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Looking good dude.gonna be an awesome manufactorum when it's done.

EDC

Not sure I know what those are. Can you post a picture?

Something like this

Cool idea. I'll see what we can do. Might be neat in the bastion too

Added some of the interior and exterior facades to the manufactorum





Now to spend another weekend making casts

Two of three molds are producing really good resins casts.



Unfortunately one entire mold is ruined. I'm not sure if it was due to the heat (I live in Phoenix, AZ) or if the second mix of silicon I had to pour in last minute wasn't mixed property but parts of the mold never cured. The whole thing had to be trashed



I also like how I'm so lazy I make recast of hirst arts stuff so I don't have to make as many individual pieces

Man i really need to do that my self. they don't make ovals or 50mm and i dont want to eat one of those plastic walkways :/

that sucks about the mold

Yeah but it takes a lot casts for the math to even workout for these recast. Just make sure you run the numbers before putting in the time

Oh no. im no stranger to casting

infact i have a mold of that exact wall panel from those necromunda bulk heads

Ha, cool. Such a good piece once you get rid of those ladders, cardboard connectors, etc.

Close to nothing to report. Spending all my time racking my brain about how I'm going to support the to landing pads once they are 20" off the ground. The design is essentially a tall "T" with an elevator up the middle (shadow war octagon. Small two piec as elevator, large 4 piece as surround) and two sky shields on either side at the top. However making this thing strong enough to support those without them having their own pillars is presenting a challenge. I purchased some old erector set pieces off eBay to use as support girders but I'm going to need a lot more if I'm going to go that route and I'm not sure if it's worth the $$$ to find out if they'll work or not.

These work well as support beams too:

Are those evergreens I-beams? I just put in a big order last night to get pieces to cover all the gaps around the manufactorum but didn't get any I beams. I assumed that even 2 or 3 of the 3/8" wouldn't be strong enough to hold the weight of the 12" skyshield with a ship on it

Yep, those are evergreen. You're probably right about the weight,though. I guess if you used 20 or so it could work.

So I've made some progress but not sure if I want to go through the pain of maintaining the blog anymore. Photobucket just changed their terms of service on everyone to $400 a year for image hosting and dakka's photo upload program inverts all of my photos upside down.

NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Upside down pics are better than no pics! Or use imgur from now on... or email the pics to me... PLEASE DONT GIBE THIS UP!!!

Try using postimage.org really quick and easy to use :-) I was with PB and now use postimage and it's great!

Thanks for the post image recommendation nerdfest. It's working great. I already started the process of replacing images one by one.

Also thanks ember for the motivation. Will get new photos up as soon as I'm done updating the old ones

Your welcome. Thanks for not mentioning my spelling abilities. GIBE?

I wanted to try and finish the manufactorum before I posted pics again but I said I was going to post some progress and this thing is taking for ever. So here we are at about 80% pre-paint progress

Full back


Back lower floor (still has to be set on the table and that where the basement floor is already glued down)



Back upperfloor ( any guess what that huge beam going through the middle is?)



Side (still needs railings, more pipes, etc.)



Front

Is that a monorail track?

Ding ding ding!

The monorail will go across the length of the board. From outside the city wall, through the manufactorum, across the river and to the landing tower.

I think they engine/cab is going to by based off an Arvus lighter.



The I'll copy the wings and make some flat bed cars

Awesome monorail! Nice to see this epic project continue. Where did you get those stairs going from the ground floor?

Wait, you're using an Arvus for your monorail?! Doesn't that thing cost 50$?! I will expect at least 4 more when you get to the spaceport.

Jokes aside, your manufactorum is absolutely awesome. It may very well be the most ambitious and beautiful 40k related thing I have ever seen.

Kirke also knocked out the cathedral floor. Don't know why we are painting yet but he had an itch. Pretty cool how he did it. He used plexiglas, painted it black on the back, etched it with the dremil and then painted the cracks on the backside.

Dude this is amazing

That manufactorum is absolutely amazing. Beautiful work.

EDC

I honestly thought you trimmed down real black and white marble for the tile. Well done.

This is a masterwork in the making, I am SO jealous and SO subbed :-)

This is really exciting to watch.

I wish I had the patience for something like this, but I'm having a hard enough time just getting all the terrain for a couple of standard boards to a completed state!

Keep up the fantastic work.