Gigacity 123 6mm - new building 4/1/2015

[Vanvlak]

I'm very curious to see the minis you'll use for your project !

Will you base them individually ?

One pic further up the thread shows a few, but I need to paint some up.
Basing will be individual for characters or particular troops, and bases of 3-5 for crowds of magistrates (my not-judges) and gangs.

[YPU]

One pic further up the thread shows a few, but I need to paint some up.
Basing will be individual for characters or particular troops, and bases of 3-5 for crowds of magistrates (my not-judges) and gangs.

You know not MC and huge monster aspects aside, the idea of a larger scale riot vs law enforcement game is interesting. In Riot style games part of that highway usually would be a large battlefield. I was in Cairo during the 2011 revolution and travelling the city by taxi during the first stages I can tell you the whole city is turned in to what is almost like a chess game of strategic positioning by both sides, with the highway being blocked by walls of Riot gear police to prevent easy manoeuvring.

Just that shot of your set-up inspires something like that to me. Throw in all the madness your clearly lining up and this will be rather interesting. 

[Vanvlak]

You know not MC and huge monster aspects aside, the idea of a larger scale riot vs law enforcement game is interesting. In Riot style games part of that highway usually would be a large battlefield. I was in Cairo during the 2011 revolution and travelling the city by taxi during the first stages I can tell you the whole city is turned in to what is almost like a chess game of strategic positioning by both sides, with the highway being blocked by walls of Riot gear police to prevent easy manoeuvring.

Just that shot of your set-up inspires something like that to me. Throw in all the madness your clearly lining up and this will be rather interesting. 

Thanks YPU - I can promise more madness 
As for riots and crowds - one problem - getting a good representation of tightly packed crowds.
OK, if I were to use all my 6mm scale orcs packed on large bases I could get there, but I do not want orky crowds - and cannot imagine painting a crowd of individuals. I'd need a model of people packed together.
And I just realised I need civilian traffic!

[YPU]

Hm, I can see your point on the rioters. I guess you could explain it away tough, see with the high tech body armor these Judges are wearing simply laying into them with a crowd is going to end badly. And even the miscreants of GGC 123.(rolls of the tongue nicely) have learned this. So these days they mostly stick to throwing stuff at them from a distance, trying their best not to crowd together to closely as that would only present a target for grenades. Hence why you only would have 3-5 miniatures a base for the rioters. 

[Vanvlak]

Good point, YPU.
I need civilian-like models, however, not easy at 6mm scale.

Meanwhile - a Patrol Bus and a hover tank, for those REALLY nasty gangs.
And the first of my rad suit gang - poor quality pic, will do better when I have enough for a group photo. You can't see the green visor I guess, or the checkerboard pedestrian crossing. I am using white bases as the board is a marbled sort of white.



And a new building, one of the largest of all.


No prizes for guessing what this will be when painted. The load of blue stickers (obsolete inventory number stickers) are an experiment, I am aiming for a pattern of layered slabs. Will see how it works when painted.

[von Lucky]

It's ticking along nicely.

[Vanvlak]

It's ticking along nicely.

Thanks - but only because I had to spend a couple of days at home with a high temperature and terribly congested *
*the drop in the emoticon is coming from the nose region when thus used 

[Deep One]

It's an anti-grav vehicles parking, isn't it?

[Vanvlak]

It's an anti-grav vehicles parking, isn't it?

Yup
Multi-storey, and can take large freighters too.

[Mason]

Brilliant, sir!
Some inspired choices in theses parts.
 

[YPU]

Yea really appear to have a nose for finding great scratch building material. That Clippers stand looks like it has the perfect cut-out in the back to insert some sort of tower there right?

[Vanvlak]

Yea really appear to have a nose for finding great scratch building material. That Clippers stand looks like it has the perfect cut-out in the back to insert some sort of tower there right?

Yes - but I haven't found the right object yet!

@Mason - I was lucky - a local shop was throwing the Clippers stand away as I was passing, and I 'saw' the multi-storey landing zone right away.

[Mason]

@Mason - I was lucky - a local shop was throwing the Clippers stand away as I was passing, and I 'saw' the multi-storey landing zone right away.

Bonus!

I would love to have seen the shopkeeper's face as you walked away with his 'trash'...

[warburton]

Nice work!

[Vanvlak]

Bonus!

I would love to have seen the shopkeeper's face as you walked away with his 'trash'...

Bemused is the best description I could think of.