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 nerdfest09 wrote:
^ and that's why you're doctor hinternet eh! :-)

*Bows*
Not just a pretty face...

On the board, just to throw an idea out there; how about similar to the Space Crusade board. Mostly clean-ish with areas of damage/dirt...?

nerdfest09 wrote:The problem as i see it would be getting the miniature to stay hovering and not 'slide' off the base due to the magnets push/pull? but I think it could be done as a single experiment but a whole army could be bothersome :-)

I might see how i go with magnetizing the ONE ARM on my libby, I know baby steps! but if it doesn't seem too hard I'll have a crack at working something out for a hovering assault marine!

.... and then I'll blow gak up! :-)

now, while I have you here again :-) and yes i'm fluttering my eyes at you for some ideas //////// ///////// (that's me fluttering) I have my floors and walls for my ZM boards, but I need to find a suitable thematic style for the additions and painting? are we going to be in a dirty space hulk? or a clean space ship? or a imperial building? or a underground research facility? and how are we going to add interest to all the boards for each them? I want to include an apothecarion and or a cargo area with crates and ammo etc. but I don't know how dirty/realistic I should do it? i'm thinking fairly clean as is my style but what sort of detritus would be good?....


...sorry started to ramble, i'll let you take it from here.....

The other important part, from what I remember, is having a set (3-4+) magnets, in an array so that the create a 'sweet spot' in the middle for the target to be held in place where the fields converge.

Or something like that.
I'm incredibly tired and my main knowledge of magnets is being dredged up from some 10 years ago.

Well lets rest the magnets for now then so you can rest ;-) how about we focus on the board for a bit instead? how's that? ...better?...good, lets begin.

DrH, that's a good example dude, not too broken and shattered but still with grime and could represent a ship being in constant state of maintenance? i'm thinking ship now instead of building, but really it could be both couldn't it! I like the idea of the spent casings on the floor too, might have to have a room with a heavy fire fight taken place :-)

I like the idea of a dirty rotting hulk, you could do the Terminus Est, Typhus's ship.

I'd like to see the inside of the flesh tearers vessel. It can be clean and nice looking, and a good place for your opponents to be trying to board.
It could also be used with guard models. A chaos vehicle almost demands a chaos army be present.

 Theophony wrote:
I'd like to see the inside of the flesh tearers vessel. It can be clean and nice looking, and a good place for your opponents to be trying to board.

Thats a really good idea Theo would give Damo a real good reason to go all out on this baby.

 GiraffeX wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
I'd like to see the inside of the flesh tearers vessel. It can be clean and nice looking, and a good place for your opponents to be trying to board.

Thats a really good idea Theo would give Damo a real good reason to go all out on this baby.

YESYESYESYES! the vessel will be my Flesh Eaters ship!! OMG! thanks heaps guys! now I have FOCUS!

and a bunch more questions! it shall be well maintained as it should being a vessel of the Emperors finest and I'm thinking I need some banners on random walls over the place? perhaps victory trophies of bones/skulls etc on display somehwere? what sort of rooms do they have on a ship good for detailing etc? how about a captains command deck? computer consoles and servitors, a pulpit and other stuffs? Oooh a reclusiam! need pews now......

and pictures for inspiration? pleasePLEASE post them in here for me to peruse! I'm not up with many images I can think of but any and all if you guys know where they are then chuck 'em here and lets get our bulging Nerd brains together! I'll have pics soon, on Friday I can get a fair update up, not much paint wise but certainly enough for us to get brainstorming!

Ooooh I'm excited now!


...did I mention i'm Excited?

Marine arming chamber. You can cut up some marines and put the armor bits on a stand. Have servitors to attend them. A sleeping cot and a table with a regicide board .



Definitely an apothecarion. A few slabs for surgeries, a holding room for harvested gene seed and organs. A stock room for bionics for post battle attachings. A place to toss the dead.

Armory with servitors bound to their desks/workstations. Tech priest overseer. Maybe a side door that leads to the motor pool.

The tea room with billiard tables, scones and crumpets

You should totally do a command deck Damo. It'd make for a great objective area. Did you happen to get in on the Battle Systems KS?

merry christmas damo!

sounds very lofty i know you can pull it off and make something awesome. take care and have a good one

Thanks Bama & snrub & Theo :-) I didn't get in on that KS either, I don't really follow them much and will just have to wait it out and see what gets produced by some of them!

I'm thinking yes to a command deck, and an apothecarion! I have 3 of the 'mules' that I saw on Theos thread that are just perfect for operating tables! and combined with my clear specimen tanks i did a while ago (if you remember?) should be a good start to that room.

Command deck, wow, that's gonna be epic :-) I have a rogue psyker model I will cut up and place into a sunken 'pit' with cables and wires out the wazoo! he can be my navigator? and I have some sheets of very very thin wood veneer I can literally cut to fit in areas and varnish for a real wood finish! Ooooh nice :-) of course they should be held in place by rivets! computer consoles I got from Armorcast and the clear acetate ones I have already can be used somewhere too.

would you guys mind if I take pics and show you all the different bits I've got to use for the project on Fri? then if you see what i have already you may be able to come up with some good placement for them in conjuction to the tiles I will make? I want to spread the details out but I also don't want it to be too sparse :-0

Mess hall with muffins?...... so gonna do that,...... may have to buy a Command Rhino from FW for the sitting marines ;-)

The reason I mentioned the BS KS was because it has some nifty terrain piece like....




and



I'd imagine stuff like that would be useful for command decks and an apothecarion.



