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Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

ShadowDemon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:06:46 -0000

nice responce!

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Psyberwolfe — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:35:51 -0000

On larger pieces I am more likely to use rubble, but on a small piece, like this one (5"x6") it chokes up the useable game space. So all of the rubble is in the "sand bags" if you like. Model movement and stability are more important than realism on a gaming piece. If this were a diorama then it would be covered with rubble. The one thing I want to convey in my terrain articles is that model movement and usability of the terrain are more important than how real it looks.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Cptn. Palladorus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:57:20 -0000

Heyo. Long time listener, first time caller.

Fantastic terrain, I'm very jealous, but where's the rubble on the base? When projectile or explosive weapons hit a wall it doesn't just evaporate - crap flies everywhere.

The article probably disappeared in the great GW site update purges, but once upon a time they showed how the studio creates little piles of brick rubble for damaged brick buildings: feed some plastic sprue through an old meat grinder picked up from a flea market.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Muskie — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:18:45 -0000

I put in a lot of time scanning and ordering from numerous companies online for my great terrain project of 2009. Which I'll start real soon. I also collected some links to terrain making tutorials. All that stuff is in the usual place I put miniature painting stuff.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Bigred — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:40:54 -0000

The brick has been with us for almost 10,000 years already, whats another 30,000?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Anon — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:20:03 -0000

Great article.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Schmapdi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:28:31 -0000

It's comforting that 40,000 years in the future people are still using the same plain old red bricks that my dad used to build a patio when I was a little kid.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

solkan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:50:27 -0000

The local Hobby Lobby had their Tamiya models for sale at half-price a few months ago, so I picked up some of those plastic sand bags and walls. They are very nice, and my only complaint is that the walls are a bit short to use in 40K/Fantasy. But if you pick up a bock of Sculpty or something to make a bit of a foundation, then you end up with some nice walls.

It's always nice to see a nice hobby article, though.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Allison — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:36:44 -0000

If you've the patience to craft your own flooring out of plasticard, the Pegasus Hobbies gothic buildings are the bee's knees. Paint them but don't glue the (a la Cities of Death kits) and 3 or 4 sets will get you tons of goo looking, reconfigurable city terrain.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

(*ಠ益ಠ) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:35:19 -0000

A brush shaped like a Filbert! (filbert = hazelnut)

http://painting.about.com/o...

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Cyclone — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:57:20 -0000

Great tutorial!

But, what exactly is a filbert brush?

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Ziss — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:17:12 -0000

Thanks for the writeup on how you used these. I have several boxes of the walls and sandbags sitting on my shelf. I used a box of the sandbags for my IG mortar teams and they look better that the ones that came with the team.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Rich — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:26:24 -0000

GW could take a lesson from Tamiya as far as how to engineer model kits. Their stuff just falls together (especially the newer kits), not much fiddling on getting the right fit.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:29:15 -0000

Tamiya are just awesome. All their stuff Wins. Those walls look great; I must get some.

Re: 40K HOBBY: Plastic Terrain Kits

Miami — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:08:15 -0000

But where's all the grimdark?

Kidding, looks great! I like that the article included your mental approach to painting it. I know I lost track of my plan when I start to paint a model, and I think that can take away from a cohesive look.