Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Absolutely fantastic!

Are you God of Warhammer Scenarios or what??

Simply amazing. Can't wait to see the finished project.

Keep up the incredible work

S_P

You guys need medical assistance... but please... don't get it. You're work is wonderful and your blog is very, very interesting & entertaining!

Fantastic work!!! That could go in Fantasy or 40K, at this point. I love it. The bleachers are looking very interesting, by the way. I can't wait to see more.

Damn son, you are very talented. Keep up the awesome and inspiring work!

Wow.. just.. wow.. I'm speachless for the first time ina very long time

this is awesome, can't see what else you make!

visited your website imediately
you rock...

I really like it so far, maybe add a claw arm? For picking up shining stuff the dead left behind?

why dont you buil one huge mega squig with bionic parts like a bionic eye tha got a supa-dupa rokkit ont he side and some barrbed metal teeth for the ork gladiator champions to fight

And trow luke skywalker in the pit and then ... oh sorry i get carried away

These are sick, You should do a dark eldar arena in tribute to the upcoming release! I dont think I have seen a good piece of terrain for the dark pointies since they were released!!!! You sir would be the one to achieve this!
AWESOME WORK!!!!!!!

grotsrus wrote:why dont you buil one huge mega squig with bionic parts like a bionic eye tha got a supa-dupa rokkit ont he side and some barrbed metal teeth for the ork gladiator champions to fight

The squigs are coming....


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Red Corsair wrote:These are sick, You should do a dark eldar arena in tribute to the upcoming release! I dont think I have seen a good piece of terrain for the dark pointies since they were released!!!! You sir would be the one to achieve this!
AWESOME WORK!!!!!!!

Thank you so much There are so many races and styles and themes to choose from, and we love what we do so much that I sometimes get overwhelmed where to go next. I think we'll probably get to Dark Eldar after we pay regular Eldar a visit sometime in the future.

This is some amazing terrain, I love it so much, it's making me want to make some new stuff.

Great work. I love the old style ork buildings.

I'll definitely be following your blog. The work is really high quality.

How many slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Hemployees do you have, and are any doing it full-time (including yourself)?

--B.

Man, these are great! I'm going to stay tuned to this.

The temptations of commissioning you to build a trench system for my Cadians from a few Battle Board tiles is overwhelming after seeing your amazing Chaos Board.

What's the best way to begin this discussion?

I love your work Runt!!

Jaw officially dropped.

This blog looks like it has potential for quite a lot of fun things

Inspiring.

Absolutely lovely stuff from Terraformer, once again. Great work, keep it up. Can´t wait to see more.

Briancj wrote:How many slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Hemployees do you have, and are any doing it full-time (including yourself)?

--B.

There's at least two of us going at it full time, myself included. Other helpers come and go as needed, or to replace those mangled horribly or devoured by our giant, evil cursed industrial machine press in the attic. Why do we have that thing anyway?




Automatically Appended Next Post:

HungryTaz wrote:The temptations of commissioning you to build a trench system for my Cadians from a few Battle Board tiles is overwhelming after seeing your amazing Chaos Board.

What's the best way to begin this discussion?

Check our commission policy section on our website here, and drop us an E-mail at projects@3t-studios.com with the specifics of your project, including sizes of pieces(s), any other work to be included, budgetary considerations, Etc.

It may take a day or so for one of us to get back with a quote but we do respond to every E-mail. Look forward to hearing from you!

I just went through your website and erh.. will you marry me?

gretar wrote:I just went through your website and erh.. will you marry me?

I need to know the size of your dowry, your father's estate holdings and whether or not you have child-bearing hips before we can enter any kind of formal negotiations.

LOL!

Too funny!

:-)

Terraformer wrote:There's at least two of us going at it full time, myself included. Other helpers come and go as needed, or to replace those mangled horribly or devoured by our giant, evil cursed industrial machine press in the attic. Why do we have that thing anyway?

