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Promising looking building there Theo! and welcome back!

Theo just wanted to say thanks mate because if it wasn't for your crazy joking remark of bionic camels it wouldn't be happening

Well I didn't get the job , oh well, still looking for better anyway. It would have been good, not the best solution, but it would have been a big improvement.

In the mean time I'm off for thanksgiving today and got an hour this morning to model.


The walls are the floor tiles from dust tactics, thick and solid cardboard that I wasn't going to use otherwise. I used the craft sticks for extra support and to give some extra texture to the walls as crown molding. I might use it to make door casing as well, but I think it's too thick, maybe some plastic card will work.

i think it looks very promising... a little depth could be needed here and there...print something like raised details on cardstock...and i think you´re set for a cool piece of terrain as is!

better luck next time...one door closes and another opens...besides....it would spoil christmas probably...new responsibilities and eagerness on the new job and all that...better start fresh into the next year! and let the last job fade into merriness^^

Very nice work Theo! that makes a great set up for some urban game-combat.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i think it looks very promising... a little depth could be needed here and there...print something like raised details on cardstock...and i think you´re set for a cool piece of terrain as is!

better luck next time...one door closes and another opens...besides....it would spoil christmas probably...new responsibilities and eagerness on the new job and all that...better start fresh into the next year! and let the last job fade into merriness^^

Thanks Vik, always a cool head .

shasolenzabi wrote:Very nice work Theo! that makes a great set up for some urban game-combat.

Yeah, now I just need a good system to work with....and a gaming group

Well just placed a miniaturemarket order. grabbing a couple black friday goodies.
(2) Dust tactics Operation Zverograde $10 each, comes with 2 figs and some of the building pieces to make another single story structure


(1) Dust tactics operation Cyclone, 2 more figs and 8 terrain pieces (4 ammo cases, and 4 tank traps)


I have to decide if I want to still get the Mythic Battles Pantheon kickstarter or not very soon. I could funnel the $100 into the black friday sale and get a ton of stuff, but the kickstarter is doing pretty well, almost $1.6million with 5 days left. almost triple the figs of the base set now and some of them are huge 4" titans. I just don't know if I want to wait a full year to get them, and the sculpts of some are rather meh. I could just go nuts right now and have one less thing to worry about later, besides the figs are not really crossover materials for me, but would be excellent for a D&D game....which I'm not doing.

Pics later.
Edit: added pics

I might have to pick up operation achilles....It has two cows and a goat

that walker looks totally sick! needs a really dashing paintjob methinks^^

MM got you too? I couldn't resist the price on Red Veil. Maybe I'll get the LE mini too.

Looks like you have the beginnings of an interesting urban table.

Viktor von Domm wrote:that walker looks totally sick! needs a really dashing paintjob methinks^^

I wasn't even thinking of a paint job for it, but I wish I had some goblins, cause this looks like a propa goblin dreadnought to me. Plus the arms are seperators and it's not one piece with the base, so lots of potential. I am seriously considering picking up more of the sets for the buildings, but the walker is just icing on the cake.

Red Harvest wrote:MM got you too? I couldn't resist the price on Red Veil. Maybe I'll get the LE mini too.

Looks like you have the beginnings of an interesting urban table.

I almost got red veil, but I've lost my desire to even try infinity. I've got 6-7 sets of the one story building, and they stack and theirs a replacement window piece that takes the doors place on the upper levels, so I think I can really build a ghetto out of these kits.....we'll see if more happen my way before the sale ends.

Good to see ya back and rockin', Capn'.



The buildings look to be coming along nicely.

Nice catch on those buildings there! Minis added is bonus! But the tank traps and ammo crates block off a street with those, (Used to be some in Germany where we had to make a zig-line for slowing down cars at the gate, then they got inspected for potential bombs.)

Ammo crates are good to shoot and hide behind from.

Better luck next time on the job dude!

Miniature market has no hold over me, although I hadn't considered red veil, but the shame drawer is there for such times..

