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The detail on the tile has to count as rivets, for League purposes- terrific work!

Good lord, where do you store all this stuff?

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Good lord, where do you store all this stuff?

Instead of furniture I have terrain.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:

Instead of furniture I have terrain.

Do you measure your movement through the house and can you deep strike within 3 feet from the kitchen?

 Tommygun1918 wrote:

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:

Instead of furniture I have terrain.

Do you measure your movement through the house and can you deep strike within 3 feet from the kitchen?

Yes, my tape measure is to scale. I almost crushed my house raccoon the last time I dropped it. My line of sight pointing laser can also intercept cruise missiles.

Love the tiles, really cool bit of detail!

Thank you for all the kind feedback, folks. Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, I've been constantly stressed since January 20th. The Democracy I thought I was living in is being dissolved by an unelected foreign national who isn't even bothering to hide his Nazi affiliations any more. The Constitution my countrymen fought and bleed for is being desecrated and all my friends are being actively denied rights and freedoms.

As I was telling a colleague yesterday, it's difficult to play games about dystopian totalitarian futures when it's no longer satire and instead the waking nightmare of my existence. The America I believed in is dead and all that's left is the foundation of a new, corrupt monarchy.

That's more than fair. The state of the states appalls me.

Okay, the dissolution of Democracy and the crumbling collective intellect of my countrymen aside. I finally came to the realization that I must create to remain sane. I'm returning to this project. This is my commitment to post up progress shots within the next 24 hours.

Okay, promises to keep...

I did some texturing to the upside down crenilations with glue and brute force.


And then detailed a terminal onto the wall.


Next up is progress on a structural support.


And a mock up of where it is meant to sit in that wall.


In a fury of conversion, I have disassembled Gustavo but haven't finished rebuilding him yet. So to stand in I present Brother Timothy, for scale.


And Brother Jamandgor for scale at the bottom.


More updates soon. This project is officially underway again. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day.

Nice to see more work. That arch is looking a bit Moorish.

Good to see you back in the habit, buddy.

Thank you, friends. I appreciate the welcome back. I have been scouring the internet for examples of the architectural style of Prospero and all I can find is the depictions of Tizca and the warhammer world diaroma. Precious little, except for descriptions calling it "egyptianesque" and visual cues that are vaguely Mesoamerican. So now I have to interpret that style into spaceship interiors.

So, here is my next 24 hour pledge. I might not have the full picture of this architectural style, but I will make progress towards it and post pictures of what I have done. Tonight or tomorrow.

And by 24 I clearly meant 35 hours. And best of all I have no pictures to show because I didn't make any progress on this project. For this I blame my hectic work schedule and my stress-response of playing Mechabellum to the wee hours instead of sleeping. Yay, spicy brain.

But now it is my weekend and my first day of actually being free to do hobby stuff. So I will make progress today and post pics later to prove it. Thanks for your patience with me. I appreciate the support of this community. I hope you all have an awesome day.

Keep at it buddy! And don't worry about pics, we know it'll be worth waiting for

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Keep at it buddy! And don't worry about pics, we know it'll be worth waiting for

Aw shucks, graven. I hope these progress shots measure up to your expectations.

I got real lazy with the measurements.


It's a very complex shape.


I started on some details I will call "municipal doodads". Fuse boxes, refrigerators, whatever they may be. These are just 2 chunks of roughly equally sized and shaped foamcore glued together and wrapped in paper. I wanted one to look like it had a door, so I took a piece of an unsolicited fake credit card and filed it into shape.


I also finished detailing the structural support. Here they all are waiting for paint.


I'll have more updates tomorrow. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day.

And, without further ado, I kept plugging away at my project.

Here is a mock up of where those detail boxes are meant to sit.


And a small photo of the prep I do for every single plastic bit I use in my terrain. In this case, the bit is an angled chunk of sprue from some Gundam accessories a friend gave me. The plastic is too glossy, there's mold lines, and a nub of extra material that gives it away as sprue. So I just trimmed the nub off with my exacto blade and sanded the whole thing. Here I show it off next to an unprepared bit.


And here is a mockup of where I intend for it to go.


I just need to start the holes with my trusty tools: a random pin and a pen I had lying around.


Here's more mockup shots of the rail in place.


