Current Logged Hours: 360~ Hours (as of 6/13) just finished Car Wrecks

Completed City: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/728964.page#9433194




This is currently primed/airbrushed. I've yet to put a paint brush to the terrain yet






What am I looking at??:

A 5x4 Wargaming table for Dropzone Commander by Hawk Wargames inspired by The Last of Us

The 10mm structures are built from a majority of HWG resin (they sell on their site), foamcore, and cardstock

The Modular Overpass is from Blotz (uk) 10mm Custom Lasercut - wonderful company 10/10. Quickest international shipping I've ever witnessed for how cheap it was.

Table is a 5x4 - made from triple layered foamcore. This is extraordinarily dumb, but I wanted a lightweight board that I could store, dig into, and toss if I decided to redo it or I ruined it by accident. I've built a dozen or so tables, hardboard+pink insulation foam, wood, or full 3/4" mdf, and honestly foamcore isn't that bad as long as you layer it. Six tiles; I can toss this in a small bag and it weighs nothing. I spent a few hours fixing this issue.


Why Adeptus Titanicus?
At a Battletech player with no friends that play - and a young lad during the days of Epic Armageddon - I decided to preemptively start building the city for both games. Can't wait to see more leaks!

Why Dropzone Commander?
From the few demo games I've had - I was impressed. It reminded me of an actual tactical strategy game and I loved the flow of it. It also reminds me of Command and Conquer / Total Annihilation / Supreme Commander from my childhood. Ace game, and when you flip through that rulebook you immediately want to play on something better than cardstock starter kit buildings.

Goal: I wanted to make a table that rivals ED-209b's dream table (http://www.hawkforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4348&start=100) - I have a long way to go before I can compete with that.

A few things I didn't like about his city:

* How clean everything was
* I don't want to paint white lines on the streets
* No "40k city fight" look to the streets/structures
* Lack of overgrowth/craters/dirt

However - he is FAR more talented then I am (technically and as a painter). This is also why I need to make up for his level of painting detail for dirt/damage/rust/flock and to not rush anything.

Primary Objectives

1) Finish painting the UCM Army - consider ordering Decals*
2) Paint the remainder of the resin structures, doodads, and flock and paint the card stock structures
3) Paint my friend Niko's Scourge (His army will never get painted otherwise)
4) Play some of the greatest looking games of DZC with some friends down in NJ/PA


Decals* = http://www.fightingpirannhagraphics.com/

Work List (Status: Primed - not base coated)

Started October 2015

Dates = Structure Built - Not Painted


1. Hammer Medical: Research Facility 10/11-10/13 Medium Structure FINISHED
2. Aber Hab: Residential Mix Hab 1/14-1/18 Medium Structure FINISHED
3. Corinthian One: Skyscraper 2/8-2/10 Large Structure / Tallest FINISHED
4. Market East: Residential Hab 2/13-2/14 Medium Structure FINISHED
5. Hab C Major: Slum Hab 2/13-2/14 Huge Structure - Short FINISHED
6. Sobelo Cybernetics: Sci Labs 2/16 Medium Structure FINISHED
7. Zentar Financial – Office Damaged 3/4-3/7 Huge Structure FINISHED
8. Academic Center – 2/28-3/2 Small Building - Huge footprint – Washed, nearly finished
9. City 17 – Large Slum Hab – 4/2-4/4 Huge Structure - Short FINISHED
10. Dominion Bank – Office Damaged – 5/22 Huge Structure FINISHED
11. North Co – Electrical Plant w/silos – 3/13 + 5/23 Medium Structure trashed, not using
12. Atrium West – Residential Hab 7/10-7/11 Medium Structure FINISHED
13. Corona V – Research Facility 7/18 Medium Structure FINISHED
14+ FOUR Cardstock Buildings Small w/ roof details FINISHED
• 5x4 Table FINISHED
• 5x Building Ruins 4/22 FINISHED
• 2x Parks FINISHED
• Statue - Space Marine Commander FINISHED
• Statue - Emperor Palpatine FINISHED
• 3x Bunkers FINISHED
• 3x Focal Points FINISHED
• Overpass FINISHED
• Parking Lot FINISHED
• Gas Station FINISHED
• Street Lights x21 FINISHED
• UCM Army (90% Completed)
• Scourge Army (50% Completed)
• Battlefoam Case Purchased - 352 Slot BLACK FRIDAY



Quoting a later post of the high price of resin terrain

 Stevefamine wrote:
The HWG Resin buildings - if you buy them as kits are 100+ parts each. You can order individual parts for cheaper than ordering them as "lego sets" aka a list of components to make a building they designed. So If I wanted to make an office complex buildings, I can order the office walls/windows in packs of x40, ignore the specialized tiles, use plasticard for some areas and texture card, and since I wanted to have the majority of the buildings heavily damaged I required less pieces. There would be no reason to purchase complete pristine structures if I was going to blow holes in them

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Dude thats looking awesome

hot stuff.

