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Completely agree with Gits, everything I've seen in this thread was like

Now THAT is some terrain!

It would be a pleasure to game on that stuff!

Looks really good. Keep making Terrain.

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

I went a little crazy yesterday. The boy pointed out that I had taken over the living room for the last few days, so I decided one last mega-push to finish building this beast was needed. It's not just the complex that takes up room, its all the tools and several bits boxes laying about. rather than down-scale to work on just one section at a time back on my easel, I decided an all-day building fest was what was needed, so I that's what I did.

In order to speed things up, I started the day by making a primed bits box, and painting everything that was needed on the treatment plant, so I could just add primed bits and not have to stop to paint either the added bits or the base.



as you can see, I primed up the last of my drywall edging, (there's eight feet total on the complex, I ran out halfway through the day and had to improvise!) small wooden squares and rods, PVC tubes elbows and fiddly bits, smaller pipes, two gauges of yard cloth, and a crazy straw for good measure. I also dug out some of my black sheet styrene, and cut up a 12"x12" piece.

for what its worth, the box was completely cleared out by two in the afternnoon.

I started building after everything was ready.

First up, the main water tank. I've decided that the Water treatment plant is the home of my anchient Wierdboy Warphead, "The Gribbler." Only a Weirdboy and his Madboys would build this thing. The water tank is currently holding a nurgle daemon that The Gribbler has trapped and bound. I'll add the nurgle details later.



I then just started making my way around the complex, adding detail and scaffolding as needed. I added a huge ladder to the back of the whole thing.













By the time I reached the back right of the complex, I had ran out of everything I was back to priming stuff up by hand. you can see I also had to improvise making the catwalks out of yard cloth, I had ran out of my cool drywall pieces.



I like the metal bits, dont get me wrong, they're just really hard to make, very time consuming. I wish I had mixed in more metal throughout, ah well.

At this point, I was done with the main building, so I was able to transfer the treatment plant back to the easel for final details and painting. I haven't photographed the last layer of details, as I was working on it right up till bedtime. I figure I'll just wait on it, it will make the final set of pictures cooler.

One thing I have decided to do is take a little more time on last looks for the model. It came out better than I thought it would, so I dont see any good reason to scrimp on detail that will just push the wow factor up. I'm gonna add a lot more rivets, take a little more time then usual on the paint, and adda bit more damage to the entire thing.

On top of all that, I want to add the details that will lock it in as The Gribblers and Madboyz hideout. I know this isn't the forum for background, so I'll just mention whats needed to explain some of the details I'm gonna add to the complex.

To start, I want one side of the main building to have The Gribblers personal icons. I sketched it out, traced it, and taped it down to a sheet of styrene. After I cut the pieces out I'll sculpt up the detail, then glue it to the building.



The glyphs basically explain that he is a Snakebite, but all of his clan was wiped out. He is ferral, old, and will kill you with his mind. He also currently has pleged his allegience to the Crooked Arrow clan.

Thats where I'm at, thanks for looking!

Fantastic! Wow! That's seriously cool.

Oh no, I have missed two pages of a completely awesome thread. At least I found it now. I love all of your work.
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Fantastic terrain, and its awesome that you get to enjoy the hobby with your lad. Keep up the good work

Very inspiring work And Fido is great, a very nice sculpt!

That design the drew out is really impressive in its self, are you going to use it as a stencil?

Gitsplitta wrote:Fantastic! Wow! That's seriously cool.

high praise coming from you, thanks a bunch!

Flying Pooo wrote:Oh no, I have missed two pages of a completely awesome thread. At least I found it now. I love all of your work.
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Thanks! you wont miss any more of the action packed wackiness! on the plus side, all this is really practice for some crazy stuff I have planned for the winter holiday, so you haven't missed much!

Eeps wrote:Fantastic terrain, and its awesome that you get to enjoy the hobby with your lad. Keep up the good work

I do love puching around some figures and rolling dice with him. we played two 320 point combat patrol games down at the friendly non-local hobby store the other day, it was a blast. we both won a game, go Orks boo marines! (I say non-local because theres no gamestore within fifty miles of my home. )

ergotoxin wrote:Very inspiring work And Fido is great, a very nice sculpt!

yeah, damn fido is stealing too much thunder, I gotta step up my terrain game to beat him. either that, or just sculpt terrain, haha.

bigfish wrote:That design the drew out is really impressive in its self, are you going to use it as a stencil?

I was going to make a stencil at first, but it's so large that I decided to go with a sculpture.

Here is the sculpted up glyphplates, skull, and crooked arrow.




I call it my "ode to early nineties Warhammer art." seriously, everydrawing from then had these huge teeth in odd grins. I love it!

I was really close to being done, so I made out a list of everything that was needed. I realized I would need six more doors, and a bit more scaffolding with rigging. I also made up a ton of glyphplate "blanks" to add stencil glyphs to later. lastly I primed everything, and got it ready to glue on.