Nice dust stuff, and your dusticide/zombidust scenery is coming right along.

oldravenman3025 wrote:

Good to see ya back and rockin', Capn'.



The buildings look to be coming along nicely.

Thanks oldravenman , must build a whole town now

shasolenzabi wrote:Nice catch on those buildings there! Minis added is bonus! But the tank traps and ammo crates block off a street with those, (Used to be some in Germany where we had to make a zig-line for slowing down cars at the gate, then they got inspected for potential bombs.)

Ammo crates are good to shoot and hide behind from.

the crates are a perfect size for the models too which doesn't always happen. The female pilot figure that comes with the set is firing her pistol and she fits over the top of the crate just fine.

GrimDork wrote:Better luck next time on the job dude!

Miniature market has no hold over me, although I hadn't considered red veil, but the shame drawer is there for such times..

Nice dust stuff, and your dusticide/zombidust scenery is coming right along.

I'm hoping that I can find a good skirmish game where there are buildings used, otherwise I have plenty of eye candy for my basement of shame....with growth still happening.

Speaking of which


Picked up another three of the operation zverograd boxes this morning. $30 for a three story building, 3 28mm female figures and 3 walkers . Plus since it's from Miniaturemarket and I go pick it up I get to spin the prize wheel. I got $4 in bonus points on top of the $.30 I earned from this order. Most likely another order or two will get placed today. I'm torn between more zverograd boxes (whole city sector of tenements) or some other scatter terrain. I could also grab some of the other dust stuff while on Black Friday sale (ends tonight), choices .

I had the starter box when it came out years ago, the crates were good for not just Dust figures but others, they are a great piece of terrain for so many figures for cover!

Three stories, so ambitious!, wait, 3 more boxes would allow you to make a 4story building if you want as you had the one set already, or do you wish for a 1-story and a 3-story? More building is always good.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
I had the starter box when it came out years ago, the crates were good for not just Dust figures but others, they are a great piece of terrain for so many figures for cover!

Three stories, so ambitious!, wait, 3 more boxes would allow you to make a 4story building if you want as you had the one set already, or do you wish for a 1-story and a 3-story? More building is always good.

I had slightly more than that...........



Technically I have enough for an 11story building . Though now I have a huge building in mind . Something Thant could look like the front of a palace.....or a big white .....house. Either way it would be the centerpiece of a table. That board in the picture is 6' wide after all.

True eye candy right there... I am in the process of building my own city buildings mostly from cardboard etc...as a nice city fight is not to be sneezed at...

A white house as a center piece is awesome sauce all alone...epic fights like white house down etc or let a giant horde of z's storm the perimeter...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
True eye candy right there... I am in the process of building my own city buildings mostly from cardboard etc...as a nice city fight is not to be sneezed at...

A white house as a center piece is awesome sauce all alone...epic fights like white house down etc or let a giant horde of z's storm the perimeter...

I really liked Olympus has fallen , maybe a true switcharoo and have all the brain dead be protecting the whitehouse from invaders of regular people . Kind of like our election, trying to get rid of the brain dead government and get life back into our nations capital.

I took apart some of the buildings and started on a sprawling mansion, but I really just liked the tenements more, so the board will probably go back to multiple multistory buildings....at least on one side of the street.

Some of the other ideas I had were to grab a bucketload of containers and do a warehouse facility on the other side of the street. That way the tenements could all have nice windows everywhere as opposed to the warehouse which would be more solid slab walls, parking area and the like. Still undecided.

The other terrain I've been eyeballing are all regular discounted prices.
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/rpr80056.html bones Jersey barriers
http://www.miniaturemarket.com/rpr80036.html bones shipping containers

Also the model cars I have picked up recently may well make for some nice decor.

I can readily recommend the reaper shipping containers. The jersey barriers are not nearly as impressive and are probably pretty easy to cast oneself...but those containers are nice. You can leave the lids unglued and store small scatter terrain or other bits.

