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yeah,

SilverMK2 wrote:Are the full size pipe pictures on your site? Also, if you can give me the dimensions of the canal I can put the correct size on the images so they will print off accurately without having any waste.

yeah they are at http://www.cut-out-and-keep.com/Concrete/index
The visable clear areas are;

Straight sections
11¼" long and 2½" wide

Corner sections
4¾ long and 2½" wide

Although I think a extra ¼" each way will make make mounting them easier as they wont need to be perfectly lined up. also black backgrounds would mean that looking 'under the edge' wont show up the white background.

I Think the ratio of my drain photos is correct.
I just adjust the print size when printing.

SilverMK2 wrote:Will also see if I can do the corner sections if you give me the dimensions.

I'm going to make some corner designs today
(and I'll make designs to pre-empt a possible T section and Cross road! I can hope!)

I just noticed that they have the canal ends online now...
Extras already! s6 are on the ball!

I'll be wanting some of these.

Panic...

Whoa, the canals turned out allot better than I anticipated - Good job! I wonder if s6 will ever do "reservoir" sections that the canals feed from. It would be great for objective games; imagine a Nurgly infected one - you'd have to cut off the canals before the taint of Nurgle is spread all throughout the city!

Anyway, you need some model ducks for this project, too. Perhaps you could use a giant rubber duck and spray it red, like a greater duck of Khorne or something.

The background pipe pictures need to be darker IMHO, but otherwise they're looking good.

This looks a lot better than I thought it would from seeing it on their website. Great job with the rusty drain idea. Very neat.

These look gorgeous - I'd initially dismissed them but with those textured underneath they come to life.

How wide are they? I want to know if they're the a good size for Epic.

Hey Panic,

Nice thread. Also thanks for the link to your artwork. These look really good, may get me a set too!

That is just with some shadowing/lighting, no extra features. Let me know if you like it and I will add the effects on to the other images.

Will also do a few more designs for the concrete canal system, in case people want less grungy canals

Also, this image is about 3.8meg, so let me know if I can save it in a lower resolution

yeah,
thanx,
I think the dark side looks good but I'm not so sure about the bright side.

I'll do a test later to see how it looks.

Panic...

Wasn't sure about the plastic but works out pretty nice.. clean and crisp... although for any liquid like canal or sewage you cannot beat varnish

yeah,
I didn't get no warhams done at the week end, too much drinking.. :sadtimes:

But, I recieved a few extra bits from Scott s6 on Monday.
1x corner and 1x straight with bridge (these are convertion fodder to make a T junction)
2x canal ends.
Plus - I requested some offcuts of the green plastic from Scott with my last order, which he kindly provided.

The offcuts are for varnish and texture tests, I want to see if I can create a water surface effect. The plan is to spray GlossVarnish through FishNet stocking type material.
Although when I recieved the off cuts, I saw one could be used in the T-Junction converstion which spared the extra straight from the knife... for now!

And work was restarted on the canals again, I've now assembled all the grey sections.
I scuffed all the plastic both sides with a medium sandpaper. This is to allow the glue and paint to bond better with the plastic.

I used this plastic glue, Note this is not PolyCement the package describes it as being useful for hard plastics and has a picture of a kettle on it.
I've never heard of the brand 'bision' but the discription says bonds acrylics so seemd a better choice than super glue.
So far no issues with it. Seemed to be dry within 5 mins, pacakage says to leave over night.

(Scott, if your reading this, your probabilbly going to hate this bit, but when you release a modeling product...
Your going to have to accept that some people are going to bastardise it!...sorry)

Next I started dremeling the edges of the canals...
Here you can compare the damaged and worn canals next to the nice and new versions.


some more photos of the dremeled edges




I couldn't help but have a play around with my set to see what layouts I could Make.
2x starter sets
2x road bridges
2x canal ends
1x extra straight,
1x extra corner piece (converted to a T-junction)
totals £103 not bad!


(x1 canal end not used)

So 4 sections still need dremeling and then I can get on with undercoating and painting these badboys.

Panic...

Dear Nurgle Sludge.
Would be a full time boner to play on that board, esp. when you finish this.

I really like the weathering with the Dremel, and that photo under is real good too.

