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Looking really good! Kinda makes me want to get out my imperial city and build something.

Acrux wrote:Heya Rhich, ( Jim here )
It's looking pretty good so far. The tiles seem to have come out nicely.

I really like the little bit of brick work you've done so far. Are you planning to do more of this? I'm wondering if there is an efficient way to make lots of those little bricks. Don't know what they cost, but I could see that becoming pretty expensive.

Can't wait to see some more.

The bricks are from Army Painter I think, I bought them a while ago (3 packs) because I was originally was going to do bits of blasted brick walls for my bases. I didn’t think the bags where that expensive for the amount of bricks you got per bag. I ended up only doing three walls for one Stealth Team and the rest got put in a container and put with the rest of my “supplies” until this project came along.
There will be a couple more brick walls on the right side and a few on the left side. First wall was a pain because there was a “learning curve” but I suspect the walls I need to do, especially knowing how many now, will go rather quickly…. Sucky part is each brick it placed one at a time…. The bricks themselves are easy to trim and shape.



Thanks to Stretch we have now figured out who makes the bricks…. It was so long ago I’ve since put them in a jar because I bought three or so bags of them…..
There from pegasus hobbies.






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Stretch wrote:Looking really good! Kinda makes me want to get out my imperial city and build something.

I wish I had one more Imperial City..... running low on a couple panels and this was four kits !!!!

I bought the sector and the city box (the limited release really big one) with the intentions of building a city fight table. Dang now the itch is really starting to set in. Crap, now its time to hit the drawing board again. At least I will have something to keep me busy while I recover from knee surgery on the 25th. Good luck with this build! Can't wait to see more

DAng !! this is going to be awesome if its finished !!

I soo wanna build a city of death now.

I really like the buttresses!

What are you going to do with the rest of the "tower" section?

The tower will be pretty much un-damaged. I just haven’t built it all up yet because I’m trying to get the actual floor figured out.
What is planned for the very top of the tower is another 6”+ scaffolding for the communications dish (and a great place to get troops) + I am hoping to get at least the front lit up with LED’s so I will be also placing a solar collector 3” X 1.5” which I am going to power everything.
Today I got the general landscape situated and primed….. I’ll start getting the catacombs put together and running wires.
I hope to start laying out the next two panels (the left & right walls) tonight.

Hey guys, just for the record, this is my very first piece of terrain so any suggestions would be welcome !!!!

Looking impressive really like the train idea! Great for an ACW blow the bridge up mission....

I like how you got that rocky look its pretty realistic.

Looking awesome Rhich, I'm getting excited to play on it. Is anyone else building terrain for the BftS?

Jim (the guy from Winsted) is doing a whole table in a Warmachine theme....
I'm doing the 40K table & Max painted up the train cars (which came out sweet)

Right now I'm doing the lower level because the dam paint isn't drying fast (damp here because of all the rain) I have heaters on it, so I can get back to it tomorrow.

Balard wrote: Is anyone else building terrain for the BftS?

I'm building terrain again this year for BftS. I won't be doing 40k stuff this year though, I'm building the warmachine table. A couple other guys from Base Camp are putting together stuff as well. I was hoping to get a thread going for my project but my camera seems to have disappeared. If I can find it I'll start a thread with some pics.

Acrux,
Use that pretty phone of yours with all the fancy toys
You working on yours tonight? I didn't go to BC tonight so I could get the basement close to finished on mine, right now watching paint dry... which sucks.

I want one.

I got a fair bit done on mine today. I tried taking some pics on my phone but they really don't come out all that well. I'll just have to keep searching..

I'm working on the piping and chemical tanks in the basement (not my basement) and the bigger pipes. Also gravel and debris. I expect most of it pretty much finished tonight.
For some reason this paint isn’t drying…..
I've also got to get the wires in place to put one or two lights in the basement or all this detail won't even been seen.

Definitely looking good Rhich. Were you planning on adding any lights at all to this, or has that ship sailed with the deadline approaching?

Not 100% on lights at the moment, I was getting ready to install the emergency lights in the catacombs and had everything pretty much ready then found the wire I bought isn’t the right wire. I’m going to try and return it tomorrow because the label on the spools is correct but the wire isn’t, only problem is I bought it like 8 months ago and I doubt I have the receipt.
Only 4 lights for this part so I might still be OK as far as getting at least that done.
Its little “hick-ups” like this that really set me off….
Well it’s 1AM and I made a little progress anyway…. Paint is taking its own sweet time drying which didn’t help. I was hoping to have the catacombs finished today with paint & debris so I could lay the floor down and start on the ground floor...

This looks great! very well done,subscribed!

The battles that will go down on that staircase...Let alone that building...will be epic.
I look forward to seeing where it goes.

Cant wait till its done

Neconilis:
The Adeptus Mechanicus showed up this afternoon and we ran a “test” of the emergency lighting in the catacombs today, although dim it does provide enough lighting to find your way around.
Due to enemy operations in the area electrical service has been severed so solar back up of emergency lighting kicks in



I should of gone with a yellow or brighter white but these LED’s are what I have an abundance of.
The solar panel will keep 50 LED’s lit (with battery) for about 1 hour.

Thats soo cool

Damn and i thought i used a lot of scenery for the back of my imperator. This one is officially subscribed XD

This will make a great centerpiece! What are they going to do with it after the tourney? It's pretty colossal...

Keep up the good work! Subscribed!

Cheers,
Rawson

oO
I can't wait to see how this will continue.
great work so far.
keep it up!

Wow... Dude.

That's going to look amazing when it's done. :O

A couple of quick shots of the tower coming together, It’s starting to get to big for taking pictures without showing the whole world what a mess my basement is.
The scaffolding is for the satellite communications dish and beside it will be where the solar panel will go, there will still be enough room for some troops should someone want a good sniper position.
Catacombs 90% completed now just had to do some touch up to the walls and once that dries I can paint and secure the ground floor…..

ZOMBIES!!!!!!

That is huge, will you be able to get it out of the basement?