look together these days?

General view of the fort will follow soon

Nice ebay find , and nice work so far.

Thanks!

I'm glad to announce the walls are now finished!
As promised here's a general view of the fort:




Next: the interior walls and stuff + the entrance to finish

Absolutely amazing man! Very cool work!

Fantastic. I loved the Gorkamorka game and this thread is sparking my interest in dem orkses again.

Looking good. I've got to get around to finishing my fort at some point but I doubt it'll look as good as yours.

AAAwsome man this ork pentigon is great

Walkways!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

Walkways!

Yeah! It has to be done. Thanks Skalk!

I'm glad you are using those bitz for walkways!

Hey there!

After weeks looking at my fort with an angry eye (for I started to think it would be another unfinished project), I've decided to get back to work on it.
Not much done yet, but I found enough motivation to try to finish it before 12/31 (at this date, I'll have to leave it finished at my parent's place with my ork army and sceneries.)
Here are the latest pics:



I'll add some plasticard and pieces of rhino armor to make it a proper cover.
Cheers!

Joe

Looks great! Seems all it really needs now is some paint!

Fantastic job. I'd buy a kit of this. Get it painted!

Totally badass sir!

I was wondering where this was (and yes, I know... throwing stones as I live in a glass house) and all I can say it this is amazing! Perfect for Gorkamorka and 40K!

There aren't enough hours in a day for me to work on the 3 active projects I have. I need to win the lottery.

Ozymandias wrote:Looks great! Seems all it really needs now is some paint!

Sentinel wrote:Fantastic job. I'd buy a kit of this. Get it painted!

Thank you guys!
I'll finish it next week-end, and will buy material to build a proper base before priming it.

dsteingass wrote:Totally badass sir!

I'm glad you like it. When I'll have done enough painting on my various projects I'll start to work on the ork bulkheads using the measurements you've provided.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote: I was wondering where this was (and yes, I know... throwing stones as I live in a glass house) and all I can say it this is amazing! Perfect for Gorkamorka and 40K!

Thanks. It will be used for both!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
There aren't enough hours in a day for me to work on the 3 active projects I have. I need to win the lottery.

I probably need to start playing the lottery too

Yeah, but if we won all we'd do is buy more more more stuff that we'd never paint in 15 lifetimes.

^ so true. Lol. Maybe it is good that we buy stuff in a somewhat regulated manner.....

you guys are probably right!

One of my biggest deception about the fort is that I couldn't grab a proper squig on ebay to add a squighouse and a "beware uv' squig" sign...

You can always make that separate later, but it IS an awesome idea, it would make a nice little touch!

Hey there!

Thanks to Skalk, I grabbed some squigs on ebay, and this afternoon Ifinally made the squighouse and the sign:





I've also worked on the 1st floor scrap:


It ends brutally, because I'm not sur I want to do this all around the fort.

So, what do you think?

Ho ho, that squig pen is a beautiful touch.

I cast my vote for continuing the scrap layer on top- I love it. It looks very orky and makes the place look a little more haphazardly fortified.

any chance of a side by side? work looks great

That is looking great, I'm really jealous. I want so much to get back on my terrain project, I just got caught up in the Death Guard again.

Yay Squig! Only advice I have is to make "squig tooth" marks. Think of an insane dog and what the doorway to his house looks like.

Thank you guys!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:That is looking great, I'm really jealous. I want so much to get back on my terrain project, I just got caught up in the Death Guard again.

Yay Squig! Only advice I have is to make "squig tooth" marks. Think of an insane dog and what the doorway to his house looks like.

Squig tooth marks? I'll think about it

Big chomps, really.

That is coming on great!

Would love to see some paint on it.

Yeah Hyena! go BIG or go home! lol, didn't you tell me that?

You are crazy !
I totally love the idea of the squig-house. You should add piles of bones on the floor all aroud it.

The Fort looks great and so orkish, painting it should be funny. I assume you'll apply tons of weathering on it, won't you ?


The Weirboy model is great too. Is it a GW mini ? I don't know it.

Hey, I have been following the construction of this fort silently, but I notice that hasn't been an update in a while. Is the fort done and painted yet? It really inspired me, I've been working on my own fort lately.

jmsbanks wrote:Hey, I have been following the construction of this fort silently, but I notice that hasn't been an update in a while. Is the fort done and painted yet? It really inspired me, I've been working on my own fort lately.