Double Post

Woodland Scenics Flock Stock:
Burnt Grass Fine and Coarse
Soil Fine
Earth Fine
Medium Green Coarse
Dark Green Underbrush/Heavy
Burnt Static Grass
GF9 Yellow Grass
GW Static Grass
AP Tufts Highlands x3 Jungle x1

Currently I tried a mix and glued it in:
- Burnt Grass Fine 70%
- GW Static Grass 10%
- Medium Green Coarse 20%

Okay so the ideas for the next buildings:

* Grass only on windows/ledges
* 1~ tree per building
* Only using tufts on the roof or unit bases (due to $$$ actually - they are not cheap for "terrain" usage)
* Various colored washes for building aging. Brown/black/light red/light green
* Add the Earth fine flock to the blend (it's like graveyard earth brownish) to darken the mix (using burnt grass off a recommendation).
* Make the non-grey office buildings quite a bit brighter. Paint them red brick? This one looks dreary and the green was a poor choice.

I was considering the glass/water effects/varnish idea - but it's not going to be ideal for an entire city. I might just go with the stock flat black and leave it.

Nice

i think overall its fine that its super overgrown

you could always put a small overgrown park next to it.

I will be posting pictures of the overpass after work - currently figuring out how to make the graffiti work and weathering. I should be finished flocking it tonight

Now that I'm working on it - I might have wanted to prime it a lighter shade of grey

very nice work, i'm duly impressed.

also wanted to say thank you for making my wallet cry after checking out that Blotz site.

Asterios wrote:
very nice work, i'm duly impressed.

also wanted to say thank you for making my wallet cry after checking out that Blotz site.

Blotz is actually priced great for what you get. The overpass set ran me only $70~

If you want to cringe check out: http://www.hawkwargames.com/collections/complete-building-kits-commercial-buildings

Thank you gambling

It is amazing.

This is what I'll be finishing tonight

work in progress

Overpass graffiti work in progress

Finished overpass

Wow...just....wow...

Dude ! It's awesome ! True apocalyptic . The graffiti looks great.

Sick man i to love the graffiti as well.

Wow this is going to be amazing, really nice work so far the flock is very convincing, I love the graffiti as well

Finished bunkers, some rubble templates and a lot

Finished park and monument/memorial park

Yes this is awesome. Such great attention to detail of an abandoned forgotten city!

Zwan1One wrote:
Yes this is awesome. Such great attention to detail of an abandoned forgotten city!

Thank you!

I'll try and work on 1-2 buildings a week now

I'll eventually post the armies when I paint them. They arent even primed yet

They look likes things made for movies

 ROTTEN_FACTORY wrote:
They look likes things made for movies

Thank you!

Once it's completed and I finished painting the two armies I have - I'll need to borrower someone's camera to take some sweet photos. These are all from my phone unfortunately. I really wanted a specific look for this table.

I should finish up the second building tonight. This one is a metal/sci fi looking structure. (I'm not that happy how the first building turned out)

Ordered some: http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/roll-maker/69-roll-maker-tube-wire-machine.html

Now I'll wait for them to show up. I want to use these for either scourge structures - but I know I'll use them for conversion work on scourge models.

Order List for November:

• 8x Prowlers
• 3x Katana
• Oppressor
• Harbinger
• 2x Scourge Gunships
• Overseer/Desolator
• 2x Raven A
• 2x Raven B


Should put me at 2500 Points for Scourge and 2500 points for UCM. Might add a few tidbits here and there as well - Just recently build Mortar and Flak Infantry. UCM is effectively built. Running a demo game Friday with a friend I'm trying to get into the game

Got blitzed and setup half the table only. Yes I only have one building finished. Was a bit too excited in flocking half the board to setup the full overpass to see how it blended in - but ran out of woodglue to finish the other half

This is some fantastic stuff! Top notch!

Yeah, this is pretty damn cool.

EDC

Thanks guys!

A non-filtered image

Cool Beans

Makes me wana whip out my PHR again :/

No updates until I pick up supplies this weekend. Also possibly starting up an AOS force with a buddy of mine this winter

Mind ing blown.

