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Wow Orion! I didn't think of using one of the bent bars as a pipe. Great idea. That, and your barricade idea looks super, especially using two bases to make a gun platform. cool idea.

thanks man. it's nearly done too.
i'm going to make it really orky. hence the use of a tau gun and terminator missile attachment for weapons.

Cool. mabe stick a couple boss pole bits or some such orky icons on it to make it fit the theme a little more?

yeah thats the plan.
Although i don't actually have any bosspoles i have got some ideas like an ultrmarines banner with and ork glyph painted over it ( horribly of coaurse)
and some cardboard glyphs i'm painting now.

The banner defacment idea sounds good, although i'd use heavy cardstock or plasticard instead of cardboard.

ok cool. i'm trying to find Plasticard atm but what is heavy cardstock?

i´d go for the back of paperpads you use in school, they´re pretty sturdy and can take some punishment...also you can look in shops and salvage some of the cardboard there, the stuff that bananas come in is very hard card...and thick with that you can smash someone up....


vik

I just got the thought of someone being beaten with a box of bananas.
but i just had a thought.
Do you think that plastic stuff on the front of plastic sleeve folders would do the job?

oh yeah, i use that as it is aslo quite sturdy and i use it for details an stuff. also i plan on using it for rivets as it is quite easy to use with my holepunch thing...if you can part with the folder than do it. but there are other things like food containers, the ones where tomatos and stuff gets shiped in thats also good as a plastic source, also meat packaging. if you visit next time to do shopping groceries than you can find lots of things that even have texture on them to use. choclate packaging and sweets and oh so many more...for a scracth builder there is no limit. and painted and glued it will look tens times better and your never guess it then what it was before...

vik

I have a friend that used to work at a GW store in Texas and he said the store would take sprues and grind them up in an old hand-cranked meat grinder for scree and blasted debris for the interior and adjacent exterior of CoD buildings. Was wondering if anyone else had heard of that or tired it, and if so what were the results? I haven't tried yet myself and have a lot of sprue (have always saved it for some reason, maybe this is it?)

by the stuff tomatoes get shipped in do you mean that card that the tomatoes sit on before they are wrapped in plastic together?
also just found some card it's really strong.


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that sounds like an off the hook idea. i just need a meatgrinder now.

Love your 2nd peice its so epic wish i had some more sprues , i just recycled mine

neraly finished. i just need to make the last wall and then add glyphs.
(And paint)

i do mean the plastic, looks like a pot...heck you could even use those plastic flower pts the plants come in...the black and brown ones the could make great bunkers...

vik

Can't wait to see the painted results Orion.

I just finished painting mine, just waiting for the pics to upload to dakka then i'll post them.

Great, I'm excited.
also that, Lord Marcus, is an amazing idea. and next on my to-do list.


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@lennysmash, what painting scheme did you use for the sprue. I have no idea what to do.

The mud is scorched brown-chestnut ink-graveyard earth-desert yellow-snakebite leather-bleached bone.
on top of that just a few select place is dark angels green- goblin green.

the wood is scorched brown-desert yellow-bleached bone again the greens are added to give the impression of moss or algae on the wood.

the grenade is just boltgun metal-chestnut ink-boltgun metal.

not lord marcus** Viktor.

lol^^

sorry

Oh and i forgot to mention the brown flock is actually tea leaves from dried teabags.

Wow, i just saw the pictures. i kept scrolling past them without noticing you posted them.
It looks great.
Tea leaves is a great idea.

what a cool looking terrain piece. the wooden effect you created by chipping the sprue is really good. i have to try that, really have to do that as it creates lots of athosphere...

thanks a million for sharing

vik


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tealeaves was also my intention for use s like that...

Thanks guys, as a test piece I really think it has come out well. Is there anything you think I could change or improve upon? Be honest I'm here to learn.

I can't see anything wrong with it.
also I have photos for my WIP ATM if you want to see.

what i would try is scoring a tiny bit the wooden logs to get that wooden feeling a bit further, but that might ruin it also, mybee use a wirebrush to score it...just once in one direction might do the trick....so you can then use washes better...but bear in mind it looks awsome even now, so no need to change it.

vik

I used my hobby knife to score mine, although i'm doing a gretching gun-post so it's supposed to look pretty beaten.


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http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/36344-OrionDisciple..html

here is my WIP.

Yeah for the wood, I did three thing to add a grain. In person you can make it out but the photos don't really it.

Firstly I used a file back and forth to scratch up the surface, then when I painted on the base coated it carried on working the paint for a bit. This was to purposely add the brush strokes in. Finally with the final highlight i used a technique some where between overbrushing and drybrushing to give me lines of bleached bone for the grain.

Thank you for the feedback guys, I'll take a look at you stuff now orion.

Yea I made a couple for my table. They are your basic junk piles and whatnot. Nothing fancy, but you can see that with a little effort sprues can make some really cool looking terrain.
Obviously WIP, as I never painted them lol

They look great.
Paint it up and show us.