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Where from, thats uber cheap!

Awesome stuff.

@ Vitruvian www.iplasticsupply.com

@ 92acclude Thanks man, very much appreciated!

Thanks for the link, will you let us know how good a product it is? Would be a great help

Edit: Balls! They dont ship to UK

Aww crap! sorry I didnt know about the shipping. It is exactly like the 1/2 sheets you get from Evergreen or PLastruct, sans the glossy finish (this is flat white) only it averages out to a little over $1 shipped a 12x12" sheet, where Evergreen or Plastruct from a train shop is a helluva lot more expensive. Here it can be $4-$5 for a 6"x12" sheet

The substation platform looks ace. Really enjoying your thread here

Peter

Thanks PDH! You are the one who tipped me off to the iplasticsupply.com thing! Thanks again. I will put it to good use I promise lol.

I am completely staggered back by this thread. I've started working on new terrain for my 40K table that looks "suspiciously" very similar to Necromunda terrain (I can't get my current game group to play Necromunda, but that doesn't mean they aren't battling in the Underhive... ) and the inspiration I've gained after reading this thread is so overwhelming that I feel like ditching work for the rest of the day, fo home, and have ago at this. I've been converting O-Scale model railroad buildings, but after seeing your platforms I'm going to try giving scratch-build a try again.

The platform is amazing, but what really got me going was this:



The step-by-step helps w/ confidence that I can do this, and the look is completely what I have been striving for but have been unable to achieve. Once I have some done I'll post it here and of course offer full credit to you for the inspiration.

Thanks for the www.iplasticsupply.com link, I'll be checing it out as soon as I post this msg.

Subbed and will be back for more! Thanks for sharing this!

Thanks a ton Skalk! Please, no credit is needed really, But I really do want to see what you build! I started by downloading the scans of the original Necromunda and Outlanders card terrain at http://files.sigil.biz/data/necromunda_terrain.pdf
I am fortunate enough to be an IT guy with access to color laser printers, and printed them on one, but the design can be copied to plasticard from a B&W copy really. I laid the original template over the plasticard and poked holes through the paper at all the corner points and into the plasticard with a scratch awl, then removed the template and connected the dots with a pencil so to speak. It helps a lot if you suffer from measurement retardation like I do from time to time (I can measure thrice and cut once and it's still crooked). Some may call it cheating, but I call it a practical solution

Looking awesome man! I wish i could build terrain :(

I wish I could paint miniatures!

Just ordered (1/16″) Thick HIS Sheet (White, 16 @12″ X 12″) from https://www.iplasticsupply.com/, should be here in a few days!

This is going to completely ruin my focus on my Death Guard and Cultists for a while. But worse things have happened.

My wife works for a company that has an uber-awesome color printer. I'll be sending her some pictures soon.

Thanks again for the inspiration and the link! I'll be sure to share my work as soon as I have something to share!

Have you seen my threads? I am the posterchild for ruined focus hobby ADD! lol

Well, thanks to this lovely thread, I have the site for iplastics loaded and bookmarked for future sheet plastic needs for my mad projects!

I do like how the buildings and platforms have a more 3-d look to them than the old cardboard did, I mean they tried with the painted card stock, but it all still was so flat.

You have out done them!

HAHA, yep Shas, That is partly why I wanted to do this, the original art was done so amazingly well that it looked 3D, but wasn't. I always wanted them to be in 3D, especially the 2-1/2 story building with the square tower..my favorite, and mine will be the centerpiece of this set, if not the death of me first lol.

Also, I no longer posess my beloved tattered card terrain (except a few laminated walkways and barricades), but I have bulkheads and I can scratchbuild the rest.

Speaking of inspiration, this is mine..the original staple-bound painting and modelling guide


This is still some of the BEST GW Studio Terrain ever built IMO

Edit: and I think I have been brainwashed by the text in that last photo

Well, you are a maestro at terrain making!

Thank you!
here we are ...not sure I want to paint this more, I don't want to ruin it... Any painting suggestions?

BETTER than the GW stuff imo. Your gaming group is lucky to have you around thats for sure

Well, the yellow stripes do show black through them, but if a bit if wash is put over them,, then it will just seem faded out and worn through.


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Down in the hives, only the AM are dedicated enough to go down and do re-paint and rerpairs, but only with an army of armed servitors or skitarii

yeah, my bottle of Vallejo Sunblast Yellow clumped up in the middle, my paint was very thin that I could get out...need more I guess.

Thought I recognized the pigmentation! I have a bottle of that laying around somewhere, but it may need some shaking up and mix work. Hmm, mine is topaz yellow, but looks like that on black paint base.

Uh oh...what have I started now?

That looks a doozy!

OMG I want that book! The Necromunda Painting/Modeling book looks like it has a lot of juice awesomeness in it. Your terrain is looking amazing! Great work

Curse you GW for not making that book available to all and sundry!

Keeping it sweet Dstein!

Cracking stuff.

Maybe they need a bit of tiny graffiti?

Regarding painting hazard stripes- I've found that basing white, painting yellow, then painting black stripes works well to keep your yellow from having that "black bleed-though" look. But since I don't have the natural artist thing going on and my "straight lines" look more like a little kid with a crayon, I have started printing hazard stripes and putting them on like transfers. Here's some examples:







All stripes are printed. And seeing how you have access to a high-end color printer, you should have no problem with high resolution on decent paper.

Here's a link to the stripes I most commonly use. Feel free to download and print.

http://www.withstrengthweburn.com/stripes/

Awesome thanks man! I'll definately do that for smaller stripes.

Ah, those pages bring back memories! I poured over those kinds of books.

Hmm, cool idea for stripe printing.

Awesome project! I had planned on doing something like this when I repurchased a copy of the Necromunda box awhile back, but just never got around to it. I'm hoping you keep up the steady progress so we can see a whole table's worth in the near future!