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This is the stuff.

Brilliant, such ingenuity.

Thanks Casey!

I love how you can just post multiple updates a night while you are churning out models at an equally astounding pace without breaking a sweat. What's your secret? Is it an organised workbench? Caffeine? An IV drip full of awesomeness?

Haha I dunno, I just wanted to start AND finish something
Today I was fueled by chicken wings and college football
Now the next building needs to be a bit bigger....


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For quick updates, that's photobucket, the dakka uploads take longer. I usually only upload finished pics to Dakka.

Organized?

Nice work Dave. Cool and quick build.

Happy accidents are the best accidents...

the next building needs to be a bit bigger...

The whole pentagon from FO3???

I thought the spray outer building looked okay, but then when you put the mortar material on, it really just stood out. That is amazing work, Dave.

Wow that looks beautiful dave. I feel like you 3d printed it right out of Fallout. Great job on this. If you make enough you could create an awesome Fo3 landscape board.

Wow... I think I want to have some babies from you now Dave! The mortar effect you created is stunnig... I literally stood gawping looking at these pictures. And as I was then about to recover from that sweet shock, you did that stunt with the tape... An as shaso said, that's rollin with the punches... I think awesome doesn't cut it any more. I truly have the deepest respect for your talent and your eye for making stuff look like the real work looks... Even if it is stuff from a game world
By the way...I'm traveling down the long and lonesome road these day/ nights...so no wonder I was only able to lurk...

Sounds like your fuel is having fun! It's certainly not organised but who of us are?!

I think you should tackle some Infinity terrain next Dave, you know you want to! And if you do I promise I'll take a night to start putting together the terrain catalogue in the sub forum.

Valhalla130 wrote:I thought the spray outer building looked okay, but then when you put the mortar material on, it really just stood out. That is amazing work, Dave.

Thanks Val! I'd read about using drywall mud for mortar from a model railroad article (about how to show mortar lines in HO and N scale- very tiny) before, but never tried it. The idea to use it on the walls was just because I didn't want a sandy/concrete texture and I didn't want to use GW texture paints or mix my own with sand.

Nafarious wrote:Wow that looks beautiful dave. I feel like you 3d printed it right out of Fallout. Great job on this. If you make enough you could create an awesome Fo3 landscape board.

Thanks Nefarious! Does that cracking work for you then?

Viktor von Domm wrote:Wow... I think I want to have some babies from you now Dave! The mortar effect you created is stunnig... I literally stood gawping looking at these pictures. And as I was then about to recover from that sweet shock, you did that stunt with the tape... An as shaso said, that's rollin with the punches... I think awesome doesn't cut it any more. I truly have the deepest respect for your talent and your eye for making stuff look like the real work looks... Even if it is stuff from a game world
By the way...I'm traveling down the long and lonesome road these day/ nights...so no wonder I was only able to lurk...

Thanks Vik! -It makes it all worth it to hear what you have to say, I'm sorry that I'm not equipped to have your children though

Casey's Law wrote:Sounds like your fuel is having fun! It's certainly not organised but who of us are?!

I think you should tackle some Infinity terrain next Dave, you know you want to! And if you do I promise I'll take a night to start putting together the terrain catalogue in the sub forum.

Thanks Casey! Infinity terrain is always on my mind. I just need to avoid a too-clean-looking anime style. I often look at the miniature photos in the books, love the terrain in there, even if it's generic. Also I need to paint at least one of my Ariadna for photos!

well at least you give birth to creations that have a look as if they (could)´ve sprung from my mind too

also... not in FO3 or vegas has there been so many lopsided buildings as in the chasm of the lonesome road... i kind of get dizzy by all that tited camera views in that DLC

Ahh the Divide! Shame on you for causing all of that twisted mess vik!

That is awesome, whatever blood sacrifices you are making to make something so cool so quickly, its working.

Ahh yes the cracking works I didn't realize you werent yet done with it. It turned out beautifully.

Heh..well after you said it..>I was bothered too that It didn't have as much of a cracking effect as it could. The tape just jumped out at me and said "Ring-A-Ding Baby"


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 OneManNoodles wrote:
That is awesome, whatever blood sacrifices you are making to make something so cool so quickly, its working.

Heh....I lightly cut my finger, but no blood

I was looking at Grayditch, and have determined that I need to go back to the 2" sidewalk slabs like I first used on the Corvega Bilboard



oh yes.....you're thinking what I'm thinking....

Very cool, I'd love to see a few set ups with your other similarly themed scenery as well - the billboard and the factory etc. I bet you can make a pretty awesome post-apocalyptic board now. (Maybe with a post-apocalyptic hobbit house too).

