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Good stuff mate! Muties look superb. I especially like their blueish skin.

Thanks a lot, mate! That's at least one person who thinks that skin turned out alright, then

Today I'd like to show you something a bit different, that is some pieces of terrain I was working on some time ago.

I’ve been looking at different options of building some modular terrain for use in games of 40k and Inquisitor for quite some time now. After building a silly amount of cityfight terrain (that eats up an equally silly amount of storage space), I was a little hesitant to undertake the next terrain building spree: I felt that any new terrain had best be very versatile and modular for maximum usefulness. It would also have to be easily storable, so no more cathedrals for the time being…

Then, while shopping for boring stuff at the DIY-superstore, I came across these:







Now I couldn’t even tell you what these things are normally used for – especially not in English. They are used by electricians when working on electrical outlets or something — pardon my spotty knowledge when it comes to electrical installations.

But I instantly realised that these could be really useful for a terrain project: The smaller part seems immediately useful, and you may call me crazy, but the longer piece gave me an almost art deco vibe. Does that make sense?

Anyway, those were super cheap, so I picked them up and got to work:

What I wanted to try with these was to create some simple, highly versatile and modular industrial terrain that could be used for 40k but would be even more useful in games of Necromunda or Inquisitor 28. So I put each of the pieces on a base cut from foamcore and added a couple of bits:





To the small piece, I added a couple of small brass tubes I had lying around as well as some corrugated cardboard, cork chaff and one or two pieces from an old model truck. And behold, the thing was instantly transformed into something looking very …industrial.

I did something similar to the longer piece, adding some bits to give an idea of scale to the whole thing and to make it more interesting visually. Here’s the result:





All of this was really quick and easy work, and I only needed some leftover materials and a couple of bits. I then spraypainted both pieces with brown paint, since I would probably end up going for a rather dusty and dilapidated look amyway.



As usual, the uniform paint helped to tie everything toegther. I think it’s immediately obvious how this could work as a piece of terrain. Here’s a scale shot with an 28mm model:



The other piece got the same treatment. Lo and behold:





And again, with a model:





Granted, one of these alone is fairly unimpressive. But imagine several of those pieces that can be freely rearranged to create all kinds of different setups: You could simulate corridors or a kind of labyrinth. And the fun doesn’t end there: Just build a number of modular walkways to connect the different pieces and add some verticality. Or add some taller buildings for even more variety. These pieces could even be combined with my regular cityfight terrain! And the fact that they are fairly small and robust also makes them rather easy to store — what a relief!

Of course, these pieces will yet have to be properly painted, probably with huge amounts of weathering and rust. I could also add all kinds of security warnings and/or propaganda posters for more authenticity and that particular underhive look.

It probaly won’t surprise you when I tell you that I went back to the store the next day and got a whole bag of those pieces. About 8 Euros gave me enough stuff to fill up quite a lot of space on a normally sized Necromunda/INQ28 table. I’ll keep you updated on the progress!

Sometimes it’s lucky finds like these that makes building your own terrain that much fun! But then, maybe it’s just Karma’s way of paying us back for all the hours we spend sitting hunched over little plastic men. Who knows? In any case, whenever you’re at an DIY-superstore, keep your eyes open for useful stuff like this. It may make your visit to the store just that much more enjoyable ;-)

As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

Oooh ooh ooh, how about you do up the long building as a food kiosk? You could do it with the shutter over the serving bay closed so you don't have to piss about with the interior(stick a rectangle of corrugated cardboard on one long side and build a rim around it maybe?), and do it either as a really grotty "local" place with a couple of lighthearted elements(a "Soylens Viridiens Burgers - Only 1 Crown!" sign perhaps? ), or a really dull, grimy Administratum-run worker's diner sort of affair, like the one out of the Ravenor books.

That is a BRILLIANT idea, Yodhrin! I will definitely give that a try!

"Soylens Viridiens" really made me crack up, too!

 KrautScientist wrote:
That is a BRILLIANT idea, Yodhrin! I will definitely give that a try!

"Soylens Viridiens" really made me crack up, too!

Cheers

I can't take credit for that one, I think it came out of the Ciaphas Cane novels, well worth a read if you've not.

Good find, those electrical boxes are great. They do have an art deco vibe, like a 1950s diner or something. But better to give them the full underhive treatment, rust and grime everywhere rather than polished chrome.

Pretty cool scenery off to a good start.

Bought a bag of those boxes for our table last year, but like everything else they are still waiting to get used. You did a great job in the circular one.

Thanks a lot, guys!

@ Bruticus: I'm glad I wasn't the only one getting an art-deco vibe off these things. While I will be giving them the "rundown and dirty" treatment alright, the diner idea is just to good to pass up. And after all, even underhivers have to eat somewhere, right?

Here's a crazy idea for you all: What about trying to do a 40k version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks

Now that I've had the idea, I cannot seem to get it out of my head...

 KrautScientist wrote:

Here's a crazy idea for you all: What about trying to do a 40k version of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks

Now that I've had the idea, I cannot seem to get it out of my head...

