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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Get ready for another photo heavy dump of this latest commission!
My friend asked me to design and build a display board for his Trios Army at NOVA. If you've seen his army, you couldn't forget it! It's the one with all the World Eaters and Bezerkers replaced with Beastmen, including an amazing Angron Cow conversion. So here's the process with the ending first, then all the WIPs.



Forgive the poor quality of photo - I've been told the lighting there wasn't great. In typical fashion for me, taking better quality photos at home was not a priority here.

Special Shout out to Black Site Studios for their AMAZING modular boards which made this incredibly easy to do from a base point of view.

Here's some WIP shots of the board itself. Made using black 'Professional Foamboard' from Michaels, which is a bit more pricy but it feels stronger than regular foamcore. Four of their big packs seemed to cover most of the board. I used off cuts and smaller pieces and a few other pieces to fill in the rest. Half the board was 'concrete' like so. The other half was raised industrial or stone blocks.





Here you can see an example of how I ensured that there was some differentiation. Two of the base concrete tiles are slightly different - one has this grate and more damage, the other one has some industrial debris embedded into it. This is the only 'non flat' one, so it goes on top of the pile when stacked!



How the based boards stacked up to the raised boards behind it.



How I made the pipe boards - you can see the general process. I raided my various bitz boxes heavily for this. Funnily enough, the same client has my first display board, which includes part of a vacuum cleaner tube. This commission has the other piece as you can see on the far right of this picture.


How the board looked once done.



There were several other configurations possible, including a raised central platform, or with the raised pieces all along the side.

Next time, WIP shots of the terrain!


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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Realized I never posted these, so I'll do so now. As usual, I'm not the best with the camera, but I promise I will do better for the next one (Which is coming right around the corner!) Once again - these are some of the final images from the industrial board commission I worked on. All terrain tells a story, and I really enjoyed building the story for this set.















Like I said - not the best photos on the planet, but I think we all get the gist.

Guard, Templars, Dungeons & Dragons, Terrain & More.

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Shas'la with Pulse Carbine






Very cool terrain!

My hobby ADHD, mostly Necromunda, with a splash of regular 40k... 
   
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander





United States

A very enjoyable thread- I'll be following to see what new (and even more prolific) items you put out!

I'm a big fan of 'found materials' construction, so love seeing all the improvisations that work perfectly as building materials for your several projects. The multi-gabled roof building a little bit back is massively impressive- the shingles alone must have taken you a fair amount of time to cut out. Your building under construction, with the scaffolding and the cinderblocks awaiting assembly for a second story- is extremely realistic. I saw houses in Egypt that looked almost exactly the same- the reason being that the owner pays a lower rate of tax on an 'unfinished' building than on a completed one; some 'unfinished houses' had been in state of 'unfinished' for years.

Your badlands pieces are a lot of fun and very well done, considering it looks like you are using hobby knives and box cutters, rather than an electric foam cutter. Whcihever method yyour using, it's yielding some very rugged terrain that's great just fer lookin' at as well as playing.

You've got some mad skills painting figures, too.

Rock on!

"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."

Montrose Toast


 
   
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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Thanks for the kind words!

Well...More work been done on other projects. I'm behind in posting, so it's another large photo dump! Client wanted jungle/long abandoned planet being reclaimed by nature. Heavy on the nature, lighter on the 'touches of civilization' So I gave it my best shot. Jungles are always tricky because of the necessary plant cover - too plastic, and it's relatively durable, but also easily seen as aquarium terrain. Go more expensive, it's more realistic in the miniature world, but also way more fragile and unlikely to survive much gameplay. I think I managed to strike a balance here. The client also wanted the terrain to be large enough to hide his knights army. So tall tree trunks and ruined stone structures it is! As always, feedback appreciated.

The whole commission finalized.



The ruined stone bridge WIP to final.






Several of the large pieces WIP to final.




This piece was designed to be a massive tree trunk growing into the side of an embankment over many years.







