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Everything here is amazing. Your scratchbuilding skills are great; to be admired.

Yep, this is brilliant work, I have been searching for inspiring custom ZM & SH boards and this has got to be up at the top now, I am building my own ZM board too and was considering the same colour scheme as you've used :-) not now though as I don't want to copy what amazing work you've created but I have subbed the thread and shall continue to use it as an inspiration point as well as excitedly waiting to see what else you do!!

Thanks for the kind words

@ Ruglud - The intakes are caps from a product called "Danish Chef", it's a cheese cream some people use to fill dorito's with.


@ Nerdfest09 - Copy away mate, i don't mind. As for the color scheme, the mostly used green is Straken green. Have fun

(edit) ps, the ship is indeed inspired of the arvus from forge world.


Take care.

Looking good Chelnov. The gangs you've taken shots of a cool. Nice use of the Dwarf miners

Chelnov, your terrain is awesome!
If the story you are making it for, is of similar quality and inspiration, your players will be in for a rare treat!
You've certainly got my old idea box sparking again...

Thanks dude! I'll steal away to my hearts content! :-) and in the meantime, how long until you get some more work done on the boards? any more themed sections?

Well i started work on the landing area for the shuttle. Currently i am trying to decide the height of the landing platform.

Option 1 - slightly under 2 inch (leaves no room for models to go under it).


Option 2 - 5 inch in height, a lot of room for models to move under it, gives the oppertunity to make a walkway/stair construction to get up and down the platform.



Any thoughts on this one?


Take care.

My vote would be for the taller configuration. It has more utility for gaming (sneaky mutants and such)

Finished the last part of the initial layout of the complex. The second part of the entrance/courtyard.







This is the courtyard setup.


This is the entrance setup.


With one lucky survivor making it out alive


Finishing the warbands/gangs/retinue's is the next priority so we can get some gaming done.


Take care.

Looking good Chelnov. Can we get a shot of all the parts toghether?

For the landingplatform i would choose the taller option aswell.

Great stuff chelnov :-) the lighter is cool . I second the desire to see all together so far. That lucky stuntie is most excellent as well.

I'd go with the high platform too, it'd give a good oportunity for ladders and railings.

What are you using for the pad legs/risers?

Chelnov, I'd vote for the taller platform mate, just seems to fit better and like others said gives you more scope for brilliant modeling work :-)

 A Cookbook wrote:
Can we get a shot of all the parts toghether?

As much as I'm sick with envy and a part of me just wants to leave this thread and never come back, I'd love to see this as well. I can't take my eyes of this stuff. Truly great inspiring work, sir.

Thanks for the comments.

I will take some pictures of all the tiles together soon.

@Littletower - The risers i will use are the leftover legs from a kitchenblock that i installed a few years back.




Looking at the comments, i take it the high platform i the more favorite option


Take care.

Taller legs all the way I am a leg man after all , that way there's also line of sight for the unlucky ones to try and get a shot off at the departing shuttle.

For those of you who asked for some shots of all the tiles together sofar...here goes.











Take care.

That is a superb modular layout you've got Chelnov. I'm currently green with envy

Dude that looks amazing together. I cant wait to see what a full 6ft table would look like. as it is its perfect for Zone mortalis, Necromunda, or probably infinity.

Niiice... I'd love to play a game of INQ28 on that board!

Also, +1 vote for the higher legs, if you're still taking opinions!

Looking absolutely brilliant!

Do you plan on doing something about this?



Maybe have a loose bit of wall that you can just stick in there when you're using that setup? Not that it's necessary at all, it was just something I noticed.

Brilliant mate. Its looking marvellous ....nice to see how versatile it is .

thats damn fine man i look forward to see what other awesomeness you will apply to the board

fishy bob wrote:
Looking absolutely brilliant!

Do you plan on doing something about this?



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Yes, turn the tile around. The pictures i took were just for the sake of showing off the options we would have of placing the tiles...in a gaming situation we would probably never place the tiles like that


Take care.

Thanks (though late!) for the input on those legs. As good as the may look, I don't think I'd get by if I tear the kitchen cabinets down for parts!

Great board, by the way.

Looks so damn good man! love the pics of the set up and how it conveys the feeling of abandonment! can't wait to see more of it.

In the need to make some barricades for the board, the perfect opportunity came along in the shape of Skalk's Junk Pile Challenge.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/563097.page

So let the clean up of the bitbox begin.

First of i rummaged through my bitbox to find some bits that where small enough to be put on the basesize restrictions...and found this.




From left to right. _ Cables from a old pc, 2 cardboard rolls, the inside of a paintroller, the inside of a haircurler thingie, wiremesh, a dentalfloss container, various bottlecaps, various pen/marker caps, an orange thing, some gears, black tubethingies, a plug from a cable, clothespins, springs, a black stickshaped thingie, a white thingie, paperclips, a lego part thingie, a piece from iirc a spawn toy, parts from a headset, a wooden thing, a brown thing (no idea what it is) and some ribbed card.

And we still have some straws, some wooden popsicle sticks, toothpicks and other random junk i hope to find during the next month.

Goodluck to everyone taking part in this challenge, take care and have fun

Interesting possibilities you show here...
Good luck junk king...your board is stunning...I have but one question...the green tops of the walls look a bit bland compared to all the awesome details you came up with. A little bit of rust on the tops would be all that is needed to break up the currently flat surfaces there...

Vik, i know the tops are a bit bland. But it does help defining the layout. I am afraid that when i put rust patches on them, the whole thing will become a blur...we did talk about painting the tops in hazardstripes, but that might make it to busy.

Maybe a good idea will arise in the future

I see your point here mate..
Hazard stripes definitely would be too much screaming attention... What I would do is find small an multiple items to add to the tops..something that looks meaningful without actually meaning anything...I would suggest using the small wheels you find in curtain hangers hooks...you could even declare these structures as a means to get footage of the surviving game for broadcasting...