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Hey guys I am new to Dakka and new to 40k forums in general but this is something I'm chipping away at in my studio between work. (I'm a graphic/web design) I wanted to create an urban board which included many buildings that your units can easily access and move about in making it so they are not just shooting and assaulting building to building but in addition within buildings. The closed off room will be turned into elevator doors on both floors. I will more than likely keep it at two floors however being modular I would just have to cut more floors in order to build it up more. Let me know what you think, it is still in its rough stages and even the painted one may get reprimed and more detail added.

Sorry for the poor focus on some images, I only have my telescopic lens, my other lens are in the car...

those are pretty nice

I like it, but my only beef is that the windows are too big and low.

killykavekommando wrote:I like it, but my only beef is that the windows are too big and low.

I'm hoping that if I make some like broken windows with some sort of packaging plastic (towards the end) it'll kinda fix it, I really just wanted the first floor to not only be accessible from the door but rather from all sides kinda? cause in game it would be epic to have nids flying through windows and stuff at your....IG(?) either way



the windows here are very tall and wide so I kinda wanted to make it along those lines. this was just a mess about effort to get used to cutting and measuring foam core and seeing how it acts with things and how to shape it and what kinda of things i could do to it (second floor wall breach and board over is a nice touch)

Thank you very much for your feedback, I do appreciate it


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Second floor, bombed out room I think is done for the modeling part, comments or suggestions for the other rooms, again I'm sorry for the crap focus, there will eventually be proper shots

These photos Molotovsoda are pretty sick especially the last one. The completed city should be quite epic.

working on the roof now, pictures soon. If anyone has suggestions for how to base this creativly onto a 1ft x 1ft tie i'd love some ideas

it is currently 8.5 x 6.5

Nice work, makes me remember that I have a lot of scenery material getting dusty myself...

Love the details!

yep, this is just my warm up building, just to get used to piecing things together. I will be starting either a manufactorum (the way I invision it, huge) perhaps an apartment building with corridors and stair wells (3 - 4 stories) perhaps a chapel I don't know for sure, this is certainly the first in a series of many.

This: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314756 has also inspired me, I will be dabbling in imperial fortifications for the sake of having 4+ cover saves for my tyranids in our games


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I plan on doing brick work on the outside walls to add a little more detail and depth as well as bullet holes tomorrow, I'm also kicking around the idea of making some custom propaganda posters (similar to the GW ones from like half a century ago?) as well as signage for the store or whatever this is. Any quirky suggestions for the store front name?

Maybe call the store 'Dome Depot' like from the Simpsons because the hives are shaped like domes.

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates. I've got it base coated and highlighted, currenly im cutting up some plastic to make broken windows, I'll post pictures after vacation

Update time, sorry for the wait on that...









And these are some sneak peaks into my next two projects, a ruined building and a mini landing pad:

Very realistic. I kind of think you are veering away from the more commonly used Gothic architecture and into something more modern. Not that its wrong, mind you...lots of worlds out there with lots of different types of buildings. Its actually very refreshing! Good job. Wish I had the patience to work on something like that.

Captain_Obvious wrote:Very realistic. I kind of think you are veering away from the more commonly used Gothic architecture and into something more modern. Not that its wrong, mind you...lots of worlds out there with lots of different types of buildings. Its actually very refreshing! Good job. Wish I had the patience to work on something like that.

I'm hoping that if I mix my style with the GW building kits it'll kinda bring them together a bit. I can't imagine a smaller colony having time to create intricate buildings for lower class city buildings. Which is part of the reason the landing pad thing is going to have the kit on it because thats almost like....some kind...of...space ellis island? lol