15mm Rangers Roughnecks & Wreakers - UD 30/6 Terrain & buildings finished

[Damas]

Thanks Jim.  I'm assuming you're in the land of the rising sun and awesome food.

Let me know about those CAD files I sent you.

And now we return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

[Commander Roj]

That's a great start indeed! Where are the doors and the air conditioning units from?

I can send you a few of my doors and windows at shipping cost, if you like! They have not been purchased yet from any company so i'm not bound by any contract!



Cheers,
Jack

Could I purchase some of the windows to use as 6mm sci Fi doors? I have some difficulty securing appropriate doors in this scale. I like the 3 pieces just in from the 100 marking on the board and the row of 3 in the just up from the bottom row of 3 windows. Hope you can help!

[Sangennaru]

Could I purchase some of the windows to use as 6mm sci Fi doors? I have some difficulty securing appropriate doors in this scale. I like the 3 pieces just in from the 100 marking on the board and the row of 3 in the just up from the bottom row of 3 windows. Hope you can help!

i think i could make proper scifi doors if you like! it's a very simlpe modelling indeed, i can do it and put them on shapeways at printing cost, if you like!
PM me if you are interested, i don't want to hide the super-cool table with this OT here ^_^

[Silent Invader]

 

Some progress

I sealed the foam and filler edges with glue then used milliput to align matching faces (where faces had a number of possible matches, I used one as a control)



Then two coats of the basic texture (beach sand, glue, a little water) with a more dilute first coat to provide a key (the buildings only got the first coat)



With the mini selections now made, here's a comparison (but ignore relative size of hands and heads as no flesh will be showing: gloves, masks and helmets/hoods for all)



L to R:

Critical Mass Games, ARC Fleet Recon
Brigade Models, Armed Tank Crew in Helmets
Real Partha Europe, Sinners
Ground Zero Games, Light Duty Vaccine-Suits

NB: the BM and GZG minis have a 0.25mm plasticard insert beneath the base, for height equivalence

L to R:

Rangers X 20
Roughnecks X 30
Wreakers X 40
VIPs/Scientists/etc

[Silent Invader]

Another possible layout

Tiles not quite square as the table is uneven!

Just tufts, pipes, cables and humanistic debris to add.

[OSHIROmodels]

Coming together nicely 

You really need to change the scale though 

cheers

James

[Andym]

Why? When he and Mark are finished they be able to join together to make a cracking board!

Brilliant work bud!!

[Brummie]

Coming together nicely 

You really need to change the scale though 

cheers

James

Get with the times man! 15mm or bust!

[Constable Bertrand]

Nice work Steve!

The expanding foam/cork works well.

I've been using 3mm mdf without sealing - and have experienced the warping you mention. might give that a go, or a wooden frame, or just switch to 3mm perspex.

[Silent Invader]

Thanks Guys  

Well it was Captain Blood who flagged the possibilities of expanding foam and I'm glad I followed his lead    

Btw Matt, it's possible to warp Perspex and other plastics as well.  Warping can be caused by uneven tension inside the material, or outside it, or both. With plastics its what's stuck to it that can make the difference, for example, I believe that superglue will contract when it cures, as I've had warping with sand and superglue on plastic. Static grass paper with any 'wet' glue has also lead to distortion, as the backing paper stretches when wet then tightens as it dries.

The wood adhesive I use is quite stable - when using it to make rivers etc there's not a lot of shrinkage.  As I had to add a little water to the sand texture mix I was concerned that some shrinkage and distortion might occur but all seems to have turned out ok.

[Dr DeAth]

Looking good, that expanding foam has worked out really well. I'm tempted to give it a go myself.

[Silent Invader]

If nothing else Mark it's well worth the experiment! Though to be honest I was over enthusiastic in application and do had to carve loads away.

The terrain has now been finished - just the painting and tufts to add. The WIP images are really a reference for me as at some later stage I will add the quarry/mine tile and another with a couple more habitation units and a workshop/lab.

[Malamute]

Great stuff Steve. The mining installation looks brilliant with all the pipes, cables etc.

So are you brining this to BLAM now instead of Belgium, or perhaps both

[Mason]

Looking good!
It will look even better when you have coloured it in.
 

Tommy is right about those cables, they do set it all off a treat.
 

[Silent Invader]

Thanks  

So are you brining this to BLAM now instead of Belgium, or perhaps both

15mm at BLAM? That's allowed?!  

Seriously though,  Belgium has precedence but I can probably prep and paint the 100 or so 15mm minis at the same time as I prep and paint the 120 or so 28mm. We'll see........