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Hello!

So, been working on some elevated roadways, a single straight section and a 90 degree corner.




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hmm broke the page again :s

Love on an elevated highway indeed

How tall are these compared to the fortress walls? Could you for example run a highway over the fortress set single height wall (without extended double height wall section in place)?

I have a cool picture of an elevated highway crossing an abandoned hive zone and entering a fortified zone with extra height watchtowers/gateway protecting it...

I would reccomend putting a cross-brace between the 2 supports, so each set of legs is a H shape.

As much as that would improve stability, I think that it would somewhat ruin the look.

I think it would improve the look.. it seems too spindly atm.
Like it'd fall over in a stiff breeze, certainly wouldn't survive traffic or troop movements.

1 or 2 cross bars will improve stability and make it look more.. real.

yip!

Bracing will be added as options I think at the moment. Also I drew them so the legs 'slot in' so there are no single massive pieces of MDF material. If that makes sense!

I'll add the fort in later, working on my laptop which might die if I added the fortress into the scene.

I took reference from Chicago's L train and other steel structures so there is a bit of familiarity to them already - the images I looked at (Google images ) had them without the bracing, and some areas with the bracing...so I thought i'd follow that aesthetic.

I gotta sort out the regular ( none elevated road ) and also some ramps so stuff can acctually get there in game! I was thinking of some method of suspending the mr pods from below the road sections or something along those lines

How big are the gaps between the struts? Would be awesome if you could drive an LR under the road, or a rhino at the very least.

Having your pods dangling sounds pretty fun

Does anyone have basic measurements of a rhino or chimera? The measurement between each foot is 133 and that's the narrowest part at the base.



This bracing would I guess would stop a tank getting between the legs. So You could always leave one clear like in the third pic. the bracing is a simple sketch and could be developed further....


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Also, we have been asked to create a gaming board for use in shows and the like....will have to see how that develops!

Would you be able to add the bracing directly under the roadway to allow extra room for stuff to pass underneath?

Personally I think the braces make it look a bit too busy as is.

Sizes for vehicles here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Scale_Model_Kits_for_40K#Historical_vs_40K_Vehicle_Comparison

Thanks for the link, but they read small can you confirm those sizes? anyone?!

I could turn those braces into a walkway for civvies or something

Anyway, detail is always the last thing to include once everything is as it should be

Now all you need is a bridge piece (Baneblade width would be good, but otherwise wide enough for your ground road... or two...)

You also need to be able to get your hand in under or over the braces to pick up any minis cowering underneath.

WarMill wrote:
Also, we have been asked to create a gaming board for use in shows and the like....will have to see how that develops!

Does this mean you are planning on going to Salute in London?

Still got to work things out but hopefully we will have a presence there, yep.

KKK Getting serious RSI in my mouse hand!!

Have some images...Rendered 10 off - rendering inst my thing it turns out... quite hard to communicate whats actually there using default settings...as soon as i try anything out I really mess it up!

Images 5, 6 and 7 are pretty busy so I hope you can at least get an idea of wahts going on :p

ED!

Wow Ed those are looking really great, I'd love to play on a full table set out like that.

Damn! I'm a sucker for pretty CAD drawings. I'll need to start saving some pennies! For your models and to get a computer that can run something better than sketchup.

Hi Ed, that latest render looks brilliant, it's a bit hard to work out the width of the road though - - are we looking at a narrow one way road or a two way ? If it is too narrow it looks kind of like a fortress wall walkway rather then a practical road.
On the plus side if you can get the low level road to seamlessly fit with the high level then you are looking at an awesome product that deserves to do really well.

GD

very pretty pictures all round.

Very nice

To be honest i think that without the supports they look fine, otherwise to me they look as a little too much.

However that being said they look amazingespecially with the road coming underneath it, any chance at some on and off ramps and maybe some service stairs for infantry?

Hey!

Thanks for the kind comments guys!!

Having chatted with Harry, some guys at work and reading your comments....I have made a start on an alternative appraoch to the legs / braces etc....

Will run off some actual models as soon as I can!

C&C open welcomed as usual!!

Ed

OK - looking at those renders even i'm finding it difficult to see whats going on! Will get some cut ASAP to prototype the design

Nice, i liked the old supports but i agree these are better for gameplay, in fact, they look better too. Good job.

I dropped you guys a message, it's low priority so i sent it via personal message on dak. I'll get in touch via email later in the year.

now those are made of win! damm you guys how much of my imaginary lottery win are you gonna grab for yourselves...

Oh man, so i've been thinking about your clear resin bases again. Is their a definitive response from GW staff as to whether they can be used in store? If GW welcome it then i may reconsider buying the set i inquired about. Hmm...

Hello!

Some images of last nights painting sesh of Mr Orange MK2

Again, iPhone images so apologies for the poor res :p

Ed

Mr Pod, that's its name! It's name again is Mr Pod!

Looking good on the new supports - much, much sturdier, I believe they'd survive now

LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote:Oh man, so i've been thinking about your clear resin bases again. Is their a definitive response from GW staff as to whether they can be used in store? If GW welcome it then i may reconsider buying the set i inquired about. Hmm...

From what I recall, GW staff don't really care about the base. I know at my local GW there's people using other companies resin bases.

It's primarily the model that needs to be GW, the base can be anything so long as it's the right size.

Thanks Ovion. Well, looks like i'll be making an order very soon. I'll email you guys.