40K stuff - bunkers and ruins

I grabbed some beat up terrain from my friend's hobby shop and decided I would breath new life into it. She had a ton of the plastic wall bits from one of the big box sets a couple additions ago. I hacked them up and based them on a cratered base.

Two more cratered ruins for good measure. L-shapes can define an entire ruined building.

I dont know if these are towers or bunkers but they are made from foamcore and cardstock.

I made 3 of them. btw, there isn't a door on the other side so obviously I am not taking the pic from the business side of these fortifications, but the door detail is more interesting than the blank wall side, and I didn't do any battle damage, maybe next set.

woods revisited

So I took some busted up trees from the hobby shop, I pinned them back onto their bases and I re-"Flocked" them with hot glue and lichen. They look much better. I added lots of aquarium plant pieces around the base as well as my favorite, pine bark nugget rocks! The green felt is used to designate the "area" of the woods. Warhammer players told me I had to allow their huge blocks of troops to move the trees out of the way in order to navigate the woods.

pretty sweet

Terrain KITS

I've been working with a friend of mine, Vivian at All Fun & Games in Apex, NC and she's trying to update her gaming terrain so I've been taking beat up terrain home and trying to breath new life into it for her.

She gave me some kits that I've based and painted...here are some...

LOTR RUIN Terrain kit
Some Sweet Pinebark Nugget rocky outcroppings.
Here are some walls from the Warhammer Manor house kit. I have put them on hardboard bases and textured them so they are heavy and look good, imo.

Buildings, lots of them.

Front and back pics of 2 buildings, they aren't completely finished yet but they are close to it. I plan on putting in some "broken glass" on the windows, and some motivational posters on the outside walls as if the Administratum PR people had been by to motivate the citizens. I might wash the piece too but Im not sure. Painting is not my strongest suite.

woods & walls

So occasionally you stumble on an idea and you actually see it through to the end and it actually works out. It happens, but not often. I think these woods may be one such example as I really like them.

Here's another shot, more areial view. I'm doubtful these can take the pounding from a hobby shop crowd, but then again I haven't found any terrain that can yet. Do you think I should make the lichen more green? I could probably dry brush it, or spray paint it before installation.

The walls I made previously are made from casting blocks from Hirst Arts which are really well done. I then seal them and then wash them with water-based stain. But as I looked at them I got to wondering about stones made from different kinds/colors of rock and wondering if I could represent that in miniature. so before washing this batch I picked out random stones with 3 different colors of grey paint. Reminds me somewhat of the stone walls in civil war battlefields.

Some times my camera is almost too good because upclose pictures shows flaws you can't even see with the naked eye, let alone from distances more associated with gaming, so here's a pic from a bit further away.

A few pieces from Hirst molds.

A scientific looking eco-pool. Who knows, it just popped into my head.

Tank traps, or Necron-type things, I think of sleestaks if you are old enough to know what those are, heheh.

2 power generators and a control nodule or something.

So I'm a huge slacker, I've been busy and have s-l-o-w-l-y been working on some new pieces. I fully expect to take these down to the local hobby shop eventually but its a 30 minute drive and my days are packed with errands and kids and work, etc. heheh enough of all that, here's some terrain...

Rocky outcroppings are mostly made of styrofoam hills, covered in cement, the "rocks" are pine tree nuggets and look great!

Rocky Outcropping

Rocky Outcropping

The walls interestingly overhang each end of the base by about 1/4 inch so that they can be arranged in multiple configurations. each is about 6 inches long.