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By texture do you mean digitally or phsyically?

Sorry I should have said.

Physically. I was thinking fine sand or maybe just dirt sieved from outside and paint it on with PVA Glue.

Highland_Piper wrote:Sorry I should have said.

Physically. I was thinking fine sand or maybe just dirt sieved from outside and paint it on with PVA Glue.

Textured spray paint exists; most hardware stores carry it.

In my experience the default color of those sprays is crap, so I'd advise spraying it before doing your primer/basecoat to conceal the faux-stone coloring and to let any drybrushing you do show up far better.

for texture i'd go for a watered down plaster or something, and hope it wont warp the cardstock...

i just noticed this thread as i only just started to look for terrain options... i have to say, its looking very good!

i also noticed that certain trolls have given up and went back to live under their bridges... so thats a battle won i guess.

i actually think the cardstock in this case is more durable then plasticard would be, so when your dont with your test case and made a template for us lesser creatures im gonna pick up some cardstock and build me a fortress

I've tried some Textured Spray paint and I found one that gave the perfect texture. Very fine grained. However after spraying only one building the can clogged and everything I tried wouldn't work. I will get one more can and try again.

The plans will be in a layered pdf so there is only one page and multiple layers. You can still make it from card stock or you can use mat board or plasticard. Some layers that use mat board will say 1mm or 2mm on it to indicate its not the one for card stock.

if its in the spray "cap" (?) ... the nozzle thingy... you know
if you put that in alcohol it might dissolve whatever is clogging it.

looking forward to that PDF... also shared this page on facebook i bet some people are very interested in this thread

Some updates. All the turrets/sponsons are in.





I've made some errors in cutting but I will correct that on my next bastion. This is just the first prototype . Such as the Greeble on the crenelations have been fixed so the big gaps you see on the one I have placed on will (should) not be there on the others.

I like the eagle overhand, with a door right there, its going to look sweet!

that is ffing amazing! love the eagle and extra gun ports

Keep up!!! Very nice and clean job!!

I got quite a bit of work done on this today. Next step is making the weapons. they will be slightly oversized as making them very small will be difficult.

I like the space marine game in the background. I've recently started replaying that after taking off a bunch of months. It's a bit clunky but still alot of fun!

that is really amazing. I hope you do a whole section of pdf's for this. and other buildings.

a Tau or eldar bastion PDF? that would kick serious ass.

yeah its looking really fine!
cant wait to start building myself...

Textured and primed, now to add the blasted rivets, and rivets, and rivets...

Those look awesome. I would definately be interested in seeing some PDFs of those.

this looks so much cooler than normal bastions!

Great work, can't wait for you to paint it,and of course to share it, haha.. Well done!

Share it I will. I've started to organise it a bit better and add some type of instructions. Don't expect professional quality but you all should be able to follow it well enough.

Looks excellent so far, kind sir. Keep up the good work. So far, my favorite part is the plain Fortress of Redemption style tower with the heavy bolters on it.

Aren't copyright debates great?

I posted on this thread a while ago when the flaming and copyright infringement crap was going on, I'm glad to see those problems resolved.

Love your work! Highly anticipating the PDF! And on the subject of card, I have never used plasticard on buildings/scratchbuilt vehicles. Cereal board all the way!

Highland_Piper wrote:Share it I will. I've started to organise it a bit better and add some type of instructions. Don't expect professional quality but you all should be able to follow it well enough.

sounds good! cant wait to give it a try!

I've added instructions for the basic Sci-Fi Bastion.

I will add the plans soon. I just need to add a few new pieces such as the new Corner piece and the wall spacers to go with them. With this you could make a Cruciform Shaped Bastion with a large tower in the center!

If there is something you want to do with the bastion now is the time to ask! I should have most of the configurations, but I just came up with the corner piece this morning so I'm sure there is something else that could be added.

Sweetness!

I can't wait to get home and try it out.

Ok, now my friend you owned my total and unconditional respect. It can be not so much, but it is the greateast thing i can give to someone...

You got it...

great! ive been hoarding on cardstock so i can start building this when you posted it

That looks great!
Not really for me though.
I'd prefer to use plasticard mostly because I find paper too flimsy...
That probably says more about me to be honest.

purplefood wrote:That looks great!
Not really for me though.
I'd prefer to use plasticard mostly because I find paper too flimsy...
That probably says more about me to be honest.

did you miss the picture where he put a weight on it?
and it can be build from plasticard just as easly as cardboard

purplefood wrote:That looks great!
Not really for me though.
I'd prefer to use plasticard mostly because I find paper too flimsy...
That probably says more about me to be honest.

If your interested in the project you should go back and look at some of the pictures. The project started out with cardstock and has now moved on to using 1mm and 2mm mat board. You can substitute the mat board for plasticard but mat board is much more rigid and cheaper than plasticard. However if Plasticard is your preferred method then by all means use it.

The plans can be used with either Cardstock, Mat Board, or Plasticard. You can mix and match if you want as well. Some pieces have multiple copies but for different thickness, like the Crenellations come in two sizes. Cardstock/Platicard for 0.25-0.5mm and for 1mm Mat board/Plasticard. You can even make the main walls out of 5mm foam board as long as you cut the edges at 45 degree angles.


Any ways, I've assembled and glued on all the bolters so the only thing left to do in a billion rivets.