Then I moved on to detailing the wall panel they will stand in front of. Disregard that blue dot on the lower left. I had meant to pull it off from a different spot, but the glue was so tacky all that occurred was that I moved it there. And now that is where it will remain until the end of days.


I also did some detailing on the big archway near where all these details were going to go. Here is a bad angle shot that barely shows what I did.


And then I primed all the parts before gluing them in place, because there was no way I would ever be able to prime it all once it was assembled. Here it is all glued together.


And now with more Timothy for showing off purposes.


More progress updates as I make it.

Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

As always, fantastic detail work.

First thing I discovered I had to modify were the nubs of the lollipop sticks, as they stuck out too far on either side of the large archway. Sawing that flush was the opposite of fun.


Second thing I did was decide to cover up the foam with paper and be done with fretting over stone slabs on a spaceship. But first I had to sand it flat. That turned out to be very easy.


Then I test fit, trimmed, and ultimately glued a large piece of paper in place.


And then immediately decided it looked too flat and poked a hole in it where the foam underneath had a depression anyway.


Next I needed some lower trim, so a lot of free hand "measuring" happened. After some minor trimming that got glued in place, too.


Next, I got to work on the smaller archway on the top floor, creating details with paper, glue, and toothpicks.


And lastly, I came home tipsy a week or so ago and decided that was a good time to add details to this piece. That's the 2 oddly shaped white panels on either doorway pictured here. Super useful, thanks past Me.


And then, at long last, work could be begun in earnest.


More work to be done, but I made a lot of progress today. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day.

The glare on most of these photos is due to the wet glue and the intensity of my Ott Light. Here I am showing off the asymmetry inherent in, apparently, most of the things I build. Sorry to all my OCD fans. This oddity will get slightly fixed as I add more details.


I wrapped the doorway on the left side of the piece with a geometrically-challenging piece of paper. Making these complex shapes essentially involves making rough measurements on the paper and finding the esges where it needs to fold by test wrapping the shape and making literal folds around each turn, one by one. This helps me see where a chunk needs to be cut away or a line needs to be sliced to accommodate the underlying form.


Next I started detailing the superstructure. I bought a paper product that I think is normally used to make teeny tiny paper stars or friendship bracelets? Something, I don't know, but they're just a stack of long, thin strips of uniformly measured paper ideal for making consistent banding. I'm using them extensively in this build.


I decided I wanted some exposed piping on the far side of the piece and now that I finally found a miniature mitre box, they were easy to cut flush. I used the strips of paper to make braces and details on these wooden dowels and then coated them in white glue to hide the wood grain.


Next I moved on to more and more detailing, using the paper strips some more.


And then rivets and various other details, like the beginnings of the flooring.


And then finally, I started to tackle the exterior. That's as far as I got. More progress as I make it. Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

I primed most of the detail I previously added and started adding even more. I started with the damage hole in the front by adding copper wire as exposed...well, wires. I also had some scraps of thin string laying around from some packaging on another bit of craft supplies. It kind of has the texturing of cables, it frays similar to super thin wires, and drapes naturally against the contours of whatever I lay it on. So that got added, too. (I couldn't tell which of these pictures looked better, so I uploaded them both. Maybe they are duplicates? My brain can't tell.) Also, string filaments that small are really annoyingly weightless. It was difficult to get it to lay how and where I wanted it to.


I started plating the exterior with the same pattern of paper I've previously added to other pieces. I didn't finish this detailing, but I made good progress.


Next I added some other small details here and there.


And next will be the inner archway, floors, and the rest of the archway's tiles (that I'm not looking forward to). Thanks for looking! Comments always welcome. I hope you all have a lovely day.

That loose cabling makes my heart sing. Perfect detailing.

Thanks, graven. I appreciate your feedback and praise.

I did some work on the inner wall of the archway. It's a small area, but it deserves attention, too. Here's 3 pictures that I did not intend to look like I am slowly zooming in, but that's how it seems to have turned out.


I'll work on this more tomorrow. I hope to add even more "wall guts" (i.e. cables) to the hole. I just have to add more glue for sturdiness and paint to make sure I get everything before I cover it with a detail I can't paint through. Thanks again for looking and have an awesome day.

Now I am starting to see the details and the walls come to life.

Cheers,

CB

Good work waaazag'. Nice to see some sprue use.