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Good to see a selection of nice plans, the start of work and the sharing of ideas.

I'm sure I was going to say something else, but it's gone now... might come back later...

Anyway, keep it up.

I am in, sig banner is updated, and might already have an idea for it, even a plan...

I've wanted to give an iron road a try for some time now, so I think I'll go down that path for this one.

Now to figure out how to do it... and doing it...

Oooh this sounds interesting, I think I'm gonna have to give it a go, probably flames of war because that's what I have lying around ATM I'm thinking a few soldiers and a tank battling it out to secure a road for strategic reasons, here's my first plan.

-NoodleArt

I am also thinking bridge.
What I have in mind right now is two large mushrooms linked by some kind of bridge.
The bridge will be over a road/path lined with trees and various sized mushrooms.
I have a troll model that hasn't found its way into play yet, so he may live under the bridge.

This is the mushroom objective I'm working on that is the inspiration for my terrain piece.

The mushrooms are made out of clay. I'm thinking I am going to have to paper mache the large mushrooms.

This is going to be quite the experience!!

 mekugi wrote:
Hi peeps, I'd like to register my interest...I'm not sure if I'll make anything decent but I going to have a crack at it anyway.

All entries cheerfully accepted. We also expect contestants to offer tips to each other...well, I do. Sadly, as the guy running this, I can only cheerlead, not coach :( So you'll make something decent to be certain.

 NoodleArt wrote:
Oooh this sounds interesting, I think I'm gonna have to give it a go, probably flames of war because that's what I have lying around ATM I'm thinking a few soldiers and a tank battling it out to secure a road for strategic reasons, here's my first plan.

-NoodleArt

FoW will be fine. Having a variety of game systems represented makes for a more interesting contest, IMHO. It's a big tent here in P&M, room for all

 Littletower wrote:
I am in, sig banner is updated, and might already have an idea for it, even a plan...

I've wanted to give an iron road a try for some time now, so I think I'll go down that path for this one.

Now to figure out how to do it... and doing it...

Sounds intriguing. Iron road as in railroad (Ferrocarril or EisenBahn or Chemin de fer)? Interesting that German, Spanish, and French say it that way, whereas we say railroad.

And two pages already. Cool. OP updated with new builders.

 Red Harvest wrote:

All entries cheerfully accepted. We also expect contestants to offer tips to each other...well, I do. Sadly, as the guy running this, I can only cheerlead, not coach :( So you'll make something decent to be certain.

Thanks Red Harvest, I've been watching the last couple of comps with avid interest...I'm only just getting back into the hobby after a 12 year break and am super keen to embrace all the changes that have happened since I stopped. Namely the internet! its so good to be able to share info/interests with people all over the world now.

Anyway my idea is to make a section of intersecting ruined freeway with the bottom road at ground level and a crumbling overpass falling down around and over it. With a couple of strategically placed 'concrete slabs' it should remain a piece of playable terrain. I'm thinking I'll try my hand at a bit of limited scratch building to put in some wrecked imperial vehicles and maybe some scavenging muties or something and a traveler with a dog encountering them ala fallout.
I have some plasticard in the mail...I've never used it before but am super keen to give it a go!
Cheers

Think I'll jump in for another attempt. I'm done with Uni now so I should actually be able to finish this time.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
gamesetc...

that was quite a nice collection of slideshows...very inspiring...

my initial plan was to make a lifting bridge... steampunk style... maybe even working...

I can´t figure out certain ways to get the bridge moving for starters... so I am now leaning more towards the stone bridge design... I want to have a troll underneath... a steampunk interpretation of the term...hmm...

have done already a lot of research... and I still have a bit of summer holidays before school starts again (me working as an assistant teacher kind of way...)... so I better use what free time I have

I was thinking of the same bridge idea , I was going to use the Thomas the tank engine bridge I picked up last year to figure out the gearing to it, but I think I have a better idea now .

Okay, I'll let you in on the plan and red harvest can decide if it's an acceptable "road"...Deathstar trench run board

Lol surely that was a path... to victory!

So was playing around with some plasticard off-cuts last night and had a very interesting idea for a chaos themed dio that I think is pretty original.....need to think on it a bit though as I'm not sure I could do it justice in time.......so basically just a tease post

Okay, here is the overall plan. Sorry my perspective drawing is a bit rusty and the ruler here at work is little better than using a doughnut for making straight lines.


These are the minimal elements I plan to build with this piece, with only one part I am still debating and would like some feed back on.

Guard tower on the roof of the shack.......Do it or scrap the idea. Let me show you how it will look first without and then with:



And here is the preliminary idea for making the wall. I got another sketch that I am also fooling around with trying to see if I can improve upon it.



What do you think?

Guard tower works for me...of course, during construction you don't need to fix it in place which gives you either option.....


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Ok.....concept for Road To Nowhere dio.....



Rough idea, with randomly chosen placeholder figures in there....

Concerns are making the moebius strip sturdy enough, and the fact that I know how long it'll take me to convert up the figures so that they're posed to interact with each other properly.....Plus the actual presentation of it......

However, I do like the concept and it is completely different from my orky terrain which in some ways I can consider a 'fall-back easy option'......

Games, with tower...

MT...I hate you! That's completey drawing all possible coolness points...*shakes fist*

Only if it works, and if it gets finished

That's between 6 and 8 figures that'll need finishing....and let's just have a look back at my blogs to see how long that normally takes.........oooooops

Wow MT I like it alot!!

Love the concept monkeytroll

Mine will be broken into several pieces for gameplay and because it will hopefully at least allow me to enter something

A quick doodle of my plans - will probably hope to add corner sections in and possibly junctions too.