Thanks for your interest, man!

To avoid to get the fort damaged at home (because I don't have a proper storage capacity) I left it at my parents' place with my ork stuff and my airbrush.
It's been primed with a GW grey textured undercoat and I'm planning to airbrush it within the next months. I've added tank traps and I'm planning to add shooting positions from the trukk on each side of the main door.

Since I'm not often at my parents, there won't be much done in a while, but as soon as I'll have paint all my currents CSMs projects I'll start to build Ork Bulkhead using dsteingass' awesome measurements and the Gorkamorka watchtower realeased in an old White Dwarf.

If you wish, you can post here pics of your own fort, I'd be really glad to see how you're working on a similar project, and it could be motivating for me to
see your progress.

@ Minus: sorry for not replying earlier, The weirdboy is an OOP bloodaxe weirdboy

dsteingass wrote:Man that firing step is looking completely badass!

I re-measured and fixed the drawing, I still seem to be missing 1mm somewhere I can't quite figure it out, so I split the 1mm on either side of the ladder, more room to fudge the numbers there I supose.


This was a good excersize to reverse engineer the thing, I can tell that the GW Studio guys at the time must have had a bunch of metric strip material when they designed the master. I think 1995/1996 was too early yet for Computer-designed injection molding, but I could be wrong.


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It's been a really slow day

This is a great plog! I'm going to try something similar mysef and I have access to a laser cutter at work...... don't suppose you have these drawings in wmf format do you? will save me loads of time drawing them in myself is all

Hey there!

After almost six month painting CSMs, I feel the urge of working with plasticard again, so it's time to bring this thread back to life!

The next step of my Gorkamorka buildings project is the Ork watchtower released in White Dwarf 15 years ago (US issue 214, don't ask me for the other countries ref )
Here's what I'm talking about:






I've just started yesterday to work on it, rebuilding the front pilars:


I'll try to finish the rear pillars tomorrow, before giving a try to a variant of the riveting technique I've used on the fort.

Cheers!

Joe

A project log named after an obscure Rowdy Roddy Piper movie?

You sir, are a great man.

Oh, and nice modeling work too.

Awesome, I still have that tower too!

what an awesome looking fortress the squig guard dog is a nice touch. gives the while thing that little extra it needs to bring it to life. Cant wait to see if finished and all painted up

That is completely BADASS man!! THis is gonna be cool!

I have that drawing in Visio, sorry no .wmf

Thank you guys!

Veteran Sergeant wrote:A project log named after an obscure Rowdy Roddy Piper movie?

You sir, are a great man.

And you're another, for recognizing the reference!

To those who have never seen this jewel of cinema:

It's worth watching it

Man it is good to see you back on this project. Always look forward to -stealing your ideas- seeing what new unique thing you have come up with!

Thank you Skalk! I wish I had more free time to work on it

I've nearly finished the rear pillars, but my plasticard cuttings are crappy and I'll have to fill some spaces.
Considering the lack of time I have to work on it I've decided to build the last pillars my own way.
When the pillar supporting the "nest" will be done, I'll work on the platforms and cover.

I'm planing to put a large searchlight on the main platform, and a rather chaotic ladder (or rather an mix of various ladders) on a pillar. Anyone has a fun idea of what I could add to the watchtower?

Got any barbed wire?

keep going!

Things to add:

Dakka.
A big flag.
A boarding plank. (For when the Stompa comes to town)
More dakka.
Squig-on-a-stick.
Tire swing.
Squig-a-pult.
Even more dakka.
A water slide.

Briancj wrote:Things to add:
A water slide.

This!!! That is an excellent idea. Although I would suggest it be a piece unto itself so itdoesn't take up space in the fort. The should land in a big mud puddle. I can see an ork going down the slide shooting 2 sluggas in joyful glee ala yosemite sam. Orks do like rockin' and lootin' but every once in a while they need to do some muckin' about.

Your work on binging this fort back to life has been an awesome journey, an awesome piece of terrain to make the mekboy in all of us green(er) than normal and inspired (by Gork or Mork, who knows)

Thank you for your wonderful work so far, we all look forward to seeing MOAR!

I have an idea. PM sent.

Guys, you're great (Brian, you're a genius!).