This is one of the best tables I've ever seen for any system and the fact that you've done it for my game of choice makes it even better. What sets it apart is that it's more than an abandoned city, it's a proper narrative that's told in terrain form. It's a prime example of a work that crosses the line from terrain to art. My current project is a DzC table in the theme of Odin's Foundry on Eden Prime. It's still very much under construction and nothing is even primed. While thematically very different, your table has still given me lots of ideas and, most importantly, the inspiration to tell a story.

Thank you.

Test model below.

Scheme: Bleached Bone Base
Alt Color: Red/White Stripe, Blue Lenses / Glows
Heavy Sponge Weathering to show they've been on the ground for a few months. Some models are converted up with extra side panel armor and stowage. The test Kodiak with that horrific mold line:


- Ferrum
- 8 Drones
- Kodiak
- 6 Bear APCs
- 6 Rapiers
- 6 Sabres
- 5 Condors
- 4 Ravens
- 1 Eagle
- 2 Longbows
- 12 Legionnaires
- 4 Legionnaires w/ Mortars
- 2 Gladius
- 4 Wolverines
- 3 Katana


Missing
I am missing 3 Cockpits for 3 Condors

Units I would want to add
Albatross, Fireblades or Katanas, and General Wade

Unbuilt
Snipers, Flak Infantry, Preatorians

Love how those came out, they look really good!

Thanks!

I'll start assembly lining the vehicles soon enough

Actually finished the remainder of the tanks to this stage. Weathering and layering now

That's amazing. That table.. just wow. Like another poster said, it's the kind of model they'd make for Independence Day. The pic of the squad and their APC - if I didn't know better I could almost have believed it was a combat photo from Donetsk! Terrific work OP

 Skinflint Games wrote:
That's amazing. That table.. just wow. Like another poster said, it's the kind of model they'd make for Independence Day. The pic of the squad and their APC - if I didn't know better I could almost have believed it was a combat photo from Donetsk! Terrific work OP

Its funny because the new independence day stole the same orb idea from DZC

Thanks guys

I'm not touching the table for another week or two - neck deep in finishing the 2k points of UCM beforehand.

This thread is awesome!! Could you just clarify for me, are the resin buildings from Hawk? My friend had the early ones but they came in soooo many parts it was nuts.

We moved on from DzC but have a large group getting into Dropfleet, will you be considering that?

Can't wait to see more here

My God! That terrain is like my dream terrain, unfortunately in the wrong scale, but amazing looking!

Unfortunately I only have a picture from instagram of the WIP.

The army should be finished shortly and I'll be back on the terrain train. The red and white lines are messy, I need to outline them with a tin black and fix them. Otherwise:

1) Prime Brown
2) Prime Bleached Bone / Army painter equivalent
3) Paint Metallic, gunmetal + 1:3 part black
4) Layer Red/White for squad markings
5) Layer Teal/blue cockpit/lenses
6) Wash Sepia/GW Gryphonne
7) Paint Black Lines on White Red/Tires/Any other detail
8) Highlight Beige, White, and Red
9) Sponge dark brown black as a rust effect over the model
10) Extreme light wash in some crevices of orange
11) Highlight to white and varnish lenses/cockpit

I'm about 6 hours into painting after the priming. The total army should be completed by this weekend.




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 Illumini wrote:
My God! That terrain is like my dream terrain, unfortunately in the wrong scale, but amazing looking!

Thanks!

Now I wait for GW to make their 8-10mm Epic remake in a year or two

 RiTides wrote:
This thread is awesome!! Could you just clarify for me, are the resin buildings from Hawk? My friend had the early ones but they came in soooo many parts it was nuts.

We moved on from DzC but have a large group getting into Dropfleet, will you be considering that?

Can't wait to see more here

The local group is fairly dead with anything but X-Wing in terms of space games.

The HWG Resin buildings - if you buy them as kits are 100+ parts each. You can order individual parts for cheaper than ordering them as "lego sets" aka a list of components to make a building they designed. So If I wanted to make an office complex buildings, I can order the office walls/windows in packs of x40, ignore the specialized tiles, use plasticard for some areas and texture card, and since I wanted to have the majority of the buildings heavily damaged I required less pieces. There would be no reason to purchase complete pristine structures if I was going to blow holes in them.

Holy crap, this is probably the coolest thread on Dakka now!

 Malika2 wrote:
Holy crap, this is probably the coolest thread on Dakka now!

