"Standard Falls" Post Apoc Shanty

[cheetor]

I recorded the WIP on this project in the Workbench and in more detail on my blog. 

The deadline for this project is tomorrow as I have games planned for the weekend. Although I still have a few things that I want to add they wont be happening for another while yet.

Now that the first stage of the project is finished I thought that I would put up a few of the completed shots in Future Wars.






















More photos, WIP and waffle about methods and decisions made on my blog.

Comments and criticisms are all welcome if you guys get a chance

[Bergil]

A whole post apocalyptic shantytown, in my books that's just brill!

[Ramshackle_Curtis]

Yes, totally awesome.

[Zafarelli]

Very nice! Any chance of a game report next week?

[demi_morgana]

LOVE the board you made!
Very inspiring - hope to see similar junk town on my gaming table sometimes

[Highlander Studios]

That's an amazing setup there. Great work!

[Doomsdave]

Where did the red castle pieces come from?  Great set-up, would love to game on that.

[cheetor]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

The set-up is functional, hopefully practical stuff that is reasonably easy to store and modular enough to be used in various different ways.  None of the techniques used in assembly or painting were peculiar or complicated or required specialist equipment (like an airbrush or similar).

Its a gamers table, rather than some of the beautiful works of art that can be seen around this board and elsewhere online.

I am quite happy with this level of quality for gaming.  While gorgeous, landscaped and fully furnished set-ups are inspiring they can also be daunting.  Therefore I like to see photos of gaming tables for the more "common or garden" gamer in addition to the amazing stuff from the likes of Salute.  Hence the photos of my stuff.

Very nice! Any chance of a game report next week?

I hope to have batreps up next week, but they will be be pretty ork focused (just in case you have "a thing" about GW   )

Although I have plans to play a lot of games on this terrain (AE: Bounty, The Rules With No Name, Judge Dredd Cursed Earth scenarios, loads of other things) the plan that my group has for this weekend is Gorkamorka starting this evening, all day tomorrow and then on Sunday morning.

GoMo is silly fun but the rules system (essentially that of Necromunda) is very familiar to my group.  As miniature games have fallen out of favour a little in my group we are hoping that familiar rules plus a brand new terrain set, figures and vehicles will invigorate our figure gaming a bit.

Where did the red castle pieces come from?

The admittedly pretty cheesy but functional castle parts are expanded polystyrene toys that I bought a long time ago.  I bought four castles so I have sixteen towers, twelve wall sections and four gate wall sections.

WIP shot:




That means that I can have a simple fort for Road Warrior type sieges:



...or a fort with bastion (WIP shot)...



...or a portion of a larger wall for a zombie incursion...



..another WIP...



My epic quest to attempt to postapocalyptify what are obviously cheap fantasy castle parts is detailed with lots of photos on my blog here.

[mattblackgod]

Great work. The shanty is fab. I am loving the castle walls.

[cheetor]

Great work. The shanty is fab. I am loving the castle walls.

I played a few games with the castle over the weekend.  While it worked out fine I think that I am going to have to bite the bullet and do something about the cruciform windows: they are just too Christian as it is.

I have some plans to use some Ramshackle parts and other bits to cover the windows up... all thirty two of them.  I think that that will help the look of the castle parts a lot.


Thanks for the feedback

[Gluteus Maximus]

That's a fantastic town you've built there   

At first glance, the castle looked odd and out of place, but it's growing on me 

The Ramshackle stuff should help it look a lot less "medieval"!

[cheetor]

That's a fantastic town you've built there    

At first glance, the castle looked odd and out of place, but it's growing on me  

The Ramshackle stuff should help it look a lot less "medieval"!

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Trying to make the castle adequately post apoc rather than medieval without spending the rest of my life "set dressing" it was a challenge (details on my blog).  

I did however know that if I didnt finish it within a reasonable time frame that I simply wouldnt get it finished at all, so I took a lot of shortcuts.  

Currently it looks about the same level of convincing as a Doctor Who set, which isnt good enough obviously

Now that the fort elements have been finished for a while I may have built up enough enthusiasm to address the windows, which are the main offenders I think.  I may break up the line of some of the crenellations with more junk too.

Thanks for the feedback

[twrchtrwyth]

Very impressive.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Currently it looks about the same level of convincing as a Doctor Who set, which isnt good enough obviously

I can only dream of achieving that standard of modelling skill 

 

[Ironworker]

Very cool shanty town!  I'm going to be starting a very futuristic one soon.  Near future shanty is definately on my list though.