Magentic Carrying Case (Part III)

Magnetic Carrying Case (Part II)

Magentic Carrying Casen (Part I)

Objective Markers

Farm Setting WIP Wheat Fields

Farm setting board updates for Forest

GF's Khador Blue Winter Themed Army

This is her first attempt at painting a couple figurines.  The 'war dog' and the 'destroyer' specifically.

Wraith Engine with Arms

I might reposition the right arm, but the drillbit broke inside when I was putting in the support pins and it make it difficult to get the arm posture that I wanted at the time.  But I should have gotten closer to the original hole than I did.

Wraith Engine WIP

Recent updates on the Wraith Engine.

Finished Barn

  The finished barn was simply introduced to the 50 cent paints with a quick highlighting and a very messy coverage of black paint mixed with water to dirty the barn up, cause...let's face it, barns are not supposed to be clean or properly measured nicely designed structures.  They are there for just utility.  As such, I have just decided to do a quick dirty paint scheme that is satisfying enough for those of us that will be using the structure.
   It did come out slightly off-scale than what I would have wanted cause I didn't measure things properly before beggining, but it is close to Ogrun scale...Ogrun's farm? Heh. 
   The muddy ground outside the barn fenced in was introduced by putting some spackle down that was left over from an apartment transfer after we had cleaned up the walls.  Then a bottle of mixed Elmers and paint was poured over top of it and let to dry over 24 hours to prevent easy peel/cracking.  It has produced a ground that is somewhat flexible and soft while giving it a slightly damp look/appeal to it.  Not bad, but not great.  I don't tend to take the time to put strenuous details in.  I prefer to get the job done and useful as quick as possible.  Well hope that you guys enjoy.

Barn for a Farm setting

The barn was designed out of foamboard, and set on some mdf board to easily carry it around.  The simplicity of the design was straightforward and cheap.  It probably only cost me around 5-6 dollars to put the barn together overall.

Foam board, 2 dollars (of which I didn't use the whole sheet), mdf board (small amount of a large chunk from the store that was still in the attic), 50 cent pieces of wood that were bought at Michaels, 50 cent paint that can be found on clearance all the time next to the painting section at Lowes (good tidbit to know).

The only details in the foamboard were introduced with a ruler and a modeling knife (thickened with running a pen through it when done).

Stalker Lawl

Quite the interesting pose,

Box of Crates Hill for the Warehouse

I had decided to go with the first elevated terrain piece on the concept suggested online with crates.  Only the constructive imagination brought me to blocks of wood that I could purchase at the store.  So I got three packages of 1" block and glued them together.  Then used a piece of foam board on top of them to give a nice standing ground.  Then I attached small wooden pieces around the edges to give it more of a crate look and feel.

Then in order to cover the top and save myself some serious additional work, I figured that I would use a tarp over the wooden crates.  I had an old poncho that I had torn while fishing and thought it would give a good look and feel.  Then went out and bought some eyelits from the craft store for building clothing.  I put the eyelits inside the tarp and used a string to tighten the tarp around the boxes.  The only part left for me to do with what I want in this elevated terrain piece will probably be to stain the wooden crates under the tarp...and perhaps dirty them up a bit afterwards, even chip at them.  But as is it didn't come out quite bad.  I'll try another elevated terrain piece or two in the near future off of another suggestion that one of you made in the forums as well.  The current piece is shown below.

 

Quick Overview Shot, with Details to follow.

The following is an empty board with some terrain laid over it to get a quick glance at what the board may look like, but several other pieces of terrain were not even laid out over the table that I will talk about further down in the list later on.  It will also include quick details of what had been used.

Warhouse Blocking Terrain

Occassionally, inspiration doesn't really come until you walk down the isles of your local craft store, or Home Depot.  One section that caught my attention was the electronics isle.  There were dozens of different sized blue plastic shielding units for the home.  All of which to me seemed to have interesting designs for what I considered to be my future terrain.  Two of them have been painted and a few elements added to below in order to make them into a trash bin and shipping container with ease.  The best part is, that each piece was about 1-3 dollars apiece and required little to anything else than what I had left over around the house.

A couple purchased pieces

Of course creating some things by hand isn't as easy as just stumbling upon some cheap purchases every now and then you come across while searching for things online.  As is done with the two pieces displayed in this image.  Only a bit of crude painting needed and of course for the sewer pieces in the front, it was filled with water effects and blended with different colors of green simply by swirling a toothpick back and forth through the waters at different shades.  The streaming part from the mouth of the pipe at the top was the only custom portion and that was done with a glue gone on top of a couple layers of itself to give a small flow effect.  Not amazing but it all gets the job done and looks representable on the table.

Copper pipes

The copper pipes there were a bit more expensive than I thought they would be.  I guess the news was right about pricing going up.  But I did get a good amount of pipe for the money that I could play with in building some terrain...and nothing works better to represent pipe, than real pipe.

The pieces below were constructed out of the copper piping by cutting through them with a saws all.  Three segments were bound with wire to represent small pipe batches ready for transfer, while copper elbows were used with the copper pipes on them to represent barriers often up in warehouses to prevent things such as forklifts and other mechanicals from going beyond them without resistance.

Rubble

The rubble terrain pictured here was a simple process, but it adds a bit of flavor.  In simplicity, it uses the cut out of a cereal box as the basing, with some dark sand.  Small rock croppings were added to the sand by spare pieces of plucked foam left over from other terrain that I'd owned.  In order to solidify the cardboard and keep the sand from shedding off, it was all sprayed with elmer's glue in a spray can.  The outcome is four pieces that resemble that of down below.  Typically I use this for difficult terrain and occassionally as light cover with a +2 bonus to defense.

Steam Vents

With the steam vents, I took some old screen in the attic and cut out pieces 5" x 5" in size to be attached to small wood segments that can be bought at a local craft store.  I drilled 6 holes in the wood and put some earth magnets inside the wood.  This allows for the steam vents to be removable when walking through them with your models.

The steam vents were there to produce a forest indoors since anything realistic for shrubbery in a warehouse was unlikely.  Due to lack of sight it is considered to slow down movement like a forest and provide concealment. 

The steam is merely four ends of cue tips cut to different lengths and glued together after careful pulling of the ends.  The bottom is small pieces of magnet that each one of us probably has somewhere on our fridge in some form of another that is easily cuttable.  It provides enough magnetic force to grab on the earth magnet without holding it too tightly.  It actually works quite nicely.