AK-47 Special Objective Group Build entry - The Red Herring Fish Factory

[Gunbird]

And it is done, the Red Herring Fish Factory Special Objective.

Situated in in the coastal city of Aladinea, Republic of Wadiya, the factory supplies the beautiful people of Wadiya with work for 20 men and a few children. Most of the cans are exported to the Sovjet Union, where they are used to stock up air raid shelters with delicious and nutritious seafood. It is not exported to Western countries due to biased claims and market protection schemes. Listeria never killed anyone in Wadiya, so it is 110% safe. Very Aladeen.

The original factory was started in the early 1900's by the French in their colonial days. This factory later burned down.
In WW1 a new cannery was erected to supply the French army during the war. The building was finished in 1919 and subsequently burned down in the riots during the coup d'etat of 1927.
A new factory was built shortly before WW2 and this supplied canned fish to the Axis powers. This was then bombed by the British Royal Air Force in 1944 and burned down.
In what can only be described as sheer tenacity, another factory was built a few years after the war and as mentioned, supplied canned fish to the Sovjet Union.

Shortly after taking these pictures, a unfortunate incident happend and the factory burned down. Again. The resulting explosion of fish pulp and oil flung the massive Red Herring sign across the bay and right onto the yacht of the Admiral of the Wadiyan Navy, Abdel Ranka, killing him and seven of his mistresses.

Admiral Abdel Ranka was posthumously declared a Hero of Wadiya and mentioned in the Guiness Book of Records as the man who caught the biggest herring on record. Again, very Aladeen.

And that's it. A complete scratchbuild, a core of foam coated in card, with some scrap lasercut card from other projects, lead wire, some magnets, and a 3D printed VW Beetle. A nice mix of old and new techniques (to me). Some things worked, others not so much. The signs are magnetised (else it would not fit in the storage box, plus that gives extra space to mount a AA gun or a glorious flag) and I've already started work on additonal pieces so I can use it for other games as well.

*10 x 3 inches base - Check
*Must have a vehicle on it - Check
*Must have a name badge/sign on it - Check, check, and check
*Can't just be a banana on a base - Check

[BeneathALeadMountain]

Amazing work, screams AK47 to me.

Andrew
BeneathALeadMountain

[Sgt_T]

Love it.
I can almost smell the fish.

 

T.

[HerbertTarkel]

Awesome build; the VW is a great touch! Probably the CEO’s sales car! 

[Gunbird]

Love it.
I can almost smell the fish.

Yeah......

Awesome build; the VW is a great touch! Probably the CEO’s sales car! 

He sure parks like one! (bit of an accident though, it dropped just while I was putting it in place so it now forever parked like a BMW. Superglue, speedy when you don't want it, slow when you do want it...)

[mikedemana]

Awesome looking building! That could go for just about any relatively modern period. Wonderful details!

Mike Demana

[LouieN]

Amazing weather and effects. 

[has.been]

Lovely job.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Excellent.

I love the fish logo.

[Legionnaire]

That is such an amazingly beautiful build  !

I loved and laughed at the sheer tenacity and the misfortunes befalling this glorious People's Factory at different stages in world history  .

That VW Beetle really ties it all nicely together, a wonderful little detail.

Well done indeed.

Regards,

Legionnaire.

[CapnJim]

Not much else to be said.  I agree with everyone so far...

[Red Orc]

Looks absolutely great, while simultaneously horribly dingy. Excellent job, the weathering is superb.

Did I just see it on a terrain site on Facebook, or am I having hallucinations?

[PBR Streetgang]

Wow! So awesome! I was just putting the finishing touches on some AK 47 Republic supply cache markers and I stumble upon this amazing piece. Brilliant work.

[Gunbird]

Looks absolutely great, while simultaneously horribly dingy. Excellent job, the weathering is superb.

Did I just see it on a terrain site on Facebook, or am I having hallucinations?

No, your eyes are not (yet) deceiving you. I joined "Miniature buildings and terrain" of FB recently to get ideas/inspiration/rabbit holes for scenery building as my Wargaming is 80% scenery building - 15% troops and stuff and maybe 5% gaming these days. I thought I might as well post there even if mine doesn't look anything remotely like most of the stuff you see on that group. But I'm happy with it and that is all that matters ey.

[robh]

.....But I'm happy with it and that is all that matters ey.

So you should be, that is a really eye-catching build. Wonderful scratchbuilding.