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Someone said I should post my Necron temple set here, so I thought I'd crosspost just the completed pictures here. The full project log is over here.

I'm compiling some of our "greatest hits" pieces into montage pictures for easy portfolio access, so I'll be dropping them here as well as I finish putting them together. It occurred to me that we have a lot of pictures that I've never shown here, so expect some new pieces as well.






And an old classic.




And another one, one my personal favorites that I'll be making a sequel to soon.




An urban set, one of many. Expect some big pictures of some new big urban projects soon.

nerdfest09 wrote:You are a god amogst men terraformer, when it comes to terrain your name is first in my mind! I will make it my sworn oath that I will have terrain by you gracing my table one day! this thread is an excellent idea, a one stop shop so to speak for anyone who want to be inspired by someone who truly does astonishing terrain work! I can't wait to see what other beauties you can whip up soon!

Hiya Nerdfest, How's it going? I really appreciate the kind words from you and everyone else, it's inspiring and I make sure to pass them along to whatever grunts actually managed to get out of bed to help with my projects. There's an opportunity to grab a piece going right now, here's a pic of what we have available at this moment, a pump station that I assembled from scratch and spare parts by myself, it took a lot longer than expected because of all the pipes and weathering. Also you can always check my profile for current auctions.

chowderhead13 wrote:Great work.

I can't help but notice, for such a great scenery creator, your bases seem lacking

All the figures I use for models are from my way-back early days in the hobby, before bases were all the rage. I had a half dozen unfinished armies, then started getting into scenery and terrain more and more with the hopes of building the greatest table ever, then over time GW released new models for just about everything I was working on... even harlequins! Oh well. Some of our later figures I started paying a little more attention to, like my Necrons:



But my real mini-painting days are still ahead of me

That's actually not sand,in fact no sand was used on these pieces. These pictures show two models with sand dunes sculpted and finished with various techniques to get the realistic appearance of sand. The photographs are not retouched or enhanced at all besides light adjustment, it just photographs realistically.

We repackaged this guy with some new pieces.

Jordankeeps wrote:Thats INSANE TErritory WELL DONE! shame you dont sell it!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260736786724

Be sure to see the new accessory pieces too.

Speaking of Orkish Pueblo stuff...

I have some large spread shots of some urban scenery coming up, stay tuned.

Thanks everyone for your support, we love feedback

Here is some industrial toxic goo and stuff we did recently:

Hi guys, here's another Dangerous Terrain piece we finished.



We also did a How-To guide for making eyeballs on our website, please check it out and tell us what you think!

SilverMK2 wrote:That Eldar must be the unluckiest Eldar on the Craftworld.

"Hey guys! Guess what Steve just found!"

"Not another mutated/possessed/evil thing!?"

"Yep! Get the guns!"



And the tutorial is pretty good.

"What, you're sending me down to the planet with who??"

(That cracked me up. )

I've been on a neodymium magneet shopping spree! I CAN'T STOP MAGNETIZING THINGS!

From now on, all utility poles are connected by a rare earth magnet, so they can be removed for storage and shipping, or to represent battle damage, or even better yet, swapped out for different styles of poles that we will be making in the future. (I plan to make some streetlamps in a gothic style, to fit different themes.)

I had an itch to do something awesome and chaotic and metal, so I decided to see what would happen if I took the simple concept of a modular river and mixed it with the forces of Chaos. This is what came out.

-Cypher- wrote:

I'm loving the Chaos terrain piece. I wonder though, in the 6th and 7th photo down the strip the 'river' seems to have a little orange in it. Is this due to lighting or is actually there?

Also, how big is the overall piece? It looks like it could almost be an entire board!

Any orange you see is just a lighting effect, the blood is all dark red like good blood should be. All stretched out it's 4' of terrain, or enough to stretch across a standard gaming table.

Marrak wrote:
This. How did you do this? I've been trying to get a halfway realistic looking desert for my Tyranid models for years now. That looks so amazing it's unbelievable.

Thank you, the desert dunes were actually some of my personal favorites, and I can't wait to do more from that line. With a few surprises of course. It's actually a pretty straightforward process, just carved foam and polyfilla, painted with some highlighting and pigment powder. The actual hard part was getting a feel for how desert dunes look and behave. I spent a lot of time staring at pictures of desert scenery and learning about the behavior of sand dunes. I scrapped a few pieces in process that didn't have the right curve, etc.

InquisitorVaron wrote:If I ever had the money I would buy you.

You might regret it, I'm very high maintenance, and require lots of care and feeding and would expect my owner to provide me with the lifestyle I'm accustomed to.

Commander Cain wrote: Incredible terrain as always! Great idea to compile all your greatest hits into one (thought I belive some are missing unless you do not show commissioned pieces on this thread?)

I also have a quick question, how do you go about making the newspapers and posters? I have tried and tried again to no effect as the detail is just never clear enough!

