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That is a blackboard rubber Vik!
Hits you on the noggin with the wooden handle you get brain damage and/or potential aneurism.
and a slow lingereing decline into madness and death.

Hits you on the noggin with the soft felt part and you suffocate in the cloud of fine chalk dust particles.
and a slow lingering death from silicosis.

The above options are not mutually exclusive as you may be hit enough times over the course of your education to have a 50/50 spread!

is the proverb "whatever not kills you makes you strong..." known in the islands? just asking...politley ....kind of...

vik

Nietzsche? Yeah, a few of his words have made it across the channel to us

But as Chibi pointed out, both those outcomes lead to death

Obviously we're not complaining or anything, we are British after all, we just get in a queue for a cup of tea...

Thus spoke Monkeytroll.. the Übermensch

lol

Pretty sure I can't claim that honorific. Besides I look terrible in skin-tight red and blue

We'll be the judge of that .. be careful or we will turn chibi's wonderful thread into another inuendo filled weety's! and now she has turned to the drink to escape it all

and now she has turned to the drink to escape it all

sounds like famous last words or rather an epitaph...

Get those kegs over the lycra and leap tall buildings in a single bound Monkeytroll

Hope to get a couple of pics up tomorrow.
Made slow progress with housework and pipe insertion
Moderate success with some magnets on the ladders but am fairly happy with the way it is going at the moment.

Now behave yoursleves you lot before I start wanging blackboard rubbers and keys atchya!

You're going to sit there and tell us about slow pipe insertions and then tell us to behave

How are you attaching the magnets to the polystyrene? You putting a thin layer of plasticard over the top to keep them in place, or just several coats of pva?

Popped in some magic sculpt where necessary.
I have coated the polystyrene with a mix of universal filler and PVA so there is a crust on top. A couple of the magnets were simply pushed in and collaosed the surface into a crater.
It was okay just to use some CA to attach the magnet.

glad monkeytroll is always up front when there are naughty questions to be asked, so i can now sit back relax and just tststs ...

hehe
Can't remember who suggested fly net mesh for the walkways, but it arrived today and looks to be very promising.
Looks like it will also be good for metalic mesh flooring too.

Under £4 delivered should be plenty to keep me going for a while.

Hope to have some photos soon
Thanks again for all the interest and keeping me company on the project.

*coughmecough*

Still wracking my brains to think who it was who tipped me off about fly mesh



A few pics of what seemed a lot of work for little change for some reason. Took longer than I wanted to get this much done. Have pinned the ladders as well as using the magnets which did not work wholly satisfactorally tbh.

Was wondering if the terrain could double for Anima Tactics as a sort of Wissenschaft type place, but the vibe would be totally different imho. Used XII for scale in anycase just to see.


added some pipes as can be seen but not worked out the ladder position on a rotation of the wall. That will have to wait.

Constructive crit welcomed please.

the pipes look lovley...no cnat possibly write that...cool!
thats exactly how i pictured it to be...i think your on to something big and cool here.is the little black plate on the second pic some structured special plasticcard from the modelshop? looks also really cool. this will be a very good and fun pice of terrain to play on. your libby kids i only can envy.

vik

Thanks Vik

The black plate is from a pack of pads for sticking on the bottom of things to stop them scratching the furniture!
Have seen a better value set in the poundshop.
Same price but all the pads have a suitable anti-slip texture on them whereas thie one I have for now has a lot of felt pads. Most are circular on the other set but will be able to use for bases and manhole covers etc.

Only downside is that they are on a spongy material but will work ok I reckon.

The pipes are made of sprue wiyh the bends made out of an inner core from TV aeriel cable. This is a nice bendy plastic, and once you take the copper wire out, you have it pre drilled for a pin. Also the rubber outer sheath can be cut into rings for the mating plates.
I also used the same for the ladders, by sticking the sheath into the polystyrene with NoNails glue, and the inner tube over some paper clips. I split the sheath length ways so the pin could go in and out more easily.

Have had an idea which will try to illustrate as soon as I can.

Also, mentioning manhole covers, what about manholes that gangers can go down and pop out somewhere else?
It would be a great way of getting around and could be used as a sort of deep strike eqivalent/ WHFB miners etc.
But there would have to be a risk involved.
Who knows what may lurk in the drains and tunnels of the Hive? Yikes!!

