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Thanks for the link. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.

Wicked decent job on the turret and the bastion. Your rust is convincing and looks really good.

@Viktor: Thanks. The barrell gets in, then.

@Skalk: Thanks for dropping by, and glad you are liking it thus far.

Painting started:



Comments & critiques are always welcome!

Cheers,

Oh yeah...that's good looking for sure! Can't tell if that barrel is filled, appears so....the mesh fence and that tripwire looks very convincing. The lil rose tho is the icing of the cake, a lil storytelling item...very good idea!

@Viktor: Empty yet, but will be filled with toxic waste (Polyurethane foam based, I'm still aiming for the +5 point bonus for picked up junk, don't think I can spare the extra credit!).

Maybe some spillage too, if it doesn't over do it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Good job. You do very good rust.
Barrel works well and where did the flower come from?

@Dr H: Sprue!



Due credit was going to be given when finished, but you got ahead of me before I could! Please, excuse the omission, and let me state now that I got the inspiration for this from your sprue-work, and thanks for that!

Cheers.

No worries. It's nice to know I've passed something on. I found the tutorial online, so they're not my creation anyway.

Good job. Looks great.

Nice junk piles going on, there's some serious competition in this, err, competition...

Sprue flowers - great choice... I really need to give those a go...

@Ruglud: Indeed there are, toughest simple, fast & quick comp I'd ever figured.

As for the sprue plants, you should. Excellent return on the effort they take, IMO (provided one does not chop off a slice from one's fingertips in the process!), providing, as Viktor mentioned, an extra twist to a scene by adding a different - and generally unexpected in usually grimdark builds - shape and/or colour.

Thanks for reading.

Junk pile finished and entry submitted:



Final list of materials/parts and their use:

 Wood skewers - Fence poles
 Mosquito mesh - Wire fence
 Copper wire (formerly UTP cabling) - Barbed wire
 Styrene clippings - Shotted planks
 Cofee stirrer - Wood boards
 Aluminium foil – Drum
 Polyurethane foam – Toxic waste
 Natural sponge – Tumbleweeds
 Brush bristles – Dried bush
 Sprue – Sprue plant & flower

Plus:

Base: MDF, self-made, 25x70mm
Basing: PVA & sawdust, tinted.
Sign: Inkjet printed, gloss coated, washed (For the back, basecoloured metal grey & rust sponging)

C&C always welcome.

Thanks for stopping by.

This looks really good, I like what you did in the limited amount of space!

@hdbbstephen: Thanks for stopping by and commenting

Realized I'd forgotten the scale shot:



Available space was indeed limited, a handful of ideas were left aside, I might give them a try later on (Mostly as "canvases" for effects and techniques I haven't done before, ice and snow, and OSL come to mind, as well as needed more practice with salt weathering).

Cheers.

One of the possible - and discarded - plans for the Junk Pile contest required a few barrels. Scratch built one - used in the comp's entry, BTW -, but it did not seem the way to go if more were needed...

Having finished my scrap heap, and before moving on unto something else, I went back to the barrel, still thinking about building the terrain piece I'd thought of when I picked up some polyurethane foam leftovers.

So, I rigged a simple jig for stamping and serial making drum barrels from kitchen aluminium foil:



1. Carved parallel grooves in a scrap piece of MDF (5 furrows, top and bottom rings and three ribs).
2. Folded over a strip of aluminium foil to make made a thicker, sturdier strip, of slightly over 25 mm wide).
3. Cut to length (For a 1.5 centimetre diameter drum, 4.7 cents long), to get the basic tin sheets for the barrels.
4. Wire, cut to same length, for reinforcing the ribs.
5. Embossed the drum ribs by placing the wire strips over the grooves in the MDF and pressing down with a second piece of wood.
6. Super-glued the wire strips and folded over the leftover foil on top and bottom to cover the wire.
7. Finished stamped sheets (Any protruding lenghts of wire cut off)
8. Rolled over the stamped sheets on appropriate diameter tube (Felt tip marker, in this case) to make the drum bodies.
9. Pressed to close the gap (Rounded nose pliers used before the vice) and prepped to weld (Well, glue)
10. Glued on the inside (Nothing fancy here, fast drying general purpose epoxy cement).
11 & 12. Added round aluminium cut outs for top and bottom to some. Primed black

Finished process, just over half a dozen drum barrels, ready for paint and weathering:



Cheers.

How fragile are they. They look amazing and liking the idea.

@Camkierhi: Quite firm, actually.

For the bodies, the aluminium foil is folded over four times, that, plus the embossed ribs - reinforced inside by the wire strips, make them robust enough. The top and bottom pieces, on the other hand, are single leafs, and thus less firm, but they are pressed in with a slight concave shape, so not too exposed.

