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Post by stroezie on Apr 24, 2016 21:02:38 GMT
Well I've finally done it! I built myself a complete set off 6mm Space Hulk tiles and airlock doors. And here they are... Construction was fairly simple, just granny grating cut to size and glued onto magnetic paper so I can play on a metal surface and things won't slide around. The little square inset tiles are also made of magnetic paper and as the minis will also be based on the same stuff the whole thing should be pretty stable on the go. Here's a few pics of the first mission layout to give you an idea what a game would look like. The minis are place holders untill I recieve my order from Onslaught Miniatures who were kind enough to put together a custom Space hulk pack for me from there awesome Sisterhood and Legion lines. As these pictures are all a little dark I decided to pop a tile and some doors into my mini lightbox for a clearer look. And just cause I couldn't resist playing around with them here's some of the airlock doors together with my spaceport terrain. Now I still need to make some 3D flame tokens and find a nice way to make good looking magnetised blip counters that are easy to pick up and move around, any and all ideas are welcome. Ok thats it for now, hopefully I'll have some pictures of the painted miniatures for you soon. Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by curufin on Apr 24, 2016 23:56:55 GMT
Really well done! Im simply blown away at how tiny you make stuff.... So you must build everything at 28mm scale and then use that incredible shrinking ray from Fantastic Voyage to get it down to 6mm, right? I mean, there is no earthly way to craft that tiny, right?
Your hands must be steady as a rock. Awesome job!
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Apr 25, 2016 18:24:14 GMT
Oh.
My.
Gods.
EXALT!!!!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Apr 25, 2016 19:51:04 GMT
28mm, no he probably designs at higher scale then that, if he using a shrinking ray !
this is an awesome job and i like the fact it takes next to no place on a table.
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Post by wilmanric on Apr 27, 2016 13:59:31 GMT
Really spectacular! Amazing! Thank you for sharing!
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Post by pepebe on Apr 27, 2016 18:01:54 GMT
28mm, no he probably designs at higher scale then that, if he using a shrinking ray ! this is an awesome job and i like the fact it takes next to no place on a table. Shrinking rays are so yesterday. Nowadays we design in 1:1 and afterwards we blow up the rest of the planet by about 65x. From a cosmic point of view it really doesn't matter.
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Post by stroezie on Apr 28, 2016 7:58:16 GMT
Just a quick post to share the Space Hulk ladders, blips and fire counters I made. Group shot Quick explanation. Ladders are granny grating and those little spacer rings that come with my el cheapo tubes of superglue. Blips are sewing pins pushed through a disk of magnetic paper and snipped off. Fire markers are basically made completely out of hotglue using DmScotty's method. And a little story for your enjoyment Two troopers are sent out to investigate some ghostly blips on the scanners... OH DROKK!!! We've got bugs!!! Nuke'm from beond the airlock, its the only way to be sure. Well thats all I got for you for now. Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by margaret on Apr 28, 2016 16:05:22 GMT
Those flame markers must be so tiny! Along with all the rest... And I have to ask - what on earth are those doors made from? A nail and a bead at the top but the rest - oh wait, is that a knitting needle end stop that the nail and bead are in? With one end trimmed off for the door?
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Post by stroezie on Apr 28, 2016 16:58:10 GMT
They are wire nail cable clamps. You can find them in the hardware store. Here's a pic of a door beeing assembled They were actually embarrasingly simple to make :-)
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Post by kgstanley81 on Apr 28, 2016 17:09:08 GMT
So you don't have the shrink ray
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Post by margaret on Apr 28, 2016 23:05:02 GMT
"They are wire nail cable clamps. You can find them in the hardware store."
Thanks for the explanation!
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Post by bluecloud2k2 on Apr 29, 2016 2:12:15 GMT
28mm, no he probably designs at higher scale then that, if he using a shrinking ray ! this is an awesome job and i like the fact it takes next to no place on a table. Shrinking rays are so yesterday. Nowadays we design in 1:1 and afterwards we blow up the rest of the planet by about 65x. From a cosmic point of view it really doesn't matter. "Only the Gnomes would invent a device that makes everything in the universe but the user, bigger."
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Post by sadric on Apr 29, 2016 7:14:51 GMT
The doors are genius. The space marines are real miniatures? The bugs look selfcrafted?
I have problems to grasp the tininess of this project. Only when seeing the wire clamps I understand the size. Maybe you could make a picture with a hand, or a 28mm miniature near it. :-)
Its a great idea. So much space saving. Maybe I could allow myself another project if it is so small/save so much space.:-)
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Post by stroezie on Apr 29, 2016 18:26:49 GMT
The power armor and bugs are both comercially available 6mm miniatures from Brigade models and GZG respectively. Although I like both sculpts they are place holders until I get my order from Onslaught miniatures who produce an exelent line of not epic figures. As to the scale, here's a pic with one of the 3rd edition Space hulk terminators(28mm heroic scale) If you do decide to build your own set be sure to post some pictures, I'd love to see other peoples take on this.
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Post by sotf on Apr 29, 2016 23:43:58 GMT
You might want to look into some of the minis for Epic if you want something more fitting for the 40K universe, the scale is right there...
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Post by voodoo on Apr 30, 2016 15:05:59 GMT
Wicked! !! As I was looking at these pics I imagined four people sitting around the table looking through those table mounted magnifying glasses on swing arms playing a game. These are great!
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Post by stroezie on May 16, 2016 21:38:32 GMT
Well, I'm still waiting for my figs to arrive To keep myself busy while I wait I've made some highly unglamorous genestealer entry and space marine controled area markers and a 6mm playable version of the chalice and CAT objectives. Here's a pic to keep you happy till the figures show up Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by stroezie on May 27, 2016 11:31:51 GMT
So I finally found a design that I like for a 3D representation of the force field grenade markers. Tried a bunch of different things, finally setteled on this, just a simple bead painted kinda forcefieldy...ish I guess ;-) For Pete's sake Jonesey get that door open that force grenade aint going to hold 'em for long! Still waiting for my figures to show up, I'm about ready to call them lost in the mail and see about ordering a new batch
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Post by stroezie on Dec 24, 2016 17:05:18 GMT
It took me a while but thanks to HLS models 50% onslaught miniatures sale I finaly got my hands on some appropriate figures for this project. I didn't manage to get all the figures I wanted but I'll be ordering the rest from Vanguard minis soon. I decided to go with the sisterhood Athena power armored troops for my terminators I converted one of the normal troopers to a chainfist armed one by adding the tip of an avian chainspear to her gauntled. Still missing the captain and librarian analogue figures but I have found suitable figures in the sisterhood command pack which I'll be ordering soon. The genestealers were a no brainer as onslaught has some exelent not-genestealers in their Legion prowlers. The broodlord is a Legion Overseer. There are three variants of this figure, this one, one armed with two swords and one armed with some sort of bio cannon, I'll be painting these to and probably make up some extra rules for them to add a little variety. I've also picked up some of their not-genestealer cult so yeah I'll probably end up doing the various space hulk expantions next. Thats it for now and I'll leave you with a crappy picture of my new storage solution for this project Cheers, Stroezie.
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Post by kgstanley81 on Dec 24, 2016 23:47:20 GMT
This is just way to cool
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