I recently backed the Afterlife: Shards of Liberty KickStarter campaign (click here for that). Even with the KS campaign ended, you can still support them here until about the end of January 2015.
Anyways, in anticipation of some sweet new resin minis I decided that I'd make up some new terrain that better fits their skirmish sized game. I had a large piece that I had originally intended to be a centerpiece for my 40K board but still wasn't finished. I used that as a base and began to add on to it.
Some content originally posted on the Afterlife forums
The above photos are the beginning of the original 40K project. Baal Predator and Blood Angels Sternguard Veteran shown for scale.
Ground floor offices and rooms added.
2nd floor
3rd floor
Alternate view of assembled building
The bane of my existence: The stairwell that I have to build
Issues that I ran into:
- My foam board was a bit warped so I'll have to find a way to make the floors a bit more stable when they're "put together"
- In my hastiness, some of the "supporting walls" don't match up on different levels. I'm going to go with the fact that the building is mostly destroyed and thus the structural integrity has been compromised
- Hot glue is... HOT
- I'm dreading making a stairwell
The main construction was built with foam core on a piece of fiber board and held together with hot glue. Joel from Anvil Industry gave me a few pointers about using PVA or wood glue for construction and using pins to reinforce the walls and fixing balsa wood struts or plastic I-beams to the floor would make it more rigid and help the warping.
Up Next:
- texturing floors with rubble and bits
- stairwell...
- basecoating
No comments:
Post a Comment