Showing posts with label terrain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrain. Show all posts

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Cathedral Update: Floor tiles, Balcony and Magnets Oh My!

I picked up a tub of drywall spackle because the two part epoxy putty I have used in the past as a terrain base is just too expensive for terrain of this scale. I put a few layers down over the foam-core, let that dry then positioned the base of the cathedral so I could trace out the outline. I used the outline to lay out some floor tiles (to test) before glueing them down. Once I started to glue down the tiles I decided to break some up and adjust them to reflect the damage caused by whatever created the craters. There's a lot yet to do but you get the idea.

Tiles down for a test and then broken up a bit and glued down.

 Some upheaval to the floor from the blasts. I'll have to fill in under them, around them and add some more debris.




 Balcony and some other Cities of Death bits added for detail etc.

Roof piece is magnetized for easier access to the inside.

See magnets installed in the columns. The magnets are a few mm down into the columns while the magnets on the underside of the roof piece stick out a few mm. This helps keep the piece in place without any side to side movement.



Several of the tower floors/levels will be magnetized as well. This will allow for easier access as well as give me options for how tall I want it for any given game.

Thanks for looking! Comments and Critiques are always welcome!




Sunday, July 28, 2013

Cathedral Terrain Detour

So I'm not starting off well with these huge delays between posts... Modeling ADD is the bane of my hobby life.

I started this Cathedral terrain piece almost a year ago with the intention of it being used as a center blocker. You'll see its scale next to a Stompa and a Stormraven that I placed in a few of the pics.

It didn't take long for my imagination to run wild and a flood of ideas....blast craters, magnetize all of it, magnetize its base to another larger base so it could be separated into one large flat hill and a smaller hill with a ruined cathedral or the whole cathedral on it etc etc. So like so many of my larger projects, it's just dragged on over the past year getting a little attention here and there.

These 5 pics are from October 2012. That's a full 4x6 sheet of masonite so it's perhaps a bit big for a center blocker but I like where it's headed. I've done quite a bit to it over the last month so I'll post updated pics shortly. 


 See Ork boy for scale
 WIP Stormraven for my Blood Angels, again for scale.
 Can you see the Stormraven?
 The Stompa could even get a cover save!
As always, CC is welcome and appreciated and thanks for looking!