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kestrel,

I am very jealous of those old ice maker parts...there are so many Necromunda things that could be built with them.

CB

Thanks! I'm keeping the toy pods as sort of weird lava things - although giant plants might be better.

I might build some platforms on the icemaker - the back is really cool too. On the other hand, being solid metal it isn't the easiest thing to work with....

Next up on Trash week we have solar light converted into a Tau Holographic Monument - fortunately the imperium was able to put a stop to that and now it is a nest for snipers - plus a weird bit of packaging.









In a preview of the upcoming "Terrain from Toys" week, we have Durlig Hills made from Heroquest tiles. Durlig is grown using a honeycomb cultivation format. I'm sure I'll come up with the justification for that soon.





Of course we can't forget "Terrain from Trees" week, also know as "I like Big Trees and I cannot Lie". Technically we might be able to sneak this one into Trash week, since it was made from prunings of a Pear Tree. On the other hand, you don't get as many points for Trash Terrain that requires elaborate scratch building, as that kind of defeats the point.

 kestral wrote:


I might build some platforms on the icemaker - the back is really cool too. On the other hand, being solid metal it isn't the easiest thing to work with....

kestrel,

That is where 5 minute two-part epoxy glue comes in, many of my Necromunda terrain pieces that I have been building have metal or plastic that is not easily glued polystyrene, the epoxy is great, strong once dried, it can even fill some small gaps. The other great thing about metal terrain is that it does not move as a player repositions models on the structure. A lot of people say that the 5 minutes is too long to hold something, but just use some poster putty to brace the items being glued on (if simple gravity will not). When dry just pull off the poster putty.

Some more nice terrain there.

Cheers,

CB

Sweet! I'' try that. Thanks for the tip!

Love the sniper nest! That pear tree.....yeah......I don't think I want to know which member of the Partridge family that is......

Liking the heroquest cultivation pods, makes interesting terrain. And that is one vicious looking pear tree!

Yeah, I was kind of surprised... "ho hum, guess I should prune the pear tree. Snip, snip OWWWW!!! How does this thing have thorns? Well, I could make some terrain...."

You know that if ou are gardening and thinking about making terrain, you have a problem But it looks nice and is very unique terrain for sure. Love the sniper's nest!

Well, I find looking for terrain bits makes many chores more intersting, myself... ...but then I'm a pretty poor excuse for a gardner really.

Hmm, some would say you have a problem if you're not always half aware of potential uses for everything around you

It's fun seeing those HeroScape hex tiles. I played that game a lot with my brother when we were younger. I also really like the sniper nest too, and am impressed with the height of your trees looking stable on that base.

I always put big rocks on my tree bases for that very reason. This one could do some damage if it fell down....


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This is a bit of a PSA more than a modelling update, but I scored the Usborn slot together castle for $2. This thing is amazing push out pieces- goes together easily, well thought out, rugged, well scaled. It breaks down and packs back into its box. My only quarrel is that is has a lot of "faux detail" which I dislike in paper fold/push out terrain. My Metromorph stuff has the same problem. In this case you have things like a horse printed on the wall of the stable. While I appreciate the thought, I have horse miniatures I can stick in the stable if need be. Obviously they were not thinking of me. My preference is for paper fold stuff to represent just the walls and maybe very fine detail like stones, wires, etc. If you have a huge console or pipe like the Metromorph stuff, it looks good in some ways, but will never look as good as a blank wall to me, or a blank wall with a 3D console scatter terrain added. Just my preference. But if you need a castle, see if you can score this thing. Amazon wants $150 for it though.













If were going to use it a lot I would put banners over some of the details I don't like, paint the edges, and perhaps put flock on the places where it has vegitation growing on the walls.

The castle is very interesting- but I really like the trash terrain! Very imaginative uses for some very interesting pieces. I had pear trees in my yard when I was stationed in Texas and- yep- this Yankee found out the hard way about the thorns too.....

Great set of pages in this blog!

That solar light turned holographic statue is amazing - super fitting. Will need to keep an eye out next time I'm at the hardware store!