That's a lot of dust scenery. Looking forward to the build and paint someday

Dragon teeth or Jersey barriers are easy peasy done with plaster of Paris in ice cube molds..

All this TWD watching really makes me want to do a zombicalypse setting table...I have so many plastics but for that I would need zillions of zombies...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Dragon teeth or Jersey barriers are easy peasy done with plaster of Paris in ice cube molds..

All this TWD watching really makes me want to do a zombicalypse setting table...I have so many plastics but for that I would need zillions of zombies...

I'm sure Theo can spare you some. He's got lots of em lol.

GrimDork wrote:I can readily recommend the reaper shipping containers. The jersey barriers are not nearly as impressive and are probably pretty easy to cast oneself...but those containers are nice. You can leave the lids unglued and store small scatter terrain or other bits.

That's a lot of dust scenery. Looking forward to the build and paint someday

Yeah I've seen packs of the jersey barriers and thought about making molds myself, but for the price I figured they'd be good enough, or get at least one pack to get the sizes close.

Viktor von Domm wrote:Dragon teeth or Jersey barriers are easy peasy done with plaster of Paris in ice cube molds..

All this TWD watching really makes me want to do a zombicalypse setting table...I have so many plastics but for that I would need zillions of zombies...

Do Eeeeeeeet . It doesn't even have to be zombipocalypse, you could do steam robot apocalypse

angelofvengeance wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Dragon teeth or Jersey barriers are easy peasy done with plaster of Paris in ice cube molds..

All this TWD watching really makes me want to do a zombicalypse setting table...I have so many plastics but for that I would need zillions of zombies...

I'm sure Theo can spare you some. He's got lots of em lol.

you obviously don't know how this hoarding thing goes do you .

Well about to head out the door. You all may have noticed how I don't like chopping up good terrain pieces. Well I've made a break from that with this dust stuff. For good or bad the saw has come out. Connectors have been removed from the tops of four of the corner pieces. The insert slots for the walls happen to be the same thickness as the card stock used for the floor tiles in the box sets, so they have been chopped as well. The outcome of that is I now have a two story warehouse using only four pieces from the terrain set. Still needs a roof, and it might be a little skinny, but I've seen smaller warehouse/office buildings.


Still very WIP, and it won't have internal space to fight in, unless I make the roof removable......

Thanks for the responses everyone . It's what I needed to get back to work on stuff.

Looks like a darn good start on the warehouse.

but...it´s upside down...

robot apocalypse...you don´t know how long i´ve been working to come up with a solid design from styrene rods and PC to make my own robots...zillions of´em^^... tho i own a rather unhealthy amount of robogear footsloggers that i dreamed of to convert also into robots...imagine a combined force of cadians, orlocks...the odd SM scout mini...fighting of waves of robot wave after robot wave....god damnit...^^

GrimDork wrote:Looks like a darn good start on the warehouse.

Thanks , I think it needs a little entryway bump out or at least an awning of some type. It is supposed to look like a cheap almost pole barn style warehouse though, so less is more.

Viktor von Domm wrote:but...it´s upside down...

robot apocalypse...you don´t know how long i´ve been working to come up with a solid design from styrene rods and PC to make my own robots...zillions of´em^^... tho i own a rather unhealthy amount of robogear footsloggers that i dreamed of to convert also into robots...imagine a combined force of cadians, orlocks...the odd SM scout mini...fighting of waves of robot wave after robot wave....god damnit...^^

Not sure what you mean by upside down....unless your talking about the boat picture.

Sometimes you just got to bite the bullet and not scratchbuild it. I know heresy and all that, but have you considered the terminator genesis miniature game figs? Surely they are available in Germany. Either that or you can make your own division of my Angry Servo Skulls Hostile Organic Lifeform Elimination Squads. (A.s.s.h.o.l.e.s.) that's my servo skulls running around with added guitar string tentacles/mechandrites.

