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@ dsteingass- Oh man I wish. The tank is O but the rest is HO and N. It is a small matter though, I've used HO for terrain and so long as I put a few bits on it that force perspective (such as that Fuel Depot piece I did) it all works out pretty well. I agree on the truck bed but haven't come up w/ an idea that works. I will probably try painting it light blue or green so it will be distinct from the rest of the junk, but be sure to rust / damage it up so it is believable as a scavenged hunk of junk put into use as a Gang hideout. I'm going to put up one more small wall to enclose the entire 'roof' and use a hatchway to represent access in and out.

@ Camkierhi- Oh yeah, it is. My mind is spinning with ideas.

@ alabamaheretic- When I handed the guy the $20 and picked up the box I wanted to run around the flea market doing this:



@ Dr H- Ha! Yeah, that Plague Zombie won't be hanging around much once my Goliath gang moves in.

@ Theophony- I can't wait to see what I do with them either. I have so many ideas that my brain almost hurts.



Putting more terrain on the back burner for a few days so I can finish a project I'm doing w/ my Cultists. It will be very cool.

Thanks for all the feedback. I'll be making some changes and posting them as soon as I have updates.

Nice haul, Skalk.

@ Briancj- The thing I like best about it is that it is all junk. I don't feel bad about ripping any of it up.



Not much to show today, just a few small pieces. I had a few moments to model this weekend and I could not bring myself to work on any piece larger than a 3X3 base. But I did push myself to finish a few things and build a few more.

First up is a few completed pieces, two of which had some 'Dakka time while back when I first built them. The one on the far left is something I made around the same time frame but never posted.



Closeups. First piece is from the 'random bitz' weekend. Believe it or not, the base color is gray. I weathered it with salt and a lot of washes. Second piece is the chime from my Volvo painted flat green and dabbed rust over the top. Generally I prefer rust to come from the inside out, but this was a quick and dirty job that I wanted to finish so I dabbed on the rust and figure it looks decent enough. The last bit is from a 1/35 M1 Abrahams that I bought and started building during Desert Shield. It's been moved around a lot since then and wasn't shown a lot of love during those moves so it wound up in more piece than it originally came with. This is my effort to give it some relevance again, one barricade and junk pile at a time.







Group shot for scale perspective:



You'll recognize the next bit because of the blue box. I decided to use a broken 40mm and 25mm square base to expand this out a bit and be cool in a general random sort of way. I don't know what else I'm going to do with it. We'll see I suppose.



Here's a good example of a little bit extra work vs. sick of it and calling it good enough. Crates / barrels on the left are done. I don't really care that they aren't up to regular standards. I've hated this piece since I built it and it's as done as it is getting. Barrels on the right however got some extra attention and I think the fluid leaks and partial rust / corrosion effect worked very well. Subtle, but still there.



I put a lot of work into this next bit so I'm showing a WIP and then the completed build. I've been trying that 'use the old stuff I've been hauling around for 20 years' approach to these smaller pieces and I think I've been doing pretty well with that. The base is a 20mm 'mass movement' from a zombie set (or maybe skeletons? I can't remember), the main girders are bits left over from the gated bridge I started, and the rest are from the depths of my bitz box.







Next is a few things bashed together but I think it looks pretty cool. Two parts are from the original Rhino set, the the plate w/ the valve wheel is from an old anti-aircraft gun from a 1/48 set but I can't remeber what the model was. The pipes / whatever are from a conversion a buddy of mine did in '96 or '97 for his Ork 'looted wagon' Rhino, and the base is a standard 40mm square:



And finally, a shot of one evenings build. I didn't mention the base in front w/ the single barrel earlier because it's not done and I'm not sure why it is in this pic. A glimpse into the future I suppose.



That's it for this one. I'm still grinding away, just a bit slower these days. Thanks for looking. I'll be back.

Awesome terrain bits, bud! Weathering looks good and fairly uniform, so they look great next to each other. I'm partial to that first "random bits" piece.

Thanks for the compliment, and the verification that I need to salt more. Salt weathering is something I've become good at (credit to Bruticus for that) but I don't do it very much these days. Not sure why. I need to get back on track w/ that.

Yet again you show us that there is no such thing as junk, just junk piles for terrain.

"not much to show" but there seems to be plenty to look over...

