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Post by popatachi on Jan 12, 2015 3:14:50 GMT
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Post by popatachi on Jan 16, 2015 15:19:24 GMT
I found a great deal on plastic styrene sheets and have been slowly getting these buildings looking more "building" like. Still looking for another big building idea, but now need to find a good look for smaller buildings like apartments and stores, etc. Hoping I can find some good inspiration either from the show or online somewhere.
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Post by Galahad on Jan 17, 2015 3:48:06 GMT
Looking good so far. I've got tons of plastic (I used to work at a gas station, all those pump toppers and outdoor posters are varying thicknesses of sheet styrene and we'd just throw it all out every few months, sand off the glossy coat and you're good to go, built a warhound Titan out of them), I should try making some buildings...but the printable stuff is so good and already in color ;-)
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Post by popatachi on Jan 17, 2015 4:11:38 GMT
No doubt, the printable stuff is great! I made some buildings as well. The one thing I didn't like was that they were all mostly the same sizes. When I was gearing up for 40k, I never got a chance to build a city board, so this is my opportunity. The one sky scraper just needs paint and I'm finishing up the hospital. Luckily these can be painted up pretty quick. Glad you were able to find free styrene! I tried contacting local sign shops but all of them said no. Maybe they're RTT fans as well.  |
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Post by Galahad on Jan 17, 2015 6:38:52 GMT
Yeah, I need to build some big buildings, the printable thing does sort of limit your scale. Make friends with the graveyard worker at your local gas station and ask them if you can have the signs when they take them down. I figure counting the strips and tubing I bought at a hobbby shop and the bits I used from a couple of pegasus terrain kits, this thing ended up costing about $40  |
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Post by popatachi on Jan 18, 2015 17:45:10 GMT
That is awesome!! Great build for sure. I'm hoping to find a good, free source for styrene. Thanks for the idea of the gas station. I'll check on that. In the meantime, I'm almost done with these two big buildings. I'll post pictures when the bits are all set and painting will finally start!
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Post by Galahad on Jan 18, 2015 19:58:24 GMT
Looking forward to it.
The pump toppers are where the best stuff is for building, they're about comparable to usual sheet styrene. The wall posters are thinner and good for detail pieces, but probably too flimsy for building
I also found that some rectangular strip styrene was perfect for reinforcing all the 90 degree joins, basically running a strip of thicker plastic upo the inside of the join to give the pieces more surface area to bond.
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Post by popatachi on Jan 19, 2015 3:13:24 GMT
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Post by InitiatedNeophyte on Jan 19, 2015 15:52:48 GMT
Looks up a few posts to Galahad's model
*pop pop*
Puts eyeballs back into skull sockets
Wait! WUHT? You built that?!?!
Sweet heavens above...that is awesome!
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Post by Galahad on Jan 20, 2015 2:13:53 GMT
Buildings! I need to make some blocks for AC units and such, but these are all done! It may be hard to see, but there's a helipad on top of the hospital. Oh my god, I'm floored! Those are beautiful, man, awesome job! Looks up a few posts to Galahad's model
*pop pop*
Puts eyeballs back into skull sockets
Wait! WUHT? You built that?!?! Sweet heavens above...that is awesome! It's easier than it looks. I just downloaded some papercraft templates and taped them down to sheets of plastic, then cut them out ;-) The plastic was thin enough I could even use (and ruin) a pair of scisors rather than faffing about with a straightedge and excto |
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Post by popatachi on Jan 20, 2015 4:36:28 GMT
Thanks, Galahad! Glad to have these two done. I may skip a third big building for now and start in on some apartments and shops. I'm looking for some inspiration right now and have some good ideas. I'm hoping that the building sizes will work with the board.
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Post by captkaruthors on Jan 20, 2015 18:33:14 GMT
Look at some film stills of the TV show in, and around Macross City. You could even do Minmei's uncle's restaurant.
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Post by popatachi on Jan 20, 2015 18:56:12 GMT
I've looked through buildings, but most are very generic looking. I've found some other macross buildings that others have built that I'm going to use as inspiration. The dragon restaurant would be awesome, and someone had made one that you can order through shapeways. I may try to make one though.
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Post by popatachi on Jan 22, 2015 3:52:15 GMT
Next round of buildings. Three apartment buildings. I might make 3 more and move onto a different style.  |
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Post by Galahad on Jan 22, 2015 3:56:20 GMT
don't forget to build some rubble too since all buildings in RRT are made of tissue paper ;-)
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Post by popatachi on Jan 22, 2015 3:59:13 GMT
I know. I will be cutting up some cereal boxes and adding rubble to those as markers for various buildings.  People still gotta eat when the buildings are all destroyed. |
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Post by wargamer43210 on Jan 22, 2015 15:17:35 GMT
Very nice! I'm really dreading the inevitable terrain building that will follow finishing up models! |
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Post by InitiatedNeophyte on Jan 22, 2015 21:18:00 GMT
Very nice! I'm really dreading the inevitable terrain building that will follow finishing up models! In case you missed this thread. paper buildingsThere are lots of buildings to be downloaded for free from sarna free buildingsIIRC, these are 10mm scale, but my understanding is they still work well with 6mm. |
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Post by popatachi on Jan 23, 2015 4:16:09 GMT
That's a whole lot of 3mm strips cut for all the trim on each building. The balconies have been cut as well. Resting my hands and I'll start gluing these up tomorrow. At least, I hope I'll be able to get to them tomorrow.  |
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Post by wargamer43210 on Jan 23, 2015 15:38:11 GMT
OMG. Plasticard work is sooo tedious. I'm anxious to see these trimmed out after you give the hands/wrists a break.
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Post by popatachi on Jan 27, 2015 1:43:07 GMT
Test fit and the balconies done for one. Need to trim the back side and roof. I like it.  |
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Post by wargamer43210 on Jan 27, 2015 13:41:39 GMT
Very cool. How are you planning to model all the bloody windows! The darn things are everywhere!
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Post by popatachi on Jan 27, 2015 17:51:14 GMT
I thought about that and decided these don't need windows. I could paint the area to look like a big window pane or paint in the windows individually.
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Post by wargamer43210 on Jan 27, 2015 18:25:07 GMT
Sounds like a plan! I've been thinking of taking a stab at some plasticard buildings but the window thing has been scaring me off!
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Post by Thorfinn on Jan 27, 2015 19:45:38 GMT
You could use short strips to frame windows, or if you're doing something like the apartments above, with horizontal stips, you can scribe lines into the main wall. The horizontal strips will cover parts of that, leaving the windows framed by lines that you can easily paint.
Or just paint/draw lines at the end.
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Post by InitiatedNeophyte on Jan 27, 2015 20:57:19 GMT
just spitballing here, but for the windows, of a skyscraper (where the whole side is windows) I wonder what it would look like if you painted the whole side a dark blue, drew thin black lines with a marker to delineate the separate windows and then did a very simple "jewel effect" with white paint (maybe even mixed with a small amount of blue)...?
probably like crap, but, hey, at this scale any kind of paint job would look good (or so I keep telling myself)
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Post by popatachi on Feb 2, 2015 13:10:03 GMT
Apartments all built!   |
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Post by wargamer43210 on Feb 2, 2015 14:37:06 GMT
Very nice! The trim detailing is really cool!
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Post by ancientangel on Feb 5, 2015 0:28:24 GMT
Very nice, takes a lot of patience to do that quality of work.
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People still gotta eat when the buildings are all destroyed.