 Theophony wrote:

Sometimes you just got to bite the bullet and not scratchbuild it. I know heresy and all that, but have you considered the terminator genesis miniature game figs? Surely they are available in Germany. Either that or you can make your own division of my Angry Servo Skulls Hostile Organic Lifeform Elimination Squads. (A.s.s.h.o.l.e.s.) that's my servo skulls running around with added guitar string tentacles/mechandrites.

That name is absolutely PERFECT. Although, I suspect that the Magos will want to have a little talk with the Techpriest that came up with that name/acronym.

 oldravenman3025 wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

Sometimes you just got to bite the bullet and not scratchbuild it. I know heresy and all that, but have you considered the terminator genesis miniature game figs? Surely they are available in Germany. Either that or you can make your own division of my Angry Servo Skulls Hostile Organic Lifeform Elimination Squads. (A.s.s.h.o.l.e.s.) that's my servo skulls running around with added guitar string tentacles/mechandrites.

That name is absolutely PERFECT. Although, I suspect that the Magos will want to have a little talk with the Techpriest that came up with that name/acronym.

Well there's no Magos to talk to. They started as servo skulls that were attached to a marine chapter long lost to history. The chapter got wiped out by tyranids, but since the servo skulls were no longer Organic (skulls replaced by carbon fiber and what little brains that were left were either sealed in good enough for the Nids not to notice, or too small even for them to snack on. They had been left silent and alone on the planet for hundreds of years with nothing to do and no outside communications. They all went a bit nutty and began scavenging armor pieces and weapons to defend their home in case the bosses ever returned they wanted to show they continued to do their due diligence. They began hunting down the stragglers of the tyranids that remained behind and then when a ship landed they took to the offensive against the crew. The crew had been rogue traders who decided to loot what they could from the remanants of the planet. Taking over the ship they began a quest to find the remanants of their chapter, but they had even forgotten the name and insignia. It had been a really long time. Anyway the tore across the galaxy fighting anyone and everything they came into contact with. Their limited tech and medical skills coming into play they would induct new initiates after every fight from the corpses, but the memories of the dead were wiped just like their parent chapter had wiped the initiates memories. After hundreds of years they were at more than chapter strength (well over a thousand servo skulls), and they had repaired plenty of marine vehicles from their battles, so they are as well equipped as many other marine chapters. The name came from one of the more crazed "Leaders" who always complained how he worked with a bunch of donkey-caves, but as the original chapter did not allow swearing (strict chaplain core), he always spelled out A.S.S.H.O.L.E.S. One of the newer recruits when caught by an imperial strike team tried to get the information from him as to who and what they were, but just got the abbreviation and the purpose of the servo skulls to hunt down hostile organic life forms (which was one of the chapters last orders given to them before they were wiped off their home world), and the acronym was developed by the strike team. So now reports have circulated throughout the imperium to be on the lookout for all these A.S.S.H.O.L.E.S.

 Theophony wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
I had the starter box when it came out years ago, the crates were good for not just Dust figures but others, they are a great piece of terrain for so many figures for cover!

Three stories, so ambitious!, wait, 3 more boxes would allow you to make a 4story building if you want as you had the one set already, or do you wish for a 1-story and a 3-story? More building is always good.

I had slightly more than that...........

Spoiler:

Technically I have enough for an 11story building . Though now I have a huge building in mind . Something Thant could look like the front of a palace.....or a big white .....house. Either way it would be the centerpiece of a table. That board in the picture is 6' wide after all.

Very nice! Looks like the center o a district worth of buildings!

Thanks Shaso ,

Well I didn't buy any more buildings, but decided to grab more dust stuff.


Operation Hades (a flying guy and lots of the thick card stock.
Operation Achilles ( 3 characters, 2 cows and a goat )
Also grabbed one of the shipping containers just for scale.

Fantastic to see you about bud. Building is looking very interesting, I do love those Dust walkers.

Damn it I was going to send you some containers. Have to get my back side in gear.

There's a lot of Dust in this thread!

Looking good too, really liking those buildings.

EDC