The little random bitz thing is a cool little lump of machinery.
The volvo piece is good, but I think it could do with a few little dabs of darker rust amongst the rest of the rust.
The tank piece is also cool.


The blue box is going places. I like the little bits of wood sticking out and look forward to what happens on the extra space.

and all the other random pieces are looking good.
Like the rusty barrel and the leaky sci-fi barrels.

Lovin the linear cover pieces!

@ Camkierhi- I think taking random junk and turning it into specific junk is my modeling superpower. I've always had the vision, but it's only in the last year or so that I've learned how to weather and force scale perspective. It's all coming together now and I'm enjoying it a lot more (mostly).

@ Dr H- Yeah, I did notice that later. Maybe I was lowering expectations so it looked cooler. Ha. I agree about the Volvo chime. Looking at it over and over I've decided it needs some salt. The blue box keeps showing up in all sorts of places. I'm starting to wonder if it doesn't travel through time and relative dimensions in space. And I'm glad you like the sci-fi barrels. I want to do more stuff like that. I like those barrels a lot but I hate that they are plaster. I'd like to find some of that exact cast in resin.

@ dsteingass- I don't understand what you mean, but I'm sure it is something cool so thank you.



Thank you all for the compliments. I'll start putting paint on them next week or so, I'm booked pretty solid for the rest of this week and weekend. But I do have a bit to share. I didn't clean up my desk after dumping out my bitz box the other day so I put a couple more junk piles together while listening to the game last night so it would be less stuff I have to clean up.

First piece is made up of more parts from the 18 wheeler model I never built (this is circa 1980-something), some Pegasus Hobbies bits that were left over from stuff I chopped up, a part from the Abrahams, a broken 25x40mm WFB calvary base, a small bit from a train trestle, and a differential gear box from a Humvee model I bought the same itme I picked up the Abrahams.



Next is made up of the quatrer panel of a 1/25 '56 Chevy, wheel well guard from the Humvee, Pegasus plate, bit from a Space Marine Rhino hatch, window from a O scale building, some random sprue, and a bogey wheel from a Soviet T55 (?) tank.



Last one is more parts from the 18 wheeler, treadplate, different bogey wheel from a different Soviet tank, a chunk from the Abrahams, and a Pegasus grate.



I'm probably going to keep doing this for a while since I didn't clean up my desk last night either.

As always, thanks for looking. I'll be back.

Glad you didn't clean up right away. Those little barricades are awesome. Good balance on each, with just enough scrap evenly spaced out.

Your crusty weathering is out of this world. Magic!

heh in game terms, that's what all these great little pieces are: linear cover. In Munda, you'll take turns placing them

@ Moltar- So am I, though it is way outside my SOP. I start to twitch if I have more than a handful of stuff on my desk and let me tell you, there's way more than a handful right now.

@ inmygravenimage- Right back at you. I'm still trying to replicate your turquoise highlights.

@ dsteingass- Ah, ok. I didn't know that.



Nothing new to share today, and probably not for a few more days after this. I have to get my re-purposed model based and entered into graven's contest tonight (I'm finally going to finish a contest since the first LoER) and after that I'm flat out w/ IRL stuff.

My intent is to get some paint on those new junk piles. Once I have those done I'll likely try larger junk piles of a similar fashion, though I'll be using a lot of sprue for the bulk of it. I have a huge bitz bin but there's no sense in burying stuff that looks cool. I'm continuing the theme of post-APOC and the 'survivors' (aka my Cultists collection) are brutal and somewhat impractical horde of scavengers. Kind like Necromunda but on a global scale instead of a single Hive. I'm planning going to go back to my unfinished Imperial buildings, but those projects are a couple months at least (unless I change my mind).

More coming later. I'll be back.

Your rust and chipped paint is art!! Pure win

I'd like to challenge you to use a bit more variation in colors though Skalk, maybe take a few steps away from your comfort zone.

@ Styrofoam04- Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.

@ dsteingass- Challenge accepted. Pick 3 colors and I'll produce results with them.



Totally OT from terrain, but I'm posting my Dark Apostle in a few minutes. Check out my Random Projects thread (link in sig) for pics.

I'd like to see your work where something still has remnants of white paint, safety orange, and maybe even a turquoise or other blue-green shade I think your decaying junk could also use stripes of some kind or another on certain pieces.

