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Amazing work!

Hi.

I´m new here. It was a blog-link to this thread, mentioning awesome necromunda terrain that made me find this place.

And awesome it is! Simply amazing, not to mention very inspirering; looking at it fuels my eagerness to get my new gang done and start building terrain again.

The only issue I ever had with modular terrain, is that it makes it often makes it easier to figure out range, but if it looks like this, then who cares.

I´m looking forward to see the level of detail you´ll put in. So far it looks very promising.

/Grom

Looks pretty frantic, claustrophobic, and dense: I love it

sA

Very nice!

This stuff is just great I wish I had a group to play necromunda with on a regular bases cause I would def. try and make one of these using this as a template .

I must say its threads like this that make me want to dive right in and start making new terrain.

Well done!

Same here, terrain like this makes the game so much better

Fantastic stuff. Am working on some (MUCH SMALLER!) modular stuff for Necro. Thanks for the inspiration to get on with it!

I think it's absolutely WIKKID!
I love the overall layout and how 3dimensional it is! This will be perfect for Necromunda, or would be for =I=munda

Do you do terrain comissions???

And this definitely belongs to M&P Blogs section of dakka!

Yeah, amazing is an understatement.

Thanks for the compliments everybody. I'd love to hear some recommendations for detailing and painting. I have a decent airbrush and I've been doing a lot of experimentation but I cant come up with something I really feel fits this board. The problem is that the buildings all have to be the same color if they are going to continue to be as modular as they are now and I dont want it to look too similar to my other board (mostly black and gray with copper/brass trim in places).

Migsula- First, your work is fantastic, a compliment means a lot coming from you. Second, years ago I was involved in the commission model painting business. I have considered doing commission terrain work, unfortunately given the hours I put into it, I'd have to charge more than most people want to pay. I'd also be terrified that shipping would absolutely destroy this stuff. On the other hand, if anybody is interested, let me know and maybe I can throw an estimate your way.

Its that one map from Fire Warrior the Game i mean it looks exactly like it which is kinda weird
still i like it alot

Frakking awesome stuff so far. What I wouldnt give to own a gaming board like that (for Necromunda or otherwise), or just to play on it...

Cannot wait til its painted though. Will look sweet.

Loken- Please link me to a video or at least a picture of this map... I'm fascinated by your comment, and almost feel like finding myself a copy of fire warrior just to see it. (perhaps it will give me some ideas for paint schemes)

I have been searching and searching for it but its to deep into the game all i rember is the lay out of the map (semi photographic memory) and it matched yours to a tee
it was either the prison complexe part or a imperial fortress with alot of snipers and was very dark
if anyone else knwos what i am talking about please help me

You clearly pushed your way to the front of the queue when they were handing out scenery modelling skills!

Very nice work there, your imagination clearly produces some fantastic results and the best of it is, you have the skills to pull it off perfectly. I like many of the previous posters cant wait to see this painted, but I know you probably have more detailing and modelling to do, so will sit back quietly and wait to see the end results.

Good job!

What's the plan to paint it?


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Shelkrot wrote:The catwalks are foamcore with wire grating on top. I too am looking forward to seeing it with paint on it, but I want to build the first 9 blocks before I even start with the paint. I have an airbrush that I intend to use to do the bulk of the non-detail work but I'm not terribly experienced with it.

I planned this board out in sketchup and posted some of the concept work a short while ago:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/237558.page

I've deviated a good deal from the sketchups but building them first in sketchup really helped me get the dimensions right.
The hardest part in the building process has been getting the walkways positioned right on each side. In fact a number of the pieces you see are still not glued down to their masonite bases. The method I've been using to get them right is taking another piece of masonite with the premeasured walway locations drawn on and holding it against the piece I am working on with a square to keep the angle right.

The standard I'm using is 16" by 16" squares with 2" wide catwalks at 2"-4", 7"-9" and 12"-14". The middle one is 5" from the ground and the outer ones are 2.5" from the ground. The buildings on the cut-off building pieces extend to 10" in from the corner, while the floors extend back to 4" and 6" from the building face and the roof only extends 2" back on the sides. Soon I plan to make one of the building face pieces seen in the sketchups.

There will be a piece of PVC cut in half lengthwise (such that it looks half burried) running under the 5" walkways along the ground. The pipes will connect to eachother and to objects on the square. I was considering placing valves every so often along the pipes so you could arrange the board for a scenario where one team is trying to cut off fuel or water to a specific location from all sides. I'm looking for other ideas like that for things to put on the terrain that could be used as part of an objective in a special scenario so suggestions are more than welcome.

What thickness foamcore do you use and how do you reinforce it to keep warping to
a minimum?

I may need to closely document the early construction stages in the next piece to show people my foamcore technique, but I'll do my best to describe it.

