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I have the ground work painted up.
First I primed the whole thing black then I used Army Painter Leather Brown spray to dust over the black to turn it dark brown




I then drybrushed it using a house trin brush and various earth and grey tones

I hate you for owning one of those.

Don't hate the playa ,hate the game

When I can with high money items,I like to add a little something.
I left the tile alone for the most part,but this piece caught my eye,the security camera.
Now I happen to have just the right size for a AK product called realistic lenses.
I used the 3mm optic colored lense
Takeing a #17 flat blade I removed the molded in lense cutting it flush.
Using tacky glue I replaced it with the AK lense.
That along with some more rust work and I can put this tile to bed and start on the next,a very cool idea using an expansion tile and moonscape craters.












I did this in less than a day
I am Billy the "Paintbrush Kid" :lol:


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One down eight to go
For the second tile I started with one of my two expansion tiles.
My board will always always be for 40k,so I wanted a few themed tiles.
This one was simple take a few moonscape craters and plastic glue them down on the flat expnsion tile.
Instant barrage tile.
I layed the groundwork same as last time,think PVA glue,sand,watered down PVA applied with spray bottle.
I should have this one finished tommarrow before I have to go to work at 4pm.
Drying as we speak,shame PVA takes forever and a day to dry.

I also started the second expansion tile,this one is straight out of the Battle for Macragge set.
I finally used this great wreck scenery added a few cable,wires,and extra dodads around the wreck to well make it more wrecky.
I even added an extra Maruader gears I had,looks cool as hell I cannot wait for it to dry

This, right here, is what the RoB boards are all about. People complain about them, but they're designed for people to just go to town on them. Cut 'em up, rip 'em apart, glue things on 'em, personalize them and make them your own. Can't wait for the first Batrep featuring these babies!

I wholeheartly agree,any stock model is an anthema to me.
But funny enough I am more willing to mess around with the expansion tiles first,I need to take a good look at the standard set,make sure I do not mess up the hills.

I think I am going to leave the main 6 tiles relatively unchanged,the will be a crater or two.

What my thing will be is,to keep pumping out expansion tiles like this afterwards.

I would like to get a trench section going,a lake,city street,railroad tracks.
Ya know I am torn to pay a large fee for FW trenches or just wait for them to put out a trench tile.

Speaking of which regarding the Masterclass books,they have great tutorials that use parts you can not even buy.

I finished the crater tile this afternoon.
I used enamels to filter the rocks along with weathering powder to get that realistic apperance.
Then I added soot blast in the center craters in a star pattern and the same with the white ashes around the craters.
Two down six to go,well thats a bold face lie.
I just bought two more expansion tiles
I really like the idea or a minefield tile and the other who knows I think I'll put that up for a while.
I really want to make a trench tile,but if I was a betting man
I'd say even money that is the next special tile they make and trenches on Ebay are astronomical





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Alrighty I have the next one almost finished just have to work the crater.
The rust was done with a black-green sprayed on patchy like camo
Then a overspray with Hull Red.
After that it was just working every MIG rust powder they make.

Decoration for the crater edge
Seems hunting the Fallen is more important than Geneseed

noooo i love that model.. and he had to go an die! It looks great! and i must ask, where is that model from? I see it everywhere and love the look of it, but never asked...

Battle from Macragge silly goose it is a theme.
I figure the Dark Angel squad caught wind on the Fallen while on the mission to save poor Varvus
Screw copy and Paste in the ear!
Sorry had to get that out of my system as I write this for the second time.
So Hey-ooo have the Macragge board finshied.
Two down Eight to go,wha huh :blink: how is it still eight to go?
Two more expansion tiles OTW






Poor Lt.Varras does not think too highly of the Dark Angels and thier Hunt the Fallen rule


And finally these Hirst Arts molds arrived today,I call the the 40k bundle evey mold needed to make gothic structures.

the boards look great and nice buy on the hirst arts molds! i have a couple, and cant wait to see what you come up with

Gotta cast em first

Hey-ooo
Do not think with all the terrain I am doing I forgot the Inquisition.
While at my FLGS to pick up some scenery for the next tile,my special order came in.
The Finecast Inquisitor with Inferno pistol.
Wait a minute I hear you say,you already did him he is a few pages back.
Yes but not in Finecast which is a converters dream compared to metal.
Using him as the base I was finally able to recreate my Favorite character of all time,
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn.
I tried to make him four times before all of them crappy,even though at the time I was happy with them.
I guess pratice makes perfect because I finally nailed it.
I used dragonforge small cable for his scalp wires which leads to the power unit on his back.
The head is from the Forge World Enforcer which has that great dead fish stare.
The staff headpiece is clipped from the Black Library Eisenhorn miniature as heretical as it sounds.
But that mini is awful,looks more like Mr.Burns going on a rampage through Springfield :lol:
Babarastater is the handle from the witchunter and the blade from the baneblade commander.







Obligatory Group Shot

I love the build on this inquisitor! nice work!

absolutely fantastic eisenhorn conversion. probably one of the best I've seen.

IndigoJack wrote:absolutely fantastic eisenhorn conversion. probably one of the best I've seen.