Th-thanks Malika2

I set a goal to finish the army so I can take a break from painting buildings.


I still want to make another park or two - as well as order more cars/debris for LOS cover.

Makes me want to finish up my PHR :/ its looking great man

I should be able to finish the UCM over the next two days

I have two options. I can attempt to work on the drop ships and the infantry - or flush out the vehicles. I'm thinking I should get everything up to the post wash point so I can finish/highlight unit by unit and make it easier on myself then attempting to rush it.


So for tonight - Basecoating Dropships and Infantry! then tossing on a quick wash

Ordered 100x more china cars from ebay and some more paints

I need to pick up the GW equivalent of Blazing Orange (new name) after work.

Should have pictures up later

100 more rusted wrecks? This is going to be great

 Illumini wrote:
100 more rusted wrecks? This is going to be great

I used the majority of the original 50 cars for either basing or the overpass and terrain. I need LOS blocking terrain I can drop down on the roads.

I'm also designing a few small parks and parking lots with chain link fences surrounding them soon that will break up the alleyways for the buildings.

I primed 20 Lamp Posts as well and based them on pennies

How did you do that graffiti on the first page? it looks amazing!

 teban wrote:
How did you do that graffiti on the first page? it looks amazing!

I literally printed a picture out, white glued it on, and then gave it some weathering

Glorious! you did a great job of a feel of long abandoned city, and nice work unifying the force.

I know you're resisting it but I'm hoping in the future you tackle Dropfleet . Just got my shipment notice and am on the lookout for fantastic hobby examples of it like you've done with your DzC! Particularly "terrain" (low orbit space debris, etc).

freakin sweet terrain!! and awesome tanks

Wow, that is some terrific looking terrain

 Ratius wrote:
Wow, that is some terrific looking terrain

Thank you!

 Guildenstern wrote:
freakin sweet terrain!! and awesome tanks

Thanks! My D&D group scheduled back to back sessions I had to paint models for - the tanks will sit nearly finished for awhile longer

 RiTides wrote:
I know you're resisting it but I'm hoping in the future you tackle Dropfleet . Just got my shipment notice and am on the lookout for fantastic hobby examples of it like you've done with your DzC! Particularly "terrain" (low orbit space debris, etc).

I'd probably end up attempting to do a massive "planetscape" with cities and oceans or something hilarious. I want to finish up DZC wayyyy before I tackle TFC

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Glorious! you did a great job of a feel of long abandoned city, and nice work unifying the force.

Thank you!

 Illumini wrote:
100 more rusted wrecks? This is going to be great

I should have them in the mail today! 100x china cars



I should be back to working on DZC after a few more days of painting some Warmachine for a friend. I managed to just spend around $50 on a paint restock so I can stark going through the buildings. The UCM honestly shouldn't be more than a single day to finish - I just haven't had the time.

 Stevefamine wrote:

 teban wrote:
How did you do that graffiti on the first page? it looks amazing!

I literally printed a picture out, white glued it on, and then gave it some weathering

If I may intryde - would You elaborate a little on Your weathering? I know how easy it is to overdo, and any help would be golden...

Wirecat wrote:

 Stevefamine wrote:

 teban wrote:
How did you do that graffiti on the first page? it looks amazing!

I literally printed a picture out, white glued it on, and then gave it some weathering

If I may intryde - would You elaborate a little on Your weathering? I know how easy it is to overdo, and any help would be golden...

I'll make a tutorial tonight actually

1) Print the picture out
2) Glue on to the object you desire, do not mix water with the white glue - super thin layer
3) Get a sponge/foam from a 40k or warmachine blister pack - dab it in a dark brown paint
4) The link here shows you an example http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=1736

Do not gloss varnish or varnish by spray


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Currently making road blocks + destroyed cars

1) Cut out an old MKII Warmachine Stat card
2) Pour Resin (or putty/wood filler) onto the card
3) Add destroyed cars and sink their tires in
4) Add sand before the resin dries - or apply with a brush and white glue
5) Prime, paint, flock

I'll post pictures later tonight - I've only used 50 of the 100 cars I have used

So I tried to bury some cars (unpainted)

That will look sweet once painted and weathered up! What do they function as in-game (cover, rough terrain, etc)?

 RiTides wrote:
That will look sweet once painted and weathered up! What do they function as in-game (cover, rough terrain, etc)?

The game out of the box - has no LOS blocking terrain except destructible buildings. This causes the game to be quite a bit more interesting with "real terrain" vs the basics.

Check out your standard table (this is a 6x4 so it would be for a larger point game). Basic firing lanes and fairly boring.