I cut 3/16" wide grooves in walls for the floors. To make the grooves I cut through the first card layer and the foam layer at where I want the floor to be and without cutting the second card layer, then I scrape off the foam layer between the lines. I use a similar method to make inside corners, just vertically and ultimately folded inwards over one of the lines, tucking the opposing lip. outside corners just take one slice through the foam and bend. I try to make as much as I can out of each piece, laying them out in sketchup first, and folding them into their intended form. I use long flat headed sewing pins and pva glue to hold everything together. The way the pieces of vertical and horizontal foam lock together plus all the pins does a pretty good job of keeping them from warping. Most of the large building pieces have completely impassible bottom floors with huge piles of rubble that double as supports for the building. Most buildings also have a number of right triangle shaped supports embedded under the floors against the walls.

The cardstock trim started as an aesthetic choice to cover visible seams and exposed foam (I dont mind the foam on bombed out parts but it looks ugly in less damaged areas, but I think it strengthens everything especially in the corners. The catwalks have lots of supports. Originally I had planned on making the ground level fairly open, but with all the supports I decided to put rubble around all of them making a maze of rubble stalagmites. The rubble doesn't really make sense in some places but it looks way better than flat foamcore supports at right angles to each other all over the place.

We have been playing necromunda on it for a while now, pretty much since the moment i finished building the 4th piece. While it was small we were playing a little variant on the necromunda rules with a touch of video game thrown in. In short, 4 gangers w. stub gun and knife, Playing with weapon pickups and respawning at set points. usually capture the flag. It's aready a lot of fun to play on.

As far as painting is concerned. I really need suggestions. I don't really want to do the textured paint thing I did on my last board, and I don't want it to look so monotone and gray. The only think i really have my mind set on is a lot of yellow and black caution striping. I've been playing around with my airbrush on little dummy pieces I make and I've come up with some things I like but not quite enough to commit quite yet.

Amazing!

you = king of foam-core!

Gordo Phreshmex wrote:Amazing!

you = king of foam-core!

Yeah, my foamcore walls are never true as I'm lazy about squaring and using straight edges.

What about something like that? Runs well with metalics and the B/Y striping..

have to say this thread has inspired me! kinda fell out of playing GW games like 4 years ago an have been thinking about getting back into it. one of the funnest things for me was building terrain an this is outstanding. i had never heard of sketchup tell i read this thread an the first thing i did was go an download the free version. very impressed with it so far. but as i said, your inspired me to step up my game an build something over the top.

that said, as far as painting i would go with the basic black an grey for the bases. then balance the color scheme by making all the fortress pieces a sandy tan color. then give them a griddy and grimey look by watering out a black or brown ink and outlining the windows and places where corrosion would happen and letting it run down the building a little making it look as if rust and dirt was being eroded and deposited in the walls of the fortress. then your walkways could either be metal with a white undercaot to make them brighter and make any washes for a dirty look stand out, or a black undercoat to give it that underhive dark dank feel. for the refinery type scenery i would go with a copper color, or brass, with green inks alot like you would do in the building to make it look rusted or like it was leaking fuel. make most of the rubble the same color as the fortress to stand out more on the dark bases more.
food for thought

well however you paint it i'm excited to see the end result. i must bow down to a true master an say " we're not worthy, we're noth worthy..."

are there any updates on this game board any wheres?

i gotta see some more pics of this!!

A M A Z I N G !

Wow, really good job on the terrain. It inspires me to start thinking about the Mod Terrain Board i have been cooking up as well. Keep it Up

I love it - I admire anyone with the patience to put together a full, detailed, board.

Brilliant! that is sweet looking terrain.

Wow, doesn't feel like nearly a year since this was last being commented on.

Wow! Now there's an excellent modular gameboard if I ever saw one!

Many people are lost to the Underhive. the OP may be one of them...

Here's the deal: I've been busy and distracted for a long time now, and these boards have been taking up an enormous amount of space.

While it breaks my heart to say this, I've been thinking about selling this board, as well as my other inquisitorial palace board off unfinished as-is. They have progressed a little since the last post but not a lot. I don't know if this is within the rules of this forum but I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions on how I might go about selling these (any websites? maybe just through dakka?) and how much money you think I should ask. If anybody really wants to make an offer, feel free to PM me. I live in philadelphia, PA, USA so if anybody is nearby I'd definitely give a discount to anybody willing to come get them. For anybody who buys this i will include detailed schematics and measurements such that you may finish it properly (or even expand on it.) and painting is completely up to you.

Thanks for all your suggestions, guys. I'm sorry I cant show you a finished product but if i find the time, maybe i'll post a few pics of its current state.

sincerely,
The OP lost in the underhive