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2011/12/04 22:17:26
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Anointed Dark Priest of Chaos
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I am looking to make a bunch of scatter terrain for a themed terrain set featuring barrels and am curious what others have found as the best/cheapest source for either barrels that are single pieces or pre-made/cast piles/stacks of barrels?
I have a bunch of the GW ones, but am looking for other sources.
Thoughts?
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2011/12/04 22:30:42
Subject: Re:++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Stabbin' Skarboy
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Check model train shops and websites. You'll find a much wider variety of styles and sizes. Wargaming barrels tend to be more expensive than model train barrels from what I've seen.
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2011/12/05 05:33:14
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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You mean metal barrels, not wooden ones? Military model shops sell 1:35 barrels around the size of the GW ones - the kits usually come with jerrycans as well.
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2011/12/08 04:34:12
Subject: Re:++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin
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2011/12/08 05:56:55
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Sheet styrne pack: comes with a thick set of rods, thick enough to pass for barrels. snip some thin styrene strips to glue on as banding, and punch a wee hold through one of the banded sections. glue the ends to more styrne, cut it out, file it off, and you're done. It's about as cheap as it gets and the practice helps.
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2011/12/08 10:13:12
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Monstrous Master Moulder
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http://www.oldcrowmodels.co.uk/25acces.htm
Best price I have found. Not sure if they are quite the right scale as I have never bought them, so it would be worth looking at them online first.
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2011/12/08 10:27:25
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Anti-Armour Swiss Guard
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I have been going through some Electrical left-overs left behind by the electrician after he finished wiring up our renovations.
2m of flex-conduit. If I cut them up into about 8 'rings' sections, they work out around the same height as the GW plastic ones.
A 20mm circular hole punch gives me covers for them and a frantic afternoon of gluing gives me a stack of drums. A good thing as my Infinity table needs a lot more in the way of terrain.
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2011/12/08 10:36:30
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Krazed Killa Kan
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take two 20oz soda caps, and super glue them end to end..
Spray black, hit with drybrush, and looks like industrial barrels.
We did.. 200+ in 2 days for our convention last year..
(after saving and scrounging caps for months prior..)
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2011/12/08 10:53:34
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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You should check out Hirsts Arts SciFi molds.
Allot of the scifi barrels and crates are licienced resin copies of these. Just buy the mold for less than $25 and make as many of your own as you like. Ideal for filling a table.
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2011/12/08 12:26:18
Subject: Re:++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Tamiya sell a box of a dozen or so fuel drums plus jerry cans and other fuel equiptment for something like £7. ...I take it your meaning fuel drums not wooden barrels like you get at a brewary?
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2011/12/08 12:56:33
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Foxy Wildborne
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2011/12/08 13:12:57
Subject: Re:++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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2011/12/09 02:00:45
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Gargantuan Gargant
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I got a bunch of loose drums from Pegasus a few years back, but I don't see them offered on the website, anymore. I recall them being reasonably priced, all things considered, but I think they've been axed in favor of the prepainted sets, like the one lord_blackfang posted. Might be able to find them in individual sellers' stock, though I don't know how much the price may have changed.
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2011/12/19 23:11:38
Subject: Re:++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Imperial Recruit in Training
South Shore, Montreal, Qc
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Wooden dowels, string & glue will work.
There's only three actual GW drums in this picture...
See my blog if you want more details : http://ogre-mini.blog.ca/
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2011/12/20 21:05:15
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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ground zero games does good stuff.
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2011/12/20 21:06:54
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Dakka Veteran
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notprop wrote:You should check out Hirsts Arts SciFi molds.
Allot of the scifi barrels and crates are licienced resin copies of these. Just buy the mold for less than $25 and make as many of your own as you like. Ideal for filling a table.
YEAH. The Hirst lines have a few good barrel. If you don't want to do the molding, you can buy ones from people who do.
Either this or the bottlecaps is the way to go IMHO
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2011/12/20 23:36:35
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I've used 1" PVC connectors as barrels. They're a little on the large side, but look great and you can get packs of 10 or more from your hardware stores very cheap.
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2011/12/21 20:38:31
Subject: ++Cheapest/best source of 40k scale barrel terrain and/or components?
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Lone Wolf Sentinel Pilot
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Gavin Thorne wrote:I've used 1" PVC connectors as barrels. They're a little on the large side, but look great and you can get packs of 10 or more from your hardware stores very cheap.
this is good advice. pvc plus some greebles would look great.
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