Mining town

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking 

That would be so much fun to play on 

[Argonor]

Capital work!

A great setting for ongoing far-flung colony space cowboy style campaigning and the likes.

[Mason]

Brilliant!
This is coming along so well, your attention to detail and making all those recessed areas leaves loads of gaming potential.
It will look magnificent once finished.
 

[Silent Invader]

Very much enjoying this 

[YPU]

The verticality and density of features (doors especially!) makes this look so much more alive and realistic than most pieces of terain! And I hear you, I don't play that often, so I'd rather play 2 games a year on the same amazing terrain then 3 on bland modular stuff!

[Sangennaru]

I hear you, I don't play that often, so I'd rather play 2 games a year on the same amazing terrain then 3 on bland modular stuff!

Very well put.

[Elk101]

Very impressive stuff. I like the organic nature of how it's coming together.

[Suber]

Thank you all! At this point I was needing to add some rough details before I could keep on building. I mean at least some doors! You'll see what I mean.
Back in the day I got some of the wonderful sci-fi doors RoeBeast made avaliable through KS, but I had used all of them! Being unable to get more (and not finding any satisfactory solution in the market) I walked the only logical, reasonable path I could take: I built my own



The door itself is plain card and the frame is foamboard (the texture is Das putty). I added a green stuff control pad and some rivets:



Of course I couldn't make dozens of doors for the town (though it awfully sounds like me! ). I needed to cast them, but I've always been scared to death whenever I've seen the process of mixing two components for the resin, getting it all right and so. Wow, not for me. Fortunately I've quite recently discovered this resin for dummies by Green Stuff World: you just have to add water and it's done

I had an issue: this is what happened with the original doors when making the mould with oyumaru:



OK, no sweat, this means I have just one shot to get it done right...





Victory!



It's not perfect, but it works at tabletop distance. So I've made another different one and some control pads, electric boxes...

 

Let's stick to the doors for now:



I also had to fix a few texture and filling minor issues, this is the look of the town right now:





Oh, yes, you can see that absurd door up there leading to nowhere. In fact it's the access to this Bespinesque element:



I cut a gap under the door, so I can place the walkway, but still take it off for storage safety:



I have another crazy door, but I guess I have to give that side proper texture and painting before I can add all the stuff that will be placed here:



Fine detail will eventually come, but this at least will give you an idea of my intentions 

[OSHIROmodels]

This just gets better and better 

[axiom]

You're smashing this! I'm loving it even more every update. The doors look great, the staircase looks great, the Cloud City gantry is amazing!

[Sangennaru]

More! More of all of this!

[YPU]

Awesome stuff, and it just keeps getting better. The only criticism I can offer is that all buildings seem to be very much in the same 90 degrees alignment, a bit of angling and shifting would give a more alive feeling I think.

[FramFramson]

Awesome stuff, and it just keeps getting better. The only criticism I can offer is that all buildings seem to be very much in the same 90 degrees alignment, a bit of angling and shifting would give a more alive feeling I think.

Agreed. Especially given that this is true of both of your reference photos.

[Ockman]

Lovely doors and panels! Would love some of that available in 15mm...

[beefcake]

Coming along very nicely.