I must start to gather pipes and sprue for the water slide!!!
@skalk: PM answered

Hyenajoe wrote:Guys, you're great (Brian, you're a genius!).

I must start to gather pipes and sprue for the water slide!!!
@skalk: PM answered

Yes, I am. AND ALL SHALL OBEY MY WHIM! Bring me...A HERRING!

Here it is my lord! Do you want me to cut a tree with it?

OM NOM NOM NOM. *BURP*

didnt barney tell you any manners brian!?! you must share! here you can have a bite, i'll have the rest

I killed Barney with concentrated lasgun fire.

"People should share... people who don't share should be made to share" - Barney the Dinosaur's final statement to the court before sentencing took place.

LOL!

OK guys, time for an update!

While I've had a crappy week-end (wedding anniversaries and ill kids are not compatible!), I miraculously managed to make some significant progress on the tower, filling some empty spaces on the pillars using liquid GS and rivetting for hours, before starting to work on shooting positions.
I've also quickly built a platform using a trukk rear platform that I initially ordered when I was working on the fort.
Here's the result so far:





The next step will be to finish the shooting positions ant to add a boarding plank for a stompa and a water slide (or a diving position above an oil pool).

What do you think?

That is amazing! Many rivets, solid construction, and 100% Orky! Well done so far, looking forward to seeing what comes next!

Water slide!!!! i demand a water slide. You will make me the happiest ork since all of all orks were happy. Thats a happy ork i said so.

That is just badass-alicious Silver!!

cormadepanda wrote:Water slide!!!! i demand a water slide. You will make me the happiest ork since all of all orks were happy. Thats a happy ork i said so.

I want to play a game of 40K with you, if this is how you play Orks.

cormadepanda wrote:Water slide!!!! i demand a water slide. You will make me the happiest ork since all of all orks were happy. Thats a happy ork i said so.

Man, your enthousiasm made me start the water slide yesterday. Once the slide will be finished I'll build a scaffolding to support it.
I think it should end into some muddy/oily pool with a lifeguard sitting on top of a high chair and a grot in a buoy squig.
What do you guys think?

I think a 'drop pit". It's a fungus pit where Grots and Snots throw the things Orks "drop", if you catch the meaning. In the old fluff Gretchen and Snotlings used to hang out around the pits and eat the mushrooms that grew there.

Hyenajoe wrote:

cormadepanda wrote:Water slide!!!! i demand a water slide. You will make me the happiest ork since all of all orks were happy. Thats a happy ork i said so.

Man, your enthousiasm made me start the water slide yesterday. Once the slide will be finished I'll build a scaffolding to support it.
I think it should end into some muddy/oily pool with a lifeguard sitting on top of a high chair and a grot in a buoy squig.
What do you guys think?

I think the water slide should go into a small pool of water with squigs drinking out of the water and grots playing around and a nob chilling in a lifeguard chair. Of course all are armed and perhaps "defending da pit from dem umies." oh and you need a "no umies allowed" sign. Dis pleases da orks.

Briancj wrote:

cormadepanda wrote:Water slide!!!! i demand a water slide. You will make me the happiest ork since all of all orks were happy. Thats a happy ork i said so.

I want to play a game of 40K with you, if this is how you play Orks.

Its how i always play my orks. We will have to play, but i doubt i am in your area. Should see with ym planes...there is engine nosises and dakka is every other word.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I think a 'drop pit". It's a fungus pit where Grots and Snots throw the things Orks "drop", if you catch the meaning. In the old fluff Gretchen and Snotlings used to hang out around the pits and eat the mushrooms that grew there.

cormadepanda wrote:
I think the water slide should go into a small pool of water with squigs drinking out of the water and grots playing around and a nob chilling in a lifeguard chair. Of course all are armed and perhaps "defending da pit from dem umies." oh and you need a "no umies allowed" sign. Dis pleases da orks.

I think I could manage to build a mix of these two options

Here are my first progress with the waterslide (and believe me it's a to give it a shape)



When the slide itself will be done I'll build the scaffolding and finish the tower. The pool will be the last step.

Your Boss must be from the Bad Moon clan. Dey gits da finer 'tings cuz dey gots da teff!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Your Boss must be from the Bad Moon clan. Dey gits da finer 'tings cuz dey gots da teff!

