Terrain and Objectives (Necron building kit)

[Kierdale]

Just a quick post to say that I tracked down the source of the excellent posters:

Here.

[Kierdale]

The innards of a dead VCR glued together with added bitz...

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8232/8533638427_bcc5b9eb1e.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8095/8533638123_eecb0e2397.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8373/8534745012_40d4d703d8.jpg

And a last one for scale. Feel free to suggest captions

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8515/8534745046_378da9ee0c.jpg

 

If I ever get around to basing it then I'll probably add some wires/pipes coming from the top holes.

[PeaceCraft]

wow, lovely markers! i particularly like the vcr bits transmitter with the helpfull imperial propaganda 

[Lestat]

Mmmm.........I think I'm going to have to raid the loft. I'm sure theres an old VCR up there as well as some other useful gubbins.

 

If I'm not back in an hour, I may have found Narnia ;)

[deathspectersgt7]

Some very cool pieces.

[Kierdale]

Thank you!

If I have time, I hope to make a medicae facility and/or a command holo-map in the near future. I also picked up a circular mesh-pattern placemat at a 100 yen store last weekend which would be perfect as a landing pad. Will hit it with metallic spray this weekend.

[Firepower]

The Emergency sign put a smile on my face. :)

 

Some very clever stuff here.

[Brother Sgt. Steine]

Man these are cool...  Love the attention to detail, functionality, but most of all I love the continity of scale.

 

You've a real gift for this man.

 

BSS

[Kierdale]

Thank you, Firepower, Brother Sgt. Steine!

I recently posted a tutorial for making barricades, which can be found here:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273079-urban-barricades-from-forge-world-resin/?p=3332642

[Kierdale]

I don't remember where I saw this idea before (perhaps on TerraGenesis.co.uk), but I recently got my hands on some corrugated cardboard. Thankfully it wasn't the type with flat card on both sides (the difficulty of removing one flat side without damaging the corrugated part has always put me off). On the downside it is only 3cm in width, hence the following shipping container is rather short. It was made quickly with spare card as a concept test. If I get time to make more I'll be more careful with measurements. As it is I'm in the process of painting it and will probably rough it up with scratches -perhaps some graffiti too- so the roughness of the build isn't so glaring (or at least blends in!).

Edited September 16, 2013 by Kierdale

[Kierdale]

Found a great source of basing materials:

water filters.

First of all I should mention that it's far easier (and less messy) to do this with a new filter rather than one that's still partially full of water (no matter how many days you leave it to dry out. Trust me), but it's more economical to crack an old one open when you need to replace it...

The filter.

What we're after are those little balls and the black rocks. The latter I've used in the past and they make great rubble. The former must have it's uses...bubbles, buboes, grenades, plant seeds perhaps...

Last time I put a filter in a plastic bag and simply hit it with a hammer to break it open. That proved to be rather messy, so this this time I sawed the top off.

The top off.

Nice piece of grill there. I'll keep that!

And got enough little balls of various sizes to last me a long time...

Private Slacker here for a scale shot. One of the largest and smallest balls placed on his base for scale purposes. They appear to be made of some kind of ceramic so should glue and paint easily enough.

And plenty of black rocks (charcoal, it seems).

The sarge joins us for a scale shot.

And the other interestingly-shaped bits of plastic from within. The plastic doesn't look like the type that'll take paint easily so I'll be spraying it to undercoat it. That should do it.

Any and all suggestions as to how to use the parts, are welcome!

[God-Potato of Mankind]

Your terrains are better than my miniatures.

Good show!

Looking forward to more, quite a few of these I fancy taking my hand to myself now.

[Brother Callius]

Very impressive work

 

I love your attention to detail in every little thing, especially that poster on the ruined building.

I have one question though: what material did you use for the smoke cloud?

I have tried my luck with different kinds of cotton-wool and some pillow stuffing but it never comes out quite right.

[Kierdale]

Thank you, brothers.

 

The smoke cloud is simply cotton wool. The kind you can buy at a (over here) hundred yen store (a pound- or dollar-store elsewhere I don't doubt). Some hair spray and then the spray paint helps to keep the cloud's shape.

 

I have anothe tea candle-light spare now I come to think of it. Must get around to finishing that one off.

[Kierdale]

While working on my actual armies, I have got a bit more work done on some terrain projects, the first being a landing pad made from a large cork placemat (a good two centimeters or so in thickness). I have no intention to use it as an Aquila Landing Pad, it's simply a bit of terrain. Still WIP, and about 20cm in diameter for reference.

There are etched brass Aquilas at the compass points, and the `IV` is raised. I'm thinking of making a blast crater where the top-left and top-right quadrants join, to break up the open space, and -as Ixion suggested to me- add some wiring snaking about. Will probably add some crates, boxes and other stuff to clutter it a bit so it provides some cover.

