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Offline Damas

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2020, 06:39:54 PM »
Nice!!  :D
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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2020, 08:05:14 PM »
Nice work.

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2020, 10:05:16 PM »
Lovely work all round

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2020, 05:59:06 AM »
That's a great little set up.
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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2020, 12:01:02 PM »
At the risk of hijacking the thread, I have just finished some Chinese GZG figures. No more to hand until after Salute. I might try and build some craters for some game scenery. Big craters...but I will start my own thread for all that!:


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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2020, 01:47:48 PM »
Nice moon scenery, I'm still umm-ing ang ahh-ing over how to approach my moon terrain and what finish to go with.

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2020, 04:18:33 PM »
Nice moon scenery, I'm still umm-ing ang ahh-ing over how to approach my moon terrain and what finish to go with.

The latest mats are so good, but I just can’t get around a need for 3D craters. My photo only shows a mini (pizza base) board for one of the children’s school project. I doubt I would do something like this for a full game, but some BIG (and small) craters on a grey cloth with some grey sand scatter...maybe?

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2020, 05:15:49 PM »
Amera do a good variety of craters and they're quite cheap, plus light to carry about.

Don't bother with the single set they advertise as moon craters -- that's the disappointing one (very low relief). All the other blast craters, impact craters, cliffs, crags, islands and so on are great. Coat them in fine sand, airbrush them to give harsh shadows, perfect.

For moon-base buildings, I went with Alternative Armies. They have a nice range of modular corridor-and-tower 15mm bits.


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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #23 on: March 08, 2020, 07:11:50 PM »
Amera do a good variety of craters and they're quite cheap, plus light to carry about.

Don't bother with the single set they advertise as moon craters -- that's the disappointing one (very low relief). All the other blast craters, impact craters, cliffs, crags, islands and so on are great. Coat them in fine sand, airbrush them to give harsh shadows, perfect.

For moon-base buildings, I went with Alternative Armies. They have a nice range of modular corridor-and-tower 15mm bits.

Oh yes. I have the Alternative Armies modular buildings. They are brilliant for this. I will have to have another look at Amera, but I am thinking about some building at least one truly “massive” crater 90cm wide (well, massive on a 4x6 or 6x8 table) out of insulation foam, and some more in the 30-60 range, but that’s for the summer. I will still need more mini craters though.

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #24 on: March 20, 2020, 10:53:33 PM »
What first was a minor bit of flag waving soon devolved into armed incursions and open conflict. The 227th Lunar Marines defend their launch vehicle from the rockets of the PDRC 2nd Lunar Force.

Now with a couple of boards finished, just 25 x 25cm dense foam.



My PDRC forces in action.



The US defenders.



I'm keeping this slowly rolling forwards!

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #25 on: March 20, 2020, 11:56:08 PM »
board looking good, I need to dig my moon boards out of the loft
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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #26 on: March 21, 2020, 08:23:05 AM »
Lovely ideas in this thread.
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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #27 on: March 21, 2020, 10:22:39 AM »
Very nice.

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #28 on: March 21, 2020, 12:06:16 PM »
Cheers all.  :D

@Colin,  the yellow was the easiest thing to do, undercoat white then splash Nazdreg Yellow contrast paint over it, done.  Contrast is really good for this scale.

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Re: Damas' Moongrunt beginnings
« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2020, 06:24:32 PM »
Next up, from the background for Moongrunt, the Chinese PLA are the invasion force so I wanted to think about what kind of craft would be used to get Chinese forces to the moon.

Stage 1:
Take the current PLA rover, stick it on some upturned 1/48 russian tank track covers.


Stage 2:
I want to use triangular shapes rather than the US approach of 4 legs.  Also started to figure out the placement of the landing engines.


Stage 3:
Got a cargo, got engines, need fuel tanks, bigguns.


Stage 4:
Putting some kind of frame together with landing legs and the US ship in the distance.


Further stages as I make them up.