He is (or at least he will be when I'll paint him ).

I finally managed to get some time for myself and I continued to work on the waterslide and the tower.

1st: As Brian suggested it, I started to add some dakkas:



Then I've built a scaffolding for the waterslide:


And, of course, a waterslide is nothing without wa...errrrr... some liquid!



What do you think?

I think that I have been able to control you with my awesome mental powers. Now, make me a sammich!

--B.

PS: I dub your Ork Battle Table "WAAAGHY-WORLD". Entrance fee, 30 teef.

Briancj wrote:I think that I have been able to control you with my awesome mental powers. Now, make me a sammich!

--B.

Yeth Mathter!

Briancj wrote:PS: I dub your Ork Battle Table "WAAAGHY-WORLD". Entrance fee, 30 teef.

I'll make a sign for this! I think it implies that I build a shooting attraction, right?

Mmmm, DELICIOUS.

You are going to have the most awesome Gorkamorka terrain I've ever seen. The gunz are AWESOME and completely OTT, which is just about right for Orks.

Hey guys, I've almost finished!!!

Spent most of my day cuttilng rivets and clipping pieces of plasticard to give it a real ork style (and I've added a stompa boarding plank too ).

Here are the latest progress (sorry for the mess on the background ):



And a comparison with the original cardboard one:


What's your opinion?

THAT^^ Is completely full of WIN Hyena! Damn, Damn, Damn fine job! The rivets are Extraordinary!

I am honored to present to you your -=]_,=- Badge!


Redoing original GW Card terrain into 3D plasticard is sort of close to my heart personally!

You sir, are completely mental. And I salute you for it!

Your work is awesome, never ever stop doing it!

Subbed the s**t out of this thread!

Ah, this is where you have been hidding

Very nice Orky stuff nice grot slide

dsteingass wrote:THAT^^ Is completely full of WIN Hyena! Damn, Damn, Damn fine job! The rivets are Extraordinary!

I am honored to present to you your -=]_,=- Badge!


Redoing original GW Card terrain into 3D plasticard is sort of close to my heart personally!

My very own -=]_,=- Badge! I swear to wear it, cherish it, and to bring rivets to the unriveted terrains!
I know how you feel about the old cardboard terrain. I'd like to rebuild everyone of them (if possible)

Grunt wrote:You sir, are completely mental. And I salute you for it!

Your work is awesome, never ever stop doing it!

Subbed the s**t out of this thread!

Thanks man! I'm glad you like it!

tipios wrote:Ah, this is where you have been hidding

Very nice Orky stuff nice grot slide

Yep, I needed a break from my CSMs but I'll get back on them soon.
I haven't had much time for modelling or posting lately, but I keep an eye on the friends' threads and update mine as often as possible.

With Rivets, all things are possible!

so i am finally drawn innthe hyena´s lair

*saltues smartly* welcome to the fold fellow riveteer!... your riveting duty was duly noted... now comence with riveting as extraordinary as before!

and i have to say, the amount of detail you put into/onto your models is very sweet looking... now i can only ask for a lick of paint on these to totally cherish the build... tho we do know... white pastic models have a totally unique beauty to themselves too

cheers, vik

that tower is gonna be BEAST, calling it now

That is looking amazing! Your work is always excellent. Looking forward to seeing what come snext for sure.

Thanks a lot for your cheering words gentlemen!

@Dave: achieving the impossible is just a beginning.

@Vik: answers with the appopriate salute Thank you for welcoming me. Of course I'll paint it, but this might not be before some time (I'm waiting for my birthday gift - a compressor- before starting any paint on my various terrains)

@Daemonfae: Thanks man! Your own work is impressive.

@Skalk: Thanks! I might be obliged to put my terrain building projects aside for some times, because I might have to move from my appartment soon. So I'll probably be back on my CSMs soon.

Hyenajoe wrote: because I might have to move from my appartment soon.

Ok. PM sent.

