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Im currently building a 40k city using GW terrain.

So far i have built a Manufactorum, Cathedral, administratum building and a large landing pad plus a few home made foam buildings (Ill be adding more pics soon)

Im looking for more inspiration so any comments or ideas are welcome.

Is any one else on DAKKA DAKKA involved in making a battlefield/terrain if so wat is it and why ???

Looking good. I like the big bridges over the streets.

Nice work matey! building a manufactorum myself , but its still in the develepoment stages
in regards to your question. Madmartykmf has a great cities of death blog as does terraformer.
good luck with the rest of the build. And can i ask how many kits for the manufactorum

Thanks

Im planning 2 add a few catwalks in the city but im probly gonna paint and base them next.

Any suggestions on paint scheme ?


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Yea i was just told bout Madmartykmf and terraformers blog looking forward 2 checking them out.

Cool let me know how your Manufactorum works out.

And it's 7 kits

i would try a unified paintscheme instead of induvidual colours for each building , the red on the manufactorum looks great just needs some depth imo, the admin building is pretty cool gotta admit, that would look great painted up.


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so as to my question , i am guessing about 4-6 kits?

Looking good Paranoia_Agent! I will be checking in on your thread. As for color I think the red you have is really nice and stick with the Codex Gray. Let the little details do all the talking rather then a paint scheme that does not fit the overall feel or fluff.

Mike

@Neil, Thanks for the plug buddy. Your dollar is in the mail!

Thanks guys yea i thought the red suited it good old mechanicum red!

At the moment the paints more of a base coat i gotta go back and finish it.

The admin building/cathedral, is probly gonna be painted with lots of gold a silver trim.

Unfortunately it doesent look like that anymore im in the process of completly rebuilding it, ill be adding updated pics on thursday along with pics of my almost finished landing pad and administratum building.

Thanks for the positive feedback

My Cathedral

Wow thats pretty epic . looks like lots of fun to play with.

Very nice indeed. It is good to see buildings on this sort of scale - they are usually fairly small, which is a shame.

+1 on the scale and I applaud your storage capacity. I like the use of the GF9 pillers. Great work keep it up (and get some paint on those bad boys!).

It's looking good

I am currently doing the same thing, building a city. That because my main army, guard, is Urban themed.

For inspiration on on what buildings to create, just look into the stratagems in the cities of death book.


Otherwise:

-PDF barracks
-Manufactorum
-Slums
-Power generator
-Bar
-The governor's palace
-Arbites Office
-Garage/tanking station
-Train station (?)
- much and much more...

Hope this helped

for the paint schem i have used a white, black and silver sprays and just apply them randomly but i suppose you can do it with any colours
i looks great by the way i would deffinatly add stuff like shrines they look great in the middle of squares

wow this is looking tasty.

very nice. that's got the dollar sign written all over it though lol

Haha yea ''Kingoftheswords'' is has got a big doller sign on it already and its no were near done.

Just so you guys now its currently got:

3 Shrine of the Aquila sets
4 Basilica Administratum kits
1 Sanctum Imperialis kit
A set of pillers and a crashed shuttle, so alot of kits already.

Unfortuanatly "neil101" i havent had the chance too play many games on it yet.

I have made every building in my city fit with this big scale im currently working on another building a large Basilica Administratum i will post pics of that soon.

My biggest problem with it at the moment is trying too make the crashed shuttle work well with the building ill probly use lots of modeling clay so it looks like its hit the building and skidded across the floor.

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My new Administratum building's.

I was thinking bout adding a crashed landspeeder in the courtyard of the smaller building any ideas or suggestions ???...........

That is a truely awesome display of Terrain! i'm inspired!

Thanks "alarmingrick" i still have a long way to go on the city as a whole and a little work left to do on this project like paint the sandbags etc...

Glad i could inspire some one!

A few more photos of the buildings.

It's looking great!

I am really enjoying the scale of some of these buildings!

I was super impressed witht he GW building kits when I picked them up! so nice that they are so modular!

You're building the city I always dreamed of. Curse your greater disposable income!

Awesome, great work so far

Just the sort of inspiration i need to get me pumped for my city building and painting!

I agree with you 100% on the scale so far, i always felt the piddly buildings the GW studio (and most people) make were completely at odds with the fluff.

Thanks for the comments guys i really need the feedback to keep this huge project going.

Yea i always thought that if i was gonna build a 40k hive city i was gonna build it big!!!

I will be putting up a few pics of the city as a whole soon, the bourd im currently using is 48" wide by 96" long but i dont think it's big enough wat do you guys think make it bigger ?????

And i want to add a crashed landspeeder in the courtyard of the smaller building any suggestions on how to model the dead marine pilots ???

Well, dead SM don't have any real expressions with their helmets on. So, just model them limp, and with some scorchmarks, as a landspeeder is open topped. Hope this helped.

Yea it does help thanks.

My origional idea is, Having one marine partially decapitated with a piece of metal sticking out his neck limp and gorified.

The other guy crawled away from the wreckage with half of one leg missing proped up against the side of the speeder bolter in hand and other arm holding a gaping hole in his chest.

Scorch mark idea for the win!!!

And blood everywere completly gorified for your wargaming needs.

haha, your visualisation sounds more interesting than mine. Mabye bahe the crawling man half in and half out of the landspeeder, to suggest his wounds were too much?

I like it problem is SM usually have chemicals pumping through there system when wounded to help them get that little further or fight that bit longer.

Its a good idea though i think ill have to crash a Valkyrie or something into my manafactorum and do it using guard models.

Thanks for the idea.