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Well, street slang is always a good way to get yourself the first foot in the door to any language. I say for my own needs that I want to be able to swear properly in a pub and then I think I am fluent enough in said language...

And the now strengthened walls and floors look superb! Add the odd rivet and some steelplating and some buttress and you have a proud building...

Fantastic work!! Can't wait to see it progress!

Thanks to all.

Will start punching rivets later on, there's no way this thing will hold itself together otherwise!

More to come...

The eyes of the -=]_,=- are watching!

What the man said!

=L= is always watching.

This is starting to sound scaringly creepy...

Luckily, door has reinforced plating and - could it be any other way? - riveted bolt-locks!

Not much progress expected today, slow-time is keeping me away from the workbench yet.

Cheers

Sounds cool...but...we need pics

, I was bluffing, and my bluff got called! (I was talking about the real door, but it is just wood, not plated or bolted!

(I was just getting intimidated by so many watching eyes over me...)

Cheers

Peer pressure has its merrits

Talent draws attention is all.

@shasolenzabi et al: Thank you all, and sorry for the delayed reply.

Without further comment (Everybody knows how it is when RL gets in the way), half update, half proof-of-life:

Added the side bulkhead-look-alikes and platforms.









Side detail:



And scale shot (Yes, it is bigger than I'd thought I'd be too):



You'll notice there are no rivets on in yet, my rivet making tool of choice (revolving hole-punching tool) got seriously WIA after punching the third (Yes, actually the third) rivet the other night, so I'm sort of short of 1 mm roundlets right now, hope to fix it ASAP. But do no despair, rivets will be there.

And firing points. Lets not forget, there are two things you can never have too much of in the 41st M: Rivets, and dakka.

Thanks for reading, will be back soon.

Looking brilliant.

@Camkierhi: Thanks

Started on the firing points:



To make it count as the current bastion, it should have one on each side, featuring heavy bolters, but I don´t think one would fit on the rear facing, will see how to fix that.

On the other hand, as I said, it's significantly overgrown the present official version, so there wouldn't be much point in making it rule-compliant now.

And I reckon that fitting it with flamers instead (specially on the front, over or besides the main gate) would give it a nice, warm-welcome kind of feel...

Cheers.

Wow! That looks unwed brilliant! The fans and the soon to be added fireing points makes this one of the top cool projects I am following atm

@Viktor: Thanks, I'll try to live up to it!

Sanding and gap-filling (Those close-up shots are far too revealing) are on the to-do list also.

Reinforced edges added, and started filing, trimming, sanding and filling.





The firing points got some work done too:



Some more painting done on the League's Comp entry as well, not enough for pics yet, though.

Cheers.


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And rivets, of course.

Fixed and sharpened my punching tool, and blunted it again...

Not gonna lie, from some of the angles from the rear... it resembles a toilet.

That certainly left me wondering what kind of toilets you might have...

In the meantime, a preview of how it should look with the firing points added:

That looks fantastic. Really like the firing points. Whole thing is looking very solid now.

Man, your bastion is really cool! (and in a far more advanced state of work than mine, which make me feel a little shameful )

I really like the vents on the side and all the riveting work! It gives a nice industrial look to your bastion.

Great work mate!

Man! That is looking FANTASTIC!! Really top notch work!

the only downside atm mister is the skull on the front... it really drags your whole work down...better leave it out or even better... make an aquilla on your own!!!...

the rest is looking brilliant!

@Camkierhi: Thanks, and sorry for the late reply, it's been a busy real-life week.

@Hyenajoe: Thank you for dropping by, and glad you are liking it so far. You are sort of the creatures intellectual father, so to speak (Meaning, of course, I blatantly stole the idea from you), so your comment is doubly appreciated. If it is putting you to shame, be assured all work on it will be put on hold until your own catches up !

@dsteingass: Thanks again, it is slowly coming to shape.

@Viktor: It's just temporarily tacked in (as well as the sides, firing points and vent grills, detachable for priming and painting), filling in the too large blank space over the entrance, but I didn't find it so bad anyway, I'm sorry you don't find it too appealing... I'll give it some more thought before putting it back nevertheless, or try to come up with other alternatives before calling it (Although I doubt a hand carved aquilla will be among the possibilities!)

I spent the evening laying out the riveting on the back (if I'd done the math beforehand, I would have gone with welding instead!), and fiddling with ideas for railings for the walkways, but nothing picture worthy yet.

Thanks for reading, hope to be back with a decent update soon.

Current update: Rivets on the back.



Sides close-ups:



(The bulkhead-like side supports will get some more work on them before being considered done)

Thanks for stopping by.

That is looking

@Ruglud: Thanks a lot!

And primed:



Side supports:



Cheers.

amazing looking...i hope you have fun painting!!!

@Viktor: Not actually painting yet, but...



(I'm trying Rust-Oleum Hammered spray paint on the walls for added texture, soon to find out how it comes out)