Micromunda / Urban War Clau Tactics Nano.(Templates)

[Stroezie]

Ok folks,
the Age of Tyrants kickstarter is about to start shipping the miniatures so I decided to start making some new terrain so I could use said miniatures to play some 6mm Urban War Clau Tactics / Necromunda style games.

This thread will document the construction of my new Necromunda style industrial board, the painting of the miniatures once they arrive  and hopefully the games that will be played with them.

First though I'd like to give a shout out to Darryl Hunt of the exelent blog Daxio's Uneventfull Day. I totally stole copied his idea for Necromunda buildings and then used my trusty shrink ray on them😋.

Now, what did I build so far?
Lets take a look.




So , four buildings, four walkways and a platform, not to shabby.

I plan on doing two more buildings, one medium and one large, two more walkways without cover and three extra long walkways plus supports.

Here's a few pictures to give you an idea of the kind of setups I'm going to use them for, I threw in some random figures from my collection to give you a sense of the scale.






Another benefit of this construction method is that the smaller buildings fit inside the larger ones for easy storage.



Apart from the buildings and walkways I've also begun assembling some bits and bobs to build a few more industrial/machinery looking
pieces.
More on those next time.

well ok then just a teaser picture




That's it for now, as usual critiques, comments or questions are more than welcome.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

[von Lucky]

Looking good and I look forward to it painted.

(I have a couple of Urban Mammoth's CLAUs - they're huge!)

[Stroezie]

(I have a couple of Urban Mammoth's CLAUs - they're huge!)

No they're not, they're tiny 

[von Lucky]

Oooo - nice one

[zrunelord]

Nice buildings.keep it up
Those Klau would be good for 15mm also.
I wonder, Are they sold separately?  Have to check.As i didn't pitch in the KS,
Too many minis in the backlog to paint... unfortunately  

Z

[Ockman]

As a 15mm gamer, every time I see your threads I want to go smaller... But I won't!

[Stroezie]

Micromunda Wasn't Built In A Day...


...but the first stage is done anyway😎

I thought I'd share some more pictures with you so you can see/guess at, the materials before I blackbomb the lot.

First up the initial set of buildings and walkways



I also decided to spice up the buildings with some electrical wiring and some airfans.



These pilons are for when one walkway just isn't long enough.
I may end up putting some more greeblies on them as they are a bit plain looking atm. then again maybe not...   we'll see.



Next some of the more industrial looking bits.

A large storage tank/tower



which can split into two smaller ones




and as I was taking the pictures it suddenly occured to me that if you put the ring back on it could also function as a landing pad for "Get to da choppa" scenarios.




a small storage tank, probably for some kind of strange bio-agent or something



A water recycling plant







and last but not least a few more generic pieces





Now, if the weather holds, I should be able to prime these during the weekend and if all goes well get some paint on them by the end of next week.

I will also begin texturing one of the place mats/boards with magnetic paint to look like a concrete floor and start looking into ways to weather the other place mat into a less shiny/ slightly rusty version of itself. (any and all tips how to go about doing this are more than welcome)

Cheers,
Stroezie.

[zrunelord]

Lovely work as usual ,my friend,
Did you do those fans with Green stuff?

For the paint job you might want to use a technique I use ( i'm working on something similar but for 15mm , each peice is based on a 15 x 15 cm mdf base, so it can be used to build a 2ft x 2ft board, will show pics asap).
Spray black base,, then overspray lightly with grey sandable primer, then get a white can & slightly press the nozzle, this will cause the paint to sputter & spray erratic (?) dots of paint. Repeat this with black & finally with a red brown sandable primer.
This will yield a very nice effect.... try it out for yourself.

Z

[Stroezie]

Did you do those fans with Green stuff?

yes, they are actually really easy to make.(so easy I don't even bother to make a mold for them)
Just squeese in a little ball of putty cut it like a pie and push one end of the slices down. Finish of with either a tiny ball of putty or a plastic rivet like I did here.

The painting method is for the concrete I presume?
I'll give it a try and see if I can make it work for me.

[zrunelord]

Thanks for the reply,
As you say very easy to do.
Yes it will work for crete.... though the more reddish brown you add the more rust you'll have, so you'll end up with rusted steel.

Once years back i had bought a ready mixed texture can with white black & grey paint in it.
Never found it again but it was great for crete.
Perhaps you can find one.

Z

[Stroezie]

Well I managed to finish painting the buildings and walkways,
a little lick of paint makes all the difference don't you think? 


 
And of course I couldn't resist playing around with a quick setup to get an idea how things will look once to whole thing's finished.



I'm afraid the lighting has washed out the colors on the buildings somewhat, they actually look a lot more splotchy and rundown in real life, maybe once I tone down the glare from the board it'll show up better in the pictures.

I'd also like to add some posters/graffiti ,does anybody knows of a good source?

That's it for now, time to get to painting the industrial machinery and I've been thinking about maybe doing some modular canals to add some more depth to the board so stay tuned. 

Cheers,
Stroezie.

[zrunelord]

Great work my friend,
A coat of paint does make a great deal of difference.
The light blue is something not often seen. I like it !!!!

Don't know whether you did it or not ( can't make it out) but touching up with a small foam piece with white,cobalt blue & black will make it even better.

Graffiti at that scale? Your best bet would be to print thumbnails on a laser printer. OR like i did for epic banners , draw large and reduce on a colour photocopier NOT reduce on a pc as it will reduce resolution.Antenocities have some nice Infinity themed  ones.

Hope this helps
keep it up
Z

[Ockman]

Great stuff, really impressive!

[Stroezie]

Well I finished painting the industrial/machinery pieces and the concrete floor.

It's finally starting to look like something 😁






Turns out the big tower is also ideal for showcasing minis.😎



Some judges escorting a convict are ambushed by gangers...



Well that's it then...     the board is finished...   right?

Weeeelllllll....

see here's the thing...   

while looking for inspiration I came across the exellent Yaktribe forums (some really awesome builds on there, check them out  Link) and it turnes out in a hive you can go up, but you can also go down so...


Sump canals here I come !!!

The first nine tiles giving me the same size of board as the concrete floor (ie. 37x37 cm)



Ooohh I'm going to have so much fun detailing those canals...







Well thats it for now.

Cheers,
Stroezie.

Ps: does anybody know where I can get my hands on some 6mm venetian gondolas 👿

[Ockman]

Wow, great! Very, very impressive!