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Thanks, Dr H.

Here's some more detailing on my "L building". I built a door.


Making cross beams:


And a doorknob (I made the divot in the "knob" with a ballpoint pen. In hindsight I wonder if it will translate in any meaningful way once the paint gets applied):


I coated the whole piece with a thin layer of air dry clay and reinforced it with elmers glue (White Glue) before it dried. The effect I'm trying to reproduce is poured concrete construction:


Anyway, thanks for looking. More updates either tomorrow or tonight (if someone is so kind as to comment on my progress so another post today doesn't automatically append ). Thanks for looking and have an awesome day!

You and your fancy set-square ruler thing, making people that do these things by eye (me) feel bad.
Nah, I do put some effort in to using square things to get perpendicular and parallel lines.

Looking good, and appending interruption.

 Dr H wrote:
You and your fancy set-square ruler thing, making people that do these things by eye (me) feel bad.
Nah, I do put some effort in to using square things to get perpendicular and parallel lines.

Looking good, and appending interruption.

Haha! I mean, what you do is cool, too, Dr H. Thanks for the interrupt! Also, although I measure everything perfect I still eyeball it when I cut. Because I kind of hate T Squares.

Sidewalk!


Test fitting the door to the frame:


And then gluing it in and totally neglecting the fact that the sidewalk pins it shut (whatever):


Notice my "hinge"?:


The heavy file is there to weigh the sidewalk plates down so they glue better. Here are some shots of models with cover:


For some reason I love taking pictures of this staircase:


Here's work on the "courtyard":


For those tiles I just used a sheet of evergreen plastic cut to size. These shots with Barry illustrate the perfect coverage:


You'll likely also notice the gutter:


Here illustrated with another WIP side by side:


And now working on window frames:


One last shot with a road section WIP:


Thanks for looking! More updates soon! Have an awesome day!

Lovely work as usual. Is that plaster stuff easy to use? Looks like fun, although possibly messy.

 ckig wrote:
Lovely work as usual. Is that plaster stuff easy to use? Looks like fun, although possibly messy.

Yes on both counts, ckig. It can be messy, it dries out my hands, but washes off with warm water and soap. It's also really cheap and even if it dries before I use it I can easily reconstitute it with water. I mix mine with about 1 part to 10 of white glue for added strength and to reduce cracking in the final product. Thanks for the feedback!

New building project:


Always remember to double check your measurements, kids! D'oh!


Thanks for looking, C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

I did some details on the tall building:


And "filled in" that pesky roof gap:


Then started work on the attached smaller building, trying not to make it look too plain:


Glued and pinned it and then test fit it alongside the other building:


Barry inspects my work:


Here I've started to detail the conjoined buildings and wanted to get a feel for how it would look side by side with another building in the collection:


Thanks for looking. C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Nice looking city block. Specially liking the 2nd floor bow window, good call for addind interest to the smaller building.

 Littletower wrote:
Nice looking city block. Specially liking the 2nd floor bow window, good call for addind interest to the smaller building.

Thanks, Littletower! I really like how it's come out. It's amazing how much better such a small detail makes the overall piece look,isn't it?

Here's some more shots of the conjoined buildings after the pins were removed and the details have begun:


Pardon the mess in the background. Both me and the Missus are both crafters. I make terrain, she knits, crochets, makes jewelry, sculpts, and paints.

Then I went and did some detailing with coffee stirrer sticks:


I went to a local arts and crafts store that was going out of business (in my case it was the local AC Moore) and bought some discounted paper design strips likely normally used for scrap booking.


Selected a pattern I liked and created a layered molding for the top strip of the shorter building:


Once covered in paint, it should look more the part. I wanted to do something similar for the taller building, too. So selected another pattern I liked:


Realized once painted that it would look a little different, so flipped it over and cut it to size:


The first layer made the building look like it had a moustache, so instead of taking a picture of that disgrace I applied more pieces in an attempt to make it look like fragmented stucco. I wonder if the end product will achieve the look I tried to make?


Next I added more details to the molding and overall:


Remember that gap between the two buildings? Details cover mistakes!


In this spot I hope to place a ladder for roof access:


And here is the ladder as I'm working on it:


Cleaned:


And test-assembled:


Thanks for looking. As always, C&C welcome. Have an awesome day!

Love your use of patterns, and nice giant deadzone ladder. As alway,s your cityscapes inspire!

Loving the detailing, like the shell idea.

This will be an awesome table.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Love your use of patterns, and nice giant deadzone ladder. As alway,s your cityscapes inspire!

 Camkierhi wrote:
Loving the detailing, like the shell idea.

This will be an awesome table.

Thanks for the feedback, guys! Sometimes it's difficult to stay motivated, especially with a project this size.There's like 16 intact buildings of which I've begun about 12, and I'm hoping to also build 16 ruins, each customized to be the collapsed versions of the intact buildings. Whew! It's a lot. I also wanted to make better roads to go along with them. And (one day in the distant future) I will build a 36" tall landing platform with a 36" footprint. More updates soon. Keep the feedback coming!

