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Tunnel Terrain - WIP; Fighting in the dark....
Topic Started: May 4 2010, 09:59 AM (5,773 Views)
mattblackgod
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The old plastic skeleton was painted up. It just got a dry brush of grey and a brown wash.

Apart from one tunnel for paint detailing (it has some nice details including a scratch built electrical box) and another needing paint thats it. All the rooms bar one are made up too. It just needs paint and some finer details adding/sorting.

I am now considering looking into making work units/benches for a lab from scratch. It may take more time to make but it does save caps for other project bits. One thing I am not too sure about is how to scratch convincing looking test/lab equipment. I also have some plaster beds, a resin computer desk and computer and one or two other items add to the furnishings pile.

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Digitarii
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I would be amiss if I did not point out that both Copplestone Castings and Black Cat Bases both have lab equipment available. As far as making your own, remember that anything to be built is composed of shapes. Boxes, cylinders and spheres mostly. Identify the shape and put it into position. A microscope for example:

Eyepieces: Cylinders
Case: Box
Support arm: I would use a cylinder for simplicity, but they are typically a crescent shape
Adjustment control: disc
Stage: Flat panel
Base: Again, for simplicity I would use a box.
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Dentatus
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It's looking really good, man. I want some Bat Reps tho...
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BRUTPAUL
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It's getting better and better. :pipboy:
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dogmrian
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you've been working to hard MBG, take a break and enjoy the tunnels you have already with a nice game or two
and don't forget to bring a scribe so that we can hear about the action to :P
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mattblackgod
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Patience my friends, patience. :D If I get distracted by playing with them, then the rest of it will end up sitting around unfinished. It always happens. :D

I got another tunnel finished, but I dont know when I will get to post a picture yet as Laura has another kidney infection and is quite ill.

The rooms have had textured paint and been sprayed up and so has a special item for the tunnels. I couldnt do much more as fumes where making my wife ill. I hope to have them into finishing today or tomorrow. At least I have lots of time to model make whilst she is engrossed in the world cup. :D The door and wall blanks need making up too.

To pass the wait whilst the fumes died off I got on with some out standing terrain items. A wrecked truck, some more rubble (you can never have too much rubble in a post nuke scenario), got some barricades finished (one of which can also be used in the tunnels), repaired a 24 year old building I made for 40K back in the day and started an experimental PA fortress wall. :D

Edited by mattblackgod, Jun 20 2010, 11:46 AM.
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Hope Laura feels better soon.


Brian
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mattblackgod
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Thanks Brian.

Here is some more eye candy....

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The latest tunnel finished.

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The electrical box is scratch built from foamboard and card. The conduit under it was a qtip and the handle was a chopped up WW2 1/35 anti-tank rifle handle.

The fumes from the spraying has died now, so it will be time to press on with the rooms.
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My best to Laura too. Maybe you should set up the telly and hide the remote requiring her to watch only Football until she can't stand laying in bed any longer :lol:
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mattblackgod
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Thats an idea. I would pay for it at a later date, with interest! :D

I had a idea for floor hatches. I am thinking about getting some resin bases with the industrial hatches/bio tech from Microart in Poland!

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If your still looking for Lab Equipment, Pardulon Minis has a good fare share of cubards, drawers, lockers, safes, lab benches, lab tools, and other crazy stuff too.

www.pardulon-models.com
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mattblackgod
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I am thinking Pauardlon and copplestone as the way to go. I have just got some Bio-Tech resin bases from Micro Minis (cast and dispatched Poland to UK in less 3 days!). The plan is to use them as floor hatches and other gubbings in the tunnels & rooms.

Now for a update.......

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The propped up tunnel.

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The other side. It makes a nice choke point. May even be a good mission to seal a tunnel by blowing the props (directly stolen from the Metro 2033 game! :D ).

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The ladder down room.

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The wide tunnel.

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The wide tunnel being used as a camp.

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Small room. My line painting isnt the best. It wasnt helped by the masking tape not sticking, so its free hand. I am thinking that if I ever do this again I will paint the inside walls first. That way its easier to get a straight line and there is no limits on brush movement.

One of my favourites.

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Its based on the first room in the Metro 2033 game. See the big door? That leads up into the station and to the surface. The posters are pictures I found online and printed off. The wall fans/aircon units are resin items I found on Ebay. The mechanial backup door wheel is a pop fastener and the power switch on the left hand side of the door was a rear airfoil off a 1/100th Cobra helicopter kit with 1.5mm diameter punched bits of card as buttons.

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Oooh heck, your not going up there are you?

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Other end of the room.

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More detail and posters.

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Large room. The bulkheads slide out for maximum versatility. I used plastic I beam to make the holders and the bulkheads are mounting board. I may detail the bulkheads one day.

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Picture with them removed to make extra door ways.

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Green room with the bulkheads in.

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No idea what that gubbins is. Power generator, power backup, Air pump or water pump perhaps? It was a power plant from a 1/6000 port playset I got as a kid (yikes - that 30 years ago! :jaw: ). I extended the chimneys with plastic straws. There is some sort of lever arrangement fitted to one side (that was some sort of hand control from the cockpit of a 1/24 Messersmicht 109 kit).

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Brown room.

And now....

Imagine you are exploring some tunnels and you see this?

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A ladder goes up.

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A ladder goes down into the dark.

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You climb the ladder to some sort of holding tank or over flow. Except there is a big hole in the centre of the tank. A cold dread fills you as you wonder what might be lurking down there.

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On the other side of the tank some pipes appeared to have emptied into here once. A suspicious dried green goo is on the floor. As there are Bio Haz signs you better not fall in. Looking over you spot a hole in the wall. You wonder what made it. Is this where the mutants have come from?

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Even more worrying is the metal mesh in the grates. It appears to have holes smashed into it from below.

The whole thing is a poly packing piece from my new printer. The ladders are trimmed wire mesh. The metal grating is granny grating/embroidery mesh. Plastic straws and textured paint finish it off. All that was added was a few signs.

Now....its time to play. Ideally I would love to make a tunnel like the one Sidovitch the trader lives in, in the Stalker game and the tunnel with the gate beyond the catacombs in the Metro 2033 game. I also would like to make a metal plated tunnel and a corrugated metal lined tunnel too. Maybe one day....one day.... :D


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Very nice! BAT REP,BAT REP,BAT REP.........

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Oh and how about some pics of all the tunnels together?PLEASE???

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tinker
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Your tunnels are only getting better Danny! I especially like the camp in a tunnel, but they are all good and very inspirational!!
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mgentile7
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Youve been a busy busy boy. Looks good so far keep it up.
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Ninjamonkey73
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The wide tunnel being used as a camp amazed me.

Hey, mind if I ask exactly how you made the "tearing" in the granny grating? Fire?
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Fantastic! Love all those details like ripped up metal mesh from the inside :(|party:

How many pieces do you have now? And how do you store them?
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Mal
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I don't know how Danny stores his, but I know how im going to store mine...

Im going to use collapsiable storage crates like this one http://www.boxexpress.co.uk/product/detail/collapsible-storage-crate, they can hold 4-6 A4 sized rooms each and they stack on each other securely.
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The granny grating was trimmed with snippers/side cutters in a couple of places and pushed through from below to get that punched through look. Easy work. You could even do it with the tips of some scissors. I didnt think about melting it. That may work too but be safe when doing it.

Storage is in a large plastic box with a lid, the kind you use to store kids toys in. It is a tight fit and I have to stack the tunnels and rooms inside each other. I find this is a good option as its stackable and gives protection to the models. Not to mention keeping the dust off.
Edited by mattblackgod, Jun 27 2010, 02:49 PM.
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