I'm going to have to start saving up the terrain fund at the FLGS to get some sets of this and the roads and other such goodness that s6 makes.

Wow, nice one, Panic! You made those cool looking terrain pieces even cooler looking!

Panic wrote:

I like this one!


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Panic wrote:(Scott, if your reading this, your probabilbly going to hate this bit, but when you release a modeling product...
Your going to have to accept that some people are going to bastardise it!...sorry)

Next I started dremeling the edges of the canals...
Here you can compare the damaged and worn canals next to the nice and new versions.

Love the damage. I like lots of weathering myself but I deliberately didn't put any on the pieces so that people could add their own. There's nothing worse than "random" effects that repeat over multiple pieces. I really wish that GW would remove the patchwork plates from their ork stuff (especially the battlewagon) and just give you a bunch of loose plates instead.

ETA, the special glue is not neccessary - superglue makes a decent bond and all the pieces are designed so that the bond isn't tested too hard. However a hard plastic glue or a proper acrylic solvent will weld them together really strongly (the acrylic solvent in particular is 100% permanent, be warned!)


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Curis wrote:How wide are they? I want to know if they're the a good size for Epic.

I don't want to hi-jack Panic's thread so I've repeated your question on my news thread.

yeah,
I've not had much hobby time lately but I've got a update.
Today I finished the dremiling... that took much longer than planned as I missed lots of edges first time around, now they are ready for Paint!
Plasti-Koat;


Plasti-Koat BlackPrimer & BlackMatt for the stone work. - - - - Plasti-Koat TerracottaPrimer & OrangeMatt for the Bridges




All primed up and ready for Paint, Inks and Powders...
I still have to print off the canal beds but the end is in sight...

Panic...

Ha! I wondered when you'd get back to us on this project... It seems to have been well worth the wait! Good to see paint on 'em. Weathering will really make all of the dremeling and detail pop out. Are you going for a rust finish on the bridges?

yeah,
Rusty metal bridges... not sure if I'll put a pealing second colour ontop yet...
but if it's plain rusty they should end up something like this guys back pack.

Panic...

It's looking good. Can't wait to see them finished.

This is looking really cool, Panic! I like how you wore out the tiles and all. I'm looking forward to seeing it all painted.

yeah
Paint update.
I sprayed the canals with GW RoughCoat to add extra texture, then I dry brushed with two shades of grey mixed up using cheap artshop acrylic.


The RouchCoat looks good...


next I fine lined the details using a custom mix.
40% water,
40% devlan mud,
20% chaos black.






next I need to use some brown and maybe green washes... then powders.
then bridges.

Panic...

These are interesting !

I missed the update.....oops.

They are looking good...the dremmel work was worth it, now seeing them with a base coat. Brings them to life. Looking forward to the next stage.

You used GW rough coat....where did you buy it or have you had it for a while?

Peter

That green plastic Idea with the pics underneath is cool. I do prefer your own photos to the space hulk tiles. More realisticly canal like. Are you going to photoshop the corner sections?

yeah,
Today I got a bunch more paint onto the canals.
I got all the inking done.





I wasn't sure about the green ink... but it's done now.




I'll probabily get the under water prints done this week and call this project done... and get the first game on!

PAnic..

Looks good

Very nice. Those have come a long way. The set looks fantastic. I can't wait too see a bat-rep on there.

That's really cool... Thanks for sharing! I can't wait to see them with other models too. Don't sweat about the green - in a galaxy of a million worlds, I'm sure that it's more than possible. I think that it looks good.

Looking forward to a battle report then.

yeah,
So I got the canal prints done last night.
ArbitorIan came around with his Slaanesh Marines for the first game!
I hadn't got the backs glued down so we threw together a quick layout of prints then put the canals ontop.

I was happy with the look.
We hit a few rules issues, which i think We'll sort out before the next game.

Bat Rep to Follow in the next couple of days.

Here's some photos from the game!












That's this Blog pretty much finished until s6 releases junctions and cross roads?!

Panic...

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Ok I've Also attached the Drain Prints that I made.
I put them two to a page (to save paper!).

Have to say I love the weathering you have done to these sections.