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I think you are being over perfect at the moment Dave, this looks pretty dam good especially for the test piece, I cant see no real issue myself.

You could just do a generic building on foam card with just the brick shape,windows and door gaps, then add the decretive details later this way might limit errors and need to start over again.

Plus you could cast the main shape up and you have the basis for several buildings just alter the detail, plus everything would tie in easily together yet look different.

Any way I am impressed all ready looks promising, I might get some foam card to do this myself for my display shelf ….

What counts is that Dave makes building scenery that folks would love to play their games amongst!

I'd like to hope so anyways!

If your goal is to reproduce Gothic architecture- you have no choice but to make the arches correctly, otherwise it will look wrong to the viewer. The same applies to any style. It isn't a matter of being over-perfect- it just is what it is. This style of rusticated facade IRL consists of perfectly straight masonry lines. If I can't make the lines perfectly straight in the foamcore, then it won't resemble the original, and it just isn't a viable idea. We will see though, I haven't given it up completely. I'll play with it some more.

Hmm try a old fashioned number 2 Pencil to score in the lines... im told It sort of self lubricates due to the graphite.

Dave, I would not use foam core for this if I were you. It just doesn't seem to give the look you're going for. How about trying to cut the "bricks" out of styrene sheet, and then glue them in the straight lines you are trying for? More work, yes, but you would get straighter edges.

True, but then I have the problem of what to use for window panes, architectural greeblies, etc. I dunno, like I said, it was just an idea, even if it is somewhat half-baked. Good exploratory stuff though.


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The more I think about this, the more discouraged I am becoming...grrr.

ooooo I hate you Dave...

You've set me off with terrain ideas... I'm mulling over making FO3 terrain, but specifically the Destroyed road overpass, Water towers and maybe ROBCO building... but I need me a robby the robot lols

Why so discouraged? It looks awesome and it was just a test piece...

Get to it then! I can't wait to see!


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I dunno Max- I think I'm just restless, perhaps maybe uninspired even....

Need to make another nid purchase first and get to some designs/work out sizing etc... but I shall

I as well have concluded that the architechture in question is the way I want to go with my table. I am still hoping to start it end of May. i foresee a lot of that brick facade all over the place with Aquilas and posters everywhere. I am thinking that casting the wall segments is the way to go, as well.....

I've put some images of stuff I'm considering doing for terrain in my bloggy ^_^

Man that building was worth wading through piles of random crap. I'm amazed at just how many pages of stuff there is in your thread. Really like the station a lot, build a derelict/crashed grav train to go with it.

I also don't know how you made so many rivets.... I made 200 or so this week and wanted to slip with the scalpel so I could stop.

Thanks man! I used the Chop-It!

I almost bought one the other day but at £36 it was a bit much for what I'd use it for.

PDH, try ordering it from here... including postage it works out at about £25

http://www.micromark.com/chop-it,9547.html

Yeah, I don't have the name brand, but the Micro-Mark knock-off


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Endless mass-produced, exact replica parts is worth a lot to me!

personaly i see many uses for foamcore for building terrain... but with this idea (i henceforth will call it an idea...not an actual project...devils advocat...) i think a different material would be better... namly wood...balsa wood... i think this material will later on bring all the shapes you need and would provide the thickness needed...

but the main problem here is if you are perhaps getting yourself into a dead end...? too much of a good thing and all? if the good thing might be the style and the fun FO3 provided you with maybe you should take a step aside and do something differntly?


my suggestion... build us a tank from scratch... or...for that matter... get yourself around the idea (see?!) to build yourself something moveable for your table...you had that fancy lifter idea....later on that earlier mentioned idea can be revisited...

That is a very good idea, Vik. Switch focus and maybe come back later.....

Yeh Vik, I think you are right. This last weekend I was on such a high, building-wise: I just produced soo much, perhaps I am just coming down from that high now?

yep!...er...that was my earlier to max´s comment menat comment...


well... would hobby rota work here as a means to get you feeling better? just a though`t? but the way you did that building shows me just one thing... you have a megaton of terrain building mojo still inside you...so you shoould find a good way to chanel it...

Dave, I get that way when drawing/painting new images... tis quite odd, but you get used to it and fill it with other things... which is why I slink off into 360 land.

...Like George Nelson in O' Brother Where art Thou!

Its been a while since I've watched it lols

well... would hobby rota work here as a means to get you feeling better? just a though`t? but the way you did that building shows me just one thing... you have a megaton of terrain building mojo still inside you...so you shoould find a good way to chanel it...

Yeah, I just need to be in the mood to paint...And I'm not in it
..But as always, you're a good friend Vik! Thanks man

Viktor von Domm wrote:you have a megaton of terrain building mojo still inside you...

FO:3 pun intended?

at UAC...only slightly...subconciously like...


at dave... thanks mate! but you seem a bit tense to me... seeps through... that´s the time when distance makes everything not better...


if i was nearer i would hand you a beer...so for now...:

lol Vik

LOL Thanks man
..Yeah, work still sucks