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Wow some cool looking stuff starting to happen! awesome!

Kleggt I've added you as well - welcome aboard! you can never have enough terrain

Finally had a sort through my toolboxes and various boxes of old rubbish I've 'carefully' hoarded to find this stuff. Some interesting shapes and features that should prove useful in a piece of terrain or two

Well got a bit of work done on my sacrifice prayer thingy mebob, glue together and used some old flyscreen mesh and some diluted pva glue.

wow Kingpin.. I seriously have no idea what that's going to be lol

Stargate maybe?!

Wanna make my rendition of a place where people get sacrificed, there will be a "table" where the martyr/poor sod will lay on, can't decide if I must go ad mech or sons of malice. That and for some reason now that I'm looking around for junk laying around in the streets or wherever....nothing seems to work for me.

Ah, street junk. My wife is sick of me saying, "Ooh, that's a nice bit of plastic!"

Working away at Ace Chem vat, gradually filling it with PVA in all the internal gaps. Pleased with how the control panel has turned out. All that's left is rivet strips up the sides of the tank, I think.




Of course there's also the surface of the liquid. That may be a certain hood shaped helmet that will be red in there.


Mmm, bubbly. I'm going to paint it as far as possible with a translucent green, so that the light from the led comes up through it.


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Of course, we need rivets here in the LOER!

And acid, obviously

Rivets! =D

Damn skippy! This is the LOER!

Anyway, last pic before painting proper:

Decided I'm going to make a bone wall...or three, to go with the new spell in ASoBaH. Not sure if this is the best way to go about it as it is a looot of hassle.

Little bit of work done, mostly drybrushing and pasting rubble around the structure. Nothing special, pics for that later.

But in the category of nifty things lying around, located an old 30ml NyQuil measuring cup, and turned into 30ml of high-speed touchscreen display.

Hah, I love that little interface screen

That vat of icky goo is looking awesome!

I like what I'm seeing of this bone wall...what was your source for skeletons?

I'm trying to decide if I want to keep my cabin as my entry for this or if I'd like to jump to something else... the cabin doesn't exactly have a lot of reused parts..

Excellent work all, wonderful ideas and use of materials. Icky goo is superb. Very interested to see where your going Kingpin, just intriguing as hell.

I am totally with you Grim, I will be starting over, mine is too run of the mill for me, it's not anything I do not do every day anyway, so need to rethink it. Plenty of time though and lots of inspiration around here so no worries.

Got some really cool looking stuff brewing!

and that nyquil cup display board - that's brilliant

I forget to which point I have kept you guys updated on the cabin...

Here's the back complete with chimney:



And here you can see the hardwood floor and small porch.

I uhh. I probably should have segmented the boards for the floor like I did the walls on the outside.. but I wanted the floor to look cleaner. And its kind of a bear to do. Basically, doing the floor like I did got it done, and trying to do it the other way may have further stalled the project.

I think I'm going to use existing/free standing furniture for this one so I may or may not be scratch building that. Regardless, none of it will be directly attached to the cabin, and in other words that means I'm almost ready to paint.

The only thing... should the interior walls have some kind of texture? I don't want to do more wood/boards. Maybe some kind of stucco? Just a thin layer enough to get a little texture on there?

The paint work should be pretty fast and easy on this one, and getting it done before the deadline means I may take time to add to the project so I'd like to get on with it. Just can't decide readily on the interior walls.

 GrimDork wrote:
I like what I'm seeing of this bone wall...what was your source for skeletons?

Thanks!, They're just some real cheapo toys from the pound/dollar store. They're a little bigger than 28mm scale so better for scenery and conversions.

Depends what you're going for, I've seen some people use dollhouse wallpaper, or just download a favorite pattern and print onto paper. If you wanted you could dirty it up, tear it up a bit, whatever, so you've got it 'aged' - heck could graffiti over it, if you're going for an abandoned look as well.

could also use drywall filler (spackle) to just give it some texture, might take some time because you'd have to try to get the texture small enough. I've not done this so no idea how long it might take.

Anyway just some thoughts!

