Der_H Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 So, hopefully this is a reasonable place to put this.... ...as part of Brother Handro and I's ongoing Grandia Campain behold the first of my WIP trench Boards. http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-01152232.jpg http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-01202008.jpg It started life as one of our flat tiles but subsequently all our flat games took palce on canvas rather than heavy foam terrain. http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-01202015.jpg Ferro-crete crenellations are made from sprue off cuts. Ive even cast two of the sprue/mould bases from FW to make many more of these. http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-01202025.jpg Pit at the end of a track http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-01202033.jpg Shell impact craters need 'roughing up' http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-01202041.jpg Sooooo many lollipop sticks.... My plan is for 6 of these with joints to make (at first count) >15 combinations So thats it for now...thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markham82 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Looks great. Maybe put some spare body parts in the craters, or even have them sticking out of the trench walls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mactire Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Great work keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Looks Good as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 How did I miss this? Looking like a really strong start. Can't wait to see the trench works all laid out and connected up!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der_H Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Soooooo.....been a while! Brother Handro and I had a very productive Monday and I have since made some limited additions! Not to mention undercoating/basecoating the two bastions and two aegis defence lines we bought around 12 months ago, we have also added two more WIP trench boards to the collection. The first, by my distinguished colleague Brother Handro is a mirror of my previous efforts: http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2160.jpg Radar station WIP - covered walk way from main trench line. http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2161.jpg Crater with similar wooden planking to the floor as a forward SAP. The polystyrene has been sealed with a mixture of filler, PVA and brown pain and awaits sanding (with sand paper), sanding (with sand onto glue!) and painting before final PVA seal. My own efforts from Monday were somewhat influenced by the gorgeous looking new RoB board by FW with the mounted volcano cannon. http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2155.jpg Heavily WIP - It is designed to be reversible with one side having a trench line and access point - although less realistic as seen this way around it does allow much greater flexibility in the orientation of the table. The rough edges seen above and below at the ends of the bunker are to be covered by a line of sandbags made from milliput (at some stage!). The structure is foamcore with plenty of good old papier-mache over the top. Ive used this to good effect in several previous emplacements and when drybrushed up to comes out quite well (See spoiler below!) http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/2015-02-26%2019.35.59.jpg http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2153.jpg http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2154.jpg Since these shots I decided i didnt like the thickness (or lack thereof!) of the front and side walls and decided to thicken them up - I noted the FW bunker has a thicker wall behind and a lower wall to allow movement of the gun - since my creation needs to be bi-directional It is set up so the gun can be set up to point either way! I decided to thicken and to try to graft some card board plates to the edge - The ide being that these can be painted up to be folded sheet metal to reduce wear on the concrete bunker - will help with aging the structure with good old ryza rust! http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2163.jpg http://i1145.photobucket.com/albums/o501/henrycoll/Terrain%20WIP/IMG_2162.jpg Although heavily WIP hopefully these will give an idea of the finished article. I may buy a Mars Pattern Turbo Laser (http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Titans/MARS-PATTERN-TURBO-LASER.html) and convert this to fit the central hole in my tread plate - I have a thinner tube which fits perfectly to allow real-time adjustment. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathspectersgt7 Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Handro Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I didn't know there was a thread! Cool new adjustments! The bunker of doom looks really imposing. Cardboard works well. I feel the mojo building... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW1 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 The turbo laser would look very nice on the top of that building. Really like how you've used the textured plasticard on top to surround the pivot point and the wire snaking away is a nice touch. Seeing the progress is helping chivy my own efforts forward. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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