This week I have been blitzing a new generation of Necromunda terrain for my collection - here are a trio of scratch-built ancient electricity sub-stations. I still have a lot to learn about painting rust effects, but I'm very pleased with these. I made them from empty plotter & printer cartridges that I had been saving, & detailed them with wooden lolly & toffee apple sticks & BBQ forks. The 'lights' are the caps from the little soy sauce fish bottles that you get in supermarket sushi packs. Having been inspired by the truly awesome
Necromunda/Inquisimunda scenery that can be seen on the internet, I really want to capture the utterly decrepid, rusted-through, & caked-in-grime look that the Underhive should 'realistically' have - the subterranean bowels of Hive Primus date back up to ten thousand years to before the Great Crusade. I want that complete industrial waste-zone look on my tabletop! Hence I textured these sub-stations with coarse modelling paste to help with the rusted look. This machinery will have been non-operational for thousands of years, but I imagine arcs of blue-violet electricity would have originally passed up & down those vertical prongs when functional.
I'll need to add a lot more vertical scenery with aerial routes & line-of-sight yet, but as basic blocking terrain which captures the right feel, I think these will see plenty of use. I used PVA glue to secure the bits, strengthened with hot glue gun in places. They have a nice weight to them, & seem very durable. A black matte spray paint undercoat was essential as the plastics of the cartridges wouldn't take brush paint without it.
Lastly, here is a photo of these pieces prior to detailing & painting, where the components are clearer to see >
This week I have been blitzing a new generation of Necromunda terrain for my collection - here are a trio of scratch-built ancient electricity sub-stations. I still have a lot to learn about painting rust effects, but I'm very pleased with these. I made them from empty plotter & printer cartridges that I had been saving, & detailed them with wooden lolly & toffee apple sticks & BBQ forks. The 'lights' are the caps from the little soy sauce fish bottles that you get in supermarket sushi packs. Having been inspired by the truly awesome Necromunda/Inquisimunda scenery that can be seen on the internet, I really want to capture the utterly decrepid, rusted-through, & caked-in-grime look that the Underhive should 'realistically' have - the subterranean bowels of Hive Primus date back up to ten thousand years to before the Great Crusade. I want that complete industrial waste-zone look on my tabletop! Hence I textured these sub-stations with coarse modelling paste to help with the rusted look. This machinery will have been non-operational for thousands of years, but I imagine arcs of blue-violet electricity would have originally passed up & down those vertical prongs when functional.
I'll need to add a lot more vertical scenery with aerial routes & line-of-sight yet, but as basic blocking terrain which captures the right feel, I think these will see plenty of use. I used PVA glue to secure the bits, strengthened with hot glue gun in places. They have a nice weight to them, & seem very durable. A black matte spray paint undercoat was essential as the plastics of the cartridges wouldn't take brush paint without it.
Lastly, here is a photo of these pieces prior to detailing & painting, where the components are clearer to see >