Always love checking in and seeing what's being turned into some awesome terrain. The castle is a great find for $2 - 2D horses be damned! Maybe the lord has artistic children..

kestrel,

Didn't you just get a mighty fortress from me two months ago? Why would you need a cardboard one?

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
kestrel,

Didn't you just get a mighty fortress from me two months ago? Why would you need a cardboard one?

Cheers,

CB

Well.... ...I already had the cardboard one at that point. Just hadn't gotten it out and set it up. Plus if you haul out something like that the other wargamers look down on you, but if you bring out a mighty fortress they nod knowingly, your stock goes up, and somebody starts talking about squats.

Squats! Did I see squats! ......not yet I guess.

That castle is a sweet, sweet find.

That castle is really cool. Had a look at those Usborne sets, they have some fun ones, albeit all OOP. Nice find!

A lot of them seem to be smaller scale, unfortunately.

Here's the Camp/Ravenloft horror figures from the last Bones Kickstarter.

And 1/15th of a long held dream - SNAKEBITE!!!!! Always loved the idea of ork farmers.

Love his banner!

Nice. Old school banner, old school boy, rocking the old school look

I like the idea of ork farmers too, especially ones so colorful!

Thanks! Someday I'm going to do a big Ork "Civilian" project - I always loved the way it was described in Gorka Morka with shops of all sorts and so on. I like the "Not quite entirely psychopathic" early version of Orks (or perhaps you could think of it as Orks from their perspective). I have a box of night goblins I want to do a gang of squig hunters/sellers with.

I did finish the rest:



Hmmm, bit blurry.

Yeah, i like the idea of orks as wild and violent and strange but still posessing a functioning society, it's a lot more interesting than "grar fight everything"

Great use of the lizardmen banners there!

Great work on those orcs, love the bright colors and your backstory!

Why thanks folks!

Now we wrap up Terrain from Trash week with a project I've saved the parts for... well... ..a decade? But hey, that shows persistence right? When I had to tear out some copper tubing and replace it I though, hmm, you know, Kestral (thought that wasn't my name at the time), you could make a little pipeline from this so you ought to save it. Or you could sell it. Copper's worth money. Well, in an economic collapse scrap metal prices go through the floor, so it looks like I'm holding onto the ancestral scrapmetal pile of my clan a little longer, and I turned this into terrain.

It works nicely too. The Pump house I did using some lovely M'edge and Proxy bits glued to a trashed electrical light switch box I found in some leaves. Bonus points for that, I say!









And I started re-organising my terrain.




Ok, I'm lying. I started reorganizing the tiny fraction of my terrain that goes on shelves. The rest is in the... (counts in head...) ...18 totes.

Lol on the copper story and for the terrain it made!

Glad you enjoyed it! And now, all the stuff I made from a $10 bag of Army Men. Now to be fair, my first Imperial Guard army was Army men. They played against my orks, on the theory that the orks were small and stunted. But they only got one game and were then thrown away. Pity. I think a couple of them were actually converted with 40K bits.



Now we realize that you're concerned about scale here, so I've enlisted Lt. LaCroix to help us. Here he is with some field guns. Nearly certain to be looted by Orks at some point.



And he's checking out the Verbindugmotos - simple joystick controlled electric vehicles used for transport around your typical spaceport.



Look, he's found some Air Defense Trucks! Luckily the stuff the back pops out so they can just be regular trucks. I filled in the windows with blue paper and added some plasticard. Pro tip - plastic cement pretends to bond to army men, but it really doesn't. Your best bet is superglue reinforced with hot glue where practical.



Speaking of Air Defense - these are just the right size to put huge holes some some flying thing! Or serve as an objective to knock out before the enemy can send in their flying things.



Of course, everyone needs an uplink tower. Made this from two plastic helicopters. I rather liked them (they had lots of rivits) and if they had been just a tad larger I'd have kept them as copters.



Made the bottoms into a shrine thingy. Set also came with two hugely useful bridges.



Fortifications! Truly there is no end to the bounty of the Army Men.



Here he visits the Ogryn Unit 592 Club house where they proudly display the oversize purity seal they got that time.



Now he's trying to Roust the Ratlings from their barracks. I feel it could use a few posters, but I'm not sure what ratlings use for posters.