Necromunda Sevastopol Sector terrain and gaming blog

[Malo]

Such amazing scenery, an incredible collection for Necromunda with all the crates and barrels etc. Perfect for adding in lots of cover and debris around. That tower in the last pic there is perfect for Lord of the Spire!

It's fantastic to have such excellent model and scenery talent posting here for us to learn and get ideas from. I really appreciate having all you folks here....

 

[timdp]

GW walls should be about 3", that's how I've come to base the format of 3", 6", 9", etc..., not sure who the guy in the pic too embarrassed to be a Necro fan is but you ought to change his understanding of cool 8)...

Floor spacing on the Necromunda bulkheads is 2-7/8". I'm pretty sure that the floor spacing for the 40K buildings is bigger than 2-7/8".

I took out the faces since I don't know them and did not have permission to post their faces...

Tim

 

[timdp]

Got some color on some of the terrain. This is a heavy drybrush that sets the basic color of the piece. Still have multicolored washes and a bit more drybrushing, some detail and rust addition to go.

 

[timdp]

Necromunda scenery is where you find it!

Took a walk around the neighborhood this morning and found a fair amount of Necromunda scenery

A lost aluminum shafted arrow, a broken off bicycle light (multi-mode and still works) and a bunch of oak galls.

The arrow will obviously become piping. The battery powered light will provide interesting lighting effects during low ambient light games.

Have been trying to figure out a way to represent fungus farms in Necromunda and the oak galls will help. They will be giant puffballs, at their prime and ready to be harvested for puffball steaks. The oak galls occur when a wasp lays an egg into the bark of the oak tree. The oak tree responds by building hard shell around the wasp egg. The galls are very hard and durable, and will only need a wash and a light drybrush before being based for the fungus farm.

Of course the giant puffballs also could be past their prime and ready to explode in a cloud of spores, blinding and choking everyone within 6" if they should happen to get shot...

Tim

 

[Malo]

Very natural looking as well... since they're from nature

mmmm puffball steak....

 

[thenickeninja]

Cool stuff man!

Just curious to know what it has to do with Sevastopol? I were there last summer

 

[timdp]

Cool stuff man!

Just curious to know what it has to do with Sevastopol? I were there last summer

The name was a quickie, off the cuff name for our campaign. I live in the California town of Sebastopol...

Completely unrelated, but IIRC, there was a planet or city called Sevastopol in the very early 40K Inquisitor Draco novel trilogy (Draco, Harlequin, Chaos Child).

Tim

 

[thenickeninja]

Cool stuff man!

Just curious to know what it has to do with Sevastopol? I were there last summer

The name was a quickie, off the cuff name for our campaign. I live in the California town of Sebastopol...

Completely unrelated, but IIRC, there was a planet or city called Sevastopol in the very early 40K Inquisitor Draco novel trilogy (Draco, Harlequin, Chaos Child).

Tim

Aha! You learn something new every day

The Ukrainian one is still a cool place to go on vaction, especially the submarine base outside at Balaclava

Thanks!

 

[timdp]

Cool stuff man!

The Ukrainian one is still a cool place to go on vaction, especially the submarine base outside at Balaclava

Thanks!

I still need to visit the Baltic (St Petersburg, Gotland Island, Birka) before I get down to Stalingrad and Sevastopol...

Tim

 

[timdp]

A bit more progress with multi-color drybrushing. Still have multi-color washes, rust and a final drybrush to go.

And the oak galls (giant puffballs) with quickie thinned washes in different colors. Even my wife thought they were creepy and you know you are doing something right when the wife is creeped out by stuff you are painting.

 

[timdp]

Finally, some progress... Got a bunch of pieces multi-color washed to supplement the terrain at a friend's convention Necromunda game. Still some drybrushing and detail to do and I got a little carried away with the rust on a few pieces. So far this is just washes and quick drybrushing.

Game boards: 3times 4'x4' boards.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Wow welcome back 4 year gap between updates!

I remember this thread, it was around when I first started up round these parts looking jealously at all your cool stuff!

 

[Stoof]

Wow, that's some excellent terrain. I think the extra-rusty look is good. Properly grotty downhive machinery, or even archeotech.

 

[timdp]

Wow welcome back 4 year gap between updates!

I remember this thread, it was around when I first started up round these parts looking jealously at all your cool stuff!

Yeah, well, there was a really big detour into Battlefleet Gothic.

This is only some of the stuff...

 

[timdp]

Risers
Risers are basically solid platforms that raise the floor of the Underhive and are quite useful for blocking all of those long ground level lines of sight . Rarely do you see enough terrain on a table to completely block cross table shots. A few risers on the table changes the game and really helps balance shooty vs H2H gangs.

These risers are clear acrylic picture frames that have been textured a bit, sprayed a dark grey with an off white overspray and then washed with grungy black, blue, green and purple washes.

Primed 16" x 20" riser with off white overspray.

After washes. Still much drybrushing to do.

Risers in action

Sources
Michael's has 5"x 7" , 8" x 10", 8.5 x 11", 11 x 14 and 16" x 20" frames

Aaron Brothers has better prices on 8" x 10" and 8.5 x 11" frames than Michaels

Walmart (best deal)
Acrylic Box Photo Frame, Set of 6 $16.02
http://www.walmart.com/ip/21683044

 

[timdp]

Got more done on the risers, adding plastruct flooring to a few of them and adding more color. Have them all stacked up, but here are a couple of pics.
Did order a few more from Michaels so I can do some double stacked versions.

 

[timdp]

More stuff for the risers project.

Starting from the bottom layer:

Cool sumpy, Nurgly batik fabric remnant from Beverly's. Great pattern, but I could only find enough for one table. Appropriately colored fabric makes a great table base.

16c20 acrylic picture frame with acrylic reinforcing piece glued in to flatten the top. The fronts of these frames are usually a bit bowed out. A piece of 1/4" x 1" acrylic can be glued in (Plastruct Bondene) while applying pressure to the reinforcing piece while the frame is sitting on a flat surface. The Bondene sets quickly and the reinforcing piece flattens out any bow leaving a flat surface to put additional scenery on. Note that the acrylic piece is space to provide storage space for an 11" x 14" riser and an unpainted, reinforced 8" x 10" riser.

On top of the 11 x 14 riser is an unpainted double height 8 x 10" riser.

 

[timdp]

Construction is done on the double and triple height risers, all covered with textured plastic. Still need to beat them up a bit before painting.
The top of the triple height riser is covered with plastic diffuser material from a 2' x 4' fluorescent lighting fixture.

Two double height (2.5") on the left and a split level and a triple height riser (3.75") on the right.

 

[timdp]

And now some paint on the multi-level risers!

Not happy with the really rusty risers. Any suggestions appreciated from you rust experts out there...

Tim

 

[Stoof]

I like the really rusty ones, they look like steel that has been left on a beach - I could easily imagine similarly corrosive conditions in the underhive.