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Post by dustand on Mar 22, 2006 13:06:06 GMT 12
Simple question realy...
What would you expect to find at a xeno dig site... I am figuring the terrain would be like an archeological dig sit.
What do you guys/gals think ?
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Mar 22, 2006 13:25:55 GMT 12
Interesting question Dustan ;P.
I'd expect at least one 'marker' of some kind...even just an oddly decorated stone obelisk or steele....hmmm...or maybe a tumble down stone statue. Thinking Easter Island or Egyptian style maybe....years ago I planned to make a Tau Ethereal sitting statue for a friend...never got around to it though...
Personally I imagine a 'Xeno Dig' site in 40k would be less like an archeological site and more like a strip mine myself.
At least the Imperium wouldn't give a tinker's cuss about preserving the surrounding environment or smaller trinkets...they'd be furiously excavating for the huge ancient buried Xeno machinery or statis tomb before the Inquisitors got a sniff of their little project...
Maybe some digging machinery then? Something with caterpillar tracks and a dirty great 'mole' blade...even just a repainted Tonka toy digger with a Tank Sprue 'Rough Terrain Modification' blade would look cool imho.
I look forward to seeing whatever your crazed twisted mind can spawn!
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Post by PitYak Studios on Mar 22, 2006 13:27:28 GMT 12
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Maybe a big pit with bits of skeletons or tech poking out the sides, or even better a gigeresque bio-techy type affair.
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Mar 22, 2006 13:36:52 GMT 12
Yeah good point Phil. It's a XENO dig site after all...so something obviously not from the normal 40k armies? Heh. That could be hard to do...although Parasitic Studios have some nice evil sci fi terrain made from expanding spray insulation foam that might do with a metallic or green paint job? |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Mar 22, 2006 13:48:06 GMT 12
That's pretty cool, I always fancied making one of those alien egg farms out of tennis balls on terragenesis
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Post by Aaron on Mar 28, 2006 16:39:54 GMT 12
well I would interpret a Xeno's dig site as the Imperium as the ones doing the digging but doing a Tau dig on an ancient imperial thingamabob would be a good twist.
Tau would have cool floaty machines that moves the dirty with some force beam. Possibly a drone modified with x-ray equipment or something like that.
Doing it this way also means you can dig out any old imperial style stuff from the bits box but still make a unique (CD?!) size terrain piece.
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Post by Slipher on Mar 28, 2006 16:51:30 GMT 12
Maybe there could be like giant insect carapaces and a big egg or 2,maybe one cracked or something.Just an idea.
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Post by Slipher on Mar 28, 2006 16:52:49 GMT 12
Hmmmmmm........I wonder what it'd look like if it was the tyranids digging?Maybe some gint tunneller worm thingummy........
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Post by PitYak Studios on Apr 11, 2006 18:32:23 GMT 12
Are we going to get to see some pics of this? This thread has tempted me to do something along similar lines.
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Post by dustand on Apr 11, 2006 20:40:13 GMT 12
I got to finish a couple more pieces... so far I got:
Piramid with hydralisk statues/cliff face
Piramid with sacrificial pit/rocky out crop
temple entrance blocked with rocks
there finished what remains:
Unblocked temple intrance
2x oppening (rectangular sky lights set into the ground
This all works in with the jungle trees that I have done a little more work on... just need 1 more colour then flocking
I have also flocked a couple of the hills that I have... they look great =]
If its a fine day tomorrow I will take some pics...
By the way, I have a web site in production =]
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