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How we doing guys?

I started on my piece. I'm gonna keep it small so as not to eat up all my modeling time. Pics to come.

@Cam--go ahead and add me. i will try to knock something together, as my second and third ideas have already been done so far, but my first (and best?) idea hasn't been tackled yet--at least insofar as the WIP pics posted here indicate...sitll have a month and a half...even with trying to buy a house and working 55+ hours a week, i might be able to get something done.

just have to figure out how to get rivets in there somehow...

How we going? Well I haven't done anything since my last update where i posted the walls. It's just been too damn hot to do anything lately and I just don't have the energy for it.

Got a couple of cool days coming though so I'll try to blast through it then.



All in all though, keep going lads. Some really great stuff getting made here

I am actually further along than this image. This is just a picture of the tin that I will be using. I have used several of these tins and like them because it gives a simple consistent base for each building. It also gives the appearance of a cookie cutter building that I imagine Imperial worlds initially settle with and then replace or modify over time.

Interesting parts! Is the tin embossed? If so will the teddy get a cadian paint job?

I actually like the idea Peasant, lets see some more..

PS is that your leg bottom of the picture, if so please see a doctor!

Hahahahaha. No not embossed. I'd be able to deal with the soldiers, sort of, but I'm not sure how 'grim dark' the bear could be. Hahahaha

This is a picture of one of several that I have completed prior. The paint needs some work as well as my photo quality. They are done with my phone I'm working on using my actual camera for better quality But I am slow..



P.S.Hahahahaha...yeah..It's my leg..under a blanket, It's winter and I loathe the cold.

Proof-of-life and minor advancements:



Still plenty to do.

Cheers.

Very nice ventilation, what is it??

JackDarkmoore: Glad you like it.

The vents are made from the PVC nuts for electrical tubing couplings and hand-made fan (1mm thick styrene circle, radially cut without reaching the centre, and gently twisted to shape the blades).

On the inside, the rim is made from a ring cut from PVC pipe (electrical tubing again) and mosquito wire mesh for the grill.

Edit: The upward going pipes are from umbrella-like chocolate lollipops (Cubs cheerfully provided those!)

I have been trying to figure out a simple way for fans for ages. Those are great.

@Peasant: Happy you now find it of use!I surely picked the idea for making them like this from somewhere - sadly, I can't pinpoint exactly where as to give due credit -; it's still good to know I've passed something on.

View of the fan grills from inside:



Edit: Crooked girder has been fixed already.

Excellent work.

Almost complete... c&c welcome

Made some progress today.

Cut out the both the floor and roof of the observation tower



and cut out the windows. The semi-circle windows are going to be cut up to make shattered windows while the rectangular window is staying intact but has some bullet holes drilled out.



I also shortened the tower by 5cm. It was too tall at 30cm so I cut it down to 25cm.

Very interesting work going on here, this is turning in to everything I hoped it would be.


@ Jack That looks quite brilliant. More Pics or is it secret, is it safe?

Yes...yes... more pics to come! Laptop occupied by wife these days...

Moving forwards:



Other pics and further progress in my P&M blog, link in my sig.

C&C are always welcome.

Cheers.

oh my...LT...that is looking spectacular...

and snrub...I have no idea currently where this is heading... but thinking already about these bullet holes ...that is very good!

I think I need to up the game a bit on my own works...eh?...

well...how about these pics for assuring that I am still in the mid of the comp?

making furniture...beds and chairs for starters...


and then when making a bigger log cabin one needs to make a fence...

which lead to these:



questions?

cheers, vik

Littletower if your model was on stores I would buy it asap!

Vik those double beds look cool but a little off-balance

The pics I promised...

nice sandbags... have you some WIP of these...are they self-made or bought?...

and yeah...the doublebeds are indeed a bit lopsided...that will be fixed...in fact the weirdest of them is already broken...so new assembly is already on the agenda...

@JackDarkmoore: Thanks! A scratch built can hardly get higher praise than that! Tent and base look great, the setting really brings the centre piece forward a lot.

What happened with the sign post and tank traps though? They seemed to be a great addition - esp the sign -, is it coming back next?

@Viktor: Fence is looking good, tough to get through once up, I'd say!

my wife suggested some booby-traps around the walls to make attackers even more hard times...

¬¬ I haven't worked on any of my stuff for about a week, and I com back to this? Feck. ...I'm off to the garden shed to toil away to the wee hours making something half as good as that lot (or I could just post some more obscure bits of broken planes?).

I saw in the Rules that it is open to all game systems, but this seems to be 40k-centric? Is that usually the case in these contests?

It tends to be 40k, but I was hoping for some more variety, and although some of what you see is 40k ish, I could see it being used in different games systems, Wyrmalla's is not 40k, though could be used in it. And certainly one of the biggest bonuses of these competitions is new techniques being shown off.

By all means, anyone can enter an entry from any game system, or just a model for the sake of modelling. Could be fantasy, could be AVP, as long as it hits the brief, you are good.

Mine's for 7Tv, though my own post apocalyptic take on it. Yes, people are mostly making 40k builds, but then again, this is a 40k centric site. Make whatever you want. Certainly it may be more interested than a skull house of skulls.

Yeah, moar skulz. <sigh> There is a healthy enough WHFB presence here too, I've noted.

Well, thank you for the answers gentlemen. I'm going to give this some thought. I have a few ideas for accommodations. They won't be gray, Gothic, or ruined. There will be no skulls. I find that iconography to be, erm, distasteful. YMMV.

I only now noticed this contest. Normally I stick to the Infinity sub-forum. So, not sure if 39 days will be enough, but I'll at least try to make a start. Now, where did I leave my exacto knife...

You are welcome, and um, welcome to the comp. Waiting in baited breath for your ideas.