[Heroka Vendile]

observing the proper safety precautions of course!

A big hammer and a pair of safety goggles? 

nice progress robey, simple and effective stuff.

[greenstuff_gav]

the nice, black board

so if it's a ship / hulk, are we going to invest in sheets of aluminium Mesh (althought i suspect a local car shop would be cheaper) for said board? 

i think maybe more pipework / random tek is in order for a hulks interior, do look more like buildings at the mo...

[precinctomega]

I already have a collection of mechanical bits and bobs to add that "big chunks of machinery" look to the board.  I'm leaving them until last, though.

R.

[Aidan]

Looks great! I'm working on some 54mm scale terrain myself at the moment. How did you paint all that? Just a big brush hand a lot of black paint, or is there some way to get spraypaint not to eat foamboard?

How many of these do you plan to complete, eventually?

[precinctomega]

I covered all exposed foam edges with masking tape.

Actually, I initially used way too much masking tape, as I was covering edges that would never be exposed!  But I've learnt from my error.

I then added a bit of polyfilla to the edges and bases to give them a grimy look, spray-painted them black and then drybrushed them with some grey emulsion paint I had hanging around.

R.

[precinctomega]

Yep, it's powered:



R.

[Hadriel Caine]

extra cool.

[kierkegaard]

Extra cool indeed. Powered scenery FTW! (as young people would say...)

[Ynek]

Ah, I wish I knew a little about electronics, because honestly, I'm clueless, and I have often thought that a piece of terrain or a particular model would benefit from some sort of 'leccy-powered coolness.

Anyway, they're all looking good, Robey. The techniques you're using are far faster and simpler than the ones that I've been using.

If I ever see another polystyrene foam block, it'll be all too soon. I still have the nightmares.

[precinctomega]

I know sod all about electronics.  I ripped that set up wholesale out of a spider catcher*.

R.

PS. My Mum bought it for my arachnophobic wife, but she wouldn't use it ("it just gets the spiders closer to your fingers!), so I felt I could hank it to pieces.  Several other parts will have uses in the terrain.

[precinctomega]

Terrain so far:



I've got another set of storage containers (cardboard tubes) to set up and perhaps two more buildings to construct.  Painting shouldn't take long.  Then I just have to pick out the miniatures for the day, make sure they're painted, write character sheets and design six scenarios to see us through the day.

Easy-peasy.

 

R.

[Hadriel Caine]

If anyone can do it, its Robey!

Those pieces look great, they go together well but I can see lots of other ways of arranging them already.

keep it up.

Adam