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SilverMK2 wrote:Also, are the 15mm roads pavement sized for the 40K sized minatures? Might be fun to covert some into walkways and so on for urban/necromunda boards...

They're 5cm. I'd say that was a touch wide personally (10 feet pavements?). You might want to wait for the Epic sized version.

Apologist wrote: Cool beans that there'll be some dedicated baseplates for 15mm. Any timeline on those? I'm all prepped to place an order
As a note, there's a discussion here, on your stuff. Thought you might like a heads-up.

Thanks for the link! All going well the 15mm base plates should be on this week's release list.

OldPeculiar wrote:at, I’m thinking of ordering some bits to try out however I’m not sold on the bright green colour of the canals. Different colours were mentioned further up but I don’t think it reached a conclusion. I’m trying to decide what other colours will look best, smoke possibly but the smoke used on your templates looks a little dark. Is it possible to do canals using the same material as the flying bases and how do you reckon this will come out?

The smoke material for the templates is the same as for the flying stands. The edges are almost black but the surfaces are almost clear. It would be much too transparent for the rivers and would definitely need basing. Have you seen the canals with designs put underneath? There's an example on the website at the bottom of the canal page and more on panic's thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/316894.page.

I think a dark smoked would be the best alternative but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet.

Scott-s6 - again great stuff with the 15mm roads. A steal at £8. Hmmm forget I said that, they are too expensive I tells ya, should be £5!

Seriously though, how do they sit with Epic models. Naturally one would expect them to be larger (being 15mm) but I am thinking that they could be used for two way roads or dual carriage ways at 6mm?

I’ve had a look at Panic’s thread - plenty of good stuff there. I’m thinking of doing something similar although haven’t decided exactly what yet. Rubbish strewn drainage ditch possibly (I’ve yet to come across a canal that I could see the bottom of). Dark smoke may work well for that, I’m a little wary though of going too dark though for fear of the water blending in too much with the rest of the terrain.

What range of colours have you got to work with?

notprop wrote:Scott-s6 - again great stuff with the 15mm roads. A steal at £8. Hmmm forget I said that, they are too expensive I tells ya, should be £5!

Seriously though, how do they sit with Epic models. Naturally one would expect them to be larger (being 15mm) but I am thinking that they could be used for two way roads or dual carriage ways at 6mm?

They're okay but I feel they're a bit big. Dual carriageway is about right.


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OldPeculiar wrote:What range of colours have you got to work with?

There's an enormous range of colours - opaque, tint, flourescent tint. Pretty much anything is available. Have a look at the Perspex or Irpen websites.

Now that is a lot of colours! Thinking about it I reckon that greys will blend too much with the rest of a city and end up looking to much like a shiney road, so I think either a brown or or a dirtier green would probably work well.

My googlefoo is weak and I've struggled to find good examples of modelled water, however I did find this:

http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/images/water/pic23.jpg

It's hard to tell from the colour chart what will work out best 'Lime zest' perhaps. What do you think?

I think that the current green material with the protective film left on the bottom is pretty close to that (again, see panic's thread)

Well there's one way to tell for sure!!

Would it be possible for you to send some scrap offcuts (any size/shape) of the green up to Bradford with the rest of the bits so I can do some experiments with paints, backing materials, water effects etc?

(sorry, dragging thread off topic a little)



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Presumably the publicity and (well deserved) good reception of your range is gaining you quite a lot of orders (it really ought to be!). Do you reckon you'll be able to maintain a reasonable turn-around time in the run-up to Christmas?

Ah, that was you. I'd just emailed you re your order - are you sure it's right? There doesn't seem to be enough road or canal to be useful.

I'll throw in some offcuts of the green and anything else I can find in my box of stuff that might be suitable.

ETA, orders aren't going too badly at all considering it's still the first month. Even if we double it over the next couple of months (which I don't think is unrealistic) there'll still be no problems keeping up at all.

30/09/10 - This week's release is an adaptor for the modular road system to allow double width roads and a new starter pack incorporating this.




This also marks the end of S6 Engineering's first month. A big thank you to everyone that's placed orders!

That's a hell of a first month...

And plenty more to come!

I think it is pretty amazing that you have such a large range already

I will be making an order at some point in the future as well, I promise!

Absolutely on tenterhooks for the 15mm/6mm roadways and baseplates set. What will the dimensions of the baseplates be?

Congratulations on a great first month: here's to a long, long business life!

Once again sweet stuff Scott-s6.

