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Sweet, looking forward to seeing it.

Sub'd
Can't wait to see more!
This deffs helps me with ideas on how to begin creating my own terrain.
Cheers

Foam core ruins with tiled floors





Cardboard Ruins WIP









Bottlecap containers after a base coat of gray

Worked the weekend, so I had limitied time in the manufactorum

I had more time and got less done, those will look cool finished out.

banged this out quick, just now




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I had more time and got less done, those will look cool finished out.

You get infinitely more painting done than I do.

I'm good at building and playing. Painting always feels like a chore to me.

That's a nice piece of scatter. I like all aspects of the hobby but its almost a chore to get the time set aside to play. Building and painting are my current focus though getting a game in wouldn't hurt my feelings

I just had a good laugh



They were not designed to go together, but they apparently do.

Hah, that's awesome, go for it Obelisk in the center of town

The obelisk tower thing looks cool

About the batteries, aren't you afraid they'l leak or anything?

^Are you talking about the barrels he's making? He mentions using a AA battery to roll the paper but then pushing it out after the glue sets, which is why batteries were used instead of all of his lame tapered markers

Thank you, I am quite pleased with the obelisk myself.

As Grim pointed out, the batterry is just used as s form to shape the barrels. It is removed before use.

Can you imagine if it wasn't ? Those would be some really tall barrels

I like how the monotlith turned out, so I was thinking that smaller ones would make awesome objective markers

Sweet, some kind of pylon. Looks almost necron friendly.

Ah alright, didn't think about just using them to hold the paper (a) Nice idea then, I should consider trying that ^^

The towers are even better when there's more of them

that übermonolith looks amazing.... I would really like to build one of these for my own... maybe a bit larger even as it would make an ideal airship station...I think it looks totally super...

the ruins are actually quite inspiring... I still want to do a whole city table one of these days ... unfortunately the idea of a steampunk / Victorian city structure is needed... I shudder when thinking about all the details needed to add...

Filled the gaps on the foamcore monoliths.

50/50 Blend of Baking Soda and PVA glue works wonders.

While rummaging around in the basement I found 3 large bags of empty soda bottles, just wating to be recycled. Raided them all for the bottle caps, then did the same with the recycle bin at work. I'm going to have a crap ton of the bottle cap storage containers.

that übermonolith looks amazing.... I would really like to build one of these for my own...

I did make templates for this project, so that I could make more than one. Eventually, I'll scan them and work up a tutorial.

the ruins are actually quite inspiring... I still want to do a whole city table one of these days ...

I realized after years of gaming that I had a cohesive collection of terrain for Fantasy, Gorkamorka, Necromunda, and modern settings. All my 40K gaming had been at the LGS or on a hodge podge collection of random Scifi terrain elements. This time I am shooting for a table full of cohesive 40K suitable terrain.

However, it's looking like they built a city and it fell to ruins on a Necron World

Sick! I may have to make some more. They're easy to paint and stack to just the right size for waist/head/extra tall cover to boot.

I think I'm goign to ask for one of these for Father's Day


Not only does it look cool, but it's lasercut card. It's basically a template to make as many as I want

That's dirty... . Nah, sounds like a good base for more terrain. You would need more of those crystals though. Wonder if I should request models from the wife or just leave it to chance...

"I did make templates for this project, so that I could make more than one. Eventually, I'll scan them and work up a tutorial.
"

I am looking forward to that...


and of course to the zillion of cap- barrels...


the cardboard terrain looks like a merger of elder and necron design...?

There is a slight oversight in the templates that requires the central crystal shape to shaved down, at the bottom, in order for the other pieces to fit properly around it. I'm still trying to work that out.



I modified the templates when I made the smaller monoliths, but that acutally made the problem worse, but ended up with a cooler looiking finished model.

Pretty sure I've figure out how to solve the problem, and I will implement the changes in the next batch

As for the Card Terrain, I didn't see the Eldar vibe until you mentioned it, but now I totally do.

Was reading through some 40K stuff and came across Grot Tanks..





While going through my art supplies I found a tub of Latex Mold Building material. It's starting to dry up so I decided to make some use of it.
Started making a mold of one of the mini monoliths.

Sweet! That's pretty solid for a first stab at one of those grot tanks.

Thanks.

It's a little wider than I intended, but I'm building it true Ork fashion, with a minimum of measurement, so things like that can be expected.

Grot Tank
I was able to jam 5 bottlecaps into it's construction. While that may not be all that impressive, it was personally satisfying to find uses for the bottle caps, other than storage bins.

Tank treads, barrel muzzle, headlights, and other important details are all on it. Now it's just a matter of adding fun little details and rivets. Instead of usign my normal methods for rivets, I'm experimenting with 2 and 3mm half round beads (hemispeheres). They were under $1.50 for 1,000. If they work out, they may be my new default rivet technology.

Mini Monoliths
No paint on any of these yet. I can't decide between a rusty metal or black with green glow paitn scheme.

The latex mold I made for the 1st mini monolith came out well. I had made it in such a rush, that I had forgotten to seal the orignal model before molding. It turned out okay, with only minimal damage to the original. Will try to get a casting of it done on Friday, my next day off.

Ruins
Been busy with the other projects, so no real progress with these.

I am pretty happy with the way the foam core ones came out. As for the card board ones, I am happy with the interiors. The textured paint I used on the exterior just isn't doing it for me over the gray base coat. Will try base coating the exterior black, and then re-applying the textured paint.

I had tried microbeads before, they were ok but what you're talking about sounds much handier. Do let us know if it pans out!

I'm also curious to see how your mini monolith casting comes out. I've been eyeing the casting kit at Hobby Lobby for years, need something useful to cast first though.

Grot Tank WIP


You can see some of the 2 and 3mm half round beads on the front there.

I think it's looking more and more like a mini SM Predator tank.

It kind of does a little bit. I'll have to keep this in mind as I look into making some treads to replace missing rhino treads. Those look fairly serviceable as is.

that tankette looks truly nice... I wonder for the scale...any comparrision shots you willing to share...

and the beads look nice... I ordered from the same retailer the 1mm ones and think they are very tiny (mine) ...but I need to test them...