Ork Shanty Town WIP

[ancientsociety]

With Chicago Bolt Action being set with about 3-4 tables worth of my terrain for events like Operation Sting and Adepticon, as well as just finishing a table for Frostgrave, I thought it was time to revisit the old Necromunda/40K terrain bundle for Adepticon and other local events. With that in mind, and after having played through Borderlands once again, I decided to take a crack at some non-Imperial terrain - an Ork Shanty Town. Much like my previous human shanty town (which is currently on loan to the guys over at Hyacinth Games, makers of Wreck-Age), these are based on old CDs, with walls of poster foamboard, covered in cereal cardboard with riveting added to the edges. The roofs are all corrugated cardboard (all of a corrugation is the smallest available - known as "E-type" - to fit appropriately into the 28mm scale). I'm adding gubbinz, old bitz, and parts from old toys as detailing. Each shanty is sized a little differently - some are large for Nobs, others for Boyz, and the smallest for Grotz.

More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/09/ork-shanty-town-wip.html

[Dr Mathias]

I really like the shape of those, nicely done!

[zrunelord]

Uber kool my friend.
Keep it up.
Pity they're not 15mm

Z

[Suber]

Graet! I love the variety of shapes, far from the usual cube stuff. Really looking forward to seeing them painted.

[Andym]

Excellent!

You need a big totem or sign between two poles that says "Da Village" written in scrap metal.

[has.been]

Village is too long a word, how about 'Da Toon' ?

[RichyBee]

This is my ork 40k for inspiration

[Ockman]

This is my ork 40k for inspiration

Just... WOW!

[tim in saskatoon]

Those look fantastic! I can't wait to see them painted up!

[YPU]

Looks like you had a good idea and made sure to have enough of everything in one fell swoop, very nice!

Personally, I have started making sure I cut off bits of CD's to give them more irregular shapes. They are so recognisable a size, and by making them a bit more kidney-shaped they will even "feel" more like a wargaming piece than a cd, to me anyway.

[ancientsociety]

Made some Borderlands-inspired alien cacti patches for my Ork Shantytown last month and just this past weekend got around to putting the last coats of paint on them.





More pics and info:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2017/11/ork-shanty-town-cactus-groves.html

[Andym]

Nice additions!

[tomrommel1]

very nice indeed

[Exiledadmiral]

Those alien cacti are awesome, very other worldly. Looking forward to seeing how your ork town progresses!

[ancientsociety]

In addition to the alien foliage I completed back in November, I also finished up these Orky shanties for the Ork Shantytown table for Adepticon 2018. Many of you would ask - "how do Orks get into the Hive?" - and the answer would be doz sneakee Kommando gitz who need a base of Orkerations. They're Boyz N Da Hive.

More pics and info below:
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.com/2018/01/ork-shantytown-completed-shanties.html