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2015/04/17 13:38:42
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This is sweet.
I just wonder whether it looked better prior to the second level being added. Having the sphere and black pillars close aesthetically seems to work better for me. Either version is awesome though.
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GW - 670 pts || - 354 pts || - 46 pts || - 106 pts || LoTR - 400 pts (Evil) vs 0 pts (Good) || Space Hulk - 1/35 || Deathwatch Overkill - 0/50
OtherMEdge: Karists - 23 points || Epirians - 0 points Shattered Earth: Awaiting delivery "Awakening" Terrain: Awaiting delivery DWMG2: 4/54
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2015/04/17 15:56:05
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b) What do you use to smooth/roughen the surface, sandpaper?
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2015/04/17 19:42:50
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@Dr H - thx
a) High density polystyrene (mostly another color than white - yellow,pink, blue, green...)
Is used for insulation buildings, concrete building foundations.
b)sandpaper what i found in desk. This was 180grain/ dry sanding. It make nice relief on wall.
If you need make it in room, is better use wet sanding. (no dust from it and smoothest surface)
@Viktor von Domm
oriental look. no,no is only skelet for wall. I glue another layers of HD styrene on it.
I want make it something between fantasy and futuristic.
Want use all technic what i need when build fantasy building,but with 40K look.
Don't know how it end...
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2015/04/17 20:15:44
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I hope all is well! Got a wee bit done tonight and am just womdering if this amount of "damage" constitutes enough of a difference from the whole piece..... going to add a lot mpre details but as a basis.... do you think this is enough difference?!
Hi guys. Progress slow due to a bunch of 12 hour days recently in work. I have however made a little progress on my Tau Sensor Tower:
Spoiler:
I've modelled it relatively closely on the Forge World Sensor tower, but with obvious proportional differences. After all this is a Farsight Enclaves Landing Pad, their tech is not fully up to date - this is model blah, blah, blahdedy blah. That's a lot older and less streamlined than the standard sensor tower, don't you know. Ahem. Carrying on.
So here are my two Kinder eggs glued together with an air freshener cap stuck on top with air drying modelling clay inside. The drone component at the top was going to just be a second-hand tau drone I had bought with a snapped aerial but it was too small. So instead I glued the clear flying base to the top of an old Bionicle Power Disc and then used air drying clay inside the disc and stuck the tau drone (with the top shaved off) inside. That way I got to keep the Gubbins underneath for effect, but the disc was bigger. If my modelling skills were better I may have tried to sculpt something to span the whole disc, but I'm mediocre at sculpting so left it. I'll possibly do some green stuff detailing in the top after, but at the moment I like the way it looks so may just leave it.
Detail photo of how I incorporated the drone into the base of the Bionicle disc:
Now I need to four "legs" to stabilise the tower and create a Tau disc icon for the side of the tower
Need to find somewhere where I can get free polystyrene from in the Cardiff area to try and make the rock sections of the overall terrain piece, so I can get started on that.
Would be really grateful for comments.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Magos- looks like enough damage to me, but I'm not the boss
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GW - 670 pts || - 354 pts || - 46 pts || - 106 pts || LoTR - 400 pts (Evil) vs 0 pts (Good) || Space Hulk - 1/35 || Deathwatch Overkill - 0/50
OtherMEdge: Karists - 23 points || Epirians - 0 points Shattered Earth: Awaiting delivery "Awakening" Terrain: Awaiting delivery DWMG2: 4/54
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2015/04/17 21:07:23
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@MagosBiff90 - for basis is enough. i'm inquisitive about details for it.
@TP^DC Deputy manager - great tower from scratch.
what type of glue you use on tower?
free polystyrene you can find:
- as garbage near construction yard
near trash can (covers from electronics thing - TV,...)
- someone have it old polystyrene covers in cellar, mansard...
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2015/04/17 21:10:24
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Tek Thornison wrote: @TP^DC Deputy manager - great tower from scratch.
what type of glue you use on tower?
Wood glue (PVA) was enough so far (I hope)
free polystyrene you can find:
- as garbage near construction yard
near trash can (covers from electronics thing - TV,...)
- someone have it old polystyrene covers in cellar, mansard...
