Before we get into this week's post, another apology. It's a big sorry to anyone who visits this blog looking to see models from the Warhammer 40,000 universe (or maybe Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Age of Sigmar). If you've flicked through my last few posts it won't have escaped your notice that things have not been very miniatures-focussed of late.
This is for all the usual reasons, plus a few unusual ones. But essentially it goes like this: really busy, blah, blah, stuff to do on house, blah, blah, looking after the kids, blah, blah, sorting out my career, blah blah, watching Star Trek Discovery and Stranger Things on Netflix, woo hoo.
If you do occasionally visit this blog you may be aware I've been going on about creating a section of an Imperial Hive City. One that I call Kruenta Karoliina Arx Rotunda, on the planet Ancora Fornax, or just Kru for short. You may also know that although I've built civilians, servitors, vehicles, tools, and robots for Kru, I haven't actually managed to finish a single building yet. But that's not to say I haven't started any. A while back I posted some work-in-progress pics of my first piece of terrain – a cobbled together industrial storage depot of some kind. I made much of it using some classic techniques published in an old White Dwarf. There should be some further development on this building in the near future, but in the meantime I've also been working on a second one. It's a Biocidic Filtration Tower, an installation likely to be found alongside storage tanks on Imperial worlds with similar industries to Ancora Fornax.
But more importantly than that, it's a tall open building with platforms, gantries, walkways, and ladders that should be useful in miniature-based wargames, especially the brand new re-release of Necromunda.
It's not quite finished yet, but I think these pictures give a pretty good idea of where I'm going with it.
Pretty cool! How does this count in the countdown hobby addiction? +1 or -1? Nice question I suppose lol!
ReplyDeleteHaha, you are so right, Stats. I think I add unpainted models to my collection faster than I ever finish anything. I'm doomed to have a house full of tiny, incomplete science fiction warriors. But I'm trying. I'm about finish something I've had on a shelf (and before that, in tiny pieces in my bits box) for something like ten years. I'm actually quite excited. I'll share it in my next post. Thanks for reading.
DeleteLooks great. Like the lovely terrain from old White Dwarfs. What is the decking made out of? Some kind of vent cover, it looks perfect for terrain.
ReplyDeleteHi John, thanks for the compliment. I was a huge fan of that old White Dwarf article, and always knew I wanted to blatantly steal from it. The decking material is plastic canvas (or cross-stitch grating in the U.S.), used in knitting. Seam Patten (the Necromundicon) mentioned it in his interview, and I looked it up. I wrote some notes on my early encounters with it here: https://torvatenebris.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/an-interview-with-sean-patten-from.html#comment-form
DeleteI would say that if you want it for terrain - especially unbacked decking, then you'll definitely need the stiffer stuff. I think if it's unmarked it tends to be the flexible one that's only good for bases.