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Lamby wrote:
Not to throw any gravel in your gears, but those light fittings would look awesome with LEDs in them...
They would, Lamby, they would, but as mentioned a few pages back, I've absolutely no experience with LED's and given how long things have taken so far, it might tip me over the edge to try to get to grips with, on this project at least...
Lamby wrote:
Painting: seriously, with something this big I'd use either Krylon or GW spray cans to base coat (after undercoating).
Again, no experience of using spray cans, airbrushes or oil paints - I'm seriously old school (or a Luddite lol) re painting - even my Reaver (must dig him out soon) has so far been done the good ol' fashioned way with just brushes.
Lamby wrote:
I also really like the idea of the 'glass' in the Cathedral window... Tamiya Clear paints for the stained glass effect, maybe?
Maybe. Maybe... Thing is, I want people to see the statue on the inside of the Chapel, so don't know if painting the windows will work...
MagosBiff90 wrote:My mind is boggled by the sher scale of this piece! Incredible work...... enjoying my way, basically watching this! :me:
Thanks MagosBiff90, glad to hear you're enjoying the blog, even if I'm finding it tough going lol
No updates today as I've been battling the evil forces of Ikea (aka flat pack hell - even more torturous than the Cathedral build ) but moving my old WD's came across on old inspirational terrain article - sorry, forget which issue as am currently typing this while soaking in the tub... Too much info?! Lol - anyway, the jist was basically get some COD bits, come up with an idea, and then start having fun. Which is essentially what I've been doing all this time. Although my partner would doubtless question my idea of fun given the amount of frustration and swearing the build has caused... But I digress. The point is, with the right imagination and a bucket load of perseverance (and ok, a reasonable disposable income), anyone could do what I'm doing.
And I keep having to occasionally remind people, this REALLY IS my first ever terrain piece. EVER. Feeling nostalgic, found one of the first pic I took of the beast way back when - how things have changed, both in terms of progress and design....
Anyway, enough boring musings; back to a good soak and reading other peoples articles. More updates tomorrow. Probably
Put me squarely in the too boggled to speak category. I have trouble fathoming the whole and the individual parts you're adding in as well, but it's rather interesting nonetheless
Cheers Brother Payne. It's getting there... And keep being boggled GrimDork
So today have (virtually) finished off the front door and balcony assembly, incuding associated making good on the front of the central tower itself. This included finally sorting out the doorway with additional buttress lower parts:
These required copious filing down on the reverse (sorry, forgotten to take a pic, may do one later) in order to fit over the internal floor, plus extra plasticard to fill dome of the more obvious gaps - green stuff will have to do the rest at a later stage.
The upper balcony has had slight modification to the rear in order to fit better with the rest of the building - the old guttering idea had to be stripped off and a new bridging piece glued in instead, with notches cut to fit round the fronts girders:
In order to help keep the upper level at right angled to the building, added a couple of cut down inverted buttress pieces. Didn't want the standard skull parts on the top to be upside down, so replaced them with a couple of spare wall crenalation spiky pieces:
And in situ:
The notches cut In the eagle front were a bit of an early mistake so will need to be filled again, but mostly that will be hidden by the Eagle supports that will fit between the main eagle wings (like those on the pulpit). But that can happen another day lol
This awesome on so many levels first floor ,second floor, third floor and roof terrace ect no seriously this is a real work of persistence, amazement and sheer dam insanity
I used to look at Lincoln cathedral with amazement, now its just a shed just one more thing when you're finished can I have it
Great work. Really impressed at how close a fit you get with just the plastic.
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@ Monkeytroll - couldn't let myself do the easy (lazy!) thing of just having upside down skulls, just couldn't....
@ lone dirty dog - not sure I can rival Lincoln - or for that matter any real Cathedral - in all honesty, but thanks anyway. And in answer to your question - no!
@ DrH - you think these bits are close fits - have just been doing some work on the windows above the Eagle, and that's been REALLY tight - ill do some pics tomorrow I expect - bed time now as back to work tomorrow (boo... )
Sooooooo....... A 'fortuitous' break in a wall section and irritating obsessive tendencies has led me down a dark path of thinking about.... Cloisters. The whole point of the Cathedral is to be a base for an Armies on Parade board, right? But what decent cathedral Doesn't have a proper cloisters, right?! But there isn't room for mine to have one. Is there. No. But I want one.
