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Still..amazing control!

Loved this thread for so many reasons. Awesome Nec terrain. Looks like the original card board stuff I started out with 12 years ago. And I can't ever complain about pimps & hoes. "Make dat Imperial dolla'!!!

Thanks Tsunami! That was really the purpose of this endeavor, not to make a 1:1 replica, but to retain the feel of the original cardstock goodness.

This is such an amazing project! I admire your ability to use plasticard on such a scale! So much to measure and cut! What really makes this project great to me is that you are recreating a classic, makes me want to update all the 1st gen space hulk tiles I have laying around. Very inspirational, keep up the good work!

Oh Wow Depraved! That's a great idea! Thanks so much man.


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Rivet Zen!

or mindlessness enhanced

Very awesome! Can't wait to see it finished!

Looking good! and now you have a possible new project to play with as suggested earlier by Depraved.

Thanks Malika! I appreciate it.

@Shas naa I'll let Depraved do that one!

That terrain looks awesome. Well done. CAn't wait to see it finished.

LilLoser

dsteingass wrote:Thanks Malika! I appreciate it.

@Shas naa I'll let Depraved do that one!

No worries then. Keep up the awesome Necromunda stuff.

Looks good with the rivets, i would fill the gaps in the grey plastic you can see though.

large towers coming along quite nicely

rivets rivets rivets more rivets


@Vitruvian What? fill in the crosses in the bulkheads?

Nah, these bits...

Meh, I dont think that's gonna happen on this one, sorry bud.

The cost of the tedium of cuts and rivets is paying dividends Dstein
Is looking the part imho

are you planning on adding anything on the differing floors to fill them up a bit?

How do you keep from going absolutely mad? The rivets look excellent and will really tie it all together, but wow. X-acto rivits? cut cut cut cut cut cut... glue glue glue glue... repeat 208 times.

My order should be here in a few days. I'm not going for the exact same project you are (specific Necromunda restoration) but it is certainly influenced. What I really want to do is recreate the terrain I had back when I had a Necromunda league (it's good to be the Arbitrator) and luckily I have most of it still, it's just torn down to bulkheads and plasticard, and it's all very plain. I'm looking forward to this project and I'm excited about FINALLY putting my terrain back together, especially knowing that this time I'm doing it as much for the artistry and hobby aspect as I am for the functionality and game play.

That said... I need to find a place online to buy rivets because there's no way my shattered attention span is going to let me chop up 200+ rivets per platform.

There are the water slide decal rivets but they are a tad pricey.

@Skalk, some of us actually can sustain a pace with such "tedious" work. Is not easy even when doing PVA glue rivets, but the idea is once you get that rythm or groove going, stopping seems pointless.

Awesome stuff - really effective, and clearly a lot of painstaking work put in.

Respect

How many rivets

Worth the time and effort. Looks really good....roll on the paint.

shaso you have put the finger on the spot! exactly rythem and an acording mindset and there is only material causes that could make me stop the riveting process...

and dstein... amazing that you cut all theses plates... and you do use a scissor of some sort? you are a brave man^^ the piece is under serious development atm and i really like where this is leading... call me a skeptic before but now i see that this is heading for win!!!

cheers, vik

dang steingass! This whole project is really gaining momentum! Im pretty excited to see the finished product

Thanks everyone! I'm glad it looks good. 512 individually sliced, stabbed, and glued rivets, but who's counting? And Vik, no I just cut 5/8" and 7/8" strips of plasticard, then traced the master pattern for the plate over and over, scored, snapped, and then took the snips to it for the angled cuts. I tried to keep it as production line as possible but it still took a long time. Took me my entire day off to add that detail to the supports. I hope it was worth it.

@ Rogue yes I want to add the illusion of some thickness to the floors, but I havent figured that part out just yet.

However, I did make the decision to saw off the extra bits of cover from the bottom of the supports, no one seems to have noticed?

Hey, it's been quite some time since I even saw that terrain in original format!

P.S. I got fresh pics to look at too!


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Yeah did look at that, stream lined it is!

Oh yeah! It definitely looks better, the fact you had to point it out probably means it fits better that way.

now that you mention it is a more sensible look...maybe it was what bugged me in the first place^^

^ what they said. It looks really good, and it looks "normal".

500+ hand-cut rivets. For this platform. I know who and what I am when it comes to modeling and attention spans. I can model for 12 hours straight, but I'll do 20 different things in that time. A task like this would take an amazing amount of modeling sessions time to complete.

I suddenly recognize the true value of http://www.nwsl.com/tools/cutting-tools-the-choppers-i-ii-iii

If not the actual product, the concept (meaning I might try making a DIY version). chopchopchopchop x500 times seems like it would go a lot faster on something like this. I can handle the gluing part because I'm seeing progress w/ every rivet.

I looked up buying pre-cut rivets, the were a bit expen$ive.

I just had another idea for this. Off to research.

It's not as hard as it looks, the key is to use a new blade, plant the tip in your cutting mat and use a slicing chop like you are chopping celery, moving the styrene rod as you go. I didn't do them all at the same time, chop some, glue some, chop some more, repeat. If they fly across the room, your blade is dull, use a different part of the blade or replace it and continue. If you are using a proper slicing motion, they should just fall off the end into a pile, or get stuck to the oil on your x-acto blade. They also stick to your hand, arm, or any other body part you lean onto the pile.