I like it! Doitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoit!

A couple of muties at a table, maybe a bounty hunter drinking alone, a juve playing a pacman type game. And to top it all of, an escher on the street corner, "pedaling her wares"

Yes as above but with a tatooine cantina vibe thrown into the mix.

DO IT!

Hmm, I actually can't get the idea out of my head now. So time permitting, I will end up doing a 40k version of Nighthawks sooner or later, I guess

Only a small update for now: I finally got around to writing a piece of background for the two twist brothers I posted some time ago:



Augustus & Cluggan Galth, Bounty Hunters extraordinaire

Who can say where the Brothers Galth truly came from? All that is certain is that they worked as overseers in the slave pits underneath St. Sabasto’s Reach’s Hive Primus when Inquisitor Antrecht investigated rumours about a chaos taint within the world’s ruling class. He encountered them in that hellish place, and while Antrecht may have made some staunch allies during his stay in the slave pits, the Brothers Galth were not among them.

Cluggan Galth was a monster, an imposing slab of muscle, as immune to physical pain as he was to pangs of conscience, yet also dim-witted and simple. His brother Augustus – malformed and diminiutive in stature, but wily and cruel nonetheless – was the one to watch out for. He had clawed his way to the top of the underhive, due to his own devious machinations as much as through leaning on his brother’s physical prowess. But he wasn’t content with his standing and nursed ambitions far above his station.

All that came to an end when the results of Antrecht’s investigation deprived the planet of its elite: When the corrupt rulers of St. Sabasto’s Reach fell, the slave economy they had established was thrown into an uproar. And all that the Brothers Galth had worked so hard to attain was lost.

This could have been the end of their story, but Augustus had always been good at recognising opportunities. So when the lesser nobles houses began a struggle to fill the vacuum of power that had been left by the Inquisitorial purges, The Brothers Galth earned a new place for themselves, working as enforcers and bounty hunters for the world’s up and coming nobility. And even though their new employers may have found the twisted creatures distasteful, there was little question that the brothers got the job done every time.

Their service eventually earned them a writ from the new planetary governor, affording them all the rights of an Imperial citizen as well as free passage through the whole subsector. And so the Brothers Galth embarked upon a new journey, their single ambition to run down the Inquisitor whose deeds had cost them everything…

Yet another cool conversion of the nurgle lord!
Great master blaster theme!

Thanks a lot, Baiyuan

Although the following models were built for my Traitor Guard, I'll still post them here since they should also work rather nicely in ganes of INQ28.

First up, my first finished squad of chaos cultists, led by a traitorous commissar.



And here's a renegade psyker I converted from a WFB Chaos Sorcerer. I think this guy would work rather well as a cult leader or "end boss" in a campaign of INQ28:



If you want to see more pictures or learn more about the conversion, just check out my Chaos thread.

As always, thanks for looking and stay tuned for more!

psyker is cool, and I like the head swap on the cultist commissar

Thanks a lot, Rogue Wolves!

Just a small terrain project in today's update, although this may be just the right thing for slow days, when you want to get something done on the hobby front, but don’t feel like breaking out all the colours and really going to town on a model. What I'd like to talk about today is how to make some quick and easy barricades for use as scatter terrain for games of Necromunda, Inquisitor 28 (or any other skirmisher, for that matter) or even good ol' 40k.

For me, everything started when I saw this picture on DRommel’s Savlar Chem-Dog plog (very much worth visiting, by the way!). There I saw this:



(image appears courtesy of DRommel, of course)

This barricade looked quite excellent and fairly easy to duplicate at the same time to me. So, full of inspiration, I sat down to reverse-engineer DRommel’s recipe and build my own barricades in very short time with nothing but leftover stuff. Here’s how:

I. What we need:

Here are all the ingredients. The good news is that you will probably have most of this lying around anyway



Some pieces of foamcore. For this you can basically use all the leftovers from other projects. You’ll need a couple of longer cuts, though, to make the bases for the brarricades.



Some corrugated cardboard. This comes in all shapes and measurements. Be sure to use cardboard that’s easy enough to cut. This will make for very convincing corrugated metal and help to break up all the otherwise smooth foamcore surfaces.



A couple of bitz. Anything goes here. Choose whatever you find at the bottom of your bitz box. Vaguely technical looking parts are best. I used some parts from an old model truck and some stuff from an old military terrain kit. Oh, and pieces of leftover sprue make for great sharpened stakes! And we all have tons of that stuff lying around, don’t we?

If you want to follow this recipe, you’ll also need some basing materials. Sand, cork, whatever you like.

Right, let’s get started, shall we?


II. What to do:



I started by drawing the outlines for the bases on some bigger pieces of foamcore, using a 40k bike base as a template. You can make all of the bases the same lenght, although it may be a good idea to make some longer and some shorter ones for added flexibility. I cut out the bases using a craft knife.



Then I beveled the edges of the bases with my knife. I did this so they would look more natural on the tabletop. Don’t worry if your bases – like mine – do look rather messy at this point: We’ll be able to fix that shortly!



