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Looks fantastic. I'd move that one bundle of antennas up higher though. To the top corner of the command post. It's got a big cut out right now.

This looks awesome!
Just a quick question - in this pic:

Could you use a hole-saw without the centre drill bit to get a much ceaner round for the hatch? you'd need to mount the hatch piece in a vice and then use a drill press so the hole-saw doesn't skip around, or alternatively you could use the center drill bit and just fill the hole afterwards.
That way you only have to worry about putting a straight line in - and straight lines are much easier than a circle!

Extremely impressive. Really good planning, execution. Most of all I'm just impressed by the scale. You've got a proper workshop going on there! Very jealous.

ebola_one wrote:
This looks awesome!
Just a quick question - in this pic:

Could you use a hole-saw without the centre drill bit to get a much ceaner round for the hatch? you'd need to mount the hatch piece in a vice and then use a drill press so the hole-saw doesn't skip around, or alternatively you could use the center drill bit and just fill the hole afterwards.
That way you only have to worry about putting a straight line in - and straight lines are much easier than a circle!

I guess I could have, though I don't actually have a drill press. As it is, I discarded those hatches and went with the pieces from Miniature Scenery instead, as they're laser-cut and very precise.


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Just a quick morning update - here's the fortress all primed and ready for work




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So today, I airbrushed some shading around all the buttresses and battlements, and then drybrushed some highlights over the whole thing.



Then, while watching football, I did a bit of detailing, filling in windows and outlining doors.

Great fortress! I'd love to build a similar one some day.

That Sir is an amazing piece of work ! One day,...one day.

Here is a discussion on the appoc rules that may be used for this terrain. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/561924.page
Please feel free to read and comment.

Simply an amazing project, sir. I'm wondering how you are planning on playing the battlefield itself with a fully surrounded fort like this. Most 'forts' I see built for themed Apoc games are quartered on a side of the table with only a part of a single wall side represented on the tabletop(which with the rules makes it quite odd IMO, as flanking units can get inside the fortification without house rules).

I had a rough sketch of where it will fit back in the first post in the thread. It's going to be occupying a strategic location at the foot of a passage between two land masses.

Sweet Jebus Redbeard, thats some awesome stuff.

That is awsome, I like it alot, looking forward to seeing it finished.

Small update...

I'm painting all the stuffs.

Small fiddly detail parts.

I've got the vending machines done (printed out a photo of actual vending machine contents and pasted it on to the one), the ultramarine shipping container, some trash cans, crates of ammo, vehicle repair parts, the landing pad, radar dish, and a bunch of propaganda posters ready to apply to walls.



And big huge fortress parts.



So far, I've done all the Aquillas, in gold, all the vents, in gunmetal, and a bunch of shading. Next up is the lights (dark grey and green light), the weapons (dark grey and gunmetal), and the hatches (dark grey). You can see the marker I'm using for a lot of the thin shading lines, because it's fast and easy.

The different between painting a miniature and a macroature (I think I made up a new word) is that the macroatures are heavy and hard to manipulate. Other than that, you just use a larger brush and follow the same basic concepts.

Looking better and better!

That is amazing, what fun games you could run on epic scenery like that. Very well executed.

Awesome!

Lots of painting today, but only a few pictures, because it would be a bit repetitive.



Had to stop for the night, back is giving out. But, right on schedule to be finished for the game next Saturday.

Dude this is awesome, enough said.

Redbeard,

Hey man, when enemy troops drop into the courtyard how will you dispatch them? Do you have gun turrets on the interior?

Also, are you going to make a couple of ruined or breached sections of wall for games that someone actually breaks through, and breaches?

May your beard never fallout!

Love the landing pad, and building!

In retrospect, making a couple of ruined sections is a great idea. I won't have time to do it before our game though, so maybe after.

As for enemies in the courtyard - well, that's what the opponent's troops are for.

When I visited real forts last summer, none of them had cannons facing into the fort. The goal is to keep the bad guys on the outside, so most of your budget gets spent doing that. You have to figure that anyone who gets in will be taken care of by the guys in the fort.

Decided to push through after getting home form the game today. Got the last piece's details done, then went over the bottom of all the parts with some airbrush shading with a sand color, and the around the vents with some dark shade.



One of the other guys who will be playing on Saturday took the battle cannons and anti-air guns to help out. Other than those, all I need to do is attach some aquillas and posters, and then apply a matte finish protective coat.

Wow. I'm impressed both with the speed at which you completed this and the awesomeness of the whole fortress!

That looks amazing. Finishing touches will only help. Do you have any idea how much the whole thing weighs?

No idea Moltar. I'm not even sure how I'd go about weighing it.

Now that you've mentioned it, it'll plague me until I figure it out...

Wow, this is really amazing. Great work! It goes to show what one can accomplish with the right tools.

BTW could you share a link to the propaganda poster source?

Sure.

Goggle Image Search, "imperial propaganda 40k"

Absolutely incredible! It was awesome to read through the entire blog, from beginning to end, and watch this take shape from an unadorned ("plain" would be the wrong word, given all the high school math and carpentry skill that you had to employ...) wooden structure to this monument of the Imperium!

Inspiring, man!

Got the guns back from Art, and a bunch of extra detail stuff, and it's done!

I convinced Inquisitor Coteaz to take up ownership of the fort for some photos. (for scale)



Here it is set up with the rest of the terrain for the apoc game tomorrow:

Simply beautiful.

I would love to play a game on that table (though, after looking a the "gun view" photo I think I'd want to be on the side with the fortress).

Crazy but awesome. Please do a batrep?!

I find it a little bit on the small side. You need to make a new version twice as big

M.