Post by voodoo on Oct 20, 2014 13:50:25 GMT -5
Bastion hate-crime post
I started with my fully assembled Bastion, the began the process by which I’m going to transform it into a minor defense spire that got transported from Prospero to the Planet of the Sorcerers when Ahriman loosed the spell that carried the Thousand Sons to relative safety all those millennia ago. I wanted to show some extensive damage to the building as if it had actually gone through the battle for Prospero so I started mangling it as shown in the below pictures. There was definitely a “worse before it gets better” stage to this guy and I was worried the whole time I wasn’t going to be able to pull off the interior work and it’d just be a big fat sack of worthless model.
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Since the model isn’t supposed to be viewed from the inside it was plain and ugly as hell; fair enough, no one is supposed to see the glue mounts for the heavy bolters and crooked seams. However, since I decided a massive explosion hole was required I had to figure a way around that and began skinning the inside with textured plasticard (from Leading Edge, HO scale railroad car siding in .40” thickness) The ladder is from a free Mantic building accessory sprue they sent to me when they were promoting their new hard plastic buildings. The monitors that control the heavy bolters are half of the divider wall in a rhino (that I never put in) that’s been chopped to fit. The wires hanging down from the gaping maw of a mass-reactive exploding shell are guitar wire as the tentacle maker tentacles would be too fragile at that thickness and length.
Tonight I’ll be adding some more details to the inside and out including some torn and tattered green-stuff banners and can get the bottom level and floor primed and ready for paint.
I started with my fully assembled Bastion, the began the process by which I’m going to transform it into a minor defense spire that got transported from Prospero to the Planet of the Sorcerers when Ahriman loosed the spell that carried the Thousand Sons to relative safety all those millennia ago. I wanted to show some extensive damage to the building as if it had actually gone through the battle for Prospero so I started mangling it as shown in the below pictures. There was definitely a “worse before it gets better” stage to this guy and I was worried the whole time I wasn’t going to be able to pull off the interior work and it’d just be a big fat sack of worthless model.
#1
Since the model isn’t supposed to be viewed from the inside it was plain and ugly as hell; fair enough, no one is supposed to see the glue mounts for the heavy bolters and crooked seams. However, since I decided a massive explosion hole was required I had to figure a way around that and began skinning the inside with textured plasticard (from Leading Edge, HO scale railroad car siding in .40” thickness) The ladder is from a free Mantic building accessory sprue they sent to me when they were promoting their new hard plastic buildings. The monitors that control the heavy bolters are half of the divider wall in a rhino (that I never put in) that’s been chopped to fit. The wires hanging down from the gaping maw of a mass-reactive exploding shell are guitar wire as the tentacle maker tentacles would be too fragile at that thickness and length.
Tonight I’ll be adding some more details to the inside and out including some torn and tattered green-stuff banners and can get the bottom level and floor primed and ready for paint.
