Warmachine & Hordes steampunk'ish houses

[Mellal]

The project sounds awesome and the start of it is pretty impressve, good luck for work left !

[Frugalmax]

This is beautiful work and quite inspiring- can't wait to see more, thanks!

[**GS**]

Ok, your replies make me a little proud 
so let me take you along some more pictures:
In the next one you can see that I used 4 different kinds of foam, The light blue type is called Selitac and is used under parquet as impact sound insulation. The 5mm thick plates make building stairs easy and especially this way up and through the higher level was done quickly.
You can see that in this stage I still had the task of modifying the bases of the old houses.



Different kinds of masonry should make variant wall designs at this stage.



Here the five parts of the table can be seen, outer quarters and a middle square to contain the special scenario part. The quarters will give the framework while the middle can be changed.



Then I painted the masonry and paving and all the ideas of variants vanished 

more still to come...

[Mellal]

That looks great !

Would you be kind enough to make some closer pictures of your painting ? 

[SgtSlag]

Ok, your replies make me a little proud 

You should be proud of your work.  It is enviable, and something we can hope to emulate -- both the style and the quality of your work.  Thank you for sharing it.  Cheers!

[**GS**]

That looks great !

Would you be kind enough to make some closer pictures of your painting ? 

Thank you! Pictures of the minis or terrain?

[**GS**]

Let's take the next steps:
I deliberately put the higher houses onto the higher levels to intensify the impression of an upper and lower town.



I had to cope with the fact that I had taken rather thick material for the bases of the houses back in the time they were intended for a shop window. So I had to work on the bases again without damaging or destroying the houses.  All in all, I didn't want to construct the houses all over again.



For one of the possible centers I wanted to make a chasm with a platform over it to have the area ready for action. I wanted the platform located on stone bases. Once put onto the edges the bases seemed to lack support, so I quickly took out my old fretsaw and collected rocket sticks and built the supports for the bases and the platform as well.



A platform over a chasm needed a pulley to reach the depth. Therfore there had to be some kind of scaffolding (not sure, thats the right term).



Onto the wooden support I put the metal grid as a floor.



An answer to the question of how to paint the stones: Instead of just drybrushing lighter and lighter shades of grey ontoblack primer my friend Don Voss gave me the advice to use some kiind of skin tone paint instead of white for lightening up the grey. For the last highlights I use an off white with very light ochre in it.

The houses have been done in different shades of ochre and sunny yellow. Red roofs and wood in boring browns. This has to be worked on before presenting the table...

OK, I have to get back to the work....

[Marine0846]

Very cool looking buildings.
Love them.

[sir_shvantselot]

This is an ingenious project and great to get such beautiful buildings back in use. I’d only offer one thought that is there anything you can do to the ivy to make it look more realistic or like a plant? Not sure myself. Sticking clump foliage or lichen on it if you have time? I’ve been thinking of using my Khador stuff for Xenos Rampant.

[**GS**]

This is an ingenious project and great to get such beautiful buildings back in use. I’d only offer one thought that is there anything you can do to the ivy to make it look more realistic or like a plant? Not sure myself. Sticking clump foliage or lichen on it if you have time? I’ve been thinking of using my Khador stuff for Xenos Rampant.

Thanks, especially for the idea to modify the ivy. I will give it a try even if I don't have a clue what to use. But the web has multiple solucions I am sure! 

[**GS**]

After missing several moments to post pictures, here are some taken at the Hamburger Tactica 2025:















Hope you like them!
I declare the project finished.

[Frugalmax]

Looks great- especially with the miniatures in there! Did an explosion occur in the center of the board there? Having a countdown to disaster is always a good game element.