Author Topic: AKULA’s Mega-City One (pg9 a bit of paint on the bases) (Read 17687 times)

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #30 on:** August 11, 2019, 05:38:24 PM »

That is far more interesting than what I had in mind, and I say it looks very effective.

The areas between the roads feels a bit open (i.e. more buildings?), but that may just be due to the bare MDF showing.

But the overall effect is very good and impressively practical.

AKULA · « **Reply #31 on:** August 11, 2019, 06:45:04 PM »

Quote from: Cubs on August 11, 2019, 05:03:43 PM

I love it! That's great imaginative work, with the tiny cars on the distant road.

Thanks...I thought I was losing my marbles painting tiny little bits of card

Quote from: Brandlin on August 11, 2019, 05:04:05 PM

Looks good... but you know you need 2mm figures on the floor level, 6mm figures at coffee table height, 15mm figures at table height and then 28mm figures at playing height to further force the perspective!

Sounds great, but I’ll pass .... I want to get a table built before I’m too old to see the figures

Quote from: Westfalia Chris on August 11, 2019, 05:38:24 PM

The areas between the roads feels a bit open (i.e. more buildings?), but that may just be due to the bare MDF showing.

It’s actually brown paint....I primed the board with grey & then added a watered down brown which gave me “mdf colour” again

Like I said, it’s only got a basic paint job at the moment, I’m going to try give the brown a bit more colour differential for “smog”, and then have the hint of some lights, or the outline of buildings underneath.

Westfalia Chris · « **Reply #32 on:** August 11, 2019, 06:58:38 PM »

Maybe add some tiny flying cars on strong transparent nylon wire (so that they don't snap off at a careless gamers' finger's touch)?

Cubs · « **Reply #33 on:** August 11, 2019, 09:41:09 PM »

… and big mo-pads and trucks on the road! … and sky-surfers and bat gliders in the air! … and the odd mad Boinger!

Too exciting, too many options.

Oldben1 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 12, 2019, 03:01:05 AM »

That’s really creative!

Mason · « **Reply #35 on:** August 12, 2019, 12:42:35 PM »

That is brilliant, Matt!
Inspired.

Quote from: Cubs on August 11, 2019, 09:41:09 PM

… and big mo-pads and trucks on the road! … and sky-surfers and bat gliders in the air! … and the odd mad Boinger!

Too exciting, too many options.

Indeed!
It could become a project all of it's own.

Braz · « **Reply #36 on:** August 12, 2019, 02:30:10 PM »

Really nice. If you mute the colours of the entire lower board maybe towards a uniform light greyscale with very light pastels for colour it will not draw the eye and appear further away.

Or how about placing the buildings on a mirror/frosted reflective surface then the buildings would appear to extend down into the table as high as the buildings are. Put cars and people underneath the sky bridges and platforms and they will reflect as if they are lower below.

Looking forward to seeing more.

DivisMal · « **Reply #37 on:** August 13, 2019, 05:37:55 AM »

This is just....großartig! I love the idea of simulated height and playing Dredd on a board in „space“, that is only connected via bridges.

There was a similar approach by someone to build a Rogue One diorama showing the battle of Scarif. I’ll see if I can find it.

bermanj · « **Reply #38 on:** August 13, 2019, 07:33:31 AM »

At this year's Little Wars in Melbourne Australia we played a 'in the clouds' style board. We used pillow stuffing for the clouds (we put some flickering electric tea lights underneath) and it worked well.

https://southernbermanblog.blogspot.com/2019/05/little-wars-2019-what-happened.html

gamer Mac · « **Reply #39 on:** August 14, 2019, 09:59:41 AM »

Nice work on that Matt
How big is the final board going to be?
Is this for a single block and are there going to be more of what you have made so for for each different block?
Also could do with something in the middle distance if you know what I mean, at the moment it looks like a single tall tower rising way above the rest of the city

AKULA · « **Reply #40 on:** August 17, 2019, 08:54:44 AM »

Thanks everyone for your comments, and constructive suggestions.

Quote from: Braz on August 12, 2019, 02:30:10 PM

Really nice. If you mute the colours of the entire lower board maybe towards a uniform light greyscale with very light pastels for colour it will not draw the eye and appear further away.

A good idea, but it might not be entirely necessary - at the moment I’ve got a single baseboard with nothing on top of it, so the focus of the photo (and the eye) is naturally upon the little roads/buildings, it once I’ve got more boards made up, and there are some buildings sitting on top, I think that will draw the eye up....will have to see.

Quote from: gamer Mac on August 14, 2019, 09:59:41 AM

Nice work on that Matt
How big is the final board going to be?
Is this for a single block and are there going to be more of what you have made so for for each different block?
Also could do with something in the middle distance if you know what I mean, at the moment it looks like a single tall tower rising way above the rest of the city

To be honest...as big as I can make it - this is a main project rather than a side one for me, so I’ve already mentally given myself permission for it to spiral out of control...

My table is c12’ x 4’ So I could comfortably fit 16-18 boards of this size on the table...the limiting factor will be how quickly I can build...some boards will end up as plazas (so essentially a flattop with some small scenic items for cover).

The plus side is that as each board represents the top of a Block, I don’t need to worry about the block building looking too small, or narrow - it is literally the top end afterall.

Re: middle distance - again I think having additional tall blocks will help, but I’m planning a couple of boards where the “plaza level” will have a smaller footprint, and so there will be more scope for inbetween-sized buildings to poke up.....they will be fairly limited in number though, because th entire buildings that go above the 50mm height of the plaza level, the less flexibility I will have to add interconnecting roads/pedways.

AKULA · « **Reply #41 on:** August 17, 2019, 05:16:47 PM »

Some Citi-Defence

These are some of my old Galactic Armies Space Opera Project (sold to Hasslefree but they haven’t reappeared yet). I’ve just added some shoulder/knee pads to them. As they’ve got separate heads, I’ll probably add some more with helmets later on.

I haven’t decided what to do with the bases yet, so have left them plain for now.