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Offline Stormwind

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2015, 04:29:40 PM »
OK it's hardly a metropolis but this is the kind of layout I'm aiming for with my Total Battle Miniatures order that just arrived.

The package is heavy because the walls are actually metal, not resin, and look great.

The buildings are slightly larger in scale than I thought they were, looking a bit more like 12mm than 10mm, but still acceptable  I think.  Lots of bubbles in th e resin though, needs a bit of Liquid Green Stuff going over them.
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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #31 on: February 01, 2015, 02:16:52 AM »
that's a metropolis to me, I know, I was a mayor of several metropolis' back in the sim city 2000 days!!!
What are you using to base it all on?  How tall are those walls?  Can you post a picture of your favorite basic infantry behind one just for reference please?  :)

I purchased a grass mat a while back from woodland scenic. a vinyl sheet flocked in "spring grass".  I just roll it out for games instead of having permanent table anywhere.  It's 4' by 8' but I doubt I will ever play something that big for a while so I just cut 2' off of one end (4' x 6') and then the real purpose to the mat is to glue it down onto your railroad scenery.....the paper mache' hills and stuff?  So I am going to put that 2' x 4" down on my city terrain and then you scrape off the grass to make roads and then take some of the strips of the shingles I use for roads to make the stone walls.  They are really low so they look the part but wont really make your units stand up straight. And then some left over tree material from that forest canopy project for select bushes.

I think I will also scrape off the grass for the buildings and then burn the plywood base with a lighter to maybe show some "burned down" buildings.

and of course put in a garden which I can find down at my local railroad hobby store where I get the rest of this stuff from.

I have not been able to do more due to some house fixes that have popped up last night  :(  maybe back on it by middle of next week.  I know my city terrain will look good and I am getting excited for sure.

Cant wait to see yours finished as well!

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #32 on: February 06, 2015, 03:15:19 AM »
I have my spring grass vinyl mat glued to the plywood piece so this weekend I hope to finish the terrain piece.

I have been distracted with painting my new dwarf army pieces and the mighty empire bits. 

Also having to shovel snow doesn't help!

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #33 on: February 08, 2015, 01:30:29 AM »
chaos knights rampaging through the city!!!!

not all the way done yet, need to add a few details, a garden and maybe a well or something like that.

but it shows the infantry able to go anywhere, the hero in the tower for the command bonus' and the knights able to use the road.

Don't think the chaos knights would win this one though.

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #34 on: February 08, 2015, 07:03:52 AM »
I like the tower!,

Great terrain.

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #35 on: February 08, 2015, 07:07:41 PM »
Thank you, those buildings are brumbaer!!!

Whoever or wherever he is I hope he loves seeing those buildings printed out and made up all over the world on all sorts of gaming tables!  They are so simple and yet they make a huge impact.

I honestly think that his buildings were the thing that got me back into this game honestly.  I had put it away for so long and when I wanted to get rid of it for good I had to research to find out what to sell them for and started finding things like this website and those buildings.  They made me love the 10mm scale all over again like when I was a kid.

now I have all of this 7-8 months later.

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2015, 12:33:24 AM »
A very nice table.

Are those magnets on the ruins in the bottom right corner? If so, what attaches there?

Do you have a link to Brumbaer's buildings? I used to have them (I think, assuming we mean the same guy), but lost that computer.

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2015, 01:22:19 AM »
http://www.brumbaer.de/Wm/Build/index.html

this will take you straight to the buildings.  I printed them right onto card stock.

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #38 on: February 19, 2015, 05:45:25 PM »
Stormwind, have you finished your city terrain piece from the earlier picture yet?  Anxious to see how it turned out

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Re: city terrain piece
« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2015, 09:06:29 PM »
No, sorry, urban stuff is a low priority compared with actual units and more common terrain.  Also they were covered in little resin bubbles so I kind of just dumped them into a box of other terrain stuff for now until I can face doing it.

Also I got distracted clearing up some Kislev / Lizardmen.

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