Maybe thin styrene would have been better for those - and placed inside, slightly recessed from the rims and before gluing the bodies close - for added resistance, but I favoured the easy/quick build and the rugged look of the creased foil and the possibility of having some of them partially opened - can-opener wise - with outward turned tops.

Hobby ADD digression.

Following an old post in dsteingass thread and his Fallout terrain, I tried to give a shot at the theme as well.

(I don’t play, but I found the concept of the personal coin-operated shelters close to hilarious)

Ref pics:

And a quick build, pulling together various bits and pieces from the random junk box:



Actually, resemblance departed way too far from the original – Ended up with a rather baroque look, instead of the industrial functional from the screen shots – so I’m guessing it’s more a free version-inspired by than an actual piece build.

Brought together by priming:







Cheers.

Back on the junk pile again, competion is over and awaiting judgement. Finishid entries on display, and public voting open for the Daemon Prince award (PM Skalk Bloodaxe)

Pics set:











Cheers.

Nice work on the junk. There's some very nice weathering in there.

And a nice take on the Preservation chamber.

Ditto.

Junk looks brilliant. Nice take on the theme.

And the chamber looks awesome, from the shot with it primed up, thought it was a bought kit, looking very good.

You sure got some junk in your trunk LT. Great job

@Dr H: Thanks. With some many great masters all around, something was bound to stick in!

@Camkierhi: Too kind !

@Ruglud: Thanks, good to see you around.

Daemon Prince Junk Pile vote cast, tough call indeed.

Cheers.

Long week, little to show for it.

Rust and spills sequels:







Cheers.

I'm loving the barrels, Brilliant! And I'm honored and can't wait for the Pulaski to be painted!

that barrel tut is amazing!...just showed it to my wife... (that is a very big praise by the way...)

and the shelter looks totally up my alley...very steampunky interpretation of the more dieselpunk original scheme...
gotta ask...what is the door frame made from? that is probably the important bit to really sell the concept!

cheers, vik...

oh...forgot...junk pile looks amazing too...and I love the other barrel terrain piece...the whole aluminium barrel concept makes it probably easy to make them dented and brusied...!!!

@dsteingass: More on both next, hope they keep up to expectations!

@Viktor: Flattered by the privilege

Paint frenzy.

Several projects on the shelf, some got some paint slapped on.

Preservation Shelter, sort of art-déco style:





Door frame is (was) part of a toy, a rubber-band car launcher of sorts (Had to check with the former owner for this), before it ended up in the recycle bin. Rediscovered when I sorted through the said bin in search for junk for Skalk Bloodaxe's Comp, it was - I fully agree with Viktor in this - a great doorway-to-be, and so got to be refitted for this project.

Drum barrels & Toxic Spill:





The whole point of this was to try OSL emanating from the spillage, green glow on the yellow and rust barrels. Now I grew fond of the build, and I'm less sure I want to use it as a test piece for painting experiments...

Speaking of experiments, salt weathering try out (From yet more junk set aside but not used for the contest):



And (just to use up the paint I'd already mixed), basecoating of an older standed -by project:



C&C are always welcome.

Thanks for reading.

Couple things finished, others to come.

Drum barrels & toxic spill:



Other views:





(Did not quite achieved the OSL effect I was aiming for, but got started on the idea at least!)

Preservation Shelter:



Kept the weathering at a minimum, going for a less decayed look than usual; maybe too subtle to show at all?

On a different not, tried a conversion on a metallic piece to add a flamer to the rooster (Actually, to give it a shot at painting the flames):



(Lead self cast lead trooper, just for practice, experimenting and chopping uses)

And started - barely - on my possible entry for Bebopdrum's Painting Comp (Cadian snap-on standard trooper, spoilered for boringness):

Finally, joined in the LoER's new comp: Accommodation, though there isn't much to show on that yet!

C&C are welcome.

Cheers.

First - and basic - step on the the LoER's Contest entry:

I initially came up with a large sketch that might have proven too big to actually accomplish, or, even if built, unusable (and worse, un-storable), so I turned to a step-by-step modular plan, aiming at putting together some smaller pieces that could be grouped to form a larger piece, and thus, more manageable from both the building and use points of views.

In that plan, very WIP barrack:



Thanks for stopping by, and happy new year!

Happy new year. That looks brilliant.

Nice shape to it.

Happy New Year.

@Camkierhi: Thanks for stopping by, glad you are liking it so far.

@Dr H: The half pipe prefab barrack was the first image that popped to my mind when I saw the theme, yet to be seen if I can pull it off.

Some more progress:





Windows to be added next, and further detailing.

Cheers.