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so this is my WIP fort for planet strike.
Anything you think i should add let me know

Put a ramp up to the bottom of the Bastion in the back, cutting out the middle so that the bottom door is accessible from ground level, and voila! Instant gate to the inside courtyard of a giant offmap fortress which you could later model a board for

I like it.

I assume you are going to paint the pink foamboard as rocky cliffs?

The slits in the pillboxes are a bit uneven. You could easily glue on strips of cardboard or plasticard to give a nice square edge. Use hot glue.

ya i was a little drunk when i cut thepillboxes last night i dident even rember doing them today im lucky i have fingers haha
and yes i ran out of the pink stuff so i used white and it will all be cliffs.

...You built that DRUNK?

Man... Last time I tried to build something drunk, I ended up with what seemed to be a poorly cut ruined Cathedral wall made from foamcore glued to my forehead. Yes. Glued to my forehead. Along with most of an unpainted Space Marine. The whole scene was something like...

*Wake up in the morning. Rub eyes, feeling something strange stuck to face. Prod around it a bit. Get up, stumble over to mirror. Look at face, let out the biggest laugh while exclaming "WHAT THE F!?" quite loudly. Wake up girlfriend, who, no longer being drunk, takes notice of wall-stuck-to-face action and almost pukes laughing.*

Granted I was rocking out about 18 Guiness and a 2'6 of Gin beforehand, so it's no suprise I managed to do that, but still!

Again, I stress the ramp. Interlocking boards FTW

YA im thinking ramp to .
maby put it on one more layer of pink on the bottom and cut in in


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im also adding 2 laz and 2 quad aout cannon on the hills

Props on the drunks skill! I know drunk makes it easier for me to paint the mass guardsmen base colors and what not...

on thing that is nagging at me tho is the small door... for purposes of defense that small door is excellent, giving your enemy a small bottle neck entrance that will really thin the numbers to enter.... but it is vastly impractical for for supplies and personnel to use as a front door.

hahaha ya i dident know what else to put in there im thinking of a side door on the right.

I got to give you props on the fort design... it looks like part of a star fort pattern which has the reputation of the best fort for purposes of defense.

well i took the idea from one of the space merine books of how the talked about the fort on the main UM planet

Nice work

I can't wait to see it painted

Wow!
Thats such an awesome idea!

thanks firebat.

il try and get more done soon i want to have it done for the game sat.

Maybe add a sky shield to the top of one of the mountains for where reinforcements / supplies arrive?

heres the update the hills and buildings are primed now

From the games I've played, I can't help but feel that you are going to get drop pods shoved right in the middle of that.
Otherwise, it looks great!

its made for a campaign i have been working on


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and ya DS would suck in there haha
thank god for mistics

Should've sealed all the gaps before you primed it! :(

Personally, I would've also put some drywall putty over the styrofoam blocks so that they looked less like... well... styrofoam blocks. Or at least sanded them some to create some smooth edges as well. Still looks really nice, and it'll definately make an attractive centrepiece, but I think there's a lot more you could do with it before you get to painting it up.

ya im thinking im going back to it befor i keep painting it

im going to add a coom tower on the right and the landing pad on the left and change out the 2 bunkers( dont really like them at all).

metallifan wrote:Should've sealed all the gaps before you primed it! :(

Personally, I would've also put some drywall putty over the styrofoam blocks so that they looked less like... well... styrofoam blocks. Or at least sanded them some to create some smooth edges as well. Still looks really nice, and it'll definately make an attractive centrepiece, but I think there's a lot more you could do with it before you get to painting it up.

I have to agree here...

I would get some plaster or dry wall compound and go over all the foam then paint it or flock it ...

That's 2 for Drywall putty. Majority rules. Let's see some drywall sealing and detailification

When I saw the first pics I thought "wow, this could be really awesome once it's done", but why did you already prime it? It's full of gaps and the rocks still just look like laywers of pink foan stacked on top of each other.

It's off to a great start but it still needs a lot of work.

Yea seriously, if your going through the trouble of building something so awesome, you need to do it right and proper. Also, painting on strait foam like that, melts the foam.

I know my dad does stuff like this for making mountains for his model railroad... the best stuff is called sculpt-a-mold... you add water, and it makes a mushy plaster like substance you schmear over the rock faces, you can fill large gaps with it, and it dries hard.

Yea or you could go with drywall powder, which works great and is about $5 for a huge tub at Lowes or Home Depot.

We'll just count you as 3 for drywall filler, Horst

If you don't want to fill in the gaps, smooth all the edges on the insides so that it looks like the wind and/or rain has finally broken through in some places.

ya im going till fil everything in.
Kind of just ran shour on time when i had to have i done for haha so i just did it up fast.

and the poaints i used wont melt it i dry brushed the whole thing haha

Very nice. You just need some details and filling and it'll be a great centrepiece.

Great work.

Cheers,

Jack.

I like it