I cut smaller pieces from the leftover foamcore and corrugated cardboard. These pieces form the main body of the barricade, so make sure to have a nice selection of different lenghts. The less rectangular the shape, the better.



I then glued the smaller pieces onto the bases using wood glue. I tried to make this basic construction look pretty haphazard, like random pieces had been collected and thrown together.



Then I added the corrugated cardboard to add some additional variety…



..and repeated the same step with the leftover bitz, sharpened pieces of sprue etc. At this point, the basic construction was finished.



Then I added my basing materials to the bases, using wood glue to glue them down. In this particular case, I used a mix of GW modelling sand and small pieces of cork. I also used the glue to seal all open areas of foam, so the foam wouldn’t disintegrate during the next step.



Then everything was painted using cheap spray paint from the craft store. I chose brown as a basecoat because I wanted the barricades to have a rusty, dilapidated look.

As you can see, the unified paint did a great job of tying together all the disparate parts. I then stippled GW Vermin Brown onto the barricades, creating patches of rust. Then I drybrushed the edges of the barricades with GW Boltgun (also stippling on some more Boltgun Metal). Then I painted thinned down Vermin Brown into the recesses — especially on the corrugated cardboard! The sand and cork on the bases were drybrushed with GW Bleached Bone. And lastly, I used GW Nuln Oil to paint on patches of oil, grime etc.

Here are the finished barricades:



This was the easiest recipe I could think of. These barricades come at basically no cost, and you’ll be able to churn out a ton of them in no time at all! Of course you can add some more variety by adding different colours, propaganda posters and all kinds of bitz. Ultimately, this may be the easiest terrain project I have ever done (and probably the one with the most bang for the – nonexistent – buck!).

Let’s wind up this post wit some shots of the barricades and some models. These photos also show you how flexible the barricades are:



Some twists behind a single barricade



A gang of twists defending their ramshackle fortifications

Now, I do of course realise that this little tutorial is not really that spectacular or creative to begin with. But I wanted to show you how easy it is to get started on smaller projects that may someday evolve into something as spectacular as Bruticus' hab block here (seriously, check that thing out! It's completely off the hook!). Small scatter terrain like the barricades above will come in handy during games of Inquisitor or Necromunda. And, as I have tried to show you in this post, it’s ridiculously easy to built, at basically no extra cost!

Thanks to DRommel for the inspiration, and as always, thanks to you for looking! Have a great weekend and stay tuned for more!

Some awesomeness going on in this thread. I am subscribed!

Simple yet effective, good work.

Dude the muties look so good in their scrappy habitat. That last pic is just so cool.

The barricades really look the part and were so simple. Cool stuff.

^ agreed!
It is a good tute, scatter terrain can seem daunting but this shows how easy it is to get a lot done cheap and quickly!

Lovely stuff .. really like the chaos sorcerer conversion too.

Thanks a lot for the kind words, guys!

Indeed, finfing such an easy recipe in a hobby were often things seem to be so difficult is quite a joy in itself!

Man you just don't stop You are a modeling machine! I love, love, love looking at your threads Keep going

Thanks a lot, Nashbashem!

Right, I realise that it has been some time since I last updated this thread with a new INQ28 model, so it's about damn time! Today, I have a couple of new WIP models to show you:

First up, an Inquisitor that I built some time ago: He's a rather simple kitbash from a couple of GK parts and the lower body of a Chaos Sorcerer Lord:







I wanted him to be immediately recognisable as a Psyker, so I chose his equipment accordingly and used a pretty wizened head (from the WFB Zombies).

I also built a second Inquisitor, and though it seems problematic from a gampeplay perspective, I cannot help but see these two as a team of sorts, brains and brawn, if you will. Anyway, here's the model:



This guy is a Puritan of the "Fire and Brimstone" sort, and I guess it shows! With this guy, I wanted to enforce the notion that he was really all about physical conflict, so again I armed and armoured him accordingly.

I really can't shake the feeling that these two are working together, maybe as some kind of Hereticus team tracking rogue Inquisitors? I don't know. Help me out here, people

Oh, and I also have this to show you:









I can't even tell you anything background related about this ...guy, although I kept thinking "Unbound Daemonhost" when I built him...

Anyway, all of these are still WIP. Still, C&C very much welcome, as always!

looks really good kraut. I guess my one suggestion to you is put some broken chains on the daemon host to really make him look like he broke his chains and what not. but again thats my two cents.

That zombie head is such a great bit for conversions. I accidentally used it on all the sergeants in my list and the damned army back in the day!

Loving the unbound daemonhost. Very inspiring. Not something I've ever seen before. He looks very playfull...

Nice Kraut!
I have been thinking about the last few days what I could use as some tzeentch daemons, and with a bit of tweaking your idea is not half bad!
What did you use for tail?

I guess you will make them a bit more bloody and Khorn related.

That unbound host looks great! He(?) immediately reminds me of Pan, with the horns and that pose. I'd say he needs a bit of loose chain hanging off him somewhere to really bring the unbound thing home. Otherwise it's a great daemon.