I also added the vines, more damage, terrain rocks, way too many rivets, and a few more ladders.

I'm not taking anymore WiP pictures, i worked on it through the weekend, and it's about halfway done with the final layer of paint. I should have a full set of pictures up by Wednsday.

Again, thanks to everyone for looking and commenting. I always look to the community at large when doing big projects like this, either for corrections when I'm headed the wrong way, or kind words that spur me on to complete the goal.

Next update; the big reveal!

This has been a great blog. Very inspiring. I keep wanting to build some orkish terrain, and these posts have only spurred me on! Curses and kudos to you for that, good sir!

I am truly impressed with your sculpting skills. Have you considered making molds and casting some of your work? Your doors and panels have great detail that would make for an easy mold and with a little practice you could field an army of enlarged squiggly beasts! Anyways I love your work...

Wow, that's all looking crazy awesome!

I am so glad that there's another Ork player who actually uses Proppa Orky writtin! Everyone's always paintin' "WAAAGH!!" on their stuff, when it should be the Skull gliph that means Waaagh!! Or, you know, just usin' the writin stuff.

epic sculpting skills

Way kool!

Your terrain is outstanding, you should make more of the smaller pieces for commission!

nice squigly beast!

GrimTeef wrote:This has been a great blog. Very inspiring. I keep wanting to build some orkish terrain, and these posts have only spurred me on! Curses and kudos to you for that, good sir!

well, get to it, and post pictures!!!

Depraved wrote:I am truly impressed with your sculpting skills. Have you considered making molds and casting some of your work? Your doors and panels have great detail that would make for an easy mold and with a little practice you could field an army of enlarged squiggly beasts! Anyways I love your work...

I'm still getting the hang of casting, so if I'm going to cast something it has to take more time to mass produce then it does to cast. I hammered out those six doors in about an hour, if I made them all castable it would take forty hours, so easy call for me!

As for casting in general, we will see. Earlier in the thread I posted pics of a bunker I'm sculpting up to cast, so we will see how that goes. I will say though, an army of giant squigs is appealing!

The Good Green wrote:Wow, that's all looking crazy awesome!

Thanks!

Anvildude wrote:I am so glad that there's another Ork player who actually uses Proppa Orky writtin! Everyone's always paintin' "WAAAGH!!" on their stuff, when it should be the Skull gliph that means Waaagh!! Or, you know, just usin' the writin stuff.

I'm still getting the hang of how I want my glyphs to look, I have a combo of stencils and sculpts on this one. I like the sculpts more, but the stencil ones do have a nice "slapped together" lazy look for Orks.

bigfish wrote: epic sculpting skills

Thanks! It helps that I sculpt for both a hobby and a job, haha.

Matt.Kingsley wrote:

Way kool!

Again, thanks a bunch!

Joker58 wrote:Your terrain is outstanding, you should make more of the smaller pieces for commission!

commision work gives me hives, Warhammer players are the pickiest clients I've EVER worked for. As I improve my skills and run out of storage I might sell off earlier pieces. (or donate to the FLGS.)

Remulus wrote:nice squigly beast!

Damn squig stealing all the terrain thunder!!

Well no more, for I have complete the water treatment plant!!





































All-in-all I'm pretty happy with it. There's a few points I wish I had done different, but I learned an absolute TON working on it so no complaints here. For me it's the trade of detail versus time, if I had sunk the detail into it that I did on my Blasta-Bomma, I would only be about a quarter of the wat done with it.

Anyhow all questions, comments, and hate posts are appreciated, and thanks for looking!

Wow that is awesome!
I really like the rust effect and the creeper vines.

Really love the Skull and the glyphs! And ditto on the vines! Really nice! Great use of spare parts and stuff. I have never done scenery, but this may just inpire me to start! Way to go!

Only water coming out of that will be black, very well done

Brilliant

That looks great, some nice details, but nothing that detracts from use as a gaming piece. The first pic was just 'wow, look at that.'

You'll have to put up some reports when you play on it.

Holy ! That's amazing! It's orky, yet industrialized. It's huge, yet it could easily be used in gameplay. That building is amazing! Congrats on finishing it; I could never possibly hope to complete a project that large.

Dang, everyone else has already said what sould be said. Awesome, epic, super....

My favorite orky terrain so far and you have made me want to have a dabble in sculpting

Exalting this thread, now I have seen what you can do, I don't want to miss another update!

Cain

Excellent work!

Oh, forgot this...

I'd love to see all your terrain on one board...

Iranna.

Have to say you have created some pretty damn awesome stuff here - very impressed

Great job on all I've seen so far.

Suggestion on the painting for the treatment plant, though- take your paint-cleaning water, after it's been used for about a week or so, put the plant in the tub or on a rag, and drizzle the dirty water over the top, as though it were raining on it. That way you'll have drips and puddles and such all over the walls and walkways, breaking up the semi-solid color you have going on there.