Author Topic: Hubbabubba's modular interior sci fi board (Read 8230 times)

Ockman · « **Reply #15 on:** September 26, 2018, 08:55:39 PM »

This first piece looks great, reminds me of olden days when I built my own Resident Evil 3D dungeon.

uti long smile · « **Reply #16 on:** September 26, 2018, 10:24:30 PM »

Superb!

War Monkey · « **Reply #17 on:** September 27, 2018, 02:46:24 AM »

That is looking Awesome!

tomrommel1 · « **Reply #18 on:** September 27, 2018, 07:21:36 AM »

really nice painting and modeling

Smokeyrone · « **Reply #19 on:** September 28, 2018, 10:47:41 AM »

Just great!

A nice resource is metal tape ( The shiny aluminum tape for A/C duct work). It can be scribed, impressed, embossed, as a panel or floor tile covering,, it's an easy way to cut door, port and recessed panel framing, and great for wrapping around pipes, wires and conduit for extra detail.

Also, paint it hash marked or solid yellow or red, then cut into strip and stick on walks or floors for superb looking striping.

How are you doing moving doors?

DS615 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 28, 2018, 04:48:00 PM »

I really like this. If I'd seen it before I started on my own similar terrain, I would likely have gone with your route instead.
Very nice.

hubbabubba · « **Reply #21 on:** September 29, 2018, 03:13:49 PM »

Thanks for the feed back.

@ Hawkeye.
I think I understand what you mean about defintion.

One of the problems I encountered on the test tile was that the fibers on the mdf, which were produced after the scribing & wire brushing, were picked up and accentuated by the various different airbrushed layers.

To try and counteract that, I've given the rest of the tiles a couple of coats of magic wash with black/raw umber. I hope that this will firstly keep the fibres glued down and secondly increase the definition in the scribed detail, ultimately making he appearence less fuzzy and sharper.

@Smokeyrone
Metal tape looks like an excellent medium. I'd never heard of it. Gonna have to get some and have a play around with it.

The door question is a good one. At present my solution is as pictured. Door ways are cut to fit the 60mm or 90mm gaps that are present at many locations on the tiles. At present I'm cutting them to fit two types of doors from Antenocity's Workshop that I already have painted and based.

The pros of this is that they can be dropped into place in many different positions allowing maximum flexibilty. In addition the resin doors can simlply be removed to indicate that the door has been opened during play.

The cons are that the doorways are very fragile and light wieght as they are cut from foam and that as a result, placing them and removing the doors is very fiddly.

Possible solutions are to either glue the doorways in place or make them out of another material. It seems to me that glueing them in place will reduce the flexibility of the boards so I may look at building them out of plasticard, wood, or even building a couple of masters and casting them.

I guess I could always just build a coulple of masters that are actually 60mm/90 mm in width and cast them. Hmmmm.

Anyway, in the mean time, I've cut all the walls from the foam, so I couldn't resist tacking them on to the tiles to get a feel for what it will look like when finished. Pretty stoked with the results of my efforts so far and looking forward to cracking on.

Next up, detailling the walls.

Dr. Zombie · « **Reply #22 on:** October 05, 2018, 10:58:07 AM »

Oh wow this is looking great!

One day I am going to work up the courager and stamina to build something similar for myself. So I am taking notes and stealing ideas.

grant · « **Reply #23 on:** October 06, 2018, 02:16:41 AM »

Super project! Love how it’s coming together!

verd · « **Reply #24 on:** October 08, 2018, 02:08:28 PM »

This is a great project - thanks for sharing!

hubbabubba · « **Reply #25 on:** December 08, 2018, 03:58:09 PM »

Photos from a while back, They show the boards post detailing with cereal card etc, and the final solutution to the doors, which after being cut from foam were reinforced with a layer of card on both sides to make them more rigid and durable.
The boards are then shown with a couple of layeres of thin primer.

Progress has been slow as I've been working across all of the boards at once in order to preserve uniformity. It'a been a bit of a slog and as I've been resisting the temptation to get involved with anything else till this project is finished, I haven't painted any figs since the end of August.

Still, things have progressed and I can now see the light at the end if the tunnel. Since these pics, the boards have had all of their final layers of colour and a wash. They now just need a layer of dryubrushing and detail painting.

more pics soon, (ish).

Hawkeye · « **Reply #26 on:** December 08, 2018, 07:08:55 PM »

Looking very good! It makes sense to work across all the boards to make them cohesive, but it takes a lot of discipline (especially if it means no miniature painting in the meantime!). Looking forward to seeing it all done - it'll definitely be worth the work!