I'd love to see pics of your bits
Also the Navigator pit sounds like a good idea.

very ambitious damo.

totally take a pic and show us the bits so we may be able to give you some insight. that wood veneer sounds super cool

when theo said crumpets all i could think about was boarderlands 2 and tiny tinas assault on dragon keep. sounds very cool

The psyker navigator actually gets a whole room of his own (well, shared with the other psykers).

I wanna see a sparing and training room, like the often used in some of the HH books.

Can I use rule of cool and still ad a dude all wired up for looks? :-) we can make up a job description later? maybe he can just be a navigator servitor or some such?

snrub, those things look wicked and very much what I have already in mind! we're definitely on the same track here!

and i shall indeed photograph my bits for you!

Some pics I found on the net

Loading Bay



Medi Room



Corridor



Bridge



Bridge 2



Engine Room

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Can I use rule of cool and still ad a dude all wired up for looks? :-) we can make up a job description later? maybe he can just be a navigator servitor or some such?

snrub, those things look wicked and very much what I have already in mind! we're definitely on the same track here!

and i shall indeed photograph my bits for you!

I just finished reading Betrayer, it has a female bridge woman who is only the torso up human and has wires holding her up to the roof attached to her head. Her lower half is connected directly to her station on the bridge. That would be an excellent conversion bit of work.

Also a hangar bay or drop pod launch station

Awesome pics dude thanks so much! I love the engine room one, I think I may do a cross over of an engine room and storage area? then I can keep my tiles down to a bare 16 of them half engine, half ammo crates and mechanical equipment!

the medibay is nicely done, I can certainly pick aspects from nearly all these images to incorporate along the tiles! the coridoor has some good points too, i like the cylinders on the walls, that's a good idea to add detail to areas of dead space?

the bridge, the one thing that jumped out at me was the metal bars that appear to go from ceiling to floor? a good idea to add something onto without cluttering the fighting spaces

my mind is churning so much right now I'm nearly making butter!


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I just finished reading Betrayer, it has a female bridge woman who is only the torso up human and has wires holding her up to the roof attached to her head. Her lower half is connected directly to her station on the bridge. That would be an excellent conversion bit of work.


Done! perfect image for me Theo!

A few more















When the lights go out

Ho Ho Ho yes they are some serious cool pics! :-) when the lights go out...... Eeek!

I like the ZM shots! I might rough up a few parts on the flooring to get some rusty effect down after seeing that! and the screen shots from I think it's Alien? pipes for the win :-)

I also just went and spent a few dollars buying the Crowmanyians from Anvil to convert as Techpriests and servitors! I want to have a sense of place in the board and having menials around should do it! just need to find some mechanical claw bits!? (also got a tox trooper squad to turn into my Necromunda gang!)

Man... I turn my head for a minute and you completely geek out on a new project!

Just noticed in the first pic with the terminator thats a drop pod in the back ground.

One of my ideas I wanted to do was a space hulk/ZM board but will probably never get round to it so I'm going to live my fantasies through you lol

Do it, live through me GFX! :-) I am your cocoon of nerdness!

Gits, don't worry dude! lol, I'm merely propagating ideas for the start of my ZM board! I have the frame work and a bunch of details but needed that little bit of input from my friends! it's hard when I don't have many real world friends who share my passion for Nerd fun! :-) your Grots are still there waiting for my caress too as well as the Kans! shouldn't be too long until you get a package from me again!

I'm not worried at all about my stuff nerdy... you aren't on any time line. Just laughing at the nerdgasm that's been going on over the last page or so!

OH, I got your package yesterday... just in time for Christmas! Thank you! Going to mat and frame it and give it a place of honor in my man-cave!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'm not worried at all about my stuff nerdy... you aren't on any time line. Just laughing at the nerdgasm that's been going on over the last page or so!

OH, I got your package yesterday... just in time for Christmas! Thank you! Going to mat and frame it and give it a place of honor in my man-cave!

Really! That's great! I hope you like it close up you deserve it mate being displayed in someone's man cave is an honor

@gits, hands off nerds package , well it's Christmas so go for it
@nerdfest, darn you and your musings, the wife is resting getting over her flu, and the kids are playing with their toys so I got to play with mine.

Mocked up a square for my own board but realized the cost for the one square.

This is quite a fun blog to keep up with. Going to have to go back sometime and bask in all of the awesomeness that fills the other 130ish pages too.

All of this talk of interiors has me overly excited about my battlesystems stuff coming in, will have to see what you come up with and compare notes when I've got my hoard of cardboard bits.

Must have engine room and power generator room, your recent "melted" terrain piece will fit in ! Be interesting to see something along the lines of the Force field generator scene from Starwars, you know just a walkway with what looks like infinity dropping away beneath.

Damn Damo! I had a few pages to catch up on! You really don't half-ass anything do you bro?

 dsteingass wrote:
Damn Damo! I had a few pages to catch up on! You really don't half-ass anything do you bro?

Nope! I sure don't dude just hang onto your hats for this arvo then! BIG photo drop today of actual ZM stuff! you'll love it so much you'll never leave..... or something like that