Halo: A 28mm wargaming project: covenant troops cast finally.

[Commander Vyper]

Taken a little break from 15mm to complete the two four man Red vs. Blue Teams and started planning a small but leathal team match/slayer gaming board.

Going to be a UNSC/Omi base, kinda a cross between Courtyard level on Reach campaign and firefight and Mombassa base vehicle bays.

A 2'x 2' table, multi-leveled with docking area/vehicle bays and a command centre. This is really a quick and dirty but it will be a well detailed as I can make it in the time allowing. I'll make sure it can be added too so even if it's a bit spartan ( ) it'll be a good base to start from.

Tight timescale.... One week 3 days!  

Tonight:

Table drawn up
Boards cut
gantry pieces found
engineering bay started

Will be bulking out the framwork on the board tomorrow night, pictures over the next few days.

Wish me luck! (All this and a load of 15mm specialists, vehicles and a few tanks and heavy gears too! I'm mad obviously!  ).

[Commander Vyper]

A little bit of progress:

LAAG guns on the workbench and painted:







Also started work on the table again today, it's taking shape but will take a while, time I haven't got!



Enjoy

The Commander

[Sangennaru]

Lol, are those really called "LAAG"??


Now i see why they never kill anyone!

[Mr.J]

I'm looking forward to watching this progress.

[Commander Vyper]

Little update tonight:





Fixed the side walkway supports and rough cut the cork bark for the cliff face along one side of the base. Will aim to secure, fill gaps with textured filler and add the retaining wall tomorrow.

Cheers

The Commander

[Lowtardog]

Looks bloody good mate

[Mr.J]

Yes! Very impressive.

[Commander Vyper]

Cliff section completed tonight. raised by 1 1/2" using compressed pink styrene, hot glue gun used to fix the cork and gaps behind the cliff filled with offcuts of styrene then a whole tube of smooth filler, (well it was going off a bit) to bulk and seal out the back. Replaced the foamboard retaining sections with MDF.

Also washed with a few more resin scenery pieces that I base coated early in the week.

Lasty but not least, 6mmPhil's containers turned up as did my little order from Scotia Grendel, (Cheers for the extra bits! ). More painting! Just waiting on Jed's sci-fi scenerey bits now and then I'll crack on as time is a ticking!

Anyway all looks very tidy, pics tomorrow cause i'm, knackered and need my bed!




The Commander

[uti long smile]

That's shaping up very nicely.

[Commander Vyper]

Ok so picutre from last night's work:





Tonight managed to finish the turret guns, gun metalled the pistons and a few other bits and pieces then washed with black:



Also got on with some of the lovely pieces I got from Ainsty miniatures, cargo crates and weapons lockers, a few more bits to finish on the lockers then they're done.
(One missile crate from GW 40k too).





All in all really happy with progress to date, will focus on completing the fortifications tomorrow as I've been playing Halo reach (Courtyard) to see how the roof structure work, so ready to complete.

6 days to go and I'm confident that I'll have a working table for next week's gaming trip. Hopefully my order of sci-fi doors, control panels, screens and other bits of scenery will arrive from Jed so I can start work on them to include on the table. Loads of the GOT range, perfect for Hard-sci-fi halo.

Also the containers from 6mmphil now primed, will paint tomorrow.

Cheers

The Commander

[Commander Vyper]

Update:

Jed's parcel arrived with some lovely scenery pieces from his GOT range, terminal and coms screens, square cargo crates.

(Also bottom right, you'll see 6mmPhils containers basecoated ready for tomorrow).



All to be painted before Wednesday's kick off.



Table progressed, additonal wall sections completed, more sketches from the screenshots from the game in order to work out roofing options:

Che



The Commander

[zizi666]

That GOT stuff is superb indeed. 
I still need to assemble my mapper command system though.
Been putting that off for quite some time now. (probably my fear of not getting it right and the ensuing disappointment )

[Bako]

Pretty!

[mattblackgod]

What a great project, I don't know how I missed it. Loving the mini conversions and terrain boards. 

[Commander Vyper]

Little update:

Sealed the cliffface and gravel with a senics spray adhesive so that should fix all the extra gravel/sand added this morning.

Well I'm a great fan of pre-printed pavements and roads for gaming board, (my zed gaming board is testiment to that little factoid) but I fancied something a bit more in keeping with the totally scratch built nature of this board so the 3mm MDf boards that have been cut to fit the open space area have had the Lazy Forger treat and I've used Sangennaru's concrete paving tutorial to great effect.

http://www.thelazyforger.com/tutorials/how-to-sculpt-a-paved-road-part-1/

I then mapped out the shapes I wanted in pencil, squared them off, and with a scribing tool and set work creating the cracks, impact damage etc... five sections later and about two hours and this is the result:

 





Quickly undercoated tonight, will paint using the sponge method tomorrow. Might need to go over the cracks again as I didn't brush away the scored lines as much I as thought I had.

Like the look that so thanks to Sengennaru's great and inspired tutorial. Finally ink washed some Void resin barrel sets, some more Ainsty sci-fi pieces and some pig iron stowage so will highlight up and finish tomorrow.

I have to get all the fortifications and walkways completed tomorrow so I can undercoat everything and crack on. Four days , (or rather evenings to go!  )

Cheers

The Commander