Some more barricade sized terrain - somehow I didn't upload the last of the three pieces, but that's fine, these two are better looking, and the train one is honestly my pride and joy in the weathering department.








Most of this was done with knife, ruler, and various thickness of foam - I do have a small handheld foamcutter, and I used that to help make the arch, but I don't have the space for a larger one (although I definitely want one, and I probably could find the space....) To make the big trees, I used clay and aluminum foil to build up the definition of the sides of the tree.

Hope you all enjoy!






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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Hi all! Hope your holiday season is going well, full of friends and family and hobbying. I've been busy with diving into my Legions Imperialis starter set (and a single extra box of the Auxilia Infantry). Overall plan is to build a mostly Auxilia defense force modeled as Prospero Spireguard Auxilia. While these forces did not see much action outside of the burning of Prospero, a group of loyalist Thousand Sons and their Spireguard allied to the Legio Xestobiax formed a core defense of the Zhao-Arkkad Enclaves. This is the first of their enlistments.

First, the building and mustering.


The Space Marine Tanks come with extra turrets, but the Auxilia do not (at least in the starter set)

I focused on the Spireguard Auxilia first. Paintjob is White Scar primer, Black Legion for the tracks and weapons, and Flesh Tearer's Contrast Paint over the turret and outer track components.



The final paint scheme without drybrushing.

A test scheme for the auxilia lasfusiliers proper.


The final tank group shot.


Next up are the Thousand Sons - A bit darker than I wanted them to be, but unless I really want to drybrush them more brightly, I'm pretty happy with the end result. From WIP to completion.



Undercoating done. Sort of very Iron-Man esque.


I was testing out some drybrush vs washes here - not pleased with just a drybrush.



The final group shot.












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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

A **Teeny Tiny** update to my LI progress - Finally finished up the Contemptor dreds. Been stalled on these because, well, you guessed it, more jungle terrain! These are (Replace with WERE) the last two pieces of this commission until the client wanted some more ruins to add flexibility to his set. So those are in progress as well. Spoiler - only one of these terrain pieces is fully done as I'm waiting on some 3-D printed jungle trees to add additional details and some different looks - jungle trees should not all look alike!

First off - Tiny Dreds!


Now onto terrain. As usual, built from a core of pink foam and aluminum foil covered tubes for trees, wrapped in paper packing tape. This piece has additional detail in the form of some plaster of paris ruin pieces (coated in mod podge several times before being applied to this to add in some strength).





Here's where I made a classic terrain builder mistake. I thought I had enough clay. I did not. Cue a quick trip to Michaels (post holiday is a depressing time to visit). You can also see the size of the terrain!





Some of the white clay started to crack - wasn't too happy with that as it didn't happen as much with the terracotta one. I have resolved to change back to the terracotta one next time. Fortunately I could fill in the gaps and use flock and similar to help camouflage and fill the holes.






Adding more details now. I start with the largest pieces and work my way down to flocking and other bases as it helps hide the hot glue connection points and blends the whole project together.





Probably the best shot of the details. I need to work on my phone camera work evidently.


Anywho - more photos and work incoming as I finish this commission. Then onto my own things!









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12th Cadian Mech Regt Orphan Brigade





Tasmania

Great terrain and figures. Really like your tree.

Colonel Jacka
12th Cadian Mech Regt
Orphan Brigade
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That's one helluva impressive tree!

See what's on my painting table Now painting: Kruleboyz Gutrippaz 
   
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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Thanks for the nice comments y'all!

More scenery for you this go around - client requested some additional overgrown ruins to add to the vibe of the board. One of their armies is knights, which is why the terrain is so large. The concept for this piece is a single large 11 x 18 foamcore base, cut into three sections - two "L" shaped ruins with the remaining piece in between. Together they are either one extra large overgrown ruin, or two large ruins and one barricade style piece.




Working on the tree in the ruins part...