Wow looks really good Chibi , you have turned a piece of junk meterial into a peice of art, your pipes and ladders are drool...
great work mate, the paint job on that assasin fig looks very nice too. and in the spirit of christmas here is a nice present.. this website has inspired my art for about 4 years now , i think it is time to share..if you havent seen it already he has some amazing pics of abandonned factories and buildings, the rust and junk are really great and his photography is top notch. happy browsings mate..http://www.abandoned-places.com/

That piece is coming alone great. The pipes caught my eye in particular. Great use of a zip-tie.

hello chibi, jep thats for sure a good find to use these suitable anti-slip texture pads. if your in search for other technical looking textures i recommend the sweetsection of your local supermarket. try pralines . they often have waffellooking textures for packaging materials, you know the golden or clear looking plastic forms where the sweets are waiting for you to get devoured by you...my wife sometimes likes some local ones here in berlin and surounding and they have perfect hatchholesstructure... will take a pic in the morning for you. i have collected quite a fiew of these materials and will use them in the future too. as i have written here somewhere when i go shopping the actual tour through the market takes me a good deal longer as i always picture the objects seen in new paintjobs... i recently discovered a bottle/cup for cold capuccino...is really multicurved and looks really good for supporting structures with a twist in simple forms...

vik

Know what you mean Vik
Have some similar packaging but the texture isn't quite right. With Christmas coming up though...
The one I have at the moment however will make excellent cobble stone sections for other projects and have cast some resin bits as a test. Will try and get some pics done too.

Neil that photo is very timely as I will explain later.
Not looked at the website just yet but already licking me chops

I think the modelling is probably finished until after Christmas. Which is a shame as the momentum is getting going. Hope I will be able to pick it up again.

Have some ideas and will try and get some concepts done.

well, saturday we went to our favorite friendly swedish frurniture warehouse namly IKEA, wenwent through the lower section instantly and there in the midst of the bureau section i discovered this:

http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/20097954

i asked my lovely wife if i might buy it and she actually said yes! i wasn´t prepared for this^^ i have recently played with the material a bit and recommend it strongly as it is a flexible hose that has paralell rings instead of the ususal spirally ones normaly found. i have yet to find a good use, but for your underhive terrain it might come in handy...

Is it one of those pipes you swirl around your head so it sings?

Think it is called a Liederhose
okay, that joke is pants!

Yeah, check out that website Chibi, there's some awesome stuff on there. Just picked up his book Abandoned Places 2 for my Mum's christmas present, unfortunately it's sealed so I can't have a preview before I give it to her There's several UrbEx sites that have great reference pics for necromunda terrain, as well as several books. I'm totally in love with Beauty In Decay, which was originally bought as a birthday present for my Mum, but which I ended up keeping for myself, some gorgeous pics in there (It's OK, I replaced her present with Sumo by Helmut Newton, which I found had been re-issued in a smaller size with a smaller price tag )

All those pipes are excellent(ly inserted). I really like the under hanging pipes...it just makes the building come to life. It is often the small details that make models pop

Peter

Hey Chibs , i have another Urb ex site , this one is bigger but less precise http://www.forbidden-places.net/explo1.php
@Monkey i didnt know he had a book out.. are they any good? is it different stuff from the website , or more the same? and obviously you and your mother have good taste!

As far as I know he's got 2 out, Forbidden Places and Forbidden Places 2. I'd imagine a lot of the stuff is on the website, haven't seen the first and I don't want to break the shrink wrap on 2, so I'll let you know after christmas

Thanks for the linkys. Bookmarked for reference!
great pics in there

Wow, I haven't looked at this blog for while. But the building is comming around nicely. I like the look of those pipes.

Not sure if I should post this but what the heck
Just quickly cobbled together I was thinking of a gunky pool with debris, fallen masonry and stuff best not mentined in case antone reading may be about to eat
There would be "stepping stones to get across but best not fall in and goodness knows what mutant beasties lurk therein.

Will try and get something better done over Christmas.
Also thought of discharge pipes in the wall section.



couple more gang concepts as the idea slowly evolves.
Needs a lot of work and am hopeless at choosing weapons and equipment
will worry about that later but may require assistance.



Thanks as ever for looking and your encouragement

looks cool, the pipes sticking out of the styro wull look really cool and add to the sewer/ underhive look so well...
aslo could you show us what kind of tablet your using for you artistic sketches? i was long ago longing for the buy of one of these but it got postponed into oblivion...