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Hi everyone.

I thought about posting this in the Blogs section however as it's such a small project and I'm intending it to be a step by step approach to a piece of scenery I thought I'd post it in here.

If the powers that be disagree with me, feel free to shift this to a more appropriate forum.

I've had this idea to do a piece of scenery around the space marine statue since the honoured imperium kit came out.

I've seen similar pieces of scenery made by others however this is my take on it with instructions.

The only reason it is not all in one post is that I'm waiting on extra wall sections.

I'll start this with the ingredients I'm using on this project.


This is my start. It is a piece of backing board to an old wardrobe I had. It is 3mm thick plywood however any thin basing material will do. This is 12" square.


I had purchased 3 sheets of this material a few years ago for a project at the time and had never used it (or completed the project).
It is 0.5mm moulded styrene. I'll use this for the pathways leading up to and around the statue.


Here you can see my honoured imperium statue without any conversions.


This is my scenery bits box from which I'll be using the wall sections from the sanctum imperialus kit as a boundary wall for the park.


Here you can see my planning stage of how it will all fit together. I wanted it to be on a 12" square base as this would tie in with the rest of my COD scenery. You can see the lines of where the paths, walls and grass will be. This will leave a 1" gap around the edges that I will make foot path like this:



You can see the lines marking the boundaries better in this.

I decided to make it a 2" path around the statue.


This is where I'm up to so far. I've sprayed the statue with GW roughcoat and also sprayed it black with GW chaos black.

I'll update soon.

***Updates***

The next stage for me while I'm waiting on more wall sections coming from a well know internet shopping type place is to complete the plynth and make a start on the outside walls with what I have at the moment.

For the plynth I decided to make this the height of the wall sections by the width of the statues base.



I used 1mm styrene for this which you can pick up at most hobby places.

The beauty of this stuff is that you can just score and snap it. It doesn't need to be too neat at this stage as nearly all of this will be covered by wall sections.



I also used the markings on the board to give myself a guide as to right angles for this.

This shows the base assembled and also how I got the measurements for it:



Now that I had my basic plynth I now had to dress it.

I decided to use the same wall sections That I was using for the outside walls.

This did leave me with a bit of a problem though as the wall sections were a bit shorter than the plynth:



This would mean that I would need to fill in the gaps with cut wall sections.



This pic shows how I got the right size to keep the pattern consistent on the wall. On each wall section there is a rivet at the bottom of the wall by lining the up with the bit of embossing on the wall this gave me the perfect size.



Once again I just scored and snapped these wall sections as I can neaten up the rough edge by the blade.



One completed plynth wall section.

You can see it here as well as the first of the completed outside wall sections:



More updates soon.


***Updates***

I got a bit more done today.

I decided, as I had run out of wall sections, that I would get as much done as possible until the wall sections arrive.

All I can now do is complete the paving.

Cutting the sytene - score and snap again:



The paving around the statue:



Where I'm up to:



The bare wood section between the outer wall and the inner paving will have grass in them in the finished model.

The walls and paving are all glued down using PVA glue.

***Small Update***

As the weather has been fairly bad in the UK with lots of snow lately and our postal service has seemed to stop working or are clearing their backlog, I'm still without the wall sections required to complete the build on this. At the same point this has left me more time to add some detail to the base. I didn't want the garden to look pristine as after all it is from the war torn age of 40k and the rest of my COD scenery is suitably battle scarred.



I am lazy and a hoarder at heart. So rather than make the craters myself I had a rake around my 40k stuff. I found these out in my garage. I'm fairly sure they were released way back when (I found them in the original plastic space marines box).



I decided to make three off them and at the same time make some slabs that have been blasted up by the impact. You can see these sitting on the base board. I cut these from the original molded styrene sheets off cuts and glued four of them together to give them a bit of depth.



You can see the slabs in place in the garden in this photo. I'm intending on putting basing material on the craters as I'm wanting a bit more fine detail on them. They are fine to give me the basic shape though.

More updates soon once the elusive wall sections arrive.

**Update**

The elusive wall sections arrived and so did Christmas.

As I had already started on the damage to the statue I needed to finish these. This took me over the holidays.

Here's where I'm up to:





The other side.



An overhead view

and finally a close up.



I've taken the pointed corners off the statue base wall sections as I thought there was too many points. I'm thinking of adding in the small eagle statues that you get in the building kits.

Thoughts?

**Update**

I trimmed the pointy corners off the statue plinth corners and decided to replace them with these:



I had a few of them lying around but they were too tall so I trimmed the stem down a bit.

