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Think I like the right? I realize it's not the same as the tile sample you showed, but it sings to me more.

I say black lined.

Black is certainly a heck of a lot easier to do... Hmm. More views please, otherwise I'll just obsess. Ha!

Since there was a page flip. Can't really qualify my decision... just prefer the black. It's grimdark... the white is too new and shiny looking? Dunno.

The white line makes it look like bad bathroom tiling... my vote is for black

Black, definitely.

The decision appears to be unanimous.

Nope I prefer the white but the reason for that is it is true to the reference material, however due to the setting I would agree the black is more suited to the environment.

But both look great and you have captured the characteristic of victorian tiles well

White is definitely more like grout, but I would still go black. Love the green generally btw.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Having looked at it in daylight rather than 11:30 at night, I too prefer the black background - makes it easier to see the light 'ting' in the corners than on the white. And like I said it's a damn sight easier to paint too!

So I'll probably end up doing them all on a white background, knowing me.....

No red or yellow?

I think the black looks better - not sure why, but there it is.

Lol - no, no red or yellow MT.

So, in between creating half a ton more plastic dust and shavings creating another wall, have finished up my rough draft of the piece - hope you like it, I'm pretty please with how it's turned out:


Which is just as well, as I'm going to have 24 of them to do on the chapter house, and given the result, am now thinking that ALL the floor tiles like this might end up green.... Also adding weight to my thoughts about adopting the a death guard as my new army....

That looks really very good, the Brass looks great, well done on the tiles they look perfect.

very tasteful book collection too I might add.

That looks great (apart from the lack of red and yellow obviously ).

Having all the tiles like that would be awesome...that's a great look, very characterful.

Well I think it depends where they are on the building in relation to the light from outside. The right is much darker so good for under the cloisters while the left would be nice for any parts that light would shine through too.

Thanks OneManNoodles - I like to think my book collection reflects my sophistication... Who am I kidding?! Lol

MT - awesome but will take forever...

GiraffeX - true, but given they are predominantly under the ChapterHouse walkway and will be all but invisible, it doesn't really matter all that much... Sigh....

Nothing wrong with being a cathedral building Pratchett junky ... or so my psychiatrist says.

Shame you are not going to paint all the tiles like that. You could cut the painting down to 3 shades with a glaze over the top if you're going to keep it, either way it's going to be a lot of tiles!

Lol - the painting on the tiles currently IS just three shades and a glaze - ork hide base, then dark angels green, snot green and scorpion green. Ok and a final white edge highlight, all washed down with a thraka green wash, and some gloss varnish on top. Trouble is this was knocked up pretty quickly, simply to test (as it's been a VERY long time since I've painted green) - I'll be taking far more care over the actual paint - and therefore more time.. Sigh

Your excessive care over the paintwork probably isn't good for you.

Keep doing it.

I think the side with the black recess works better, as the white makes them look a bit like bathroom tiles .
Nice work on the actual tiles though, they really stand out.

Phutarf wrote:
Thank you foto69man... I'm actually kind of humbled by that, to be honest especially when I'm in the company of Lord_Mortis and his fabulous board. Well, I shall look forward to seeing more of your work and progress on the cathedral

Speaking of which, while I was once again bored at work, was struck by another bout of insan... Ahem, inspiration.... So I might have said earlier that I'd hit on the final layout... Well, as per normal that didn't last long. So, here without further explanation (other than having learnt a lot from the build so far that I think I could pull this off, is the next stage of development:

(He he - spoilers! )

Spoiler:

Ignore the random wall selections for the time being, as I'll need to work out what to put where if I do this (who am I kidding, it's gonna happen ) - the biggest challenge will be sorting out the floor plates I reckon.... But this way I solve fiddly problem of joining a cloister end to the Eagle door opening, plus means I don't have to run an internal walkway inside the Chapter House, meaning that I can do more interesting things inside. Maybe.

So - although I know what you're going to say anyway - should I do it?