There are three factions that make use of Walkers (PHR is faction has the majority of it's units as mechwarrior/Tau suit type units). Their ability to walk over debris/terrain does matter when the entire table is only cardstock buildings.

From the FAQ:
Are there rules of different terrain types, and does a vehicle's design have an effect on movement through different qualities of terrain?

Yes, there are various rules for terrain types, and the unit's mode of movement does have a effect! For example, a skimmer can pass over impassable ground (rivers, lava flows etc) and move over tough ground (e.g. uneven, rocky areas) without penalty, but can't move through area features (like forest), since they have no ground traction. A walker can move through tough terrain without penalty also, and can plough through area features without penalty. A normal treaded or wheeled vehicle gets movement bonuses when travelling over exceptional ground (such as roads). Flyers can obviously fly over anything less than 6" above ground level.

I was inspired by this guy: http://greenstuffindustries.blogspot.com/2016/08/dropzone-bridge-terrain-complete.html

That makes total sense! And is probably why we felt our games became a little too simplistic / repetitive... all just open firing lanes between buildings on smooth roads. 40K would probably be pretty boring if played with no rough terrain / cover / etc, too.

Looking forward to seeing them painted

 RiTides wrote:
That makes total sense! And is probably why we felt our games became a little too simplistic / repetitive... all just open firing lanes between buildings on smooth roads. 40K would probably be pretty boring if played with no rough terrain / cover / etc, too.

Looking forward to seeing them painted

The more work I do on the project the slower it seems to get.

I keep wanted to add different elements. I'm now looking at the armorcast pipe terrain or the HWG monorail, a few more resin or plastic ho/nscale china buildings, and considering water effects in the craters - and I want normal terrain craters as well I can place where I want!

Updated page one status on progress

Army should be completed by tonight I should have around 4.5 hours of free time to paint. Bought coffee/setup table.

Then I can finally finish the table/terrain.

 RiTides wrote:
That makes total sense! And is probably why we felt our games became a little too simplistic / repetitive... all just open firing lanes between buildings on smooth roads. 40K would probably be pretty boring if played with no rough terrain / cover / etc, too.

Looking forward to seeing them painted

House rules have also been a huge bonus. I might start making various types of turrets/defences for the UCM. Our last game we played - we had a min requirement of 12 infantry bases at 1000 points for UCM vs UCM. My unpainted, mostly broken model, half converted Scourge friend wants to start making Half life headcrab type zombies and giving them homebrew rules. They appear in buildings or around spores shot in by the Scourge - still working on it. Bought some ho scale civilians for this task.

Loving this blog. I picked up a starting box for each of the 5 factions in the hope to start up a good DZC community in my area. Now I know what I need next: some kick-ass terrain!

There are so many good ideas on this thread. I am just warning you that I am going to blatantly steal a lot of these for my own board

 Freytag93 wrote:
Loving this blog. I picked up a starting box for each of the 5 factions in the hope to start up a good DZC community in my area. Now I know what I need next: some kick-ass terrain!

There are so many good ideas on this thread. I am just warning you that I am going to blatantly steal a lot of these for my own board

Thank you! I recommend avoiding resin buildings if you want your friends to ever get a chance to even play the game

This game has so many possibilities!

 Stevefamine wrote:

1) Print the picture out
2) Glue on to the object you desire, do not mix water with the white glue - super thin layer
3) Get a sponge/foam from a 40k or warmachine blister pack - dab it in a dark brown paint
4) The link here shows you an example http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=1736

Do not gloss varnish or varnish by spray

Thank You! Sounds fun, will be trying it on the next vehicle!

The girlfriend wants a purse thats the equivalent cost of the resin buildings in this thread for holidays....

I asked girlfriend for https://www.amazon.com/Vallejo-Acrylic-72172-Plastic-Storage/dp/B009LH0YTA since I didn't want to send her on a last chancer's mission buying specific hobby tools/models/paints/armies for me.


Setup hobby table again, I've been neck deep working with Warmachine models but I should be able to tackle something this week. Life has been busy

I was also commissioned to paint a scourge army for a friend, added that to the budget on the first page. We're both still working on the conversions.

Primary: Metallic Bronze or Silver with oxidization/rust/some natural damage from the elements since the army's fluff is that it's been planetside for nearly 200 years.

Secondary: Blue or Red lenses and weapons. I'll paint up both to see how it'll looks. Basing will be identical to the UCM flightstands you see above on page 2. All hover tanks will be hovering 1/4-1/3 inch above ground on a flight peg... fun.


