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I’m new here and figured I would just start in with adding some stuff to the community. I used to paint (a little) when I was a kid I recently had the urge to start again so… I did. I have only really been playing around with terrain ideas. Soon enough I’ll get onto buying and painting some imperial guard. I don’t know if someone as junior (to the craft) should even be starting a topic, but here goes nothing….

And P.S. none of the propaganda posters (Within the "Public Service Announcements") are mine I only appropriated them from various sources including some right here at Daka and their hard and most artful of works should be recognized . Members like "VermGho5t" (and) "whitedragon" and others .

I first started off making little odds and ends such as Flocking (from sawdust and paint) and tank traps (using pink-poly and a little mixture)....

then I started working on other odds and ends like sheet iron and pipes etc..... and barb wire made from the stuff used to fix holes in your walls which I just primed and painted painted.

Some more tank traps and then barrels (all scratch built )... Oh Joy !! all homemade on the cheap....

Then I decided to tak it up a notch an make a little board (to no apparent secifications).... oh an a little fort which I then decided not to use with this board.... I still need to get some Milliput to do the sandbags on the other unfinish trench and then lay the ground works using cat littler etc...

That poster seems a little too tolerant for the Imperium. More like "Any citizen of the Imperium whomseoever has contact with mutants or xenos, knowingly or unknowingly shall be arrested, tortured for information and purified by flame of the Emperor's holy promethium. Praise the Emperor in all things. Ave Imperator."

After that (still have yet to finish the trenches etc...) I got started on a barraks things I once saw.... I used a large can cit in half... I should have primed it using some sort of mettle primers cuz the paint totally did not stick and thus I have to put like a million coats on... (for terrain I use nothing but the cheap stuff, acrylics from wallmart).

Sorry if I'm not that entertaining I'm really burnt and hung over from a late night... so my snappy wit ain't all that snappy...

I'm liking the scenary there mate, the poster seems extremly harsh even for the emperor !

I look forward to seeing some of your IG men painted when the time comes

all the best
Wolf

I then went on to start (yet another) project which this time I'm actually almost done... though I have not pust a base on it for I don't know what its grander purpose shall be...

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Some progress on that large building.....

Wow really great stuff. Could you please inform me about how you made the trenches in the board. It dose not seem to complicated. Also what is the board made out of?

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You should probably go watch the old donald duck cartoon, "spirit of '43" on youtube.

Its so bad.....

I am looking into building terrain for a local store that is now feeding my addiction. How difficult was it to cut out the foam? Did you use a razor or a hot wire?

Emrab wrote:Wow really great stuff. Could you please inform me about how you made the trenches in the board. It dose not seem to complicated. Also what is the board made out of?

Thanks... And sure thing, for the trenches I glued two 1" polystyrene boards together -but just go buy the 2" (I did'nt have any at the time...) then I drew on the board how I was thinking to cut them out... as shown on the attached picture. And seeing as I am new to this and do not have all the right tools I just cut using a box cutter then when I got close to my desired depth I started scraping an shaping using a wood rasp (kind of like a file but better at shaping refer to picture) then I sanded as much as I could... after that I based the board using paint mixed with sand and white glue (like elmers). Oh and look around on the internet for inspiration... I've attached some piks that I used.

Look up on youtube a guy by the name of the "Kamloopian" here is a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zbfubGVRyE&NR=1

He's a pure stoner and seems totally disocombobulated but within his wierd rifts and rants he's got some really great tips....

I'm going to have to kidnap you, lock you in the back room of the FLGS and put you to work building new terrain for the store.

insertnamehere wrote:I am looking into building terrain for a local store that is now feeding my addiction. How difficult was it to cut out the foam? Did you use a razor or a hot wire?

