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Ruins!; Because whole building are boring!
Topic Started: Jun 29 2009, 02:44 AM (4,214 Views)
RavenFeast
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This was generating enough traffic to merit it's own missive. :(|:$:

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That's a little less than 2 weeks worth of work. Never underestimate the power of mass production.

The 5mm foamboard walls mounted on 15cm x 15cm (not quite 6" by not quite 6") hardboard squares. Made a single, generic stencil for the windows/doors so everything could be traced instead of measured out individually. All the buildings have a standardized 3" height per level/floor. Individually was sacrificed for speed of production. Mr. Ford knew what he was doing. The hardboard bases are purchased from an art supply store http://www.dickblick.com/products/hardboard-panels/ .

The foamboard walls are all glued together with white glue and secured to the hardboard bases with Liquid Nails.

When you cut a single whole building diagonally in half - TA DA! - you get 2 ruins! And you can never have too many 6" squeeze bar clamps.

Next step: Adding details like rubble piles and weapons' fire damage. A.K.A. glue chunks on and chop other chunks off. :(|grin:
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Benny
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Ooh... You could even chop bits off and glue those same bits back on as rubble... Ahuh... Theres thinking right there... :P

lol

Looking great. Now hurry up and get some better photos for us and add paint :)
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Al, I like it! Too bad I'm not as industrious as this group :lol:
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RavenFeast
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Freebooter - There should be a test run this week after detailing and coating one piece with wood glue mixed with a little paint texture additive powder. If that works: spray black primer, then drybrush gray, followed by a lighter drybrush white. :(|thumbup:

Tinker - be single and without a life and it's amazing how much silly shite you can get done. :(|grin:
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Ross
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I'll wait until it's finished, then I'm flying over for a game!!
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Benny
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I think we should all fly to neutral game with boxes of toys for a massive post-apocalyptic battle :P
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I'll wait until it's finished, then I'm flying over for a game!!
Ya don't wanna help?!

freebooter
 
I think we should all fly to neutral game with boxes of toys for a massive post-apocalyptic battle :P
Historically speaking, Belgium exists for this sort of situation, no? :(|:P:
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Nah... Its been invaded too many times to be truly neutral. They hate absolutely everyone :P Except for Jazz musicians that is... So I'm in the clear lol

Switzerland?
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Good variety there. I very tempted to try out your idea of stencils and then chop each piece at the 45 degrees. Keep us posted.
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Jun 29 2009, 06:24 AM
Nah... Its been invaded too many times to be truly neutral. They hate absolutely everyone :P Except for Jazz musicians that is... So I'm in the clear lol

Switzerland?
How about we converge in Amsterdam..... :whis:
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Sweet looking stuff!
And that's without any paint..

You know, we -should- really consider a forum greet&meet kinda' thing in a year or so..
That might be enough time for us to get out of our individual financial woes/get out of school/whatever..

Wouldn't be a very big thing obviously: How many people are one here regularly? 15 'maybe'?
Wouldn't be a problem to find a decent place to hole up for the nights, or venues large enough to slap down a table full of overpriced toy soldiers so we can fight each other and make obnoxiously loud 'BANG!' 'BOOM!' 'FWOOSH!' noises, along with screams of rage, anguish, and other such things at unpleasant defeats.

... I'll try and smuggle a few boxloads of terrain with me.
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Ross
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The only problem with that is plane tickets, we're split over a half dozen continents :(
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Jun 29 2009, 06:24 AM
Nah... Its been invaded too many times to be truly neutral. They hate absolutely everyone :P
Exactly my point! What's one more invasion, even if it is only the dozen or so of us? :(|;):

Ross & Dimitri - Airfare is an issue, as is shipping our toys to the eventual destination; my stuff would not pass the scrutiny of airport security. Oh, nothing, Mister Homeland Security, just models and figurines. Yes they all have guns. What's that? I'd be delighted to wait over there...

Chrome_Cat - Stencils are the way to go. I made all the windows and doors oversized for ease of moving the figures around. These are gaming items, not architectural models.

There are 3 types of buildings in the works:

1 - lots of windows (firing positions).
2 - some window and some solid walls to break LoS.
3 - a few windows and lots of solid walls to break LoS.

Set up the stencil to have the maximum number of windows and doors you want. If you want less for a particular building, then don't draw them. :goggleson:
Edited by RavenFeast, Jun 29 2009, 07:33 PM.
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we're split over a half dozen continents


Hang on Ross, we have members in Africa? What about Asia? South America? Come Speak up you know who you are!

If we dont invade Belguim or Holland there is always Wales... :D How about Cuba? :D
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I vote for Wales! We can get our own back for the number of times they have raided england! Quick chaps, break out the war axes and mail shirts (I've been thinking about the sagas again.... :$)
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We can get our own back for the number of times they have raided england!


I thought it was the other way around? Mind you they did give us Ruth Maddoc... :blink:
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Hmm... Amsterdamn sounds like fun ;)
I'm in Aus too... So he and I would have fun getting over seas. He'd have to get it past his mrs. too :P
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ooo... Amsterdam would be lots of fun... :D
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At the risk of getting back on topic... :(|grin:

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The doors and widows are huge to facilitate figure placement and removal. I'm a bit of a klutz and have large hands, so design accordingly.
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Looking really nice, good thinking about the scale too I'm forever getting my paw stuck or knocking stuff over.
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