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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: anevilgiraffe on October 21, 2012, 09:55:27 PM
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I'm going with Modern for this, but equally useful for Future and Cthulhu I guess...
this little project has been bubbling away for a while and mainly involves the simply splendid APEX Investigators from Fenris... what those figures initially led me to, was a kind of field research team, useable for UNIT or even a SG-1 kind of set up... the main requirement was a main research tent and that took some working out... but I got there in the end...
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/otherstuff/IMG_1995.JPG)
all very army surplus and Time Team and I have two of them - a brief description of how I made it is on the blog (although I forgot to take stage by stage pics)... the only stumbling block now is whether I try for a wooden sheet floor or plain grass - both appear equally common on photos of the real thing....
now, all the lab equipment inside needs power, so I needed a generator... this came from a handy sci-fi crate again from Fenris.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/otherstuff/IMG_1987.JPG)
I needed to copy the grill for the otherside, so some cack handed press moulding (sorry Ian)...
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/otherstuff/IMG_1988.JPG)
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/otherstuff/IMG_1990.JPG)
some floodlights are in progress, but are just sticks as I need to re do the lights...
the final need for this little project were tents for the field workers themselves, so I cut a bit of bluefoam to shape, added wire for the supports and g/s'd it to get a nice smooth(ish) finish...
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roweller/otherstuff/IMG_1991.JPG)
do want more than one, so not sure how that will press mould... but hey ho...
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Looking good.
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Indeed look forward to seeing these finished as well as the interior when you decide what your doing. I'd go for planking if I was doing it ;)
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Alternatively those thick plastic mesh duck board things are more commonly used in the present day... in a variety of colours too! :)
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Alternatively those thick plastic mesh duck board things are more commonly used in the present day... in a variety of colours too! :)
this stuff?
(http://img.directindustry.com/images_di/photo-m2/anti-fatigue-duckboard-mats-for-wet-areas-60569-2551463.jpg)
interesting, could be tricky to pull off though...
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Yep, that's the lightweight stuff... but some of it can be up to a few inches thick, they use it for impromptu or semi-permanent car parks on grass, outdoor fayres and stuff like that. There's even a military grade that can be used to create runways and hard standings, like the old steel 'Marsden Matting'... which of course is another option.
A fine plastic mesh laid over and lightly pressed down on your base material of choice, should give the 'effect' I would think.. or not. :?
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yeah, that may be worth experimenting with... would be good if it could be done...
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Great stuff AEG!
You'll need to build some large trees I reckon o_o
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yep... have some ferns lined up... ;)
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bit of threadomancy, but the dome tent is now available from Ainsty:
(http://ainstycastings.co.uk/images/Dome%20Tents.jpg)
http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/799/osCsid/e1bcb0031c34179a0a2f50dab0fdeaba
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nice one AEG :-*