Because the Dark Lord commands it.

Seriously, congratulations on being able to build terrain/paint for a living, AND spread the work around to some stringers.

--B.

And on it goes, still no end in sight!

In our last chapter we had completed a bulk of the structural part of this project and it looked pretty good. But we couldn’t stop there, there’s just far too much potential for detail in a piece like this.



Mismuse continued to turn out piles of metal plate bits. We decided that there should be a lot of metalwork in a structure like this, plates and reinforcements on walls and around passages where large, angry beasts might be prodded through, flailing stucco-damaging appendages left and right. Also, see that bottle in the upper right corner? That's one of our shop bottles of cyno glue accelerator, more commonly known as "hurry, help quickening this while I hold these!!" I eventually glued all the bottles to heavy things or MDF bases to keep us from spilling them so damn much.



And as she made them, she passed them to me for priming, painting and rusting. Once in a while I would ask here which end was up on a plate, in order to make the rust pool in the right areas. Some plates I made with heavy rust, others only lightly rusted or just dusty.



Finished pieces were then handed back to Mismuse for attachment. The rest of the project was going to go like this, with sub-assemblies being built, painted and attached.



More pieces were being added to the outside and around walkways and seats, such as metal plates, defensible barriers and extra support beams under the bleachers, and the whole thing was really starting to come alive at this point, but this piece really needed a few more unique, eye-catching details.



Mismuse started working on a few of those details, as well as extra stairs and ladders to be attached around the structure. At this point everything is being painted and highlighted completely before being attached.

Some items, like the wooden planks in this picture were base coated black and painted in a darker, more aged looking grey/brown mix of tones to help provide contrast.



And what is this plank you ask? I asked too as Mismuse hung it from the underside of the Nob shack with a few jeweler’s eyelets. Round “nails” were pressed into the balsa as well before being highlighted. She promised it would be great and blew the dust off an old Ork codex.



She also began to work out placement for the various cages at this point.

“That cage is upside-down.” I pointed out.

She gave me one of her trademark looks and then explained to me that she was still working on the tops of the cages, and won’t close them up until they’re “occupied”. I backed away slowly lest something else “accidentally” get destroyed.



And then back to the planks. Aha! Her plan becomes clear now! The Orkish glyphs say “SKOR” I believe, and from the looks of things, the last game didn’t go so well for the humies.



Next was my turn to make something special, and I chose to make a pole with a spotlight and megaphone speaker. Of course the spotlight was going to really work, do you really need to ask? I went out and purchased a bright white 5mm LED, then came back and started rummaging in our vast stores of bits. I found the reflector cap from the inside of a toy flashlight, it was already the right shape and size and had a reflective coating inside, perfect!



I made a cross-piece on a wooden dowel, then started jamming pieces together. The LED was glued to a small piece of plasticard with two holes for the wires out the back, then glued into the reflector after adding metal plate lines and rivets. A couple of chopped styrene tubes made a good looking piece of conduit out the back. I made sure to note and mark which wire was positive too, I would need to know later for when I wire the resistors.



I fashioned the loudspeaker out of a resin bit I had, with the end of a zoid gun inside. Once assembled I tested the location and then satisifed that it would work out, I finished the rivets, primed and painted it.



After it was painted, I weathered and rusted the whole thing. The megaphone was painted to look like chipped off-white paint using masking fluid. I made a wire coming out the back, but unlike the cables for the spotlight, the speaker wire was just decorative. I thought long and hard, and decided not to try to make it an actual working loudspeaker. (It would require making Ork figures with real working electronic voice boxes, and that was just a whole new can of worms I didn’t want to open.)

That’s where I leave off for this update, tune in next time to see yet more tedious detail work!

Woof! Love all the little details Terra, that pole with the electronics on it is really sweet. It's amazing how you and Mismuse work so well together to make such masterful creations. Though I'm sure a healthy respect for/fear of her building/demolishing skills helps.