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Camkierhi wrote:Fantastic to see you about bud. Building is looking very interesting, I do love those Dust walkers.

Damn it I was going to send you some containers. Have to get my back side in gear.

Your containers look ace, don't go to any expense though, I know money can be tight. The last week has depleted my hobby budget for a while and I even have skipped out of the Mythic Battles Pantheon Kickstarter.

evildrcheese wrote:There's a lot of Dust in this thread!

Looking good too, really liking those buildings.

EDC

Yeah lots of dust to blow off and get my butt back in gear. Today was a recovery day, worked at church for a few hours, now chilling out before the kids get home. In the last hour I chopped a couple corner pieces up, hopefully not a wasted effort.


Side awning, or even have that side be the front of the building like the old shotgun style buildings.
Or it could be the front of the building.

Either way, the next time I do this I'll make it just a tad thicker so I can disguise the battery(just poster tacked in right now)

I could even make it all a hotel...motel 6....we'll leave the lights on for you.
I think the columns are a bit bare, I'll see if I can't spruce them up either by adding another slightly larger size sleeve at the base or something else. Suggestions welcome.

Nice building. Shaping up well.

Lighting. Sweeet.

Nice mood lighting on the building.

EDC

Great deal on those Dust boxes, I always love popping in your log to see what is happening.The various buildings are looking great and the lighting just gives them that "next level" feel, excellent stuff.

Dr H wrote:Nice building. Shaping up well.

GrimDork wrote:Lighting. Sweeet.

evildrcheese wrote:Nice mood lighting on the building.

EDC

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Great deal on those Dust boxes, I always love popping in your log to see what is happening.The various buildings are looking great and the lighting just gives them that "next level" feel, excellent stuff.

Thanks Everyone , More thought needed for the lighting to be used in a future building though. In the mean time I chopped up some more building materials.
Created a town fountain, using the same centerpiece as my fantasy version from a few months back.


Also using my Grey MODcubes with the black inserts turned inside out to make cargo crates.

Crates in comparisson to the Dust figure and some toy cars I bought earlier this year.

Very neat. Have you seen The Walking Dead game btw? Is excellent, be right up your street.

Are you part of the Facebook group for the Walking Dead game Graven? Lots of good ideas the therein. It is the Missus rather than myself that is interested in the IP but I have loved painting the core game up for her.

The fountain looks great and those Modcubes make effective cargo crates.What aspects of the lighting do you think require more thought?

Very cool stuff here, Theo. Some great building.. erm, builds. Hope the job front looks up soon. I've just finished my last milestones for the year, so I can start to regain my humanity in time for Christmas now.

inmygravenimage wrote:Very neat. Have you seen The Walking Dead game btw? Is excellent, be right up your street.

Thanks Graven, I've seen it and teetered on backing the kickstarter, but in the end it was Mantic and so far the only good experience I had with Mantic was KOW. Even then they up my pledge for that .

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Are you part of the Facebook group for the Walking Dead game Graven? Lots of good ideas the therein. It is the Missus rather than myself that is interested in the IP but I have loved painting the core game up for her.

The fountain looks great and those Modcubes make effective cargo crates.What aspects of the lighting do you think require more thought?

Thanks Thraxas , I did not take into account the thickness of the battery pack. You cannot see it from the pics, but it comes down further than the bottom of the roof so it is visible at ground level.

Azazelx wrote:Very cool stuff here, Theo. Some great building.. erm, builds. Hope the job front looks up soon. I've just finished my last milestones for the year, so I can start to regain my humanity in time for Christmas now.

Glad to see you get a bit of a respite, I know you deserve one after the year we've both had.

Well I had an idea.....that's usually when things go bad. I took the remaining middle sections of the corner pieces that I cut down and made a base for a dock door/loading platform.

I attached it to a wall section to make it modular.

Bones Shipping Container up on MODcubes to simulate the height of a 18 wheeler.

1:43 scale car and zombicide zombies for gaming scale.

After I snapped those pictures I added a gutter downspout, a little roof cover and some ballards to the dock. Also added the front light off of a space marine motorcycle over the man door for security reasons.

Now this building needs a roof on it and I think primer can get sprayed when the weather co-Operates.

I love the loading dock

Well hopefully you like the pallet shelving too then.


Made from parts of a glow in the dark train bridge. Figured if I make a large warehouse interior then I might have these shelves in there. Pallets on shelves are cardstock ones that came from Lasercutcard.

Dang, well that handles the "Warehouse District"

Nice. The warehouse stuff so far is looking very realistic. And I have to say that the Ford delivery van scales nicely with the structures, cargo container, and running miniature.

Wow Theo! This is some amazing stuff! I absolutely LOVE the loading dock! Keep up with the layers man! you can do so much with layers of simple shapes. remember, paint covers all.

