This will be an occasionally-updated thread for my scenery preparations for the Siege of Exeter in December...
First up is a Promethium Refinery made from some plastic sort of hemispheres, cut up bases and assorted bits. It's had a bunch of weathering added since this photo was taken.
Next, walls. As a substantial amount of fortifications will be needed for the siege games, I've been looking at assorted alternatives to boost what's being borrowed from other people. As the club I belong to has a big bunch of 28mm Warmill barricades, inspiration struck!
First, scale shots with Ye Olde Nurgle Beaky Marine showing a long straight section and a short angled section.
So far so good, but it's very definitely 28mm scale rather than Epic scale. However with a bit of lateral thinking and taking advantage of the overscale nature of architecture in the 40k universe, what if we add a big walkway and turn the top of the barricade into a parapet?
Looks good to me.
The walkway is 25mm wide to allow a wide variety of basing styles and even small vehicles. It's made from 3mm foamed PVC so is pretty robust and just sits on top of the existing terrain pieces so that they can be removed for 28mm gaming. Painting-wise the walkways will get a black undercoat and then some uneven overspray of blue and grey spraycans so that they look vaguely similar to the existing paint on the MDF terrain. Now some more scale shots:
And the straight & angled sections butted up together:
The finishing touch in terms of modelling - access stairways. I can't remember who it was who mentioned this, but big cable ties make great stairways.
Once these two test pieces are painted up I'll start mass-producing them to go with the rest of the barricade sections - I think we've got four straights and ten or so angled pieces.
