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Oh MicroMark sells those too, they really work that well?

Ugh..this repeated cutting is annoying, I wish I had the cricut figured out for these


and the requested shot of my first gang

those clamps are too highly on my to buy list for quite some time... every time i am in a DIY shop i am feeling the urge to buy them....will do this shortly^^ the brassen ones look highly useful too...hmmm...^^

the tower is rising niclely! but honestly i don´t see how it will turn out...but this is something i more look forward to as a sort of surprise^^

and i honestly dont envy you for that repetitive cutting work.... repetitive work is always something that puts me off...and i have today cut and holepunched about 100 shoes for my threads...so i feel your pain here^^


as for an almost 100% 90° cut i use several wooden rulers...i sawed different sized wooden planks.... their thickness is about 1.5 cm so the thicknesss helps me to provide guidance for the knife... if all fails i use two of these self made rulers to even more guide the blade...if this is hard to understand i will try to make a pic of my "workstation" i built....i am rather pleased with that built as i am quite clumsy when it comes to making precise cuts with just an average ruler...

I'm not sure how it will turn out either Vik, the supports are frustrating me, I am not getting the "look" I am looking for, I will need to contemplate this more.

I made a run to Menard's just now, and besides some pumice hand cleaner (to get the damn glue off my fingers) and some laundry soap, here are my spoils


I found these Halloween fences with gargoyles for $2.99 a set of 5 (bought them out) I anticipate they will surround the Cathedral for the city table.


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I bought 4 packages of fencing and it' enough to make a 15" square!



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Still frustrated, they are too plain, whatever I do I have to do both sides of each support (16 times!!)

awwwww.....those fences....wow...you amreicans with your love for halloween....my supermarket that is selling some stuff for halloween is never going to stock such ready awsomeness....darn....*contemplating to get me a green crad....*

i think the support pieces are for now mostly lacking deatil and surface to be broken up...then i think they will look more working.... and this i think you already have planned out.... so i will sit this out from a safe place^^

damn.... had to look yet again after these cool fences...

nice find with the fences. as for detailing you know there are no short cuts that you would be happy with. just 16x hard work .. : \

true!!!

I just Read the packaging... Made by Lemax, a Dutch company.
http://www.lemaxcollection.com/detail--Gargoyle-Fence+-Set-Of-5-0-783.aspx" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> http://www.lemaxcollection.com/detail--Gargoyle-Fence+-Set-Of-5-0-783.aspx

@Neil. LMAO...yes I know..get outa my head dude! lol

Whaaa I want that fencing
Suppose there is not any chance of getting some in the UK :(

You have all the best stuff there in the UK that we don't have. I would imagine that a Dutch company would have to have distributorship in the UK.
After a delicious supper of fried red potatoes and sausage over a bed of sauerkraut I still don't know what to do with those damn supports..meh.


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I don't feel like painting minis tonight, but here is what I've got. Ratskins, Delaques and Van Saar

The side supports I would treat as a single upside down T

Cables junction boxes and Reinforcemt plates will break it up

Some of that mesh you have used would be cool in places if you cut "windows" out

I would not worry about reproducing identical supports
Just re use shapes and ideas off the platform tops
hope that makes sense ad helps a little

Good ideas Chibi..really..this is making sense to my mind's eye.

What Chibi said, and maybe some X cutouts, like this:



By "cutout"I mean one of 2 things- either literally cut them out, or make X design by using small bits of card glued over the top of what you have currently.

lookin good so far! cant waite to see this when it gets some more detail

Rivets will make em look much less plain once you paint the supports.

Lovely work! I can't but admire the dedication and goal of staying true to the original terrain, yet doing it "properly".

More!

and I've decided to weather the substation platform when I weather the rest of the pieces to keep them similar. What does everyone think?

I really like the substation and it looks great linked up to the other building you've completed. When it comes to weathering I think less is more. For my taste I think there is a little too much weathering on the other building.