First layers of paint going on - Black Mod Podge base, a turquoise blue base coat with two layers of drybrush over it, a fourth whiter drybrush over the design accents, while more grey drybrushing over the concrete floor pieces. All textured with a handy rocky and aluminum foil.


Washing it...



You can see here how the pieces all fit together. It's actually super cool how it works - it took some delicate finagling to ensure the foamcore pieces were sturdy enough to hold up to this (I added a layer of chipboard underneath the foam after I first cut it out.


Another angle (not the best!)


Adding flock, moss, and leaf litter. I purposefully didn't put too many extra plants into these two pieces as I wanted them to be most accessible to minis (and people's hands will be moving in and out, so I wanted the least amount of things to knock over/damage.



My friend was awesome enough to resin print me some jungle plants I purchased on Mini Factory, so I'll be adding those to the barricade piece!





Guard, Templars, Dungeons & Dragons, Terrain & More.

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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Hi All,

Just finished up the remainder of this Jungle commission, and my first time messing around with resin prints for some jungle elements that would be too hard to craft from other materials. Would love to know your thoughts!



This was the initial design. The trees are actually one tree where I think I was missing a piece (the main top trunk part that all the branches were supposed to connect to). So I improvised and made a bunch of smaller trees.



Painting it up and adding more flower details.



Done!





Now for the piece that has bedeviled me the entire commission. At first it was too square, then too blocky. With a lot of finagaling I'm... happy...ish. Too late now, and adding the resin details made me feel better about it. It had to walk a narrow line between being LOS blocking, rocky and junglish, plus keep the train track and... it's fine!







Whelp! Another commission done and on the way! More terrain coming your way soon enough!

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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Hi everyone,

Happy Superbowl evening,

As I'm between projects at this point right now, I get to work on my own projects, woo hoo. I've always wanted to build a fantasy-style village with both scratchmade terrain and some things from Tabletop World. I was lucky enough to get the blacksmith building from them this last holiday, so I'll be painting that up and building a few more houses and the like to expand. The eventual goal is to build a small fortified town with a nearby keep. I have an old Warhammer Fantasy Castle that I'll be modifiying and building up to compliment the town.

So here's the goal then:
5-8 hovels/houses (including 2 or so fancier ones)
Blacksmith
Inn & Stables (I have the Inn built, but the attached stable component is not built)
Guardhouse/barracks
Ruined Tower *using the MESBG terrain from GW
Tower

Plus lots of various little gribbles and the like.

Here's the (basic, but happy!) start.

This is the house of a local forager and farmer. Built on a base of scrap pink foam from a core of Warbases.co.uk small mdf building, then using some gifted tiles for the roof, balsa wood for the beams, and bits of granny grating backed by some plastic sheet for the windows. I used some Spackle to make the wattle/daub composition on the building.







My favorite little parts are the shield above the door (plus that framing, which was a happy accident) and the small wood pile and chopping log. This is as far as I'll paint until I build up some more buildings so they all look consistent (learned that lesson on several projects)


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The wood pile and axe are what make the building into almost a whole scene. It makes it look entirely lived-in.

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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
The wood pile and axe are what make the building into almost a whole scene. It makes it look entirely lived-in.


I saw a video on youtube somewhere that basically mentioned that every one of your 'lived in' fantasy building needed either a coal cellar or a source of wood nearby. Wood piles / stores also make great scatter terrain. Thanks for the kind words!

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Death-Dealing Dark Angels Devastator





Canada

Love those Minotaurs with the 'not' Bull heads.

Shingles look excellent, imagine some gesso and glue will make them very durable.
   
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USA

The town of Border (A homemade town in my Dungeons and Dragons campaigns) is now expanding with some new buildings! First up is the granary/chicken coop. Taking inspiration from some depictions of some medieval and ancient style granaries, I put this small Warbases Dark Age Building (a timber barn, I believe) onto stilts and turn it into a chicken coop of some type. I realized that these buildings are basic, but with some adjustment they can turn into some awesome scenes.




