industrial cities

[burbsee]

i am making a terrain set to go with the army and am settingit around a partially ruined industrial city.iwas looking for tips and links whatever you guys might have to add.i basically have no strict ideas and have not really decided exactly what i want and will probaly just go for a mixed bag of stuff ste around an imperial city

any help on how to go abou this(i have never tried it before and you probaly goin to say trial and error is the easiest way to learn)would be much appreciated-piles of junk ruined buildings buildings all sorts.

[MongrelFish]

I remember I had an old thread about this same topic somewhere on here.... See if you can find that if Phil hasn't deleted it.

If thats no good, Ill see what I can find in my brain to help you out

[karanadon]

And here it is: pityak.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=terrain&action=display&thread=1106872975

[MongrelFish]

And there you go

Note that at the bottom I said I was quitting city terrain - Ive changed my moind but with a new feel: Dead-world industrial research station. So, along with Burbsee, Im interested in any ideas for city terrain.

[dustand]

Aaron had a good idea, he got a tin of stone effect spray paint to paint his board with, its such a great idea cause you can get a very black stone which you could use for the board and then you just need to get a pack of cork tiles and spray them with the grey stone texture.

Then you chuck your grey, pavement coloured squares onto your black, tar seal coloured table and shizaam, instant streets and city blocks.

I am going to use this technique for my industrial terrain. Fist I need to build a standard brown 6x4 table with painted detail (mostly fun with spray paint) then complete my jungle terrain which will need another 2x4 section with less cracks. THEN I can make a plain industrial table.

Aside from having ample space to store all of this, I can make a 3 piece 6x4 table, each 2x4 being a sturdy framed 4.75mm mdf. I can make these segments VERY cheaply and once I find both suitable hinges and a means to keep it ridgid I will have a portable 6x4. Which I will be selling at a future date. or a near by date if the demand is great =]

I think a completed folding table top will weigh around 15 kg and be 600mm x 1200mm x 130mm. anyone know what kind of postage that would be ?

[MongrelFish]

Oh yeah - a good technique that we discussed a while back: Sprue rubble. (there's a thread on that somewhere, too....) Good for rubble, especially if mixed up with kitty litter, offcuts of plasticard/real estate sign/teeny tiny bits of MDF. Used some of that around a landing pad that I made (Ill see if I can get pics of that to show you what I mean.

[burbsee]

whats this stone effect stuff and where do you get it from??never heard of it before but it sounds good.

[dustand]

you can find it at Bunnings, Benchmark (pos) and spotlight. its a spray paint that comes out flecked and lumpy. it looks alot like stone

[c0d3monk33]

I think we've mentioned it on here in the past. 'White Knight' is the brand and 'Spray Stone' is the product from memory.

Should be in with all the other spray can paints at Bunnings.

[burbsee]

would any of yous be able to give me any tips on making buildings(never attempted to do anything like this before)just simple things.i quite like the "instant city blocks"with the cork tiles and stone effect spray.ant tricks to the trade will be much appreciated

[dustand]

This is the easiest cheapest way I know.

www.terragenesis.co.uk/infopages/page120.html

[burbsee]

cheers thats the kind of stuff i need to look at.thanks