The all important supports....16 sides....the joy of modelling hey!

i think a mixture of skalk´s idea and then lots of rivets like galorn said sounds good... chibis idea of cables and plates would make this whole look complete!


and boy there is a fortune in minis on your table^^

Thanks everyone for your support during my time of crisis! I already tried carving the original "cut out" design from the supports, it looked like crap, so I promptly cut the outside sandwich pieces of styrene to cover it up. Nope, it will have to be surface detail and glue-ons. Riveting will definately play a role in any free time I have in the evenings this week.

See everyone thought the rust looked good on the first piece until you saw it next to the shiny new piece!

See everyone thought the rust looked good on the first piece until you saw it next to the shiny new piece!

well this is a case of the new piece outshining the old piece and thus setting new standards... loyality is hard for eyes^^ we pick beauties whenever possible^^

Regarding the "rusted" vs. "cleaner" look:

I spent some time going through photos of active and abandoned industrial sites, and one thing that stood out to me (beside the unbelievable overload of inspiration) was the stark contrast of decay rate between different materials and structures. Some of the structures in active sites (meaning people still work there) looked extremely weathered and rusted while some structures at long-abandoned sites still looked as if they were being maintained. Numerous factors would be involved here, like ferrous vs. non-ferrous metals, type of paint / sealer used (and if any were used at all), the conditions the structure is / was exposed to, the purpose of that structure, etc.

All of this leads up to a long-winded way to say that both of your finished structures look awesome and it's completely plausible to have them together.

I did that too Skalk! I personally want to master the look of the rusted metal with the paint layer not just chipped, but cracked and lifting off in wafers
like this

...right over the hazard stripe paint too. I think the trick is to really work up those spots of charadon granite with visible layers of color, but damn..that's a lotta work. I need a break as it is..woof

The good news there is that you should be able to pull that effect off w/ not as much effort as some of the other things you've been doing. My wife is a hobbyist as well, does $crapbooking and $tamping and $tuff like that. One thing she uses for an antique / crack effect is Hodge Podge and that gold or bronze stuff that cracks when it dries. The effect is pretty decent, have always wondered what it would look like on terrain buildings.

While researching industrial photos I found this and decided I have to build it. For scale ref. look at the door in the upper left. It would be three separate pieces that fit together (left wing, right wing, and then 1/4 pie in center)

Won't post the pic here because it is HUGE but figured you could use the distraction. Because you don't have enough of those.

http://www.withstrengthweburn.com/terrain/platforms003.jpg

Oh cool! That woud be a very useful piece of terrain gaming-wise too! There is even cover on the top floor! It looks like it was once a theatre of some kind?

Sent the link to you. Be careful, there's hours of time-sink there. You were warned.

Hey Dsteingass, have you ever played Fallout-3? especially the Pitt? that screamed Hive to me all the time, and with the groaning of the old rusty industrial buildings as well.

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More stuff to view here.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Abandonedfactories&view=detail&id=CD5A7C7F72C33201D69D1DAAF70B7F89D3ABCBF8&first=181&FORM=IDFRIR

Skalk Bloodaxe - That is an amazing photograph to inspire necro terrain

dsteingass - About 3/4 way down the link there are some shoulder pads that have been painted with crackle effect.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?31535-Space-Marine-WIP-Part-2./page6

At the bottom of page 4 it gives you a run-down of how to do it and what materials he used. Hope that helps

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?31535-Space-Marine-WIP-Part-2./page4

@Skalk- you were right! but OMG the inspiration!
@PDH- I have some crackle glaze, but I've never been able to control the effect like he has, that is some absolutely stunning work! He can even control his airbrush to the point where he uses it to spray the Aquila on the Marine's chest! That is insanity!
@ SHas, no I have'nt played Fallout 3, but I will check it out!

I'm really impressed by your work man!

I'm planning to do something similar, and your stuff will certainly be a huge inspiration.

Thanks Hyenajoe!

I think I am not in the right mindset to achieve what Vik calls "Rivet Zen" yet, but I'm chopping up plasticard pretty repeatedly here.

@steingass: Its amazing, but im pretty sure that is one of the large scale FW marines, its definitely not 28mm

Those cutouts look interesting.