Silver that is looking really good! I love the concept and I can see how it will work on a 6x4 game board

I'm liking all the concepts and ideas we're seeing here. Not a lot I can add to anything in particular at this stage.

I'm interested to see how the Möbius strip progresses and how you will attach/support it (maybe in some M, C. Escher like surroundings). As for the interaction of the people, it depends on how you see the dimensionality of the space; If it's a 3D space, then they will all see each other and will be shooting in all directions. If however, you think of the strip in a 4D space, then the 3D people on the strip don't see each other unless they are near on the strip, this would simplify the interactions of the models. This could lead to a sort of ongoing, never-ending chase thing...
Both 3D and 4D themes are possible and have their advantages and disadvantages.

All these overpass ideas have just given me a good (and possibly crazy) idea for a whole table layout: Some kind of spaghetti junction tribute. Spanning the whole table, various sections damaged. That's one way to make the game more 3 dimensional!
I'll have to write that down for when I have the space to give it a go...

For those of you unfamiliar with the spaghetti junction:


Anyway, While I haven't built any roads myself, I can add a little idea for making tarmac...
You can use the carbon that comes out of Britta water filters.
A single sprinkling will give you a nice gravel surface, but if you cram on as many as will fit and squash them all together, then sand the top surface, you get a nice tarmac look.

Although the largest thing I've covered is only a biker base...

...a larger area would be possible (if you had enough carbon, and sandpaper).

Cork, though, would probably be just as good, and much easier. But it's a thought.

Good to see I'm not the only one who uses those things, Brita filters, for the contents... after filtering. It does make a nice surface. I'll find a use for that. Of course.

You could also look up Springfield Mixing Bowl for convoluted roadways.

 El-Torrminator wrote:
Think I'll jump in for another attempt. I'm done with Uni now so I should actually be able to finish this time.

Welcome aboard. Can't say where this journey will go, but it sure looks fun eh? There's a place for everyone. But they have to build it themselves

 Theophony wrote:
I was thinking of the same bridge idea , I was going to use the Thomas the tank engine bridge I picked up last year to figure out the gearing to it, but I think I have a better idea now .

Okay, I'll let you in on the plan and red harvest can decide if it's an acceptable "road"...Deathstar trench run board

You need to decide that Theo. It would be bad form for me to pre-judge an entry. However, if you seek clarification of the theme, that I can do. I'll just quote myself from the OP,

Red Harvest wrote: probably not in the air or through space, although that would be interesting to see, and if you can pull it off, then by all means go for it.

Looks like 'space roads' are specifically included in the theme description, just unexpected. Helpful?

 GrimDork wrote:
Lol surely that was a path... to victory!

Or not. That rebel rabble destroyed Humanity's last best hope. Now what will Humanity do in a galaxy teeming with Xeno-scum? (yeah, looking at you Jar-Jar Binks)

Monkeytroll, what body of water is that in the background?

Plans are looking very good indeed. Lots of creativity. A very good thing. Nice work folks.

Editto mention OP updated with new builders

SW off topic

Some great ideas and concepts, people, it seems it's going to be a joyride indeed!

A raildoad it's gonna be for me, then.

Base work, rails will come in later on:



MT: Awesome idea. Would love to see it finished!

Silver - I like the look of that, will there be a mine cart with Indy in?


Dr H - Interesting, I use the little beads for rivets, but only ever used the carbon as scatter, the asphalt idea is stored for future use


Red - that's the marina I live on, I'm Limey floating trailer trash


Lt - Interesting start, look forward to seeing where that goes.


And WIP:



Because a Moebius strip isn't quite freaky enough without some weird holes in it too.....




A few more WIP pics on my blog..

hey MT... I think you should have inbedded a metal sheet between the two sheets of PC... then with magnetic bases you could keep that "road" workable...

I like the holes tho... looks very mystery like!

Well, here's a god damn awful picture (phone) of my ideas, I've decided to go for a bridge over a small river, there are some minis for scale. The final pictures will be done with an actual camera don't worry

Edit: forgot to say that everyone else's ideas are looking awesome!

 monkeytroll wrote:
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Red - that's the marina I live on, I'm Limey floating trailer trash

Erm, as I understand UK English, shouldn't that be caravan rubbish in place of trailer trash? Nice progress on the road to nowhere. (and now I'm thinking of that Talking Heads song.)

Good starts NoodleArt, Littletower.

Finally got my head together and here is a rough idea might add a central cliff as if the road/bridge is passing through.

Hope you lot like the waterfall idea... everyone's ideas look great... going to be a good round.

NoodleArt - Nice to see some FOW terrain. You going to be using water effects for the river?


Red - Hey, you're bi-lingual Think that particular turn of phrase loses something of the essence when it undergoes translation though......


Barnzie4Moop - Interesting idea, look forward to seeing the waterfall take shape.

well it seems everyone is eager to brew their own stuff already... I have to chime in then... right?...right!

well....here is my attempt at a bridge...watch your step as this will be a lifting bridge...




that shot of course is still so WIP that you probably cant tell heads from tail... me too... will be developed in the fullness of time... plan is to make it moveable tho...cross your fingers!

as for my fellow competitors...
wow....

Barnzie4Moop looks really amazing... with lots of glass?... I totally wanna see this done!!! so sci fi!

at noodleart... FOW terrain is something of a complete new to me... that scale is extra difficult... I am watching that with earnest!

at MT...the holes make it look very spacy already!

and LT... well...said enough praise on your thread already

Moving parts? That's what we like to see

Oh, and I filed away the idea of metal sheets for later use....good idea, may be handy sometime