Keep it up.

Scott-S6 do you have any intention of making a city block tile that fits the outside of the right angle?
Like this:

Apologist wrote:Absolutely on tenterhooks for the 15mm/6mm roadways and baseplates set. What will the dimensions of the baseplates be?

The small baseplates are going to be next week's release. They're exactly half the size of the normal ones so 10x10cm and 10x13cm. They're going to come as a pack of four (two of each)

aka_mythos wrote:Scott-S6 do you have any intention of making a city block tile that fits the outside of the right angle?
Like this:

To be honest I wouldn't do a tile like that. Firstly, it only fits one way and that's not desirable - the pieces should all be as versatile as possible. Secondly, it leaves gaps at the corners where it meets the other baseplates. Better to replace that corner piece with a junction and have all the pieces fit nicely.

Congrats on your first month.

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aka_mythos wrote:Scott-S6 do you have any intention of making a city block tile that fits the outside of the right angle?
Like this:

To be honest I wouldn't do a tile like that. Firstly, it only fits one way and that's not desirable - the pieces should all be as versatile as possible. Secondly, it leaves gaps at the corners where it meets the other baseplates. Better to replace that corner piece with a junction and have all the pieces fit nicely.

Well I didn't mean exactly like my picture, it was just to show what I was generally talking about. I really like your product and I'm sorely tempted to get a set. I'd just prefer not having an empty lot every time I use a right angle.

The answer is to use the corners only for outside edges (where the road is outside the last line of blocks).

If the road is going to be inside the last line of blocks then use a junction instead.

05/10/10 - The S6 modular cityblock system comes to FoW, Epic, etc! This week's release is the small scale baseplates to match the 15mm/6mm roads. The baseplates are a set of four (two small, two large) and fit with the roads in exactly the same way as the large scale ones.

Interesting ruins.. are those in the pipeline?

Possibly. I knocked them up because I needed something for the photograph.

05/10/10 - The S6 modular cityblock system comes to FoW, Epic, etc! This week's release is the small scale baseplates to match the 15mm/6mm roads. The baseplates are a set of four (two small, two large) and fit with the roads in exactly the same way as the large scale ones.

Hurrah! Now let me buy them!

Seriously, I've got a gaming weekend this weekend, and I'd dearly love to be able to take a set along to show everyone and game on.

As for the ruins, I think that offering the panels complete would be the best idea. That gives the player maximum flexibility (plus all the rubble that they need).
One suggestion I might make would be to make them a little more complex – if you kept those simple ones, but then had a 'frontplate' made up of vertical strips, you get a nice effect similar to the old GW epic ruins, with their large vertical buttress supports.

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Ah-ha – and in the two minutes since writing that, they're now available to order*. Just couldn't wait for the 6mm-scale stuff, so I guess I'll have to place a second order when the ruins come out.


* So I've ordered some

Pre ruined would be my request. I have no problem breaking 15mm/Epic scale models (intentionally or other wise) so a building shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Also there seems to be no shortage of ruins available from most manufacturers, it would be nice to have a city not yet in ruins.

For inspiration obviously there are the (mostly OOP) FW Epic buildings and the styrofaom buildings that came with Adeptus Titanicus. Those things were awesome but costly.

With your approach I would suggest that you could easily make frontages for interchangeable domestic and commercial properties making realistic street fronts a possibility with sides and rear of buildings less of an imediate concern as they could be filled with regular sheet materials. This should make large 15mm/Epic SF & modern buildings allot more acheivable, probably more difficult with WW2 and the like.

Anyway as you can tell I'm really excited by this new development.

Ooh, yeah – what Notprop said

Here's a slightly better photo of the ruins.

Brilliant!

Now that without the damage that would be exactly what I am talking about.

I would suggest that by varying the placement of the door opening to either side of the basic "cell" and one with clear opening (shopfront), you could build up quite a varied building frontage from only 4 differant standard sized cells (they look 1 1/2" wide i'm guessing). A double height opening and one with only windows at GF level would probably complete a basic range.

At this size are you able to detail blockwork or larger stonework patterns or is it to be left plain (concrete if you will)?

It would be possible to add some engraved detail but with all the little windows they're already quite expensive in terms of machine time.

Hmm, didn't think of it like that.

Still easy enough to just paint in each individual block. Concrete it is then

06/10/10 - In response to customer demand two alternate packs of the 5cm road system are now available - one with loads of junctions (especially crossroads) and one with loads of straights (76cm of straights).