FOAM IS EASY TO CUT ITS.... WELL FOAM. NO HOT WIRE, I FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF THE YOUTUBE GUY THE KAMLOOPIAN (LINK POSTED ABOVE) AND JUST USED PLAIN OLD BOX CUTTERS AND EXACTO KNIVES.... THEY ALLOW YOU MORE CONTROL OVER THE SMALLER DETAILS (AS HE SAYS). FINALLY TO SHAPE I USE THE SAND PAPER BLOCKS FROM HOME DEPOT... AND WOOD RASPS (SEE PICTURE ABOVE). BUT MAKE SURE YOU'VE GOT A VACUUM CLOSE BUY TO CLEAN ALL THE STUFF UP... OH AND SAND SOMEWHERE WITH VENTILATION AND WITH A VACUUM AS WELL THE DUST IS TOXIC. OH AND IF YOU DO IT OUTSIDE PLEASE REMEMBER IT’S NOT BIODEGRADABLE so TRY AND CLEAN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE up before the wind takes it (MY LITTLE PLUG FOR SAVING OUR WORLD SO THAT WE MAY ONE DAY HAVE A WORLD TO BRANCH OUT FROM AND CONQUER OTHER GALAXIES

(Sorry for the caps )

P.S. If any admins are watching please help me change the flag on my profile ... I'm from Canada not the U.S. (please and thanks)

Thanks, HI HO HI HO it's off to Home Depot I go.

Oh..... and a rock.

I love that base! I've always wanted to build something like that but just never got to do it.

Napalm wrote:I love that base! I've always wanted to build something like that but just never got to do it.

Thanks...

If you are reffering to the base of the rock I've just got one word for ya..... :Honey Nut Cherios" paitned brown then white glue and some of my homemade flock.... but if you are reffering to the "base" on and around the trench system that's a whole-nother explanation

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WHAT ARE YOU ! DOING TO HELP HUMANITY ?

Great stuff. I especially like the building facade you have made there.

Where did you get all of the Service anouncments? Did you alter the original WW 2 posters or are they drawn from scratch with tehm as a refference?

Nahhh nothing like that.... and I take no credit in making the posters.... I just have about "10,000,0000,0000,000,000" Warhammer 40k related pictures on my computer... but I do have lots of those ww2 recuitment posters. And to answer you question some of the ones I have seem to be altered WW2 posters.... but many are made from scratch by people with such programs (and the time) to make them up. But hey do what I do, you can just print these/those or any other pic you like, really small... colour print it, then soak it in soya sauce or paint it or something to give it that weathered look (oh and dry brushing helps) and then attach it to your terrain.... you can also buy pack or pre-made little posters at hobby stores I imagine....

But it's best to just copy a pik from the net... resize it, then print them at your local print shop... and then BAM ! you've got propaganda....

Here are some piks of packs you can buy of the ww2 stuff...


(but these following 4 or so are not my works or piks they are just examples in response to "Ratbarf's" question )

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Hey, here are a couple I just came across... they are sheets of signes and posters... in pdf form... just follow my former instuctions... and if you want me to post more of the propaganda I shall... tomorrow....

http://www.naussrenegades.com/Posters/1.pdf
http://www.naussrenegades.com/Posters/2.pdf
http://www.naussrenegades.com/Posters/3.pdf
http://www.naussrenegades.com/Posters/4.pdf


But remember, I did not make these I only posted them in lue of your question
Mr/Ms "Ratbarf"..... credit should go to someone called 'midnight' on that site

It's nice to see a new face on Dakka. Generally most new users do not appropriate originals of other users here, claiming them as their own original work. I guess I should be flattered, you're own takes on creating new propganda posters are awesome, but for feths sake you could have at least given me and the others who created several of the these posters their goddamned credit due as we put in a lot of hard work to create them and then put them up to the community of Dakka.

I don't care if you use them, that is why they were made, but make for goddamn sure you give the people who put in the time and work their credit due for that at the very least.

If readers are too lazy to do a simple search or browse my gallery and see the dates in which the images were posted then here is a link to the DL of the pack. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/214123.page

...and here is a link to my gallery.