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For about half a year now I've been in a mini-painting rutt, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy. Over the past few months I've been dedicating most of my hobby time to working on terrain. More specifically industrial/necromunda dedicated terrain. In this blog I'll take you through what I've done so far and keep you up to date on my progress. I'm looking for some feedback as I go along, so let me know what you think.

Okay, so many months ago I started building some towers and gantries with the tehnolog hexagon kits. This was the layout a came up.



I was fairly happy with the towers, but not with the floor area. It was too flat and boring and really didn't give the feel I wanted for the board I invisioned in my mind, so I thought what if I made raised and lowered sections out of "egg-crate" light grating?



So I worked out roughly a third of the board. It's hard to see from the picture, but I designed the elevated section to be connected by piping.

With the rough concept of a third of the board done, I started work on the other sections. I didn't have a full concept yet, but I knew I wanted a hanger-bay like area so I could place some vehicles on the board. From the hanger bay I added some ramps up to the next level.



And then another level.



The board takes further shape, though it's still a long way from being finished.

With a lot of the major construction done, now its time to start working on more details for the various sections.



I'll be using a number of resin pieces to flesh the board out, like these two generators from JR Miniatures.



And plastic extras from my 40K bitz box (like this little side-hatch.

The three-dimensionality of this board is incredible.

Outstanding work so far. I'm really looking forward to see where you go with this, as I plan to do a bombed-out, war-torn version of an industrial board, with trenches and craters and the like, basically combining the concepts you have with a world-war I type of theme.

Keep it up!

CK

Great stuff and smart use of hexagon kits... I have to ask, How many of hexagon kits did you use on this project?

I have some for my next project and I have to say they are the best for multilevel terrain, you can really create tons of diferent displays.

Keep it going.

Looking great. Can't think of anything constructive to say! Keep it up and can't wait to see it painted!

I like it a lot too. nice work. will be checking back to see how it progresses.

Well as far as how many hexagon kits I used, that's a more difficult question than what you would initially think because I bought something like 20 or 25 boxes, but I made a lot of other stuff too, most notably a very large fortress (see crappy picture below). Note the cadian dude on the fortress for scale purposes. I'll be showing additional photos of the fortress after I get my zuzzy mats in to put underneath it, but that will likely be a while yet.



Thank for the kind words so far. I'm really hoping to have this board done in approximately 2-3 months. So the end of February is my self-imposed deadline for completing construction and having a basic paint job done, so it will at least be game worthy. I'll then be adding additional touch-ups as I can inbetween my other projects.

Just wow!

20 or 25 boxes? thats just insane quantity of sprues, specially considering that these boxes really come packed with lots of sprues.
I take my hat to you for such big dedication

OMG...its been orkyfied