Dave a bigger building with a billboard attached to the side would make for even more awesome than you have managed!

Muhahaha!

THIS IS GOING TO BE EPIC!!!!!!

Wow haven't checked here in a while, some fantastic stuff! And that last building is ace, love the texture and colours you got on the walls, my favourite bit =)

What Cam said.

and did I notice a small wooden hut in those FO pictures...

Dave I am excited to see where you are going with this a full block of Fo3 buildings, and if you can get that wall art going on I may just go into a full model happiness coma.

Awesome stuff - have you thought about making one of the "Pulowski Preservation Shelter" things?
these ones:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulowski_Preservation_shelter

Just in case you feel the need for a side project

Really great stuff!

This looks like you are having a lot of fun dave. I love a good ruin.

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Awesome stuff - have you thought about making one of the "Pulowski Preservation Shelter" things?
these ones:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulowski_Preservation_shelter

Just in case you feel the need for a side project

Really great stuff!

listen to that man dave!
on a side note... whenever I see these I always think about the suicide machines Springsteen is singing about...for unknown reasons...?

and the side walks look brilliant... but.. why are the ones in front of the finished building smaller than the new ones?

Mindblowing, Dave!
or rather:
Mindblowing Dave!
You are in my Olympus of terrain builders.
Still, you know me as a perfectionist, so it would be unlike me to withhold critique. Assuming the shown version is final, there are two things I think you could have done better:
The facade, great cement effect, but no weathering? Slap some pigments/washes/filters on that bitch.
The inside walls, what a happy accident (Bob would approve), but I'd go back in there and make the revealed layer a little dirtier. Again, some pigments or washes.

Camkierhi wrote:THIS IS GOING TO BE EPIC!!!!!!

We can always hope!

Two Spartan wrote:Wow haven't checked here in a while, some fantastic stuff! And that last building is ace, love the texture and colours you got on the walls, my favourite bit =)

Thanks TS! I appreciate it!

Dr H wrote:What Cam said.


and did I notice a small wooden hut in those FO pictures...

THanks Doc! _yes, yes you do

Nafarious wrote:Dave I am excited to see where you are going with this a full block of Fo3 buildings, and if you can get that wall art going on I may just go into a full model happiness coma.

Well, it gets a bit more difficult from here on out. I have lots to think about and plan before going too crazy.

Dark Apostle 666 wrote:Awesome stuff - have you thought about making one of the "Pulowski Preservation Shelter" things?
these ones:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulowski_Preservation_shelter

Just in case you feel the need for a side project


Really great stuff!

I have thought about that actually!

weetyskemian44 wrote:This looks like you are having a lot of fun dave. I love a good ruin.

YES! I am having fun, thanks Weets!

Viktor von Domm wrote:

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Awesome stuff - have you thought about making one of the "Pulowski Preservation Shelter" things?
these ones:

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Pulowski_Preservation_shelter

Just in case you feel the need for a side project

Really great stuff!

listen to that man dave!
on a side note... whenever I see these I always think about the suicide machines Springsteen is singing about...for unknown reasons...?

and the side walks look brilliant... but.. why are the ones in front of the finished building smaller than the new ones?

See the above in-game screenshot- because 2" slabs are what I first did on the Corvega Bilboard and are more game-accurate (and requires less cutting) Springsteen? I dunno, I avoid his music whenever possible, but even on Satellite radio, he has his own channel, and they still play him on every other channel too. One day he came on the Classic Vinyl channel, Ladygeek kept changing the channel and he was on every station!

Baiyuan wrote:Mindblowing, Dave!
or rather:
Mindblowing Dave!
You are in my Olympus of terrain builders.
Still, you know me as a perfectionist, so it would be unlike me to withhold critique. Assuming the shown version is final, there are two things I think you could have done better:
The facade, great cement effect, but no weathering? Slap some pigments/washes/filters on that bitch.
The inside walls, what a happy accident (Bob would approve), but I'd go back in there and make the revealed layer a little dirtier. Again, some pigments or washes.

Thanks Big B!
Weathering will wait until the group is done, to make their different brick colors blend better together, but yes, I see what you mean. I have to be careful with washes now, because they will darken the mortar lines. I don't want too much, whereas brown brick mortar tends to be darker in color from my research. I also see what you mean about the scratches. I'll see how the other building walls look and probably add that with the weathering.

Simply astounding.

Greatly accomplished vintage look, both in the outside brickwork, and the interior as well.

And that Pulowski Preservation Shelter suggestion looks sound, the OCCUPIED sign doesn't seem like something to easily pass up on...

Vallejo has a wash that would work for keeping the mortar as it should be, and it may lighten the bricks a bit, but dust does blow everywhere