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It's coming along nicely Rhich. Is the back side of that tower going to be fully open like that? or are you going to build that up as well?

Also, if that zombie gets your brains, can I have your stuff?

Seriously though, watch out. He's right behind your dryer.

Luther, you noticed the zombie but somehow missed the noose? HAHAHA!

Acrux wrote:It's coming along nicely Rhich. Is the back side of that tower going to be fully open like that? or are you going to build that up as well?

Also, if that zombie gets your brains, can I have your stuff?

Seriously though, watch out. He's right behind your dryer.

Tower will get one more wall, needed to buy another Shrine of the Aquila set which I did this afternoon.


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Luther wrote:

ZOMBIES!!!!!!

The Zombie hands out candy to the kids on Halloween, unfortunately living in the woods we don’t get any kids so he’s a little bummed and hangs out with me in the basement when I work on my models. Now if I can get him to play 40K we'd be all set.

Amazing! Can't wait to play on that thing.

Will it be like a mini diorama or a really cool piece of terrain?

Begel Dverl wrote:Will it be like a mini diorama or a really cool piece of terrain?

The plan is for this to be terrain, the current piece is the front, then there will be two sides (left & right) then a rear. The four pieces can be combined to make one big building or separated to turn a gaming table into the building and fight from within.
As of right now the front is my priority and then the side walls…

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Picked up another Shrine of the Aquila tonight, notched out the stone at the base of the tower and started the left side wall which sustained blast damage.
Need to finish up tower outside walls but one panel short, trying a couple different ideas (hence the missing panels below left outer tower wall. I may just bite the bullet and buy a couple more on Epay.
Finishing up foam on left side but this is where the lighting electronics are going to be hidden so some creativity will be required in that area.
If everything goes as planned left walls will be ready for lights and floors tomorrow then back to the right wall and figure out something elaborate for the front.
Catacomb “touch-up” completed and wires all hidden, a little paint, some detailing and will be ready to permanently attach ground level floor.
Hope (and pray) to be putting some paint on this baby real soon.
Trying to leave the zombie out of the pictures, there has been complaints….. not from you guys… from him…. It seems he’s not feeling photogenic.

Wow, that thing will be amazing to play on! Can't wait to see it all done!

Wow! Who routed those tiles? They are so boss. I can't hardly believe how excellently they are done. Easily my favorite part of the whole project

But seriously, this looks amazing! If it ends up half as terrific as your train engine turned out Rhich, people will be speechless. This is definitely deserving of a place front and center to nine gaming tables pushed together for our mega battle. I can't wait to see it finished.

Extremely interesting, consider me captivated and subscribed.

That´s amazing! Should be really cool to play on that board

Slight oversight on my part, floor and walls on right side came up sort just over ½”. Took me a while to figure out, should I shorten the floor or lengthen the walls?
What I came up with was an “expansion joint” of sorts to fill in the difference, it took me a couple hours going back and forth trying to find a solution but I think it turned out OK…. One more to make and I start roof construction.
Left side also has an issue being I came up one freakin panel short and I keep getting out bid on E-pay.
I will be started on the left wall extension tomorrow (piece #2) of the four pieces to this building.

Looking really good. I have some left over panels if you are still short. Just let me know which you are looking for an I can check.

Looking extremly cool so far

Friday night, got a little done. Supposed to be gaming but between the lawn mower not starting & my car needing brakes I figured it would be one of those nights so I buried myself in the basement.
On the way home from work today I took a different way (to swing by the parts store) I drove past this really cool church in Springfield and it gave me a couple ideas…. So here’s tonight’s progress.
I found an old watch and used some of the “guts” to make my clock’s gears + the photo etched bits from the GW basing kit.
The hands on the clock actually work……
Hopefully some paint tomorrow because it doesn’t look like the lawn is going to get mowed anytime soon.

Here’s a close up of the clock, I ‘m adding more details and the making the wall more ornate. The numbers need a little cleaning up but the front of the building should be ready to paint real soon.

Finally got the second section of the roof piece cut at tacked into place, gives a better idea of the roof but pretty much the rest is all going to be damaged and caved in. Also due to one wall bit short I had to damage the tower a little to compensate for the lack of undamaged wall pieces (I ran out) so now we have an idea of what the center section of the roof is going to look like.
Now I’m going to finish my lawn.

I finished the solar collector frame and mounting. This was major because originally I was just going to mount it on the tower and figure some simple angle and leave it at that, only problem is the angle of light in relation to the panel isn’t always going to be optimum to charge the batteries to power all the lights within the building….. So I hinged it to it now rotates from roughly 60deg to 0deg horizontal and pivots about 10deg L to R. I just have to build a frame around the collector and it will be all set.
With the collector in place I can start running the wires down to the batteries and begin to wire the front part of the building.


Sorry about the pictures, I had to get on a step ladder to take them….

cbomb13 wrote:Amazing! Can't wait to play on that thing.

That's what she said?

But seriously, Rhich, it's looking great and keep up the good work. In fact, the only thing that I keep wondering is what's the plan to get it out of the house and move it?

Also, I am a bit disappointed that you never once told us about the zombie down at the store.

Is anyone else having images of Back to the Future after seeing the clock?

Good work.

wow

Popsicle wrote:Is anyone else having images of Back to the Future after seeing the clock?

Good work.

God damn it! I was going to make a Doc Brown reference

Excellent work so far.

Popsicle wrote:Is anyone else having images of Back to the Future after seeing the clock?

Good work.

First thing I thought after seeing that. Glad to know that I'm in good company =)

I was totally not thinking about that when I did it….. now every time I look at it I can’t help having “flash backs” maybe I’ll model in some cables with clamps on the end of them…..



As far as getting it out of the house, I didn’t think of that either…. After it was mentioned I did a “dry run”… I have 1 inch on either side to spare…. But the wall between the garage and the basement is wood construction…. I also checked to see if my chainsaw starts (just in case)

LOL thats just genius XD

LOL, you could leave getting it out of the basement a mystery..... Like Gibbs in NCIS getting the big boat out of his basement.

Well tonight wasn’t a good night. I spent the better part of the day doing little details to the front of the building and while all that was being done decided to rotate the building so I could work on the back side.
Not really thinking anything could happen the building was heavier on the tower side and almost went over – I over extended the base on the work surface while rotating it……
If you didn’t get it by now the building tilted and although I caught it the tower came unglued and toppled off and away from the main building and crashed to the floor .
I’ve got about six pieces of tower I just picked up, I’m going to update and then walk away, maybe watch a movie or something…………… tomorrow’s another day.

I survived the fact that the tower had fallen and moved on. Today was a pretty good day as far as progress goes.
Finished the catacombs (less debris) had to relocate one light and added panels to the left side of the catacombs then drilled out a new hole and installed the light, I might add a little wear to the walls and possibly some rusting but all in all very happy.
The spill containment around the tank is completed and the ground floor was secured (IE glued) with the addition of some gravel and what not around the base. I Also installed the power switch for the lights in the left wall which was an afterthought then tested the wiring up to this point.
The right side of the building is tacked into place and painting was started. Should have the first floor lights wired tomorrow and wires up to the second and third floors I will also have to run wires to the top of the tower for the solar collector.
Finished the solar collector framing but need to make a clear protective cover for the panel so the collector doesn’t get damaged.

Here is the solar collector framing.