Hadley's Hope Redux (photo heavy)

[Braz]

Major Projectomancy!
Apologies to those following my earlier project as RL took me away from gaming and I've been catching up on the various projects since and great stuff everyone! My original project thread can be found here:
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=20983.0

What I had originally wanted was a flexible, modular corridor system with set pieces that I could store easily but for some reason long forgot, I went with a static single piece behemoth. Well enough of that! So I took various implements to the behemoth and chopped it down to more manageable size and it went from one huge piece:


to this:


Now I can store this somewhere. It fits in a box from the grocery that is just the right size.

I created tiles with a standard size of 5x5inch dimensions to be the basis of my modular system. Everything is based on the 5 inch dimension. 5x5, 5x10, 10x10, etc. This allows them to fit together nicely. The tiles are mostly 1/8th inch (3mm) hardboard with some being 1/4inch (6mm) thick. More on this in a later post. The tiles are 2 inches tall at the highest point and this keeps the tiles accessible for game play and storage. Here is an in progress tile:


I started by making tiles to recreate the original layout of Hadley's Hope as well as additional tiles for flexibility and interest.
Two special tiles were needed to adapt the two existing modules (Ops/Medlab and Security/Medical). One has a connector off center and the other is 5x7 inches. Here are the two special tiles.


Here is the layout of level two:




And here is level one:


A two inch adaptor module may be needed if I want the levels to align dimension wise but not essential. That's what the gaps in the layout are.

I have been plugging away an hour here a few hours there and a few minutes here, probably on average an hour a day to get these results in about a month. These pics are from about two months ago and progress is continuing at a slower pace...plus I can't find the more recent pictures on my harddrive .

Material  cost:
Coffee sticks about 4 packs of 150 sticks each for $1 from dollar store
Bamboo skewers $1 from dollar store
1 package wide craft sticks ($4 with coupon at Michaels)
2’x2’ 1/8th inch (3mm) hardboard x4 ($1.50 each)
2’x2’ 1/4th inch (6mm) hardboard x2 ($2.5 each)
2 cans fusion spraypaint ($4 each)
Craft paints
nylon screen door mesh (left over scraps $1-2?)
Aleenes Tacky Glue and superglue $10
Cereal card free with breakfast
So total about $45 with lots of left overs. Add maybe 20% for things I missed and this includes many more tiles than depicted above.

Note:The coffee stir sticks and craft sticks are a real mixed bunch quality wise; being warped and deformed. Sorted through them and about half are of no use but kept them for use in other projects (fencing, run down barns and the kids love them for arts and crafts)

Here are some other pictures:








C&C welcome
Cheers.

[manatic]

The word "insane" does spring to mind 

[OSHIROmodels]

That's a rather impressive layout 

Looking forward to seeing it continue 

A coat of primer wouldn't go amiss to tie it all together as some areas are a tad difficult to make out.

cheers

James

[dijit]

A very impressive looking set up. It'll be a pleasure watching this expand!

[Michi]

You´re totally on the right track. That is going to be overwhelmingly good!

[Commander Vyper]

Yum!!!!

[AKULA]

looks great mate

 

[Col. Aubrey Bagshot]

A perfect ( photo heavy ) example of what makes this forum so amazing.....

[Anpu]

 
YAY!

[Silent Invader]

Brilliant 

[Elbows]

That's...ridiculous. 

[Elk101]

That is bloody excellent! I like this more than a lot of the commercial sets available. A very nice job indeed.

[Earther]

Thats made me do a little sex-wee… Bloody awesome layout!

[Michka]

This is fantastic!!! It's the return of my favorite project on LAF. You were the inspiration for my own LV-426 project, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
 

[Braz]

Hi All,
I'm glad to be back and thanks all for all the positive comments! Coming from such esteemed masters of the craft, doubly so.

@Jimbibbly. I agree totally. Done on most of the tiles already. I'm still trying to find those in-progress pictures that shows that off. The primer really ties the tiles together. The spray primer helps seal the hardboard/craft sticks so it does not soak up paint like crazy and prevent warping.

@Michka. Your project is quite amazing too. Love what you've done.

Here are some of the first tiles nearing completion that are on my workbench . The walls are not glued in place yet to facilitate access while detailing.  Still to do: add some grime/wash, add door controls, add more grebbles a few more labels and paint the outside walls once they are glued in place. I'm debating adding light bars (non functional) to the side rails. Have to make the door for the left tile but will probably make them all later on. The doors slide in from the top in grooves in the entrance.