He's given me these two pictures for scheme idea:






And this is an alternate scheme of "Dark Matrix Metal" which we talked about would be the easiest - but unsure if it would look good. He said he'd want snow basing if he goes this route. We're unsure if this will blur the detail of the models over a brighter metal.






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Scourge Conversions:

• Oppressor: The stock model is fine – he'd like to bulk up how high the model is as well as add tubs underneath the stomach of the crab. Like the CSM brass scorpion from forge world, I would like to beef up the undercarriage with plague bubbles? Give tubes to the rear guns and in general add various plague/small conversion work
• Overseer: The model will have a jellyfish like appearance. Twenty or more tentacles will hang from the undercarriage of a converted Harbinger off ebay. Similar to the oppressor? Greenstuff press and try and recreate more lenses and eyes around it. This model will not have any magnetization.
• Bought 4x Slayers, now wants two of them to be Tormentors. Similar to the chaos baneblade variation I'll heavily greenstuff the turrets since I do not have the correct turrets.
• Reapers: Some conversion work to have tentacles and tubes connect the AA gun to the rear of the tank
• Destroyers complete conversions from models provided to me – three to a base. They are some 6mm mechwarrior troop. They will have an assortment of weaponry and look like CSM Obliterators. I will use extreme detail with the tubes when sculpting. This will take some time.
• Intruder Alpha and Beta there will be four Alphas and two betas. The alphas will be stock models with some minor conversion work. The Betas will have large bulbous sacks underneath them. He bought 6 of the same transport and now I have to see how to convert them.
• Marauder: Greenstuff tube the starter kit models to have "cables" almost inside the carriage of the transport. These are already built and I have to convert them now.

The rest of the army was built. I'll add basing to the infantry and tanks.

Currently removed the wires from these I got off of China eBay - then glued them to pennies. Decided against magnetization after a few attempts. They are weight enough to be fine if I bump the table.

Oppressor and Harbinger

Second Building






Focal Points / Doodad Terrain

Very cool.

I think the buildings could actually look even better with even more overgrowth

 Illumini wrote:
Very cool.

I think the buildings could actually look even better with even more overgrowth

Actually the first building I did - got a bit of feedback of it being 'too overgrown" "too much flock" in person. The buildings will vary how much flock and overgrown each have. This is the other building WIP

GF got me a the game color case of Vallejo for Christmas!

WIP

Amazing! Especially love the tallest building. The paint chipping off from the top and perfect amount of flock really make it shine

 Illumini wrote:
Amazing! Especially love the tallest building. The paint chipping off from the top and perfect amount of flock really make it shine

I'm understanding how to paint them as I go - thanks!


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The board itself warped quite a bit from sealing it with varnish/the white glue used on it. Going to attempt to get this cut for me at home depot

http://www.homedepot.com/p/MDF-Panel-Common-3-4-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-Actual-0-750-in-x-48-in-x-96-in-M11161249097000000A/202332600

Then I'll gorilla glue / wood glue the boards down. I'll figure out how to block prime/edge the boards (possibly dry brush them gray then)

Friend ordered a Eden's Dinosaur for $21 off the Warstore. We have to attempt to convert this into all 3 HQ variations with magnets now.

Tonight I'm painting some D&D/Reaper minis but I should be back to cranking out the other buildings in the next few weeks.

Really inspirational work here. I love your ruined buildings. Just wow.
Thanks for sharing. More please!

Edit: I now own an iPhone 7 plus 256gb lmao

Awesome camera

Update:

Scourge Built





Varnished Building Test - No frosting!!!!!!

Added 4 Cardstock buildings to the mix - total structures:



Next two in the assembly line of painting - metallic structures




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Will post tonight the completed silver structures, I'll show how I flock them as well

Two more structures finished

WIP on 4 more structures

Unbelievable

Next structure WIP







This section had some minor bubbles I noticed




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Moving in May - so this entire project needs to be completed well before then

I approve of the updated thread title . This table is going to be literally perfect for Adeptus Titanicus!!

Latest batch of buildings are looking great, too . I'd love another full table shot at a time that makes sense!

 RiTides wrote:
I approve of the updated thread title . This table is going to be literally perfect for Adeptus Titanicus!!

Latest batch of buildings are looking great, too . I'd love another full table shot at a time that makes sense!

I've played battletech on it with old click minis from Wizkids but the scale is a bit off / feels weird. I also barely own any models. I just ebay'd my net epic Black Templars and Tyranids to prep for AT.