I haven't looked over everything lately, have you done any graffiti for your larger pieces? May get dsteingass off your back a little

@ dsteingass- See pics below

@ Grimdork- No, but it's mostly due to overlooking that detail. I'll go through my pieces and see if there are any that would benefit from doing this. I have terrible freehand so I'm not that excited about it.



Not much time to post.

First up is an RJ45 female to female telephone adapter that I converted into a refrigerator. Far from finished but it is a start. Notice the awesome job I did scoring the top and sides to show the doors:





Here's the start of my larger junk pile:



A few random piles I've made over the last few days:



And finally, a rare shot of my desk in duress. Look in the top right corner for a glimpse of the first coat of white on the fridge.



That's it for now, more coming soon. I'll be back.

You have a wonderful eye (or two) to see things like a fridge from a telephone connector. These are excellent, great work.

Liking the fridge.
And I like the generator thing at the back left, that looks cool.

The fridge is great. Although it would also work as a portaloo...

The fridge just needs a whip and a hat now

Always inspirational.

Always fun to pop in and see what awesome you've come up with from random stuff. I tried it a bit, but I'm just going to wait for my deadzone terrain to come in and maybe sign up for some battle systems interiors. I just don't have "the thing" some of you guys do with making such awesome little scenery pieces

I also like the fridge and generator/air scrubber unit at the back left!

 GrimDork wrote:
Always fun to pop in and see what awesome you've come up with from random stuff. I tried it a bit, but I'm just going to wait for my deadzone terrain to come in and maybe sign up for some battle systems interiors. I just don't have "the thing" some of you guys do with making such awesome little scenery pieces

Nonsense Grim... Everybody can fiddle together linear terrain. You wanna know the big secret? (and i'm sure i'll be lynched for telling)

Don't think!

There, thats the secret... just cobble some stuff together and paint. Don't think too much about it looking good or working together or not. Linear terrain is usually junked up barricades. People don't think when the throw stuff away now do they. I never think hrmmm... does this fridge sit right next to that tire? Nope, just toss it, prime it, paint it...


( now dont lynch me guys, i told him the secret...)

The refridgerator is killer! I have a few cat 5 connectors floating around in my junk that I had no idea what I was ever going to use them for and you have me thinking about digging them out now!! Generator in the back upper left corner is really good looking too.

@ Theophony- I have over a dozen good eyes in my Chaos Mutation bitz box.

@ Dr H- The generator thing- it is a resin cast of an industrial roof vent for O scale buildings. I bought it on eBay a long while back.

@ inmygravenimage- You do realize I need to build one of those now, yes?

@ Camkierhi- Thank you for the compliment.

@ GrimDork- It's easier than you might think. Here's the step-by-step tut:

1- find a suitable base (40mm to 60mm GW bases work great for this)

2- grab a bunch of random bitz. They do not have to have any relevance to one another, you just need enough to cover the base

3- glue everything to the base (I use super glue and / or polystyrene glue depending on the application) and let dry

4- spray base coat, let dry, paint individual bitz, spray matte clear coat, done.

@ MauS- Hi

@ rustbucket- Looks like the 'fridge and the generator thingy need to be bumped to the top of my list.



Had some modeling time last night so I have some new pics to share. Everything is still WIP.

Mostly finished, just need a few finishing touches:



A bit of work on the fridge. Texture is on purpose, used a stippling effect. The tissue on top is holding the door handles I am going to use later.



I have no idea what this is supposed to be, but it looks cool.



More work on the barrel. I think I did a decent job on the muck inside it



That's it for new work.

A question for all of you that follow this thread- what level of interest would you all have in a quick 'linear terrain' contest? Would it even be appropriate? The current LoER contest is wrapping up soon, inmygravenimage's repurpose contest is over, and I'm not aware of anything else going on.

I don't think this would seriously distract someone from a current main project.

Majority feedback by Monday morning decides if I do this or not. Your vote isn't a commitment to participate, I'm simply looking for your opinion of a contest.

Thanks for looking, and thanks for contest feedback in advance. I'll be back.

Muck looks awesome, Skalk! Fridge is coming along nicely, junk pile looks suitably junky and that pylon looks like it totally fits right in. In terms of your contest, what do you mean by, "linear?"