Yeah the shelves look great.

shasolenzabi wrote:Dang, well that handles the "Warehouse District"

Not yet , I think I'll make a container shipping yard/ parking lot. Still deciding.

oldravenman3025 wrote:

Nice. The warehouse stuff so far is looking very realistic. And I have to say that the Ford delivery van scales nicely with the structures, cargo container, and running miniature.

It and a few others are 1:43 scale cars (the pull bag and watch them race types ) found at dollar general for $5 each, 20 or so styles including exotic sports cars, taxis, and police vehicles

dsteingass wrote:Wow Theo! This is some amazing stuff! I absolutely LOVE the loading dock! Keep up with the layers man! you can do so much with layers of simple shapes. remember, paint covers all.

Thanks Dave , really appreciate that. More layers coming soon.

GrimDork wrote:Yeah the shelves look great.

Thanks Grimdork, hopefully I can rustle up a few more to expand the shelving.

This is brilliant, brilliant stuff. I keep thinking, "what does my dockyard need?".

Now I know!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
This is brilliant, brilliant stuff. I keep thinking, "what does my dockyard need?".

Spoiler:

Now I know!

I have Crane envy . I remember you posting it when you bought it and I tried everywhere nearby to get one cheap with no luck.

Anyway, I stopped by Home Depot to pick stuff up for a home project and grabbed some VCT tiles (1/8" thick vinyl commercial tiles, think back to highschool gym floors). I'm thinking of making my table out of these as base to help fill out the areas that the Tablescapes do not cover, and as possible source materials for parts of the building. They are all a true 1'x1' square and at $0.66 each it's cheap enough to waste. I've never seen anyone use them, but I've considered it alot.

I use 2ft X 6" vinyl adhesive floor tile for roads, and ceramic tile for board sections. Not quite the same but not entirely dissimilar.


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I use 2ft X 6" vinyl adhesive floor tile for roads, and ceramic tile for board sections. Not quite the same but not entirely dissimilar.

The tile has worked out so far for the roof of the warehouse, and stacking 2 of them makes them the same size as the cityscape tiles streets. Making the sidewalks will be slightly more difficult as cutting them takes some practice, but the lines snap clean if you score the tile well. In the mean time I decided to prime some things.

Shipping container go sprayed blue to easily differentiate from other shipping companies. We will see how this paint/primer works on Bones.

The pump station that I made a long while back using the Quonset huts from dust and tubing.

Pallet shelving, now got to decide if it will be Home Depot orange or Lowes gray.

Warehouse looks a lot nicer now that it's all uniform instead of multi-colored with boat designs on it.

Yeah . Primer makes it all look better. The shipping containers are some kind of hard plastic you should have no bones related issues.

Industrial stuff looks great now its uniform. Particularly like the pallet shelving - a realistic touch

GrimDork wrote:Yeah . Primer makes it all look better. The shipping containers are some kind of hard plastic you should have no bones related issues.

Indeed, hard plastic and very rugged

Scarper wrote:Industrial stuff looks great now its uniform. Particularly like the pallet shelving - a realistic touch

Thanks , it does help the realism for me.

Supply drops from this week.


I picked up the tree pack that Grimdork mentioned in his thread. 21 snow based treed were on sale for $10.74

Also brought home the 14 sides of fire exit lights that I replaced at church. Each light comes with two exit sides and a blank side, since almost all of our signs are against the wall I was able to source 14 of them and some of the arrow covers. There's a transparent red sheet in each one that can be used for scrap plastic sheets.

Also lucked out at Miniaturemarket this morning and showed up as they were putting out new dinged and dented stuff. I grabbed the zombicide ultimate survivor set for $13 and to reach the $25 thresshold to get a spin on the wheel I bought another shipping container and two sets of jersey barriers (4 total). All have been primed now, just waiting for it to dry out.

I would never survive of i were truly hobby lobby adjacent... nice haul

 GrimDork wrote:
I would never survive of i were truly hobby lobby adjacent... nice haul

Yes, even with 40% off coupons there would still be bankruptcy . They opened one the street over from the church I work at, it's hard to not pull in their lot every time. What's worse is it's next to my bank too .

Well inspired by Monty Python , I went in search of a shubbery. What I wound up with was a scrubbery shrubbery. I used the center throw away disk out of green scrubbing/stripping pads from my work and cut them up into well manicured shapes, though I think I need to go thinner yet.


Remaining circle in the background there. Thinking of just making some hedge row type dividers for soft cover and hiding behind.

Also the highway patrol car is new and also in the 1:43 scale size.....and also a pull back toy, but seams that he's not going to catch the van or the sprinter van as this manufacturers pull back has less speed and distance than the other one.

Loving the buildings so far!

That scale is perfect for BMG and walking dead. Hmmmmmmm...

Shrubs look fine. They're a little big but they get that big no problem

Yeah, the shrubs look fine. The loading dock building and shelving really take the cake, though - amazing stuff!