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Ma55ter_fett wrote:I read the whole thing imagining that "The professor" from futurama was saying it, made it an even better read... if that is even possible.

I think this is wonderful.

An amazing table of epic win! You put an inspirational amount of detail in all your work.

and by lollipop i mean personal modeling lessons

yeah that flash/gif made me think i was crazy for a sec.. Staring at the screen forrr wayyy too long.

Holy gak, that is an amazing conversion you are cooking up there. Truly impressive. Keep the pictures and updates coming, please.

Reiterating everyone who previously posted, very impressive work.

I started thinking to myself "hang on a sec, how come this last image has really poor colour bandingOMG WTF IS THAT!!??"

Bastard. Loving the terrain layers idea. I started doing something similar, but nowhere near as nice as yours. I will be using this blog as a bit of inspiration for my own work going forwards.

JEEEZ!!!!!!!!Y-yyou scared the life out of me! Especially the Gorilla!

Poor client, he will probably take that board without knowing the powers contained within...

And one night he will wake up to the sound of Space Eagles and Spaghetti Gods erupting out of the Warp Gate
created by his Realm of Battle Gameboard. And the World will be conquered and ruled for millenia by Sea otters and Dolphins!

Lo and Behold, Armageddon hath come!!

....
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Sorry.

Seriously though, that board is ace.

Nice gif. I didn't think I was the only one who has demons living in his scenery...

Ediin wrote:Poor client, he will probably take that board without knowing the powers contained within...

Knowing our good friend "Mr X" he is probably well aware of the dangers, and has some mad scheme to harness it for some nefarious plan.

Did I mention he sent us a package while we were working on his project?

Wavy-line dissolve into a flashback....



One day after returning from my daily rounds, I found something on our doorstep.

Odd, I wasn't expecting a delivery.


A quick shake and I determined that it was not in fact legos. I always shake a box to confirm or eliminate that possibility right away.

I quickly brought it inside and went to work. I noticed that the postage label said it was from “somewhere in the pacific”. Could this be a token of goodwill from the mysterious Mr X?


Yes! Oh glorious day! The box was packed to the brim with delectable treats, exotic chocolates, and most beautiful of all, that sweet, delicious nectar of the Gods, COFFEE! The chocolate macadamia nuts began to vaporize the moment they were brought inside, within minutes the first layer was decimated. But I had my eye on that lovely Kona. We’ve been out of real coffee for weeks, and productivity was suffering for it!


Yes, this would truly be a treat.


I took the first mug to my office and sat back, tasting that lovely, rich blend, and prepared to write a thank you note to Mr X. Truly I felt grateful to receive such a rare gesture of… hmn, that is an odd after-taste. No matter, I won’t comp- URK! GHHAAACK! grjshghggjrrr……….././…..

Love your sense of humour, Terraformer.

The board is looking amazing! that gif scared the hell out of me =P
looking forward to part 3

Terraformer wrote:Knowing our good friend "Mr X" he is probably well aware of the dangers, and has some mad scheme to harness it for some nefarious plan.

Emperor Damn it! He's allied with the Space Eagles!!

God help us. God help us all.

Blasphemy aside, that coffee sure looks tasty. Chocolate Macadamia Nuts.....

'' NOT Poison!!!! Definitely not!''

This thread is full of win.

One thing bothers me though: the spilled coffee in the last picture is white. Which probably means that the powder was white too.
And what did mommy tell us about white powder that has the word ''Poison'' written on the box?

Mommy said check the address to make sure it isn't from a country we're at war with cause it could be anthrax, everyone's favorite suspicious white powder.

Macadamia nut coffee from Konna Coffee has a tendancy to be much lighter then normal versions of coffee. As well as tasing about 100 times better as well. Ahhh sweet times from Kona. . . .

The humor is what keeps me coming back to this thread. Keep it up.

I like you sense of humour!

Great stuff! Can't wait to see the finished boards.

The board its self is pure win.
Its well worth whatever price your going to charge for it.
The level of detail on it is something else.
I wouldnt have the heart to put a model on it unless it was something painted by vicky lamb.


To make this even better, your sense of humor is along the same level as your skill.


Great thread and im going to have to keep an eye on this.





Also, a MOD needs to sticky this thread to the top of the forums, that way everyone gets to admire it.

AWESOME!

That's it. My feedback for the whole thread. Awesome. Except I mean it in it's truest essence, not 80's Radical way. Awesome.

Uhm, folks? He's DEAD. There will be no more updates!

Sad.

I hope MisMuse can carry on the project.

--B.

PS: Seriously? Poor tactical decision on the part of the client, killing the creator before their commission is complete. Maybe it wasn't the client, but someone jealous. Maybe it was sent by a Farseer, intent on stopping such a terrifying vision of a WARP SPAWNED HELL from reaching completion.

Will we ever know?

All I have to say to the badassery in this thred is "Tears for the Tear Goddess!"

Awsome boards, sorry to see you have passed so young.

Awsome board!

Very nice work so far, so much so that the very idea of packing this up in anything other than a mega sized foam army transport bag sends tiny shivers of horror down my spine. I have to admit I am almost more curious to see how that could possibly resullt in anything other than heart break as I am to see the completed work of beauty.

Absolutely legendary....
Teraformersurely a GOD of terrain building.
Pity that he was poisoned...


