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With Chicago Bolt Action being set with about 3-4 tables worth of my terrain for events like Operation Sting and Adepticon, as well as just finishing a table for Frostgrave, I thought it was time to revisit the old Necromunda/40K terrain bundle for Adepticon and other local events. With that in mind, and after having played through Borderlands once again, I decided to take a crack at some non-Imperial terrain - an Ork Shanty Town. Much like my previous human shanty town (which is currently on loan to the guys over at Hyacinth Games, makers of Wreck-Age), these are based on old CDs, with walls of poster foamboard, covered in cereal cardboard with riveting added to the edges. The roofs are all corrugated cardboard (all of a corrugation is the smallest available - known as "E-type" - to fit appropriately into the 28mm scale). I'm adding gubbinz, old bitz, and parts from old toys as detailing. Each shanty is sized a little differently - some are large for Nobs, others for Boyz, and the smallest for Grotz.

More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/09/ork-shanty-town-wip.html

That looks great. Can't beat good, old fashioned, home-made scenery

Fantastic stuff!

I always find home made scenery so much better than shop bought stuff, especially if you put it on the table, it gives battles uniqueness that you don't get with same standard scenery that's normally available in stores

I used to scavenge polystyrene from my old work and fashion it into forts, that was along time ago however

Looks brilliant, would love to see more pictures when it's finished!

Wow - really great!! I like the corrugated cardboard roofs - so appropriate and perfect!!!

I learned the proper corrugated cardboard to use today. Great tip.

Those roofs, absolutely genius, it looks perfect. Really like the whole thing, honestly can't find anything I don't like. Best part is these can also be used for a post apocalyptic game too.

Looks promising.

My goal one day is to make dawn of war buildings for scenery...but thats a lot of work and I'm putting it off for a distant future.

Made some Borderlands-inspired alien cacti patches for my Ork Shantytown last month and just this past weekend got around to putting the last coats of paint on them.





More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/11/ork-shanty-town-cactus-groves.html

Glad to see you're still working on it, I really like the cacti, you'll have to let me know how you did it, my local gaming group would love some for their desert table!

 Supershandy wrote:
Glad to see you're still working on it, I really like the cacti, you'll have to let me know how you did it, my local gaming group would love some for their desert table!

Assembly instructions are in the blog post.

 ancientsociety wrote:

 Supershandy wrote:
Glad to see you're still working on it, I really like the cacti, you'll have to let me know how you did it, my local gaming group would love some for their desert table!

Assembly instructions are in the blog post.

Perfect, I'll take a look later

Oh cool i have a bunch of those sweet gum trees in front of my house

i was thinking about casting them before they dry out as they have a way cooler alien texture.

dried doesnt look bad ether though.

I love it! Do you just peel back one side of the cardboard to expose the corrugations, or are you able to source it like that?

Desubot wrote:Oh cool i have a bunch of those sweet gum trees in front of my house

i was thinking about casting them before they dry out as they have a way cooler alien texture.

dried doesnt look bad ether though.

These are a couple years old and don't seem to have dried out too much because I soaked them in gesso.

Coh Magnussen wrote:I love it! Do you just peel back one side of the cardboard to expose the corrugations, or are you able to source it like that?

Peeled. Exact process is in the first WIP blog post

Well dried out as in its already brown

i wanted to cast them in resin while they looked like this.

In addition to the alien foliage I completed back in November, I also finished up these Orky shanties for the Ork Shantytown table for Adepticon 2018. Many of you would ask - "how do Orks get into the Hive?" - and the answer would be doz sneakee Kommando gitz who need a base of Orkerations. They're Boyz N Da Hive.

More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2018/01/ork-shantytown-completed-shanties.html