Sooooooo....... Why not have TWO boards?? I mean, there are two GW stores in Bristol - if I entered them BOTH I might win both and then I could take both boards to Games Day and plead to have them both side by side yeah, cos that would be mega awesome, yeah?!?
See, these are the type of crazy OCD thoughts that mean I can't concentrate at work and end up doing the following doodles on post it's and cost analysis to see if it could be done:
I mean, what's another £150 when the result would be cool, despite the pipe dream idea, the time it would take, the fact the money should (ought) to go on damn minis to go on the bloody board etcetera etcetera....
But it would be cool. With a Garden of Morr stuck in the middle and 40K'd. As the mock up shows:
(Thank goodness for all those spare damaged wall sections...)
Someone please tell me a good way to block out obsessive thoughts before I actually do this.....
I feel for you on the whole issue of GW's "jigsaw-puzzle that doesn't fit together quite right" kits, they're incredibly annoying to work with - But you've done really good work with them, and your patience is an example to us all.
I can't tell you to stop, because your stuff is too good - but I'd say you've earned a good break afterwards
Sweet jesus man! You're looking to add a bowl full of crazy to what is already madness-based stone soup! This thing is a crazy train with no breaks! Ahem, but I sure wouldn't mind seeing it done
The only thing I would say... is to consider the time involved. Realize that things change and that there is no guarantee that this Armies on Parade thing will exist forever. I'm not trying to DOOMGLOOM/prognosticate GW's downfall or anything like that. But am I suggesting that it's entirely possible for things to be fickle and finite? Yes, that's all I'm saying. It would be a ridiculous and amazing addition either way, even if said contest stopped existing
You lot aren't helping. Sigh. I just know it's going to happen. I can already feel the plans on how to incorporate the cloister yet retain a single board if needs be coming to fruition... And it involves pins.. Which I should be shoving deep into my brain and wiggling until the voices stop...
We'd like to help Phutarf, really we would. But the fact that we're here on Dakka following this thread shows that we're genetically pre-disposed to majestic modelling madness....we go to type 'STOP - this is insane, don't do it....think of the children', but all our fingers can do is go 'yeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeahyeah....greatideagoforit....doitdoitdoitdoit....'
Now you've made me add another £20 or more cos of another "great idea" for embellishing the new cloister chapter house roof with an octagonal bell tower:
Make it stop. Please, before I'm bankrupt and/or insane.....
To date:
x9 Shrine of the Aquila
x5 Basilica Administratum
x2 Sanctum Imperialis
x2 Imperial Sector
x1 Honoured Imperium
x1 Garden of Morr
(Not shown)
x6 movement tray packs
Lots of eBay bits n pieces (quad guns, las cannon, extra doors and floor plates etc etc)
I don't want to do the maths. And I'll still need more to finish. And then to buy minis and paints etc to go on them. Oh, and the innumerable blades and plastic bits and glue......
This is one of the most amazing current blogs on Dakkadakka. And considering the level of work that goes on here, I don't say that lightly. But that thing is a-friggin'-mazing.
Was recently in Cologne, visiting their huge cathedral, and couldn't stop imagining how cool it would be to have a "proper" sized Imperial Cathedral board to fight over, with an interior big enough to actually fit entire companies of troops, as it would be in real life. This blog realises that random daydream, in more detail and with more awesome than I had even imagined!
Thanks Da Boss. Thankfully my (over stretched as it is) bank account and lack of physical space means as much as I'd like to do something as awesome as Cologne's cathedral, I can't. Phew. This project is quite big enough thanks, not helped by my own stupidity in making it twice the size....!
I still maintain that I'm not doing anything here that anyone else in theory can't/couldn't do - and to be honest I'm getting plenty of inspiration from other guys work on here and other sites. For example - my bell tower draws heavily on the winning entry from last years UK Armies on Parade, although I'm going to be putting my own twist on it if course! My very, very rough mock up:
(still missing bell, although through eBay that should be turning up later this week)
Currently in cleaning up work space mode so there probably won't be any major updates for a while, but here's a glimpse of the future - the chapter house is going to be a somewhat different shape that originally planed... Hopefully....
Your doing a great job, I built one similar a few years back, I feel your pain..... however, seeing grown men getting excited to play on it is totally worth it in the end...
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