And as always, have an awesome day!

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Love your use of patterns, and nice giant deadzone ladder. As alway,s your cityscapes inspire!

 Camkierhi wrote:
Loving the detailing, like the shell idea.

This will be an awesome table.

Thanks for the feedback, guys! Sometimes it's difficult to stay motivated, especially with a project this size.There's like 16 intact buildings of which I've begun about 12, and I'm hoping to also build 16 ruins, each customized to be the collapsed versions of the intact buildings. Whew! It's a lot. I also wanted to make better roads to go along with them. And (one day in the distant future) I will build a 36" tall landing platform with a 36" footprint. More updates soon. Keep the feedback coming!

And as always, have an awesome day!

That sounds like a massive undertaking, not to mention hard to move!

 Tiger9gamer wrote:
That sounds like a massive undertaking, not to mention hard to move!

All of my projects are massive undertakings, Tiger9gamer. I don't do "small". The landing platform is going to be based around a giant plastic flower pot and will come in two parts for easier transportation (and so I can get it past my front door).

In the meantime I started work on some tiled 30mm bases:


Thanks for the comment, Tiger9gamer. Thanks for looking. C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Nice use of the shaped card.

Looking good.

Thanks Dr H. Also I feel like I should eat my words. These bases are small. Apparently I DO do small.

I hope this isnt dread necromancy but I do love this thread. is there any more news on the terrain pieces?

 Tiger9gamer wrote:
I hope this isnt dread necromancy but I do love this thread. is there any more news on the terrain pieces?

Thanks, Tiger9gamer! Worry not, this thread is not dead. I'll be getting back to this stuff eventually. Real life has just been very ... intrusive as of late. I appreciate everyone's patience with me.

Stuff this good = infinite patience.

Hope RL sorts soon, miss you around bud.

Thanks, Cam. I really appreciate that.

So, there was a clamor and things worked out, soooooo.

I started work on a prototype barricade I intend to reproduce in plastic. I built the first half out of plasticard/styrene:


And then coated it in liquid greenstuff:


Here you can see how remarkably thin this is:


I let that dry and then sanded it "smoother". Ish:


Then, using trusty hole punch one:


I made some googly eyes in a spare bit of plastic. I mean I punched out two tiny disks:


And glued them into the two divots I made for this express purpose:


Then, despite my best efforts to try to ruin only one tiny square of plasticard, I managed to bollocks that up by missing:


And then glued them on as well:


Tada! Stage one complete. Thanks for looking. C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day!

I like it. That hole punch auto-riveter looks damn useful!

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
I like it. That hole punch auto-riveter looks damn useful!

EDC

It certainly is. Except when using slightly thicker sheet styrene than 5mm. Sigh. Ah well, at least most of the details I make don require much thickness.

Here's some stone pillars I'm working on:


And the very beginnings of some CD terrain (can you tell I used to work for a college bookstore?):


So using this pile of cut offs from the pillars above:


And these random bits from the left over bag I keep handy:


And went to work on the basics of craters on these CDs:


More on those as I get more work done on them.

Drawing your attention back to this build:


I added some rubble:


Adding spot details using whatever debris I had handy:


And then I thought about adding a ruined chunk of the second floor, so I made a mock up and placed it where I thought I will put it:


And with a Barry for scale:


And then thought about adding an interior wall to the second floor, so I did more mock ups:


And then I realized that adding that interior wall meant that the only place a staircase would be inside this ruin would be amidst the pile of rubble I had already made. Meaning I had to build an entire ruined staircase from scratch. So I switched gears and started work on something else.

Thanks for looking. C&C always welcome. Have an awesome day.

I added a minor detail to the roof of another building. A weensy chimney. First I angle cut a length of plastic tubing to represent the end of an exhaust pipe:


Then sanded the flat end so it looked more like a worn bit of metal than a piece of extruded styrene:


Drilled a hole in the roof and made it bigger with the head of my clippers (and took a really dark picture of it):


Test the fit:


Then a dollop of white glue in the hole:


Glued the pipe in, angled bit first, obviously:


Then use an ultra sophisticated tool (a coffee stirrer stick) to clean the excess glue away:


And tada!


Thanks for looking! C & c always welcome. Have an awesome day!

Nice work on that, especially the softened edge. And ah, the uses of CDs!

Thanks for the feedback, inmygravenimage. Yes, CDs - a million and one uses!

Great to see you back at it bud, looking good as always.

CD's are the gift of the gods, well one of many.

Love the look of the barricade.

Thanks, Cam. The barricade seems a little thin to me, but my intent the whole time has been to glue two sides back to back once I've cast a copy. But looking at it in the flesh makes me think it's still a little too thin so I might add a flat, capped chunk in the middle of it to broaden it a bit.