I do have a lot of pieces that aren't here yet, in fact even our website doesn't quite have everything up and visible yet, but I do plan on showing it all as we get the time to go over our archive of pictures and pick the best ones, re-size and upload.

That said, there are a ton of pictures in our webpage gallery, as well as here on Dakka. For those asking about tutorials, I'm going to be releasing more DIYs in the future with very specific details about how to achieve certain effects. As well as project logs of some of the more grand pieces we're working on behind the scenes right now. We already have a pretty good handful of plogs on our site, be sure to check them out.

Oh, as for the posters and such, we just use a good quality photo printer and paper. Nothing too specialized, just good enough resolution to put a high res image into a small print.

CrashUSAR wrote:Terraformer, I'm going to steal you and put you in a hole with foam, sand, putty, knives, whatever you need in order to create a table based solely on that chaos river of blood piece.

Go on, try to hide from me.

I'll need snacks too.

Mismuse wrote:
It's Carmen Sandiego dear.

Really? After all this time and all these threads, this is the message that gets you to join in and say something?

More Necron stuff!

The crystal is LED lit, and the archway/obelisk section is removable from the platform to give the option of playing with two pieces.

imukuni wrote:Terrain always seems like it is overlooked. It is refreshing to see people that appreciate not only their models, but the very ground they play on! Good work! And keep posting more of these amazing pics!

My feelings exactly! Terrain should be given at least as much attention as the models you plan to place on it, and it is really a pleasure to play on a realistic battlefield.


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SilverMK2 wrote:Very crisp.

That's what I was aiming for

-Cypher- wrote:I think this is one of the only threads where I can go back and look over the same pictures and enjoy them over-and-over. I just wanna say great work again Terraformer.

That means a lot, thank you! I love to make things that are enjoyable just to look at, without having to be covered in figures or digitally manipulated or held by half-naked celebrities.



(Still trying to get some celebrities to return my emails.)

Been playing with magnets for attaching parts of buildings for lower floor access.

Here's some more chaos action.






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Lysenis wrote:Runtherd is always amazing! I can not wait to see my project finished.

You and me both! It turned into something out-of-control, but that tends to happen sometimes with us. Updates soon.


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bearden314 wrote:What polyfilla product do you use?

Generic lightweight spackle. Works wonders.

ChaosLordSam wrote:Hey Terraformer. I just wanted to say that you make the BEST terrain ever! Ive only been on dakkadakka for a week or 2 now and your terrain really stood out to me. I mean seriously!!! those great pieces of art you make should go in a museum!!! your actually the one who got me into dakkadakka from the start cause I saw how great your terrain was! Thanks for showing ur great terrain!

That really means a lot, thank you I'll keep putting 'em up as long as you guys are enjoying it.

in a short break between huge projects, we finished a few pieces of toxic industrial scenery because i just love making rusty pipes and green goo!

Synister_Intent wrote:I have to say that I love your work man. It is amazing. The detail is simply stunning. You have motivated me to build some of my own terrain but I have no idea where to start. Do you have any advise that you can give the lesser terrain builders like myself to get us started? Thank you again for your amazing work.

Thank you so much, I always love to hear that the work we do inspires others, I feel there should be a lot more emphasis on the terrain aspect of this hobby! As for how to get started, I would say try to come up with some plans and ideas, and then don't be afraid to go the extra mile. Research by looking at art or getting reference pictures of the kind of terrain you want to make and spend the extra time to detail it how you want it to look. Put the same kind of effort that you would in painting your best figures. Many people skim over terrain work because they want to get it on the table as fast as possible, but as our artist Mismuse is fond of saying "You don't want to be mediocre, do you?" We'll be releasing a lot of tutorials as time goes on, so stay tuned for more tips on our website and here on Dakka.

What do you use for the falling liquids? Is it stretched Necron sprue, or hobby water?

I use a few different techniques, but for the most part it's hot glue. I plan on doing a tutorial on this technique later on to show the details involved because I get asked about this a LOT.

Im noticing a lot of Hirst arts stuff in the terrain pieces, notably the desert market scene. Isn't reselling that kind of... you know... illegal?

I acutally only used Hirst products on that one particular desert market piece (which I should also add was inspired by Lut Gholien, the desert city from Diablo 2,) In the early days of our terrain making, we used a variety of products, from old toys to old terrain pieces and accessories that I already had. Since then, we've begun to sculpt, cast and use our own resin accessories and detail bits, so any crates, pallets, drums, skulls, pipe fittings, electric boxes, Etc. you see in any other pictures are from our first generation of original sculpts.

fatrhertime13 wrote:
how on terra did you make the foam on the sludge????

We'll reveal all in time! (Still working on ways to present and package a lot of what we do in ways that will make it easier to share with the community.)


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Lysenis wrote:I do not know of anyone better. The terrain they make should be played on by the Legends of 40k.

You rock Lys. Hang in with us a little while longer!


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Xelkireth wrote:
More!

Okay.