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2017/06/22 11:39:23
Subject: The -=]_=- Terrain Competition Thread -=]_=- LoER Terrain Comp #22 "A Series of Tubes" Public Vote!
It's time once again for the LoER Terrain Competition Public Vote!
A SERIES OF TUBES
Please take a few minutes to review the entries. Stare, gawk, ogle, zoom in, send congrats to the entrants. Everyone really did a great job this time around.
Vote with your gut. We're not here to judge on strict criteria, but on inspiration, brilliance, overall composition, etc. So if something grabs you, vote!
About the LoER Terrain Competition: The main aim of these competitions is to encourage gamers and model-makers alike to go that extra mile when building terrain that can be used for playing your preferred tabletop wargame (or similar pastime - for example, a board game playing piece would be acceptable). Those taking part can expect to receive ideas, inspiration, encouragement and feedback from each other, and at the end each of the participants is "rewarded" with a new piece of terrain for their own use (that's the thing you just built). Each round has a “theme” or other defining attribute(s) that must in some way be applied to the your terrain project.
This round's theme was "A Series of Tubes". We're talking about tubes, pipes, and any other long, hollow cylinder. Use one, or many, but you will need to include them in your project. They didn't have to be the focus or main component in the piece per-se, but I encouraged entrants to find creative ways to incorporate tubes into their work. So they could use them as structural supports, or display them prominently. It's up to each entrant. Materials could include plastic drinking straws, PVC, styrene, cardboard, steel, copper, lead, clay, glass, or any other "tubular" object.
The materials used are tin foil and paper masha for the rock. straws of different widths for the piping, green stuff for the mushrooms and the ropes/ wrapping on the pipes and a cotton bud for the torch.
WIP pictures:
"Zen Garden" by Z-Ray
Spoiler:
And a photo of the garden in place behind the temple with a samurai for scale
Zen Garden was built on a section of cork tile with cereal box for paving stones, insulation foam rocks and plastic rod for the bamboo as well as under the sand to make the furrows
I wanted to go with something more natural to get away from the oil pipelines and sewers the theme immediately brings to mind (my first Idea was to make a continuation of the steam moat from my blog)
WIP pictures:
"The Refinery?" by Dr H
Spoiler:
Things to note:
This is meant to be "in use" and not deserted, so only minor weathering.
Final tube count = 57 pieces.
And one person-tube (the green, flexible walkway between the two buildings); not made of a tube, but another take on the "tube" theme.
A bio-hazard sign near some decent plant-growth; is that a good or a bad sign for what you might find inside?
A tank of inert material, kept on the outside of the building, where it can be safely shot at...
A leak under the mass of pipes.
The blast-resistant cover of some high pressure equipment (maybe?) that has no access hatch and can only be lifted off as one piece; note the small red arrows to show the lift points.
Purpose-made support frame kept rust-free by red anti-rust paint (sprue use). With wires to prevent wind affecting the pipes it supports.
The two obvious, blue fractional distillation towers surrounded by cooling pipes and sprouting many pipes to receive the fractions.
4 different rivets plastic-rod, water filter beads, drilled holes (recessed rivets), and some moulded on ones of the sloped building (that I didn't notice until far into the building phase).
And one cheeky graffiti artist, slipping in a tag when no-one was looking.
WIP pictures:
'Tubes and Walkways' by KINGPIN54 (& Little Pin! )
NOTE: KINGPIN54 submitted two entires -- one for himself, the other for his son.
"his is the small one, mine the big, he used a CD for the base and sprue for the straight parts of the ladder and pipe cut into segments, and toilet rolls."
Spoiler:
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WIP pictures:
"Necromunda Walkways" by Viktor von Domm
Spoiler:
made from cardboard tubes, special cardboard (the stuff with many holes in it...), plywood, firecracker rocket wooden rods and lots of PVA...
WIP pictures:
"Da Grog Maker" by Camkierhi
Spoiler:
WIP pictures:
"The Tower" by boundless08
Spoiler:
So nothing fluffwise for this but it was made with:
- Box from Greenspot Irish Whiskey(which is great and you should try sometime!)
- plasticard for bricks
- milliput for cement/filler
- popsicle sticks for the wooden planks
- cork pieces for the fallen bricks
- and just some sand basing for the ground
WIP pictures:
"The Imperial Inceratorium!" by kestral
Spoiler:
The Imperial Incineratorium is used to cleanse and dispose of hazardous/unclean things like toxic organics, heretical texts, heretics, etc.
Materials used: Toy game piece, parts of a solar light, yarn spool, skull bead necklace, LED tea light.
seems it is now the fashion to bring into the comps the next generation...i have to make haste so that both my sons can contribute next time the new one starts...!
Great work everyone. All very unique and ingenious. Tough to pick a favourite without picking my own.
Going to be a close one from how it looks at this early stage.
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The army- ~2295 points (built).
* -=]_,=-eague Spruemeister General. * A (sprue) Hut tutorial * Dsteingass - Dr. H..You are a role model for Internet Morality! // inmygravenimage - Dr H is a model to us all Theophony - Sprue for the spruemeister, plastic for his plastic throne! // Shasolenzabi - Toilets, more complex than folks take time to think about!
2017/06/24 22:07:41
Subject: The -=]_=- Terrain Competition Thread -=]_=- LoER Terrain Comp #22 "A Series of Tubes" Public Vote!
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), plywood, firecracker rocket wooden rods and lots of PVA...
