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I love the stackable containers...

WarMill wrote:Thats a sweet board Pekel, makes the compound set look like so much stuff when laid out like that!

Thank you - and that's not even all of it! There's still a small fence section and the four watchtowers not used on that table.

My brother and I are excited to play a game in the next few days using the new terrain - an IG army holding the compound against an Ork horde. I don't want to flood the topic with my pictures, but if you'd like I can post up some shots of the terrain in a new configuration covered in painted minis. The modular nature of it makes it a real pleasure to play around with, and it lends itself extremely well to a ton of scenarios.

I would love to see how other people use their new stuff!

we'd love to see some more pics of your stuff! We're so busy we don't get much time to actually hobby for ourselves, and it's really cool seeing what other people do with our stuff

Cut a couple of build testers for the little storage unit / outpost building to test the construction, they went together very nicely, only taking a few minutes to build. They need steps, and they guy who painted our big fortress suggested having a walkway going all the way round for the second level which I reckon is a pretty hot idea, then detail adding. They're a nice size and we should be able to get them out at a good price. Other suggestions are welcome as always

Oh yeah I should also mention the bits on top are only needed for stacking the buildings. I should have taken a picture without them really

Buildings can be used without legs

Uh oh someone forgot to remove the stacking legs before they sprayed...

they look excelent and the idea of a walkway is very cool, can you make the walkway so that they fit together because these look like excelent emergency fab housing, cut a few windows and add some perspex glazing to the inside and boom you have a nice field officers quarters or med lab.

is there any issue with doing a double wide or double depth unit?

The "stacking" clip unit looks like it would lend itself to adding a walkway unit on top rather well.

@mullet_steve hah yeah spraying them was a bit of a spur of the moment thing joining multiple stacks together with walkways sounds like an awesome idea, we'll see what we can do . Double width ones have been considered

@galorn now that could be prettu cool for a POW setup, have mesh tops with walkways for armed guards to look down on the prisoners. That would go pretty well with the Security Compound too...

Love the Con-ex style buildings, I will likely buy 6-8 of them when you get them to production.

And is there a ETA on the fortress upgrade package, will likely want to invest in those as well, at least once I receive my initial fortress order and paint it up.

Keep up the good work.

Your order should be with you this week, at least that's what the post office promised. The upgrade pack will be out at the start of the year, we're working on better box graphics for the battlesnap stuff before we release it.

Hmm...
Like the idea of the block things. I honestly prefer them without legs.I want one of those fortresses! Oh btw I would suggest not using GW names because you may be sewed so I'd get rid of any Imperium eagles.

HAZZER

Those containers would look great as part of a landing craft, like Thunderbird 2

Looking good! They look like they would fit in perfectly with the fortress.

The door bit needs some detailing but apart from that I may have to pick some up!

Also, any news on the stackable boxes from a few pages back?

endtransmission wrote:Those containers would look great as part of a landing craft, like Thunderbird 2

Funnily enough we'd just been talking about that...

Ooh ninjad by Cain! We haven't really looked at them since, we did use them as a tester to look in to plastic moulding. We'll need to look at how we'd make them as they're a lot bigger than you might think!

Detail will be added to the units, these ones are just to test the construction works.

'Elo!

Been playing Battlefield prolly a little too much recently - and made a little thingy so a mate of mine can look at his name and fav. weapon.

Ed

SV98, if I'm not mistaken. I could never get the hang of that...

That is very cool! Makes me want to get something along that style as a plaque to display my armies, maybe when the army itself is finished!

any chance of doing a G36C version?

Yeah i'll draft up a g36! I much prefer that to silly rifles anyway!!

You want Mullet_steve on it?!

Awesome Yep Mullet_Steve would be cool. I award you 50 billion internet cookies for prefering a nice sensible assault rifle to the silly rifle.

Well I recieved my 3 boxes of awesomeness, and must say I am very impressed with the items.

And in a flurry of building assembled all of them in a day and roughly a half .

I plan on painting and customizing them over the christmas holiday, and will post pics on mt Tau P& M blog here on dakka.

My only real comments are maybe for the future have a numbering system for the boards , specially for the larger kits, I figured them out due to the excellent instructions, but some perhaps younger ones may have had a bit more problems with them.

And I noticed the Security compound was made out of heavier boards than the fortress ones, and made some of the part removal a bit difficult, resulting in some broken parts ( nothing I could not fix with some superglue and insta-set ), it was mainly the backing paper that caused the problems, the laser cut did seem to have gone as far through on these as it had on the Fortress parts.

again a incredible set of terrain, and you can be sure I will be ordering more from you gentlemen, specially now that I have to have some buildings for the interior of the fortress compound.

Keep up the great work.

P.S. the terrain even smells nice, kinda like a campfire.

What are the primers you have been using on these, I want to give then a textured wall like surface with a small fine grain sand ?

Do you bond the MDF with a pva glue ?

Any chance of a Youtube vid of a contstruction so we can decide on buying.

Soo'Vah'Cha wrote:
And I noticed the Security compound was made out of heavier boards than the fortress ones, and made some of the part removal a bit difficult, resulting in some broken parts ( nothing I could not fix with some superglue and insta-set ), it was mainly the backing paper that caused the problems, the laser cut did seem to have gone as far through on these as it had on the Fortress parts.

Glad you like the terrain , if you send us some pics of the broken parts we'll send you out some replacement ones ASAP.

Synthetik wrote:What are the primers you have been using on these, I want to give then a textured wall like surface with a small fine grain sand ?

Do you bond the MDF with a pva glue ?

Any chance of a Youtube vid of a contstruction so we can decide on buying.

The big castle my mate painted was done with Plasti-Kote Mountain Mist spray, but you can get a pretty nice subtle effect by spraying with a black primer then doing a 'dry spray' with a grey primer, using just a little pressure on the can and holding it a bit further away than you normally would and giving it a light dusting of paint. Very subtle, but just enough to pick up with a bit of drybrushing.

PVA is perfect.

We have talked about doing construction vids, though hearing our voices / seeing Ed's epic beard may ruin the mystique we've been building up I think it'll definitely be worth doing, after building so many parts it'd be good to show just how quickly you can assemble a fortress. It'd be particularly good to show how to take parts out of the frames like a boss.

We're off to see our respective families over the hols now, so any orders placed won't be made until the new year. We've got a bunch of new stuff to get out there, and the plan is to start hitting up some shows with a stand to show off our wares, so any UK people may be able to see us in the wild to buy us beer / hurl abuse next year

Thanks.....
Have a great christmas.

(Hope you mean you can get to Salute)

JAmes

Have a good holiday! Hope to see you in the new year with more goodies for us!

Couldn't resist doing a bit more on the building

Cool! Makes me think that you could also do a landing pad along those lines, the possibilities are endless....

WarMill wrote:Couldn't resist doing a bit more on the building

Those look awesome, if you make the deck sections some kind of grill almost like your fence sections you made for the security compound it will have a nice prefab feel to them.

And I could easily see adding a second, third level to the stackable container buildings, and have walk around those, maybe even with a bridge/walkover to link neighboring building stacks, just put a spot for a ladder or stairway egress.

The design kinda reminds me of the Aliens movie colony, and in a very good way.

Keep this up and all my terrain budget is yours.

great scots! Once again truly epic! I will be getting my set sometime next year.

I...I have a problem. I just can't stop adding walls to things.

Wow, you guys just keep raising the bar. With every new update I see more and more to buy for my table once my gaming budget is back after Xmas.