The tiles warped a bit. I need to mount the tiles and paint their edges. I'm also unhappy with how fragile the overpass is, a handful of pieces already broke off and I've barely used it. Going on vacation this weekend as well so a two week break or so. So close yet so far.

Almost finished the last building - WIP on the last area terrain building

I'll post a picture of all finished structures this weekend

Wonderful terrain, really opened my eyes as to the possibilities at this scale.

Wow! That last piece is a great centerpiece! I get kind of "Reichstag" vibes from it

 Casey's Law wrote:
Wonderful terrain, really opened my eyes as to the possibilities at this scale.

I can get much more detailed honestly - but this projects dragged on for far too long at this point.

 Illumini wrote:
Wow! That last piece is a great centerpiece! I get kind of "Reichstag" vibes from it

Thanks - thats what I had in mind!

Spectacular!

That building is amazing! I actually got more of a Roman forum vibe from it (probably cause I've been reading about Rome for the past 6 months, haha). I can just imagine some feral resistance warlord holding "court" here and leading his tribe in celebrations and/or sacrifices before battle.

Also, please forgive me for a little self-promotion, but your blog has really inspired me over the past month to start my own DZC project. I've been painting all 5 starter armies and am going to be building a table in order to try and generate some local players to try out the game. Your overgrown look is exactly what I am aiming for. While I'm not even close to as good of a painter as you, I would love some tips and feedback from you if you get the chance. The link is in my signature.

Great work once again, and thanks for giving me the inspiration to dive back into the hobby!

 Freytag93 wrote:
Spectacular!

That building is amazing! I actually got more of a Roman forum vibe from it (probably cause I've been reading about Rome for the past 6 months, haha). I can just imagine some feral resistance warlord holding "court" here and leading his tribe in celebrations and/or sacrifices before battle.

Also, please forgive me for a little self-promotion, but your blog has really inspired me over the past month to start my own DZC project. I've been painting all 5 start armies and am going to be building a table in order to try and generated some local players to try out the game. Your overgrown look is exactly what I am aiming for. While I'm not even close to as good of a painter as you, I would love some tips and feedback from you if you get the chance. The link is in my signature.

Great work once again, and thanks for giving me the inspiration to dive back into the hobby!

I was inspired by another player - and then went down the rabbit hole. My painting isn't all that flashy - but I can just weather/flock really well
















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Magical.

I can really see myself walking around these buildings with all the senses engaged.They just come to life when you look at them. You mentioned before that you could have included more detail if you'd wanted, I'd love to see that, I can only imagine how engaging that would be. In fact I implore you to do one piece, as a separate project, and just see how far you can push it. If you could document the process, even better, it would be fascinating to see.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Magical.

I can really see myself walking around these buildings with all the senses engaged.They just come to life when you look at them. You mentioned before that you could have included more detail if you'd wanted, I'd love to see that, I can only imagine how engaging that would be. In fact I implore you to do one piece, as a separate project, and just see how far you can push it. If you could document the process, even better, it would be fascinating to see.

Thank you!

The only piece I went all out on is the "memorial" park piece I painted up and some of the graffiti on the overpass - the propaganda poster work takes it to the next level - even though these would rot away in relation to the overgrowth over the years

They definitely crank it up a notch. I bet you could go deeper though!

 Casey's Law wrote:
They definitely crank it up a notch. I bet you could go deeper though!

Few things I could do:


- Paint windows (not just flat black them)
- Better leakage/water damage from the windows. Have more brown inks/trickles of water going down the buildings
- Highlight/edge bricks a bit. Individual bricks on the ground/strewn around
- More variation on vegetation - possibly more dead grass/iron poisoned flora damage
- Posters/Signs/more human signs. Papers/trash covering the floo
- LEDs
- Correct burn damage/black edges

Do it! Do it all!

Possible snow day tomorrow - it depends if my work attempts to flush most of the office's PTO and "Close early" at 10 AM like they normally do.

Plan is to either finish off the car wreck area terrain, or paint the UCM

Setup painting streaming - should be fun!

Infantry reporting in!

They look great!

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Will stream the last 2 hours or so of painting to finish off the UCM! Tonight at 8pm - 10pm EST

Spectacular as always. Loving those infantry in particular! So good!

 Freytag93 wrote:
Spectacular as always. Loving those infantry in particular! So good!

Thanks! trying to catch up on sleep soon - but I should be able to grab full pictures by this weekend of the entire table

Well I know what my next project is. Thanks Love your UCM

Thanks ghost maker

I've always been a huge Imperial Guard fan, and this scratched the itch. I should post pictures of completed UCM later tonight!