More kits came in and on the next story. I'll be doing interior catwalks and then planning a roof(removable of course )



Keep up the good work and keep inspiring me! One day My cathedral will catch up to yours!

 foto69man wrote:

Phutarf wrote:
Thank you foto69man... I'm actually kind of humbled by that, to be honest especially when I'm in the company of Lord_Mortis and his fabulous board. Well, I shall look forward to seeing more of your work and progress on the cathedral

Speaking of which, while I was once again bored at work, was struck by another bout of insan... Ahem, inspiration.... So I might have said earlier that I'd hit on the final layout... Well, as per normal that didn't last long. So, here without further explanation (other than having learnt a lot from the build so far that I think I could pull this off, is the next stage of development:

(He he - spoilers! )

Spoiler:

Ignore the random wall selections for the time being, as I'll need to work out what to put where if I do this (who am I kidding, it's gonna happen ) - the biggest challenge will be sorting out the floor plates I reckon.... But this way I solve fiddly problem of joining a cloister end to the Eagle door opening, plus means I don't have to run an internal walkway inside the Chapter House, meaning that I can do more interesting things inside. Maybe.

So - although I know what you're going to say anyway - should I do it?

More kits came in and on the next story. I'll be doing interior catwalks and then planning a roof(removable of course )

Spoiler:

Keep up the good work and keep inspiring me! One day My cathedral will catch up to yours!

Daaaaamn! I was thinking it looked pretty small and then I noticed the Tyranids...

Good to see things coming along foto69man - although are you sure you want to catch up with my level of madness/obsessiveness??

Anyway, only a minor update today folks - real life has been getting in the way of progress sadly, that and a pair of busted sprue cutters - I mean, it's not like they've had much work recently!

Just thought I'd share a couple of pics of the (almost) completed stasis chamber walls - and the very subtle differences between the construction of the 2 and 3 panel walls as they aren't quite the same:



Went for one of the Manufactorum "boiler" walls as the Gubbins that powers the stasis chambers - could have used a "fan" piece instead, to give the impression of freezing ventilation, but somehow that didn't look quite right. Anyway, too late to change now as both are glued now!

You'll also note (obviously!) that each has an additional girder on the right hand edge - in order to make the Chapter House fit the floor/roof, I need some additional width - damn you angles! Here's an early production pic of the CH floor with the stasis walls in place (ish) - they just about fit, although I'm going to have some serious 'fun' cutting down the triangular pieces. Not.



Big, isn't it...?!

 Brother Payne wrote:
Daaaaamn! I was thinking it looked pretty small and then I noticed the Tyranids...

See spoiler for more...'scale' photos lol

Phutarf wrote:
Good to see things coming along foto69man - although are you sure you want to catch up with my level of madness/obsessiveness??

I do believe I would like to catch up to your level. I have been watching your build closely and my next step is inner walkways for snipers/scouts/infiltrators ;-)

Was thinking of stained glass on some of the windows too, not sure yet.


This happened today...

Looking good both of you!

Nice work. I agree the 'boiler' plates work better than the 'fan' plates would have, doesn't seem quite the right feel for the stasis chambers. Handy how those trianglur spaces have turned out just the right shape for.....err, nothing.


foto - Another impressively sized cathedral....woohoo

Re the triangular gaps, I'm torn between cutting down some full squares (lots of hard work) or trying to fashion my own (similarly lots of hard work). The former would mean I'm using proper bits and whatever's left would (hopefully) look good, but the latter would mean more tiles left to use elsewhere... But might not look as good.... Decisions decisions......

That floor panel looks beautiful, Phutarf.

Cheers WW

Only a brief update tonight, and I'm breaking one of my self imposed stupid rules for this stupid project, and that's by painting something - but I couldn't resist given what it is... So without further ado, after some fun crafting it this evening, I give you the first triangular Chapter House floor plate:


Now, I know the paint job isn't quite as good as the previous test piece, but I'm figuring this is (probably) just another test piece to see if I could get the shape right more than the paint - what do you think? Will it do?

(NB - it's rather daunting to think that the CH floor plate will eventually have over 500 tiny tiles that need painting... Each by hand... )

That corner piece looks very cool.

This is going to be so amazing when its all painted up