Here are some more shots of the components of the bastion (so far). I’ve been thinking about making a different back panel which has a door to enter the base and I’m thinking of adding some more texture/detail to the roof (right now i just have 2 hatches and some skid pads. Also, I want to add some guidelines for the weapon’s balconies/emplacements then I will be ready to go.
The bottom picture shows the detail of the slot on the back of each piece that the roof slides into to build the model.
It looks like the base model is costing about $75 to have printed - I might be able to optimize the model a bit - but I think I’m just going to use a print to make a silicone mold and cast using resin* or dental plaster.
*I really need to get a pressure chamber for casting high quality resin.
The dimensions: about 70mm wide at the base. about 85mm tall at the tip and the roof is large enough to accommodate about 3 long strip bases (about 45 mm).
SCI-FI City tiles | Graffletopia
A simple stencil for creating a sci-fi city layout using Gamecraft miniatures EPIC (6mm) engraved acrylic gaming tiles. Created with blessings from Gamecraft Miniatures.
I made a simple omnigraffle stencil to layout a sci-fi city plan using Gamecraft miniature’s sci-fi city tiles. I’m a bit of a freak when it comes to planning and I love drawing things up so - here you go. I got permission from Gamecraft to publish the stencil and it’s free for omnigraffle users.
There is also a page template with the grid setup for snapping the tiles into place. tomorrow I post an example of what can be made.
I’ve been wanting to make an epic scaled forest for a long time now and this weekend I finally had all of the pieces to start.
I got a roll of 1/16 inch cork. Thick enough to stick trees in yet thin enough not to look out of place.
I traced some shapes with a sharpie marker shooting for pieces about 3" long in organic shapes.
I think cut out the shapes (I used a titanium bladed scissors, but an exacto knife would work.
Then I took a can of super 77 put a then spray on the cork pieces and stuck them to a piece of construction paper. The reason I did this was to give the cork sheet something to pull it flat and give it a tendency to stay flat.
then I cut out the shapes from the construction paper by tracing a knife around the out side of the cork.
Next i carefully cut a 30-60 degree angle into the edge of the cork sheet to remove the abrupt lip.
After the pieces were shaped to my liking - they are ready for paint and flock and then trees can be pushed in for a modular terrain piece.
* last pictures I couldn’t wait to stick trees in so here I’m showing unpainted, unflocked pieces with slightly difference sized conifer trees. these are between 1" and 2.5" tall simulating a 25"-60" tree. My trees need to be a little closer to the ground but that can weight until after I’m flocked.
The nice thing about doing trees like this is they can easily be moved without disturbing the whole forest, you get a base to count as difficult terrain and a boundary to use for blocking line of sight.
Just discovered GameCraft terrain
Right now I am in the middle of building up my terrain for my Epic 40K armies. I’ve ordered some JR Minis resin buildings that were pretty cheap and have been eyeing up their river and roadway sets, but I was just led to GameCraft tonight and I think I am in love.
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Gamecraft makes some cool stuff. I have quite a bit of their 15mm stuff. Recently I made a city builder stencil and template for Omnigraffle which GCM gave me permission to post.
As soon as I figure out where to host the files I’ll make an update to share with the world.