But what would a good border town be without a watchtower. Unfortunately, this is the old watchtower - struck by a lightning bolt, this unlucky watchtower no longer serves it's purpose in town, and a new, more fortified version has been built slightly north of it. Nowadays its used mostly for storage of local farmer's militia gear.



With that, I wanted to show you a new set of arrivals - some more tabletop terrain buildings join the growing town!

Can't wait to paint all these up!


Guard, Templars, Dungeons & Dragons, Terrain & More.

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USA

Finished up work on the granary and some fun little statutes for my D&D world.







Finally - added in a new construction - a small livestock paddock. Once this is complete I think I'll start work on a larger structure to compliment the village.

Guard, Templars, Dungeons & Dragons, Terrain & More.

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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Another spring day, another set of progress on the fantasy village. This time, it's a sturdy keep as the town's central bastion. Home to a small garrison of loyal retainers to the lord, it will watch over the walled hamlet.

But first! Some small walls for the livestock of the village.



Now onto castle building. Foamcore for the main walls to speed up the process, white styrofoam for the bulk of the inside, pink insulation foam bricks for the cladding on the tower. (Tower obviously provided by fake pringles). Wood from coffee stirrers. Metal windows and hatch piece provided from a kickstarter I backed a long time ago, but finally used in a project! I made some more from white foamcore, then I graduated to using chipboard instead.








This last bit is my personal favorite - I wanted the keep to have the ability to concievably be lived in for real, and what better than a poop shoot?



Roofing matches another building in town to tie them together.

Keeping on Keeping on!



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Madrid, Spain

Looking good! Love the stone arrangement on the tower.

Also known as KeiserS! muette is my old name.

I also have a 3d models shop, check it out here! https://cults3d.com/en/users/keiserspandp/creations 
   
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander





United States

What a terrific build! Simple materials, a lot of attention to detail and a ton of imagination- really nicely done!

Love the addition of the garderobe.

"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."

Montrose Toast


 
   
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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




USA

Meer_Cat wrote:What a terrific build! Simple materials, a lot of attention to detail and a ton of imagination- really nicely done!

Love the addition of the garderobe.


muette wrote:Looking good! Love the stone arrangement on the tower.


Thanks for the love! I absolutely wanted to include the gardenrobe on this build. Next part will be adding a chimney on the other side and finishing the defensive windows. The amount of time I spent looking at Keep images on Pintrest and the internet only to go "Those are too big, let me go smaller" made me laugh. I will be building / assembling a larger base with a ramp so that way there is at least some additional opportunity for height and defensiveness, but separate so that way I can use it for the homes as well. New update will come tomorrow likely.

- Blockade

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USA

Blockade: I'll post tomorrow.
Narrator: Sadly, his optimism was ill founded. It was more than a week before he posted again.

But wait, there's an update! A GOOD update! (More photos yay)

The castle is assembled! (Although I still may add some small buttresses on the wall that has nothing on the first floor, but I'm not 100% on that yet. Thoughts and comments accepted!)




I wasn't 100% happy with the window details and thus trimmed the stonework down to better match the rest of the stonework on the other windows.

The finished Gardenrobe and wall supports on the right side of the building.


Back Wall - I'd put the supports here as they'd fill some empty space, but I'm also not against empty space.



The chimney - I went with one larger piece of foam rather than a bunch of small ones, then cut out some pieces and put in some individual foam pieces to give it some more texture. Painting should help this. The bottom part looks more uniform than the top part.


The tower parapet is slightly lower in height than the wall parapet, so I added a flatter piece to provide about 2.5 bricks worth of cover, rather than the 3 full bricks the wall gets. Hard to tell the difference from far away, but it does let the archers reach over the wall more easily to shoot directly down.


Here you can see more details on the wall top. Nothing much else has changed.

Next step is to build the large platforms for homes and keep and then on to the warhammer walls!

- Blockade

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