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Wehrkind - I was definitely thinking along the lines of an admin/office/professional type building. As for the chair rail, would this just be some sort of molding? It's a bit late to be gluing more strips in I think, but would I be able to get away with painting one in you think? Just a darker strip between the two colors?

You know, I like the work, but it seems someone can't concentrate on one project at a time...

Yeah, that's not uncommon really...

Ok so uh...I didn't realize how many steps I take when creating something as simple as a Hill >.>...

Check out the start to a soon to be Hill Tutorial

Should take me a while to type everything up. But I'd expect it should be about finished by the end of next week.

I'll be posting it here on Dakka as well as my blogsite in my sig.

Nice Tutorial GD. I would give up half my finished terrain for 2 sheets of the EPF insulation boards like you have!

Go Go Modeling ADD!!!

Oh and this epic basing style is 100% Stolen from Ramshackle_Curtis' amazing ork army. You should definitely check out his army.

Haha, cute. I managed to trace the original post on your citifight board. Would you say a 2x2 board is too small for gaming? I've never played on a board where every gun is pretty much in range from turn 1.

-DMG-

DaMaGe wrote:Haha, cute. I managed to trace the original post on your citifight board. Would you say a 2x2 board is too small for gaming? I've never played on a board where every gun is pretty much in range from turn 1.

-DMG-

I haven't played many games on the table. But the key to making a small table is to have lots of intervening terrain elements. In this case, I've got a 2 story and a 3 story building will full interiors for models to hide in, as well as three other smaller buildings along one of the table edges (just building fronts really). It does create a lot of great fire lanes for oh say, a heavy bolter >.>. And you're not going to want to play large games. Honestly, if you're playing more than 300 points on a 2x2, something is wrong with you! Initially I built it as a way to play skirmish scale 40k (rule 1: take a single squad rule 2: have at it). It's fun, and it gives me a chance to focus more on the details instead of trying to finished a giant table with hardly any.

Good thinking... personally I prefer smaller points games to large ones. 40K was always a skirmish game. When apocalypse came out I groaned. I think I'll go for 4x4 table for ~1000pts.
I did have ambitions for the table to be multilayered - like levels of a hive. But that would be a massive project. Still, I just got kicked out of university - so all the time in the world now

Just finished my hills tutorial today. Check it out.

grey_death wrote:Go Go Modeling ADD!!!

Nice. Far more appealing than the usual stands of infantry.

Some more orks modeled. Paint started on the first base. I'm going red and yellow for them. Haven't gotten that far just yet though. Need to pick up a few paints. Let me know what you think.

So inspiration hits yesterday. And I used jamsessionein's awesome stompa as the basis of an Epic Stompa conversion. I'm very pleased with the results ^_^:

Are they mounted on nickles?! You can't do that! Stop stealing my ideas!

Aduro wrote:Are they mounted on nickles?! You can't do that! Stop stealing my ideas!

Indeed they are ^_^. And they work out wonderfully. The only issue I am running into is what to base larger things on.

grey_death wrote:

Aduro wrote:Are they mounted on nickles?! You can't do that! Stop stealing my ideas!

Indeed they are ^_^. And they work out wonderfully. The only issue I am running into is what to base larger things on.

Quarters?

Aduro wrote:

grey_death wrote:

Aduro wrote:Are they mounted on nickles?! You can't do that! Stop stealing my ideas!

Indeed they are ^_^. And they work out wonderfully. The only issue I am running into is what to base larger things on.

Quarters?

Toonies?

(says the one-upping Canadian jerk...)

Aduro wrote:
Quarters?

Quarters don't have the flat edge like nickles do unfortunately, so they wouldn't work.

And there's no way I'm using a 2 dollar coin for a base x.x....

You could grind the rough edge off, or fill it in with Green Stuff?

To be somewhat more helpful, what about a simple metal washer of the Home Depot variety? Should be available in any size you need and smooth-edged to boot.

DFo wrote:To be somewhat more helpful, what about a simple metal washer of the Home Depot variety? Should be available in any size you need and smooth-edged to boot.

I was actually considering washers for this. At the very least hitting up both the hobby store and the home depot to see what my options for basing would be. We'll see if I can swing by tomorrow find something. It definitely won't be expensive either way.

The bases look like they have lips on the edge, so that corroborates the coin suspicion. Now all we need is the nationality and denomination.

Oh, cool epic Orks too.

DFo wrote:To be somewhat more helpful, what about a simple metal washer of the Home Depot variety? Should be available in any size you need and smooth-edged to boot.

Ironically, more expensive than nickels for the same size, though perhaps in bulk you could get them at $0.05 or less. Also, the hole in the center ... which I was going to ask how you got around cause I figured you had used washers but NO they are indeed nickels!

But personally I would have used washers with some thin card to cover the hole and glue sand all over. Big ones for the big stuff too.

- Salvage

Boss_Salvage wrote:

DFo wrote:To be somewhat more helpful, what about a simple metal washer of the Home Depot variety? Should be available in any size you need and smooth-edged to boot.

Ironically, more expensive than nickels for the same size, though perhaps in bulk you could get them at $0.05 or less. Also, the hole in the center ... which I was going to ask how you got around cause I figured you had used washers but NO they are indeed nickels!

But personally I would have used washers with some thin card to cover the hole and glue sand all over. Big ones for the big stuff too.

- Salvage

Yep, they are indeed nickels.

The thin card over the center is what I'm planning for the larger bases though. I still have to hit the store.

You can use masking or scotch tape to cover the hole. I use scotch tape to cover the gaps in slotta-bases and it works great.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Ozymandias wrote:You can use masking or scotch tape to cover the hole. I use scotch tape to cover the gaps in slotta-bases and it works great.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

I've used this method myself on slotta bases in the past. Works like a charm for sure. I was sort of worried about the size of gap I would have in the washers though and was thinking card would be a bit more sturdy. After picking up the washers today, I'm much less worried about the gap and I think masking tape will work out just fine.

Fin.

On a Specialist Games kick lately. More to come!

Out of curiosity, how many hours a week do you paint on average grey_death? The Skaven looks cool btw, and I like the image presentation too.

legoburner wrote:Out of curiosity, how many hours a week do you paint on average grey_death? The Skaven looks cool btw, and I like the image presentation too.

Honestly, I don't paint as much as I would like. I probably get a solid 10 max a week (less depending on what the wife would have me doing). And most of that is at work between calls (I <3 being a firefighter!). This guy was about 90-95% by the end of the night yesterday at work. And he was black primer when I got there.

More Mordheim. This time it's wyrdstone counters! A nice simple fun little project.

Tomorrow I start work on my third skaven, on shift ^_-. Here's to hoping they don't have Rock Band going to distract me x.x....