Battybattybats Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Today i got a plastic Void Shield Generator, which i just had to have for thematic purposes (after all it literally says Adeptus Mechanicus right on the model!) and i thought it'd be good to raise this topic here both as an excuse for people to show off their terrain pieces but also for discussion of tactical use of various fortifications for our factions forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RikuEru Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Our forum-brother Subtle Discord, has a product soon-to-be in his shop, which overshadows the voidshield generator with ease...But I'm biased. I ordered one and eagerly await the package to arrive in the next few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 I prefer very dense terrain and have been gearing up for our annual Christmas-season Kill Team event. Here are some of my projects: Aegis Defense Line: http://i.imgur.com/LeWbhjgl.jpg Bastion and Plasma Obliterator: http://i.imgur.com/tM9m2Pml.jpg Void Shield Generator: http://i.imgur.com/AiSh5hnl.jpg Miscellaneous terrain: http://i.imgur.com/JNjntOzl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Q9yj0srl.jpg My table, roughly as it stands today: http://i.imgur.com/MsaxWq9l.jpg http://i.imgur.com/JCtZUTal.jpg Our forum-brother Subtle Discord, has a product soon-to-be in his shop, which overshadows the voidshield generator with ease...But I'm biased. I ordered one and eagerly await the package to arrive in the next few days. My god, I'm going to need one of those for the collection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parweke Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 This is great. Im going to start building my forge world/mechanicus city table later this year so everything posted here will be helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Almost everything on my table is garbage. Silos: Sugar, creamer and oatmeal cylinders, paint cans. Catwalks: Cake risers and CPU trays. Platforms: Upside-down bread trays with corkboard pavement. Landing pad: Two plastic garden hose reels and a cereal box. Warehouse: Collapsible plastic storage crate. Rattle-can with dark red or grey, give it a heavy wash of watered-down black paint and you've got a tabletop-quality tabletop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger9gamer Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 Almost everything on my table is garbage. Silos: Sugar, creamer and oatmeal cylinders, paint cans. Catwalks: Cake risers and CPU trays. Platforms: Upside-down bread trays with corkboard pavement. Landing pad: Two plastic garden hose reels and a cereal box. Warehouse: Collapsible plastic storage crate. Rattle-can with dark red or grey, give it a heavy wash of watered-down black paint and you've got a tabletop-quality tabletop. how did you make that crane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battybattybats Posted September 8, 2016 Author Share Posted September 8, 2016 CommodusXIII that's a nice move there having got so many of the battle for macragge pieces, i have my one set and crashed aquilla (which i plan to paint in Mechanicus colours and markings) in my get-around-to-paint part of my workstation, but now i see i should have snapped up some more of the terrain (i only played tyranids when it came out so i doubled-up on the tyranid stuff but not the imperial terrain).All your work is always quite inspirational! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 how did you make that crane? The crane was a garage sale find, based on a Playmobile set: http://i.imgur.com/VGcTW6Yl.jpg The ladder, rivet strips, vents and opus machina symbols are all from Horizon Creation 3D, which is a rather affordable source of 3D-printed terrain detail bits. The safety cages are the outer bits of plastic hair curlers. I stripped the entire toy down to its component parts to clean and paint it, and reassembled it with jewelry chain instead of twine. The claw is from another crane toy that's still on the WIP shelf. CommodusXIII that's a nice move there having got so many of the battle for macragge pieces, i have my one set and crashed aquilla (which i plan to paint in Mechanicus colours and markings) in my get-around-to-paint part of my workstation, but now i see i should have snapped up some more of the terrain (i only played tyranids when it came out so i doubled-up on the tyranid stuff but not the imperial terrain). All your work is always quite inspirational! Thank you very much! :) Unfortunately, Battle for Macragge hit just as I started a long break from the hobby. It took me a few months to source enough of those force field pylons from eBay to match the length of a standard Aegis Defense Line barricade set. If I were to do it again, I'd use the new oval cavalry/bike bases instead of the old rectangular ones. There's always room for improvement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger9gamer Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 how did you make that crane? The crane was a garage sale find, based on a Playmobile set: http://i.imgur.com/VGcTW6Yl.jpg The ladder, rivet strips, vents and opus machina symbols are all from Horizon Creation 3D, which is a rather affordable source of 3D-printed terrain detail bits. The safety cages are the outer bits of plastic hair curlers. I stripped the entire toy down to its component parts to clean and paint it, and reassembled it with jewelry chain instead of twine. The claw is from another crane toy that's still on the WIP shelf. CommodusXIII that's a nice move there having got so many of the battle for macragge pieces, i have my one set and crashed aquilla (which i plan to paint in Mechanicus colours and markings) in my get-around-to-paint part of my workstation, but now i see i should have snapped up some more of the terrain (i only played tyranids when it came out so i doubled-up on the tyranid stuff but not the imperial terrain). All your work is always quite inspirational! Thank you very much! Unfortunately, Battle for Macragge hit just as I started a long break from the hobby. It took me a few months to source enough of those force field pylons from eBay to match the length of a standard Aegis Defense Line barricade set. If I were to do it again, I'd use the new oval cavalry/bike bases instead of the old rectangular ones. There's always room for improvement! wow.... that is a great idea. If I ever make myself