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That is so grim
I'll be having nightmares but a really helpful image thanks MoD!
The flynetting looks very useful so will probably order some, if the Anonymous Hackers will let me!
The problem with the garlic netbag is that it is distorted from a flat plane. The fly net will be better to use.
Looked for ages the other night for something suitable! If only I had thought of that!

Thanks Robot.
Will try and do so.
Here are some concepts for gangers meantime.

Nice artwork mate, was also looking for more inspirational pics of necro style terrain, and found these not mine..


and this from one of my fav movies Dark city. i think these guys are very delaque

Not seen Dark City.
will check it out thanks

You will probably know these Pirenasi Caceri prints but worth seeing anyway:

Wow they are beautiful , never seen them before , thanks man , they really capture an essence of the underhive, gonna google him now, cheers

i'd suggest going into a DIY store and taking a look at the plastic tubing and polystyrene bits a lot of its very good for this type of stuff and far cheaper than the made for modelling stuff.

Thanks Llama.

I have no transport and there are no easily accessible DIY stores where I live any more :(
But not to worry. Am a bit of a Womble so can be quite resourceful.

Made a quick ladder last night just to see how it might look.


After a rummage for a suitable mould to put the clay in I found an pair of compasses' box, which is a much better depth. Also had a brainwave to use some clingfilm to make it easier to get the clay pressing out of the box in one piece.

The ladder is simply GW sprue glued to some plastic card.
I levelled off the clay using the metal rule, and inserted the ladder. The rule was again used to get a level pressing. The Lid worked well also and left a nice groove either side which was an unexpected bonus.



Left the moulding to dry off a tad then removed from the compass box tray. The cling film worked a treat.
left it to dry out then added some cut and bent paper clips for the rungs.


Used some GW sprue as a spacer for the rungs to project equally from the concrete.
Also added rails at the top.

What do you think guys?
Am quite happy with this though will probably make some simpler ladders too.
My only concern with the two I have started is that they are made of Das which doesn't fire or get as haed as the polymer clays, which I shall try and get tomorrow as am out of Das clay now anyway.

WOW they look Fantastic! right i am nicking that idea! so simple yet so effective, thanks for showing how you made the ladders i have never moulded anything before, but these look great ! and simple. imo i think they look more 40k than the ones in the kits! not sure what you could use for a walkway if your still planning on doing that though.. will have a think.

Thanks Neil
Just remember to avoid undercuts.

Hopefully will get some Fimo polymer clay tomorrow
and see how that works.

oh please do show us what you can acomplish with fimo for wargaming...i´ve lots of that suff liing around the house...

the ladders look super cool, i love them...they look the absolute real deal...aslo i think your first try looks very scenic and the brokne steps are very authenic looking...

vik

The ladder is looking pretty cool. A great method of construction.

Not been able to do anything recently
Failed to get Fimo at the weekend so ordered some from an ebay seller.
Who then claims the snow is still disrupting distribution, which is not good as more is on the way this week.

too tired to do any drawings but have some ideas for figures.
Hope I don't forget before getting them down

cool mate, thanks for the info on that artist by the way , i love his other romantic italian ruins as well , i particullarly like his bridges and viaducts!

Thanks Neil
Gratifying to think it that it was inspirational.
From the sublime to the ridiculous...

Bought some drinking straws today for 49 pennies.
"And but so?" I hear you say derisively, "What of it other than they are in lurid florescent plastic?"

Ah but they are a metre long!
Goodness how the bloody hell you are supposed to drink out of anything other than a bucket or a swimming pool with them, but I thought they might make for good pipes!

ah but i hope they do not have them bendy things...i remeber a dire thread about a very strong discussion about that particular subject...

but for using them on long distances: good find^^

vik

1mtr bloody hell. i want, i want, i want the straws of the giants!

No they are straight Vik
The lack of bendy things is why I can't figure out how you can actually drink using them.
Unless the drink is on the floor and you stand over it.

I was thinkong that the pipes could run under the walkways. What do you reckon?

am afraid I must confess to being heavily involved with that discussion
I would fill the zig-zags with filler tbh

under the walkways and along the walls i´d say good sir...i would however do the occaisonal joints so to break up the too long and thus boring getting look...
not directly what i had in mind but close:



vik

that's the idea Vik. Possibly "hanging" from underneath

yep exactly^^ that would make the whole thing much more sewerlike...

vik

Quick update:
Have finished making a couple of ladders.
They are still a bit soft because of te type of air drying clay used, but after a couple of coats of Klear the surface has bound pretty well and should be ok.

Just thinking about how best to attach to walls and allow rotation of the wall sections. magnets maybe.

Energy levels after much needed housework allowing hope to start a few pipe insertions *oo-er* as a break from rung making

Hey dude....arrrgggghhhhhh Saturday morning house work.

To catch up....I love the Delaque concept sketches.

The ladder is clever and looks good... excellent use of paper clips.

To connect the ladders magnets would work but since you are using polystyrene maybe just have some pins in the back of the clay which you can push into the walls as and where you see fit? (that might damage the building over a period of time though).

How can you not have enough energy for pipe insertion...we want to see a good pipe insertion (I reckon we (the Dakka community) can keep this going for a couple of pages )

Peter

We have to think about the kids Peter.
I don't want to cause blood shed at the library.
We don't really care if the kids hurt themselves or not, it's the subsequent paperwork we like to avoid!

I was thinking of pinning covered by a small diameter tube to cover the metal
Then inserting some tubing into the polystyrene to protect the otherwise fragile hole.
hope that makes sense.

Ah yes I forgot about the Children...I often forget about children. Or at the very least avoid them....shame my job involves lone parents I understand about avoiding paperwork and I imagine, having avoided it thus far, that dismembered children involve a lot of paperwork.

When I said pin I didn't actually mean pin just the act of pinning. Depending on the weight of the clay paper clips would make fine 'pins'. Your idea is kinda what I was thinking.

Peter

That is how I interpreted it Peter, but bare prongs still might catch someone. You just have to cover yourself these days.

Not like when I were a lad.
Teachers would regularly poke knitting needles in our ears if they thought we weren't paying attention.

And sometimes they would do it just for fun

Magnets would be the easiest allround solution imo. i have seen a few online stores that sell the tiny ones for modeling , i am sure a batch of these would come in handy.

our teachers used to throw chalk when we got lucky...a whole set of keys when we were not so lucky and the ocaisonal pulled ear as a short version of a enpasent get-told...

vik

Brutal spontaneous and oft unjustified physical abuse from ones' elders.
Ah! Happy days!

lol...nothing to add there^^...exept do you refer to being the elder or the the receiving one?

Chalk ? CHALK? You lucky beggars, blackboard rubbers were the minimum we could expect to get hurtled our way in most of our classes.

Never did us any harm. Hhhnnnnn, ahh the voices, not the voices again.....

why do i get the strange feeling i will see a monty vid in the close future?

ever nutted a keyring with lots of heavy keys on it? well that was something we looked forward to...rubber...tststs... still wet behind yer ears ye are and callin schoollife difficult, are ye? Lucky are ye...thats what ye are