I know, I just need to find some. Will go scrounging
GW - 670 pts || - 354 pts || - 46 pts || - 106 pts || LoTR - 400 pts (Evil) vs 0 pts (Good) || Space Hulk - 1/35 || Deathwatch Overkill - 0/50
OtherMEdge: Karists - 23 points || Epirians - 0 points Shattered Earth: Awaiting delivery "Awakening" Terrain: Awaiting delivery DWMG2: 4/54
My Miniatures blog || My Terrain blog || My MEdge blog || Paradigm's Painting Challenge League Tables: 2015/16, 2016/17 The Hobby Mission: 25/713 minis complete, 98/406 terrain complete. 46 more minis in 2016 to complete my goal for this year
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2015/04/18 00:37:54
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Some other places to find polystyrene is at green grocers and cafes/restaurants - things like fish and broccoli are delivered in huge polystyrene boxes, TP^DC Deputy Manager - loving that sensor tower, too btw. I was thinking about building my brother-in-law one for his nascent Tau force, so thanks for showing me how it's done
2015/04/18 14:10:25
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Can't resist this
Donut Box and 2 Yoghurt Pots as my entry bits Rawl plugs will be involved at some point
"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
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2015/04/18 15:22:56
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Magos: "Enough" is a tricky thing to define. It's a personal thing; with one man's enough being another's too much or too little. "Enough" is also a range that may span many individual's taste for the thing in question; the more possible permutations available for a value the more possibilities can potentially be encompassed in the term "Enough". One must consider what the extremes may be to determine where the median average is, and then assess if that median is what may be considered "Enough", Or whether the mean (or mode) average would present a better alternative. Also, consider who it is that you are presenting your value to and whether they represent the total population to which you want a general consensus that what you have presented to be "Enough"...
So long as there is more than a superficial difference (which you appear to have), then seeing as everyone appears to be in agreement, I'd say it'll do.
Good progress Dep'ty Manager. How about buying a new TV, you get free polystyrene with one of those.
Llamahead: Welcome and Good luck.
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2015/04/18 16:02:14
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And here you go.
Aimed for a 6mm scale Industrial Plant possibly for the manufacture of dohickeys or hoojamaflips. Due to the choice of material the name is obvious welcome to 7G
Realised one cunning final detail to add
"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
2015/04/18 16:32:06
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@ Tek
i see now.. wow....that layered look is very nice already! and the cobblestone on the lil balcony looks really nice!
my question is however... how did you achieve the strength in the main tower to support the weight of the top ?... that alone is a master class success!
the two black cylinders currently look a tad unwanted, uncared for... i am eager to see how you tackle these two^^
@ Viktor von Domm
Thank to selected material for construction.
This styrodur(High density polystyrene) need 150 kPa for pressing 10% of bulk. Is it 1,5 kg/cm2
Walls have 35cm2 surfrace. So "colapse" limit is 52,5kg. Up to 40kg on roof, tower will don't have any problem with weight.
I think weight reserve is more than sufficient I see in shop styrodur with max 700 Kpa.( used for insulation floor)
1/4 example -- 10kg
Spoiler:
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2015/04/19 15:57:26
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True dwarf style bulky and durable match made in heaven me thinks mind you I can't but think how soul destroying it would have been if it had collapsed underneath the weight
2015/04/19 19:13:36
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The army- ~2295 points (built).
* -=]_,=-eague Spruemeister General. * A (sprue) Hut tutorial * Dsteingass - Dr. H..You are a role model for Internet Morality! // inmygravenimage - Dr H is a model to us all Theophony - Sprue for the spruemeister, plastic for his plastic throne! // Shasolenzabi - Toilets, more complex than folks take time to think about!
2015/04/20 23:01:10
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40kg you say. I've never tested my stuff past 32kg. Now I will have to do so.
I need to post a photo of my bits soon. I have a few ideas, and still deciding which will be the most fun. And which I may actually be able to finish :(
Nice progress all.
2015/04/21 07:33:55
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Llamahead using rawl plugs? What is the world coming to?
Looking great Tek, and not what I was expecting, although I guess I should have been. From your very first shot I thought you were going to leave the blocks square, and paint them like a hi-tec force shield or similar
So, night shifts, 23-hour days and the like have cramped my hobby time a little recently....more inclined to just sit in the chair and watch Bond movies at the moment However, I may play around a bit now as I start in on the Moore years....
Ahoy all.... just a wee update to inform the crew that I am slightly amending my 2 base parts. I am still using 1 of the printer cartridge packets.... but am now usimg an old multivitamin bottle. "It is the white bottle beside the 2 cartridge packets in the picture..... still an everyday item and imho still fits the brief.... cheers all!
- 670 pts || 
- 354 pts || 
- 46 pts || 
- 106 pts || LoTR - 400 pts (Evil) vs 0 pts (Good) || Space Hulk - 1/35 || Deathwatch Overkill - 0/50