Hmm.... perhaps the sigils of the Warp he so painstakingly carved hold some power yet.
We need a Chaos sorcerer in here stat! Or at least some sort of Necromancer.
The spice must flowTHE CHAOS BOARD MUST FINISH!

Cor blimey colour me impressed. Not to mention amused.

You, sir, live up to your name. I commend your terrain building efforts, and cannot wait to see more. Also, keep up the humor, it gives this more life than just a simple blog.

Good news everyone! I have another chapter to share with you!

In our last update, we finished detailing and applying texture to all but two boards, which we’ll now be finishing up. Of the two remaining pieces, one is a “mountain” style piece with no ramp access, and one is a simple flat board, with more of those block-like shapes stuck in the ground.

Our client discussed the possibility of adding a large Khorne icon to one board, and even mentioned the possibility of seeing it glow. Sounded like a good idea to me! I’ve done a handful of pieces with lights already, and it didn’t seem like a major problem, however there were some unique challenges to overcome. First of all, the flat areas of the boards wouldn't work because they have no room to carve out a rune and light it from underneath. I chose to make the rune on the slope of the mountain board, that way it would have room for lights, texture and of course a power supply underneath.


I looked up a few different versions of the Khorne icon then chose the one that could best be translated into glowing fissures. Then chose a spot that overlapped the cliff edge, in a way that would appear as if the rune dropped out from underneath the crust, with no regard for what the surface of the planet looked like. I drew the outline with chalk, making sure to keep the form just a little natural, with cracks spreading from the points.

Just to really make sure I was ready, I re-watched The Gate.


I realized a couple of things right away. 1. This movie is a lot scarier when you’re eleven and home alone at night out in the desert. 2. It didn’t really help with this project at all. But look at that cover! isn’t that awesome?

Getting back to work, I once more unsheathed Buzzweaver, my trusty dremel that adds +1 to all Eye Injury rolls.


The cutting job on this board was very difficult, much more than the other board. complicated by the fact that I had the center portion of the icon “floating” and was forced to keep some of the cross pieces intact to support it, while allowing a channel for the light to shine through, while still preserving enough of the lattice underneath to keep the board stable.


I put a plastic backing against the far end of the rune, which I glued with good ol’ melty melty style plastic model glue, held in place with clothespins while it set, making an effective weld between the board and the curved plastic sheets. Then I began to layer cork from the underside of the rune, tying the texture in with the cliff faces, and hopefully providing a deep texture for the light source to reflect off of.


After a ludicrously long time placing bits of cork, sometimes with tweezers, I was ready to start with the actual lights. I got a pack of basic 1.7 volt red LEDs, a simple on/off switch, some assorted resistors and a 9v battery clip. Wiring LEDs is not terribly complicated, but there is a need for a resistor to keep the LEDs from burning out, and a great site that helps you put together a diagram is here.

As much as I wanted to make the lights pulse on and off slowly, I couldn’t find a cheap or simple alternative to using a micro-controller, which would have been time and cost prohibitive.


The underside wasn’t pretty, and steadily got less pretty as I added more wires and LEDs in parallel. I tucked the LEDs just out of sight from above, my plan was to illuminate the symbol with reflected light for a more eerie, baleful glow. My original plan called for 6 LEDS, and after a couple test, I quickly decided that I needed at least 9 for an even background illumination.The switch was attached through a hole off to the side of the symbol, and screwed into place. I thought about various things I could do to disguise the switch, but in the end, just a little putty around the edges and some drybrushing worked better than anything.


Job’s a good ‘un. Nothing smoking, no sparks. I did end up re-wiring the central junctions to be more secure, and covering the huge gobs of solder with electrical tape to prevent an accidental short. Now how does it look from the viewing side?


woohoo!

It was dark even with 9 LEDs because the background work-table was dark and absorbing much of the light. I planned on making a special lava-colored backing board later on that would reflect the light much better.

Now there were a few steps after this point that I ended up glossing over, because it was really just a lot more of what I did in the previous boards, hours upon hours of of blending with squadron putty, milliput, adding cork texture, crumbling ruins and the very last of my cobblestones before the mold became inexplicably brittle and gave out. Then texture and prime. The semi-finished product is up ahead.

The end of the road was in sight, I just had one more, and thank God, no cliffs to cork over. This was a flat board with squarish rocks, so in the interest of keeping it simple but part of the theme, I sketched more enigmatic runes, and then using Green Stuff, sculpted a handful of ugly faces glaring from the rocks.


I blended the faces as smooth as possible with the background “rock” so that the finished effect would look like souls trapped in stone.


I etched out the runes again with a dremel, added pavers and fallen rubble, then epoxy, texture and DONE!!

Before the epoxy had even set, I placed it with the other boards to see how they look together, and promptly ran into a new obstacle. We didn’t have an indoor table clear enough or large enough to hold all 6 pieces! I went out the the patio! It was raining!

A spotty monsoon season became the next unexpected dilemma, and for the reset of the project we often ended up waiting out short storms before we could do any further work. (Later, we would also need to do painting outside while the boards were assembled together to make sure the colors were even in natural light.)


You can see the last board, still setting up before I can prime it. The other boards are primed, with some blotchy looking areas where I double and triple primed piles of rubble and resin bits and other parts that may become loose or scraped often while handled.

After months and months of slogging through these grey monsters, we were really about to start painting!

Astounding!