Awesome sauce! It's all over yer table.

by the way... hyenajoe... the title... rivitz...sounds so french

somehow reminds me of that dialogue of travolta and jackson..."do you know what they call a quarter pounder of a buckte full of rivets in france?" "No...what?" "Rivitz royal"

sigged^ that is hilarious! and i want to rewatch that movie

lol... as i never really have seen it at all... only for glimpses... but that scene got stuck with me^^

LOl @ Vik

*bows*

Viktor von Domm wrote:by the way... hyenajoe... the title... rivitz...sounds so french

somehow reminds me of that dialogue of travolta and jackson..."do you know what they call a quarter pounder of a buckte full of rivets in france?" "No...what?" "Rivitz royal"

No, a rivet is a rivet, we just call it "le rivet"

LOL...

le rivet...yeah...by the way... tried to translate rivet in real french... none the wiser... care to help me out on this?

Rivet is a perfectly french word (we just don't pronounce the "t"). It was made from the verb "river" (again we don't pronounce the last "r" so it sounds exactly like rivet) which means to thighten two elements against one another. Later the verb "riveter" and the adjective "riveté" appeared (same pronounciation for both).
The earliest ethymological sources about the word "Rivet" in French are from 1260.

I hope it will help you

Cool french and history lesson Joeriveting!

We love rivet history

That was really cool Joe.

ethymological

thank you joe... that actually was very nice of you to let us in on that background... i am very often highly interested in ethymological backgrounds of certain words... and i can speak "en peu francaise..." well i can actially understand it better than speak but in school that verb wasn´t heard...so much for the usefullness of schools...^^

OK folks, next time we'll talk about the progress of metallurgy during the 19th century and it's impact on the betroot production in the north of France!

@Vik: I think it's time for you to become minister of education, and to give rivetting its right place in the study programs

Now back on topic, I will try to put the tower and the waterslide on two separate bases this week-end (so that I'll be able to use the tower separately).

I've not done much for the -=]_,=- terrain contest. In fact, my daughter crushed the lid I was going to use to build a dome like this (with less details):

I was thinking to turn it to a memorial of some kind, but I can't find a good replacement for my lid... and since the real life doesn't leave me enough time to think of an alternative, I'm affraid I won't be able to participate this time...

thats unfortinate, but maybie its for the best (well at least if you find a new and better lid!)

uh... kids these days huh?... well i am most fortunate when it comes to kids... my two sons, 4 and 6 years old...never touch anything without permission and never yet crushed anything of my hobby stuff... their own toys get smashed in regular amounts of time of course

and head of education...hmmm... career agenda... well i soon start an apprenticeship to become a nursery nurse...in a school...so you aren´t that far off the actual plan^^

and that is a cool concept mate... don´t put it too far off your schedule... there WILL be a league competition part II for sure!

Well, I can't blame my daughter, I shouldn't have left it in an accessible place. I guess it's a collateral damage of the "War for the Dinner Table"...and, Vik, as far as I know a career can take some surprising turns...we'll talk again about this in twenty years when we'll both be ministers

I'll keep my project in head for later (as many other projects which will have to wait until I know where I'll be moving to, and if I'll finally get a hobby room...)

it is really surprising how many projects can fit in just one mind ??? my wife always says to me i should finish one and move then to the next... which i can´t... and all of the time stry particles of inspiration hit my brain... really... i need one of these...:

Ladies and Gentlemen, fellow riveters.

I'm happy to announce that this thread is going to enter a cryogenic stasis for a period of two or three months. The reason of it being that I've found a new job and I'm leaving the hole that is the Parisian region to get back to my homeland, Amiens, and will be quite busy packing my stuff, selling my appartment, finding a rent, and other funny administrative duties.

Of course I'll keep my toolbox accessible (to avoid turning mad with the lack of modelling), and will try to have some little things done, but nothing big before a long time.

The greatest part of all this is that I'll be close to all my gaming friends, and that I'll probably get a gaming room!(a last)

For those who ignore anything about Amiens (and something makes me guess there are many), here are some elements:
We have the biggest gothic Cathedral in the world (Nottre Dame de Paris? Pff that's a hen house)


Jules Vernes lived there for half his life, and is buried there.


In the countryside, military cemetary from WW1 are (sadly) as common as betroot fields


And, Amiens is in Picardy, so its inhabitants are:

PICARDs

Good luck with the move!

Make it so!

No way!



That's got to be the best Pegasus Hobbies Gothic building I've ever seen! The detail is AMAZING!!! The miniatures in the lower right look weird though. Are those Truescale Guardsmen?






Good luck on the move!

Good luck with your move mate!!

jules vernes lived there? cool....well ...we will be here to welcome you back!!!