Well, that's me finished

Let's do this!

Imgi, that is *sick*. Just need a purple suited gangster to get turned into the joker

Here's my texture problems solved, thanks for the thoughts:

Thanks mate. He's in the goo your build looks great!

looking good guys! getting excited here =D

Work in progress.


More coats down. What should I do with chimney. I would have defaulted to the grey I used on the walls...but I used it on the walls. Roof shingles will be dark grey. I could do some kind of redbrick but the bricks are much too large to be regular bricks. Could do some kind of fancy stonework pattern with 2-4 shades of tan/brown (or greys). Could just do a lighter grey than the walls. I'm leaning towards the light grey for expediency but I dunno. What say you folks?

I would go red, myself.

Like the possibilities of the skeleton wall.
Maybe run some PVA and/or plaster between the parts to fill the gaps and make them more a part of the wall and less stuck on (more "in").

Nice holo-screen.
Maybe add an outline to show the extent of a "window" within the screen.

Nice hut build.
Have a google for "feature chimney" and see if that gives you an idea. A strong red would work.

Alright, I'm about done painting the cabin. I've got a little 'victory lap' time to try and push this over the edge. The only really new thing I did was the functional inset windows. Well, and the working doors. I guess it's also my first reasonably buildingy looking building that hasn't come from a kit... But I feel like it needs more oomph.

I could custom build furniture but that seems redundant when I have three sets of dungeon saga stuff that works well as both fantasy and outdated for modern use. I could paint some of the DS stuff specifically for the cabin but that's hardly pushing my limits...

I'm thinking the best I can come up with is a batch of complementary scenery to go with the cabin. I probably don't have time to build scratch built trees (i'd need to learn how) but I could do a small area of natural/Forest terrain to set the cabin into. A 2x2' area wouldn't be out of the question... I'd need some stuff to put in there though.

Thoughts? A stone-ringed burn pile would be very possible. As far as pushing my limits... I don't know. I wouldn't mind trying s water feature but a lot of those eat up expensive materials and such.

I need to work the recycling angle more too... There're a few weeks left but I'll have to get cracking if I'm gonna have anything beyond the simple cabin.

What you want, GrimDork (and anyone else for that matter), is to give your model some "character"; give it a back-story and not just in some fluff.

Make it looked lived in. Don't just add furniture (whether that's scratch-built or kit parts), add the things that people collect. Look about your own home (or other people's if they'll let you) and mentally subtract the basic furniture of tables, chairs etc. and see just how much "other stuff" that you have.

A table is not always just standing there clear of items, shelves are rarely empty, a fire-pit (or other cooking solution) needs implements, containers and foodstuff.

The same kind of thoughts can be brought to any terrain model; think about the kind of people that will have passed through and left their mark, not just bullet holes but keepsakes and rubbish/trash.

Think about a story/fluff for your model and let that dictate what and where to put things.

It may just be something to add an obstacle to your gaming table, but those little details will give it a life to match the little running/jumping/shooting people that you will be placing around it.

^This is a good point.

I think, at least in part, that since I want to keep the cabin viable for both fantasy settings and more modern uses.. I had left out such features. I think, though, for the purposes of the competition I could just pick one and go with it. Nothing need be permanently glued down.

Still trying to think of some co-features for a small terrain area...but adding some more touches to this can't hurt.

 Dr H wrote:
Like the possibilities of the skeleton wall.
Maybe run some PVA and/or plaster between the parts to fill the gaps and make them more a part of the wall and less stuck on (more "in").

Thanks, yeah I was thinking it did need a gap filler to tie it all together. I started wondering if the cardboard was a good idea or not, but I'll see how it looks once all sides are covered.

So update on lack of update: between writing papers for school, studying for promotion test, and maintaining sanity with minor model work, I haven't done anything on the terrain piece.

Not officially bowing out, but I might be pushing the deadline on this one.

Struggled to come up with an idea from the jnk I had so went back to basics and found some cardboard tubes, cereal box card, waste paper and empty Tassimo coffee pods (other coffee machines are available...)



And so a scratchbuild starts to take shape...