Here you can see them on the plinth. One has been blown down by the explosions.



I've also added GW basing all around the outside of the walls (I'll paint this like tarmac) and also across the craters to represent soil.





I also added some more detail to the battle damaged section of the plinth. I added medium and light slate from the 40k basing kit to represent the blasted plaster section from the plinth. I also added some more splash damage to the statue to make it blend in a bit more with the damaged sections around it.



That's it pretty much for now. I'm almost ready to give all the sand and slate another watered down coat of PVA to seal it all before painting.

I'm open to suggestions before I do this though.

I've already identified something I want to change before I do.



If you look closely you can see how half of the slabs are split along the inner square where I cut them. I'm going to cut these slabs out and replace them.

Anything else?

Hate to disapoint, but I can't see any of these images...

Working on it.




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I've tried changing them all back to images however they are not displaying.

Any ideas anyone? Or am I just being thick.

I'm posting them the same way that I always have.

Hi Bro
Would have been better imho if you had uploaded to an image hosting site and posted the pics dirctily into the blog.


anyhoo is the statue going on a plinth?

I'm hosting them on Dakka's gallery.

I'm also posting them the same way that I always have however either somethings changed from the latest time I posted pics or I'm being Dumb.

Hmmmmmm. I'll keep trying.

Yay fixed! I don't know why it wasn't working earlier as I thought I had posted it correctly.

@ Chibi Bodge-Battle - I'm thinking that the plinth he comes on is a wee bit short so yes I will put him on a plinth.

Really looking forward to this one! Always had the idea of doing sereve garden myself but i wanted to have a squad of SM on their knees prayin in front of a statue.

looks ace BB

Looks interesting

Just from the look of all those great scenery pieces, I can tell this project is going to be great. Will check in for more updates!

As I'm doing this as a tutorial I'll just keep adding to the original post with the updates - save this turning into a blog.

Thanks for the comments so far. If you have any suggestions or ideas I'd welcome these and any feedback you guys have.

looking good Bro
keep up the good work.

yep looks good mate

Very nice. I have quite a bit of the same stuff just lying around. I might use this a basis for something similar. Thanks and good work.

Keep it up, looking good!

Looking forward to seeing it finished. GJ.

Loved your COD piece there that you did a while back, inspired me to do some terrain. Looking forward to seeing the finished result of this, sounds interesting.

Loved your COD piece

any one else sniggering?

Me!

I'm glad my COD piece inspired you. I spent a long time on that scenery piece. Hopefully this one will look good besides it.

Thanks for the encouragement guys. It helps give me the motivation to do something. It's one of the reasons I decided to do a tutorial.

I was sitting bored tonight waiting on my wall sections arriving so I decided to do some extra detail work.

I'll update the progress soon.

my friend did something somewhat similar with a church like building, looked very good.
looking forward to this one!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

Loved your COD piece

any one else sniggering?

Hehe, i noticed this as soon as I posted it, couldn't be arsed going back and changing it - plus I wanted to see how long it would take someone .

what i love most about yours is that unlike most 40k scenery it hasnt been obliterated by shell fire. you cant really go wrong

and id very much like to know where you got the tile like material from

You're going to hate my update then Black Bear.

As some shell fire is coming!

As for the tile like material it was an online retailer but it was around 3 or 4 years ago I bought it. So I have no idea who it was. I do think it was off ebay though.

ah shame well im sure it will look great anyway :p

Black Bear wrote:and id very much like to know where you got the tile like material from

Any decent model shop should have this - you can get tiles, brickwork, stonework, corrugated, etc. Most are available in several sizes to match model railway scales.

Looking good
I was planning on doing something like this for my up and coming city board, I'll keep an eye on this and might borrow a couple ideas

BloodQuest wrote:

Black Bear wrote:and id very much like to know where you got the tile like material from

Any decent model shop should have this - you can get tiles, brickwork, stonework, corrugated, etc. Most are available in several sizes to match model railway scales.

thanks i will go check out my local model shop

Black Bear wrote:

BloodQuest wrote:

Black Bear wrote:and id very much like to know where you got the tile like material from

Any decent model shop should have this - you can get tiles, brickwork, stonework, corrugated, etc. Most are available in several sizes to match model railway scales.

thanks i will go check out my local model shop

Look for the Woodland Scenes display the sheets of preformed styrene are usually within three feet of it.

will do thanks for the advice guys

Quick update posted.

Update.