À plus tard !

Hey guys! Guess what? The move is over!

After nearly four months at my parent's place with my wife and daughter, I've finally moved into a new house. There's still a lot of things to unbox and I have some work to do in the basement to get the gaming room of my dreams, but it's on a good way.

I now have time again to work on my projects, starting with this one.

Do you remember the waterslide? Well, I've started to work on the pool in which the happy grots are ending!

Here's the beginning:


More is coming soon.

Dude, wow. That was a heck of a wait. Glad to hear you are on your way to awesomeness. Having a game room is beyond cool, I can't describe it properly.

Looking forward to seeing what you do next.

Welcome back, Joe!! Glad the move went well and look forward to seeing more of your projects come to fruition.

welcome back hyenajoe!

looking forward to that grot pool!!

Thank you guys!

Having enough room to store all my stuff and to keep it accessible is an incredible progress. Soon, I should get a painting desk where I will install my airbrush and my magnifying lamp.

Next things I'll be working on are the grot pool, painting the ork fort and the tower, then building the crashed hulk from the Digganob supplement, and the Ork Stronghold (a generous hobbyist grabbed an unpunched one on ebay and scanned it for me ) after that (or between two ork buildings) I might turn to the imperial firebase and the imperial bastion.

Here are today's progress on the grot pool.
First the pool itself:



Then the lifeguard's chair (mailnly made out of sprue, not the most esthetic material, but perfect to buil metallic structures):




I'll try to work on the first grots and on the lifeguard this evening.

By the way, I'm not used to work with artificial water, anyone has an advice on how to make liquid surfaces?

Hey guys!

Just a small update to show you my progress on the first grot to be ready to enjoy his time in the grot pool:



Yep it's a squig-buoy!
Another lucky one is on his way.

This proves that sometimes, it's fun to be a grot in th grim darkness of a far future

Cheers!

actually i think sprues are a totally undervalued/ overlooked material... that chair is looking very good! and the pool is coming along very great! those barrels... quite a challange for yon grots to swim in^^

the squig-buoy... will the head get placed on the neck soon or am i too dense to understand this mini? oh... just realized it is one of these inflateable rings , like a life belt... cool sculpting mister!

That squig-buoy is awesome, Joe! Although, I too, see where Vik got confused

I'll get it better once it has paint.

Hey guys!

I''m ashamed for not being more regular on the updates! There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to do, and so many things I couldn't do before...

It starts with my (still WIP) gaming room:


Then there is the imperial sector I've had for almost three years and I had not opened because I had no room to store it, and the demonstration gaming table I got from a GW store:



I promise I'll get back to orkish terrain and Chaos marines soon...

Cheers!

Joe

ohoh...to share the hobby room with the central heating system... i can see that this might cause some problems

You sir... You made te water slide... I am late to the celebration but waghhhhhh !!!!! Epic work and the pool is great! You have made me a happy ork, I wanna play with that terrain.

Your absense is ok w/ me since I just got back myself. I didn't miss anything here! Yay!

Nice digs w/ the 'soon to be game room'. Central heat = no problem Vik, unless he wicked cranks it and I think he'll be ok, France doesn't get that cold.

Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

France doesn't get that cold.

HA!... watched the tv weather news of europe latley? we are in the middle of a "snowdrift"

Nice room! Lots of potential there, just needs more shelving

The 10+ inches of snow we got last week has finally melted here.

Don't worry Vik, it's only the hot water tank, however I must admit that the two bottles of gas hidden on this pic are making this room a strictly non smoking area

@ Cormadepanda: thank you! I'm glad you like the water slide and the pool. I still have a grot roundabout in mind, but I won't add another ork terrain to my to-do list (which is long enough, believe me )

@ Skalk: I was waiting for you to come back before updating anything
The room is already great because I just have to get down the stairs to start painting and converting while for years I was forced to set up everything before painting, and to store away everything after...It's a revolution for me

@Dave: It seems that your 10 inches of snow have found a new home (and I have three more shelves waiting to be assembled)

I have had more free time lately. I've had enough time for painting nearly a hundred WHFB night goblins, to build some new Dark Angels termies, to assemble some GW buildings for my city fight table, to strip and reassemble 5 eldar vypers, 20 guardians, 1 fire prism, 1 falcon and 1 wave serpent.
I thought it was time to get back to my ork terrains.