What's under that grill:

Unpainted. A straw, a few cotton bud pipes, a bit of wire and some guitar string.

Painted. The Nihilak Oxide is on a bit heavy I must admit. It was my first time using it.

And covered. Plastic grill made for gardening, weathered with Ryza rust. The frame will be striped yellow and black, and will have bolts at the corners. I got a sprue of these tiny bolts, I think they're made for detailing Gundams, and they should look really nice...particularly rusted up.

The pad itself will be grey, drybrushed with Longbeard(?) Grey and shaded with Drakenhof Nightshade as I like the blue tinged-concrete look it gives.

And lastly, I got these pots and found they had a nice iris/spiral moulding on the bottoms. I've always wanted to do some kind of mining complex, so these would do nicely as surface-level extractor/ventilation fans. Cut some of the teeth out of one to damage it, added wires up the sides of all (probably will add more) including one with severed wires, some panels (must add more)...and cut all the `fan` out of one. Might fill that one with junk and broken up `concrete`...or model it with a ladder going into it.

About 7cm in diameter.

And have started work on a Prometheum Pipeline network.

Edited February 9, 2014 by Kierdale

[deathspectersgt7]

The spiral pots where did you get them?They would make excellent  ventilation fans for a hive city or for a space hulk piece. Thanks for sharing.

[Kierdale]

The spiral pots where did you get them?They would make excellent  ventilation fans for a hive city or for a space hulk piece. Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome.

They were pots of natto (fermented soy beans, basically). I don't eat the stuff myself (looks like snot and smells like sweaty feet) but my wife and son do. If you can find natto in a supermarket (might have to find a Japanese or Asian one) then they might be similarly moulded.

[The Nephilim]

I'm impressed. I love the Full Metal Jacket teddy bear.

[deathspectersgt7]

Thanks used to work for an Asian food Dist, will have to give a call.

[Kierdale]

A bit of a thread resurrection here but I completed this monument for the IG forum's Pride of the Guard event today.

A couple of the offerings(?): a golden aquila and a helmet...

And the ubiquitous bird droppings...

If I have time at the weekend I'll take some photos with models around it.

[OrangeBob]

Absolutely incredible! What an amazing thread filled with so many great and cheap ideas. 

[Ovidius Incertus]

That bronze color and even texture is superlative.  How do you do it?

[Kierdale]

That bronze color and even texture is superlative.  How do you do it?

Thanks.

It was very simple.

I sprayed on the black undercoat then gave the model a heavy drybrush of Balthasar Gold. Then a heavy wash of Agrax Earthshade followed by a lighter drybrush -only on upper surfaces- of Balthasar again, and a second Agrax wash.

Then it was just a matter of using Nihilak Oxide, applying it quite heavily and using a cotton bud/Q-tip, brushed downwards to remove excess and make it streaky.

And that's it. :)

[Canadian_F_H]

Found a great source of basing materials:

water filters.

First of all I should mention that it's far easier (and less messy) to do this with a new filter rather than one that's still partially full of water (no matter how many days you leave it to dry out. Trust me), but it's more economical to crack an old one open when you need to replace it...

The filter.

What we're after are those little balls and the black rocks. The latter I've used in the past and they make great rubble. The former must have it's uses...bubbles, buboes, grenades, plant seeds perhaps...

Last time I put a filter in a plastic bag and simply hit it with a hammer to break it open. That proved to be rather messy, so this this time I sawed the top off.

The top off.

Nice piece of grill there. I'll keep that!

And got enough little balls of various sizes to last me a long time...

Private Slacker here for a scale shot. One of the largest and smallest balls placed on his base for scale purposes. They appear to be made of some kind of ceramic so should glue and paint easily enough.

And plenty of black rocks (charcoal, it seems).

The sarge joins us for a scale shot.

And the other interestingly-shaped bits of plastic from within. The plastic doesn't look like the type that'll take paint easily so I'll be spraying it to undercoat it. That should do it.

Any and all suggestions as to how to use the parts, are welcome!

Will the big disk on the right looks like a man hole cover perhaps... Something that belongs as a hatch in a manufacturing maybe...

The other looks kinda tau ish...

[Kierdale]

Good ideas. Thanks, Canadian :)

Today I finished some Chaos objective counters (for both Daemon Forge and Inspiration Friday down in the Chaos forum):

The full set:

Rogue Trader and The Edge of Illumination aren't glued in place :D

Most of the time it'll be like this:

The horn-mounted scope is from the WHFB Empire master engineer. Designed to rotate down over the servo-skull's right eye when needed.

Dark Tongue icon for `6` on the back of the skull. One wonders what's in the bag...

And a close-up.