a gaming table, i'm going to steal that idea I think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vel'Cona Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Cool terrain, though I'd probably be swearing at it a lot trying to move my army around on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Yeah, it's a bit much for full-scale play. It's absolutely fantastic for Kill Team, though - I'm actually trying to build up even more before December. I missed out on Necromunda back in the day but I really enjoy the claustrophobic conditions. Fortunately, everything is relatively modular and I have a ton of shelf space. When we run full-size campaigns it's fun to have a completely new layout every mission, or represent various locations on the planet we're fighting over. Ash waste outposts, Titan manufactora, landing fields, etc. But enough about me - what about the rest of you lot? I'm always looking for inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battybattybats Posted September 12, 2016 Author Share Posted September 12, 2016 Well most of my mechanicus terrain is still under construction or on the sprues for now, but i do have one WIP piece from the very beginning of my mechanicus plans long before the codices or mechanicum ranges came out.So these are the old OOP versions.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f250/supreme_martian_overlord/DSCF0001_6.jpgI had a Tyranid army, and always loved the Jes Goodwin artwork of the techpriests standing beside a Genestealer Patriarch head in such a container, so when the Anphelion stuff came out while i couldn't afford the buildings i could not resist these, wanting to make a small group of Magos Biologis studying the Tyranids.So these are the old Anphelion containers not the current zone mortalis one, so i had to bend a bit of plastic sheet that is held in place by the resin frame/end-caps to make the tubes unlike the current sculpted clear (presumably resin) piece of the current single zone mortalis version.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f250/supreme_martian_overlord/DSCF0002_6.jpgThe ripper had to be converted to get it's tongue to fit and making it sufficiently lolling. The stressed plastic sheet makes the tubes somewhat opaque unless you get the angle right, which is good and bad depending, and being just a bent sheet made it far too tricky to pour water-effects in.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f250/supreme_martian_overlord/DSCF0006_5.jpgThere's magnets i added to the back of these so they can fit on the walls on the inside of one of my ruined manufactorum.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f250/supreme_martian_overlord/DSCF0008_5.jpgIt also gave me something to use my excess spare tyranid head bits on (other than bookmark charms and earrings!).It'll have some nice narrative gaming uses as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 The latest addition to my toy rehabilitation project: http://i.imgur.com/exvSsMYl.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoGuy Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 How did you make that? :O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 It's an old G.I. Joe playset. The only real modifications that I made to it were adding an extra platform to the front and rebuilding the ladder, as 40K models are about half the height of the G.I. Joe action figures it was designed for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battybattybats Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 Wow CommodusXIII that's magnificent!My latest piece is just a standard vengeance battery.http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f250/supreme_martian_overlord/DSCF0013_8.jpghttp://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f250/supreme_martian_overlord/DSCF0012_4.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vel'Cona Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Looks great to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlo Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Our forum-brother Subtle Discord, has a product soon-to-be in his shop, which overshadows the voidshield generator with ease... But I'm biased. I ordered one and eagerly await the package to arrive in the next few days. I need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 My latest piece is just a standard vengeance battery. I've been meaning to pick a set of those up for a while now, but I'm still burnt out on Fortifications. So much fine detail to paint - and yours looks excellent! Here's another item of garbage bin terrain: http://i.imgur.com/XbDBtT8l.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battybattybats Posted October 3, 2016 Author Share Posted October 3, 2016 Wow Commodus XIII i sincerely doubt that there's a better mechanicus board out there currently when you have such great stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 I draw a lot of inspiration from Sean Patten's work over at Necromundicon, especially his Gothic and Industrial projects. I'd love to play on his tables... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Two more items of repurposed Mechanicus terrain: The power distribution station: http://i.imgur.com/wuMPVhel.jpg The adamantium forge: http://i.imgur.com/Mm5ynxel.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodusXIII Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Another dump of Mechanicus terrain: Assembly line/portal: http://i.imgur.com/d3X3i5kl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/i4VSdPrl.jpg An Adepticon Void Shield Generator, the second in my relay: http://i.imgur.com/22kBJtul.jpg More repurposed Hot Wheels boosters - the central processing station, a turbine plant and a second heat exchanger: http://i.imgur.com/ZSfiMGEl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/i03GoDHl.jpg Test chambers: http://i.imgur.com/ZomcI8Dl.jpg And a containment vessel: http://i.imgur.com/OAG2ni5l.jpg That's it for me - I'm all out of ideas and broken toys. Keep this thread going! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Castellan Cato Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Really inspiring stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vel'Cona Posted November 7, 2016 Share Posted November 7, 2016 OK, what in the Omnissiah's name is that thing in the tube? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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