Here's the Watchtower, painted with an airbrush and on which I've tried salt weathering for the first time. I know some more details need to be done, but I'd like to have a feedback on it.



Next thing is a lucky ebay find: A GW hardfoam ork terrain!

I think I will work on it a bit (adding a shooting platform for example).

I've also sprayed an orange paint on the whole fort as a rust base for salt weathering, and I did the same on some resin Ork barricades.
I'll try to finish it soon enough to start working on the crashed hulk and the Ork stronghold.

Any advice, especially on salt weathering (which is new to me) is more than welcome.

ha!...i hate repetition...but that currently needed^^.... my wife said... it (the snow) has partly melted...but only to be frosted over again... wich is a real bugger as you surley know...and new snow is on the horizon too... how i hate that white gak...


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ups... ninjaed by an actual update with some content that is hobby related^^

good looking watchtower!... i like how you used trukk parts for the building!

and that orky trench looks very cool!

The weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we've no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

I love snow, and I'm prepared to face it (water boiler in the car with ramen noodles, blankets, sugar, etc...), but my wife hates it too.

you got full moarks for quoting one of my all time favorite christmas related songs of a die harder movie!!!

but loving that white heathen weather... that almost costs you something

Cool terrain so far!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
you got full moarks for quoting one of my all time favorite christmas related songs of a die harder movie!!!

So I'm not the only one who think of Bruce Willis when I listen to this song!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
but loving that white heathen weather... that almost costs you something

Jokes aside, I'm blocked home today, roads are covered with ice and snow, highways have been closed, and my boss told me to stay home and my colleagues are blocked too.
So today is a day home with my wife and daughter, we'll be building a snow man, and I'll paint moar ork terrain! (I love snow!)

Hobby Day! WooHoo! Some excellent stuff, can't wait to see more!

Hyenajoe wrote: So I'm not the only one who think of Bruce Willis when I listen to this song!

Jokes aside, I'm blocked home today, roads are covered with ice and snow, highways have been closed, and my boss told me to stay home and my colleagues are blocked too.
So today is a day home with my wife and daughter, we'll be building a snow man, and I'll paint moar ork terrain! (I love snow!)

congratz to one work free day!

as i type this...the sun is breaking through... there is light at the ned of the tunnel?

also...yeah... john mcclane is übercool^^

Guys it's a real mess in the northern half of the country! We're still under the 3rd level of snow alert.
I still don't know if I'll be able to go to work tomorrow too (which might be problematic since it would mean less working time this week to do all the work I have to do)

Anyway, I've been trying salt weathering on the barricades and on the fort, and then tried to airbrush it.

Some times you have to call a fail a fail


I think I'll re-prime the barricades black and start all over again.

The fort is not such a failure as the barricades, but I'm not really happy with the way it's turning and I don't know how to save it:




My main problem on the fort is the choice of colours. I really don't know what colours to use on it and I desperately need help on this point.
So please guys, tell me your opinion: how should I paint the fort?

I think it would come out fine if you keep going the way you have been. the odd ness of the oversprays and other "pale bits just need a good grime wash to bring detail back out.


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And then when you weather it (rust and other gunge) it will just need a touch of detailing (checks, glyphs, and posters come to mind) then more gunge to make the posters and such look "worn in" it'll be great.

well...brown and orange hues would have been but you´ll know what´s what when the salt comes off...

Thank you for your comments guys, I'll think of ideas of posters for the fort.

What do you think of painting the various rhino parts in different chapters colours?

that is a good idea! tho probably choosing only one chapter would be as sound a cancept either way too

I agree w/ Vik about the Chapter colors, it would indicate recent acquisitions. . I can't imagine Orks keeping a Looted Wagon around for very long. To me they seem like they are the 'good ol' boy' mud-stompin' monster truck rednecks of the 40K universe and abuse their vehicles every chance they get.

That's so very awesome about your new permanent work station! Keep it clean and well organized. Vik and Dave will try to tell you I'm wrong, but I know from experience that a clean / organized space is a more functional space.

Your weathering is looking really decent!

And no, I haven't forgotten about what we talked about. I just haven't done it.

Vik and Dave will try to tell you I'm wrong

LOL...


actually i will soon get my own selfmade workstation...blame yourself for inspiring the likes of me