6’ x 10’ Cities of Death Board WIP (updated with video, custom ventrillion, tanks and monorail)

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**SilverMK2**

The marble tiles using plexiglass and painting/scratching the reverse is genius.

Board is looking fantastic; any one of these buildings would be impressive, but all together it isfrankly awesome.

**Silentz**

This is one of those threads where you open it, say "wow" and then realise there's six more pages of solid wow to come. A truly spectacular board in the making.

**btoliver311**

Arg..

How should these go? I was going to set them at an angle to see more elevator but don't like how much wood frame is showing

Option 2 puts 8 shadow war legs on each level covering things up more but I'm concerned it's too square now

**nerdfest09**

Obviously it's option 'A' with some added detail to the wooden parts, run cabling and resistors etc down it! :-)

**btoliver311**

It was in front of me the whole time. Like everything f else. I just had to stop being lazy and actually cut stuff.

**btoliver311**

I'm having to cover a lot of the tower framing in cereal box cardboard to hide the grain and screws. Now only if I had a modeling partner that was a professional framer by trade to help me out with this mat cutter. What a pain

**IFC_Casting**

I've been following your progress for a while, this is fantastic!

**JeffyP**

Same here. Figured it was long past due to jump in and say "awesome job."

Awesome job.

**btoliver311**

Thanks guys. It's hard to stay motivated on this stuff. The compliments really help. Here's a short video showing the first attempt moving landing pad elevator up and down

So... uploading videos directly to Dakka doesn't work

Too bad about the video. Hopefully it works on desktop or I find a way to host it.

The question still remains: how do I motorize this thing?

What you're looking at is actually the top where the motors will go. As you can see there will be two gear boxes across from each other. This makes the turning mechanism opposite on each unit. I think I need to find a motor that is small enough to fit in between and turn both at the same time.

The battery pack will probably need to be on the top of the tower

**TheEldanariPrince**

This is absolutely incredible. That manufactorum is insane.

I'm lost for words.

**IFC_Casting**

Great to see some progress on this.

**EmberlordofFire8**

I guess you could motorise it like a real elevator, set up some pulleys and winches or something...

**btoliver311**

Sunday fun day

The wings are for the extra mono rail cars, the arches will be for a spillway/smaller bridge, some attempts at stairs and of course the main point for the casts: more support beams for the tower.

Made a little more progress on the tower too

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I'm still waiting on the the structure I believe I'll use on the top for control tower section.

Its another laser cut model. This one I ordered from the eBay store frontier games.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Watch-Tower-Pack-of-2-28mm-sci-fi-modern-wargame-Infinity-terrain-scenery-/122461192830?hash=item1c8341827e%3Ag%3AhuIAAOSwPe1T90o3&_trkparms=pageci%253A1b59de36-8076-11e7-b168-74dbd180b67d%257Cparentrq%253Addb2601915d0a866dd6fb015ffffff0f%257Ciid%253A6

I plan to use two of just the top sections

**btoliver311**

YES!

"and most likely Shadow War terrain. The Specialist Games studio do not have the resources to produce terrain solely for Necromund"

NO!!

**Theophony**

They've stated it will have ONLY cardstock terrain to keep prices down. But if it's like the original Necromunda then cardstock is great. I'm sitting on 200+ bulkheads and 3-5 sets of the cardstock buildings plus all my stuff I've built over the years.

Will the control tower have flashing LED landing lights? With the monorail right there it could also use some lights in the bottom of the rail too.

**Jpogfreak886**

This is an amazing project. I'd say its ambitious, but you are clearly capable of doing it. Best of luck to both of you - most of us would be lucky to play on a board like this.

**btoliver311**

Finally made a decision on my sidewalks and balconies. If I start work on some of these road ways I think it would help make the board look like it's made a little more progress. Time to cast and cut

pics were all showing up upside down and sideways again. Had to retake

**Theophony**

Are you using an iPhone or iPad? If so it's the device being held differently and the system autocorrecting them.

Cool street and sidewalk. Is the sidewalk just squares of cork? Or something more elaborate?

**btoliver311**

The side walk are the hirst arts molds from the starship deck.

http://www.hirstarts.com/molds/m270.pdf

Cork doesn't sound like a bad idea though.

Do you think I should raise the sidewalks or are they ok level with the street? I think if I leave them level if will make it easier for large vechiles

**EmberlordofFire8**

I'd leave them as-is. Sometime, when an army enters a city, they level the sidewalks to make it easier for supply transports and large tanks to move around. I'd imagine Imperial cities, that are designed for war like everything else in the imperium, would plan that out in advance.

**btoliver311**

Also took a quick picture of the landing pad setting on its base. This will actually set 6" lower because part of those legs are actually going to be supports connected under the table. But gives you a little feel for the finished layout

**Desubot**

Sweet jibblits
this is one insane project

cant wait to see you paint it

**EmberlordofFire8**

Speaking of painting, how are you going to undercoat? You can't use spray paint as it'll melt the styrofoam (let me say it again: DONT SPRAY PAINT STYROFOAM!!!), so will you airbrush it or just use a brush?

**Desubot**

Well you could hard coat the foam in PVA, plaster or some other form of foam treatment.
then spray paint it.

**btoliver311**

i thought I saw on here somewhere there was a type of spray paint that doesn't melt styrofoam?

If not that then airbrush but that would take forever. Wish someone hadn't stolen my actual paint gun

**Desubot**

btoliver311 wrote:
i thought I saw on here somewhere there was a type of spray paint that doesn't melt styrofoam?

If not that then airbrush but that would take forever. Wish someone hadn't stolen my actual paint gun

There are foam safe spray paints

though it might be easier to just get latex house paint, and go at it with a chip brush for better coverage.

**btoliver311**

While we are already talking about stuff (painting) that isn't going to get started for another thousand freaking years, what army do you think should defend our city?

I was thinking it should be some sort of custom planetary defense force and not look any thing like one specific imperial army. I was thinking maybe a cross between these:

**EmberlordofFire8**

Oooh, I've got it!
I've always loved the Auxillia helmets, and you could probably do a neat conversion with auxillia heads and tempestus scions, like this

But without my terrible photoshop skills.

**Rolsheen**

I would suggest Anvil Industries new Regiments range for your PDF, there's suppose to be some dress uniforms coming soon

**btoliver311**

Great ideas guys! Thanks