 Stevefamine wrote:
Thanks ghost maker

I've always been a huge Imperial Guard fan, and this scratched the itch. I should post pictures of completed UCM later tonight!

They're completed - just never uploaded

I also have a Broad Sword and two more Bears I attempted to "Camo" paint. We'll see how that works.

Moving next month - just bought a place. Should have pictures in two weeks of the full table with all of my armies on it!!!

Finishing up Scourge and the UCM Dropships

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Is there a possibility you can take a picture of the collapsed side of that building with the huge, columned courtyard?

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Is there a possibility you can take a picture of the collapsed side of that building with the huge, columned courtyard?

Sure, nothing too fancy. Had one in my phone.

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Correcting the warping issues on the 5x4 table itself due to being in a slightly humid laundry room in my last house

Attempting to use hardboard or another material to back the board tomorrow to remove the warp. No real plan, but I'm doing it tomorrow

That is an amazing table - the detail added to the scatter-terrain and the structures, the look of everything when assembled is spectacular.

The ruined overpass is the cherry on top of this ragged, ruined, beautiful cake.

Bravo.

Scott wrote:


That is an amazing table - the detail added to the scatter-terrain and the structures, the look of everything when assembled is spectacular.

The ruined overpass is the cherry on top of this ragged, ruined, beautiful cake.

Bravo.

Thank you Scott

I still have to finish the cars and the lamp posts - they will cement the look of the scatter terrain/streets. The park and the admin looking pillar building are still my favorite pieces.


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Amazing stuff the car wrecks are an excellent idea.

 Llamahead wrote:
Amazing stuff the car wrecks are an excellent idea.

Thank you! I copied them off another Dakka Dakka user actually

I'll have full photos of the table when I get home tonight! I just wish my new place had a balcony or some way to get sunlight in besides my kitchen and bedroom.

Looking forwards to this!

 Illumini wrote:
Looking forwards to this!

Thanks! Game plan right now is work overtime tonight - head home and set the table up. Before work tomorrow morning I can get some sweet photos and dump them when I'm at the office tomorrow!

I have a terrible 8:30-8:00 schedule for most Thurs/Fridays

Nice work!

This is also the end of this blog.

Album of how I unpack and setup the table: http://imgur.com/a/daC3i









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Emperor Palpatine lol

So cool! A zombie apocalypse or horrible natural disaster clearly happened here a long time ago.

Looks great all together and it is very cool to look at all the small details here and there. My favorite is the "Reichstag" building and the overpass with grafitti.

UCM miniatures are also great

 Illumini wrote:
So cool! A zombie apocalypse or horrible natural disaster clearly happened here a long time ago.

Looks great all together and it is very cool to look at all the small details here and there. My favorite is the "Reichstag" building and the overpass with grafitti.

UCM miniatures are also great

Thats my favorite work as well. The larger buildings are fairly boring - I felt like I had to just bang them out to finish.

The graffiti and small parks were the most fun

Added small tree stands

Slowly working on a resistance shanty town/orky scrap buildings, power lines, and fences to add a more rural feel

It's a combination of the 6-10mm terrain I didn't finish for Epic: Armageddon or DZC. By no means is this fancy terrain, I just wanted to crank it out last weekend. Built from bits, spare magic the gathering cards, wire, and extra junk.
A common complaint for the game DZC is the lack of "Scatter/Area/Small" Terrain. This can add some variation to my table setup.

This terrain is damn sweet!

Was thinking instantly about The Last of Us when i saw the pictures.
Great work, hope to see more soon.

So sweet! That resistance town terrain is what DzC needs, not just big buildings.

And version 2.0 of the rules wss just announced to be in development! Might even tempt me to get a small PHR force

Fantastic looking board, cars are a great idea.

 SJM wrote:
Fantastic looking board, cars are a great idea.

Thanks! Not my original idea - tons of players use the china cars for wrecks

 Grotrebel wrote:
This terrain is damn sweet!

Was thinking instantly about The Last of Us when i saw the pictures.
Great work, hope to see more soon.

Thats some of the inspiration!

 RiTides wrote:
So sweet! That resistance town terrain is what DzC needs, not just big buildings.

And version 2.0 of the rules wss just announced to be in development! Might even tempt me to get a small PHR force

On the tabletop - these get evaporated if you waste the resources to target them. I'm trying a infantry heavy game later is weekend hopefully.