Seconded! That's an excellent Eisenhorn. He really looks the part This thread is getting better and better all the time. That skeletal shuttle pilot further up is sheer genius as well

I have started on the forrest tile(In truth now it is finished and basecoated,forgot to take pics :( )

I used a Celuclay/Ultracal mix to raise the ground level so the trees all blend in.
Funny thing I added deadfall while it was drying outside and a bird thought it was just what thier bedroom needed.
I came out to a bare patch where the stick was :lol:
Lemons into Lemonade I was able to model a large puddle

But the exiciting thing
My brother must of brought these in the doorway from outside but never told me.
He is funny like Rainman,would not stop calling and texting me avout mechwarrior online,but does not think to tell me I have GIANT BOXES outside <_<

My Zone Mortalis has arrived,that little speck on the floor is this guy


I am going to need a bigger brush :rolleyes:

Pic's not working, but I am guessing it looks smexy!

Ok I have the forrest tile finnaly sorted out.
I was origianlly using dead twigs as deadfall but once primed the two different type of wood just smacked you in the face.
Sooo I took a plastic tree half and made a cast of that.
I made 3 tree halfs and glued them tto the base.
Now the deadfall matches the trees,infact now I have fell trees which is what I wanted in the first place
If you look at the one fallen tree at the bottom you see the hole the bird made when he stole the first twig when it was drying.
That will be perfect for Water Effects
I have a total of 9 GW trees for this board a respectable forrest for any table.





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Some progress shot on Eisenhotn

I finished up the forrest tile today,it came out fantastic




I have one more tile to make a special out of but I am not sure what to do.
Any suggestions on a themed tile?

I have the next tile finished,it is one of the vanilla flat tiles.
In truth the rest of the enitre board is at the point where it just needs a couple hours drybrushing except for the flat vanilla skull tile.
Still have to make that one,then like said I have one last flat tile to theme.
Might just throw it in the closet until new terrain comes out,who knows.
No one idea has bit me in the ass yet.
I also completed my modular hill set,two sets truth be told.
You need to buy two mod hill sets to get this hill.Otherwise you have to use it on the board edge.
This way I can set the board up as a valley,throw this in the middle and viola instant mountain terrain,perfect for the Hymilzayas
I added a little gold static grass to add a spot of color.









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I have the next vanilla board finished,this is the flat skull tile.
As soon as I drybrush the valley tiles the board will be finished but for that last theme tile.




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I started on the first Mortalis tile to see how I will tackle this project.
The tiles come in a black resin so using straight black primer could leave alot of bare spots,plus I have all the concrete too.
So I used Tamiya Grey primer to lightly basecoat the tile,I then used Alclad Black Spray Primer on anything I am going to paint mettalic.
I then noticed usless I want to spend forever hand painting the floor I was going to have to make a mask for the conctete.
I used a piece of computer paper and a pencil to make a rubbing of the tile which I then cut out with sisciors,I plan to do this again then transfer the image onto cardstock for a more durable mask.
But as long as I do not flood it the paper shoud suffice it fit so snug I had to use my hobby knife to remove the mask

I have the Eisenhorn model pretty much in the bag now

The forrest board looks amazing! and Eisenhorn looks great too!

That Eisenhorn model is lovely: great conversion and a nice paintjob! The only thing I am not sold on is the green skull atop his staff, since the colour makes it look rather goofy and it detracts from what should be the real focus point of the model: the face. Is it supposed to be glowing? If so, you could add some more accents to emphasise the effect. Otherwise, I'd go for a different colour.

Apart from that, though, great job! Keep it up!

I hear ya Kraut thought the same myself,Redid it grey but do you have a better suggestion?
Here is the tile weathered up with the final paint sceme.
I used AK streaking grimes (Standard,Rust,Winter,Dark) and worked them into the biege walls.
I used AK Blue-Brown very thinned as a filter for the floor and thicker for all the rivets.
Then when the floor was dry I added a filter of Winter Grime over all the concrete on the floor.
This one took me two days but I think I can easily knock it down to one.
With 15 more to do,I better be fast.

Nicely done on the zone mortalis! I love the streaks going down the walls, nice work!

Awesome thread. Just been viewing it on my phone and have been blown away by what I've been seeing. Going to gave to give it a 'proper' viewing when I get near my computer.

Excellent work. Keep it up.

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Zone Mortalis colour scheme is looking good!

About the skull, I'd either do it in plain bone colour or paint it in blue, as if it were glowing. I'd maybe use an effect similar to the one I use when I'm painting the Plasma coils on my Plasma pistols: Start with Enchanted Blue, then layer succesively lighter hues on top and finally add some kind of glare effect to the surrounding areas. It needn't be a spectacular effect, you could do something fairly low key and still have it look pretty convincing.

Come to think of it, you could also do a bone coloured skull with glowing eye sockets, or something like that.

Anyway, just a couple of ideas -- hope this helps

I do not think blue will work there is no blue anywhere else that would become the focal point.
I like the glowy sockets idea, I am going to first try a grey tone and you tell me if it looks better.
I am trying not to paint the skull bone because it is supposed to be made out of the 'Lith' which was supoosed to be a Giant Warp Infused Crystal.
But If I cannot pull off the grey then I will paint it bone and chaulk it to artistic license.