CaptainDangerous
Officer, without number, head turner, troll burner
Staff member
Yak Comp 3rd Place
Tribe Council
'Nickname' O'Shea's Zone Mortalis Odyssey
- Thread starter 'Nickname' O'Shea
- Start date
Those classic bulkheads are just still bloody gorgeous!
I really like the sandwiched approach with visible pipes and other things between, it makes it all seem much more plausible as an actual structural wall.
Great job!! Plus I love the colour choice too!!
I really like the sandwiched approach with visible pipes and other things between, it makes it all seem much more plausible as an actual structural wall.
Great job!! Plus I love the colour choice too!!
Mad to think that the bits used in this project span four decades
Yeah the bulkheads still have a lot of charm, they're the right kind of techno-gothic without being completely OTT like some of the newer stuff can be. Great canvas for texturing effects like the salt weathering etc.
The pipes and things were a great way of giving some real depth to the walls, so they didn't just seem like cardboard cutouts. I'm particularly pleased with how the bulkhead hatches came out when paired together as well. Just a shame I didn't have more of those (Zinge?) Doors.
Tonight I tinkered with the ZM tiles - a little leadbelcher drybrush here and there to unflatten some of the blacks and yellows, and I painted the rims with Black 2.0.
I also painted, or started to paint, a few bits of scatter terrain that I glued up at work today, basically an amalgamation of most of the bits I didn't get round to using.
Thought I'd put some shots together in the dark...
I need to borrow a little GoPro and get some video going down the corridors, this looks aces
I need to borrow a little GoPro and get some video going down the corridors, this looks aces
He’s back! Excellent work long lost Yak!
Love the Troll
Love the Troll
Absolutely fantastic! Can't wait for the pictures of your board in action! Congratulations on sticking with it and getting it finished!
Thank you all for your kind words 
This is the frankensteins-monster bit of scatter terrain I put together yesterday, before and after a prime and wash:
Is it a climate processing unit? A chicken soup vending machine? Who knows!
Also some pictures of the completed walls in daylight. I particularly enjoy the rat poking out of the breach in the wall, I think he's from the 90s Warhammer Quest set?
This is the frankensteins-monster bit of scatter terrain I put together yesterday, before and after a prime and wash:
Is it a climate processing unit? A chicken soup vending machine? Who knows!
Also some pictures of the completed walls in daylight. I particularly enjoy the rat poking out of the breach in the wall, I think he's from the 90s Warhammer Quest set?
Lovely stuff, but I also like the idea of a deadline to start something, rather than a deadline to finish.
Perhaps we should adopt this practice for our Yakcomps...
I think after the debacle with the MDF I was intimidated about starting again, I had to set myself a hard limit on how much I could procrastinate.
Once I actually started building stuff it all came together pretty quickly.
One more good thing tonight, I found a solid plastic crate that everything fits into beautifully, snug but with some breathing room for extra bits.
So, final goal achieved of having all of this be compact and easily storable. Awesome.
The thought occurs, again, that if I'd never started this in the first place I could have saved an immense amount of time and trouble by just buying a few Boarding Actions boxes
If you're thinking of building a ZM board but don't have an enormous box of bits to play with then just do that, £300 is cheap in the end, it really is. I may well be at 3 times that or probably more, all told. I'm not even going to try and do the maths, I'll just cry.
Ahead of tomorrow's game, I dug out the three squads of Sisters of Silence that have been sitting in a crate for almost a year with just one coat of red and one of gold painted.
Started at 4pm and have just finished. I also painted up a little vending machine and finished off the frankenstein scatter piece.
I may not end up using them tomorrow - I have three 500-ish pt lists and Custodes/SoS is only one of them.
The low model count (10!) may be a bit brutal at 500 pts, especially seeing as one of the people I might be playing is bringing a disgusting swarm of cultists and poxwalkers.
Started at 4pm and have just finished. I also painted up a little vending machine and finished off the frankenstein scatter piece.
I may not end up using them tomorrow - I have three 500-ish pt lists and Custodes/SoS is only one of them.
The low model count (10!) may be a bit brutal at 500 pts, especially seeing as one of the people I might be playing is bringing a disgusting swarm of cultists and poxwalkers.
Picture dump!
Got 2 550 pt games and a couple of little skirmishes in today, and learned a bit about the dynamics of the board.
Great game day with four of us battling it out for most of the afternoon, we all quite enjoyed the smaller game format.
Got 2 550 pt games and a couple of little skirmishes in today, and learned a bit about the dynamics of the board.
Great game day with four of us battling it out for most of the afternoon, we all quite enjoyed the smaller game format.
First thing that falls by the wayside in the event of a Xenoid or Empyric Incursion.
The sanitation technicians responsible will be soundly flogged, I assure you.
Sort of on that note, many moons ago when I picked up a lot of this scatter - the bin bags, old sofas, fridge freezers and old washing machines - I did think long and hard over whether we might see these sorts of things in the 41st millenium, and came to the conclusion that these things are kind of timeless, particularly for the lower classes.
I wonder about some of this stuff too. I don't know whether there would be graffiti - or for that matter rust - in the underhive. But we associate it with urban decay.
Similar threads
