Big terrain pieces are cool. They make awesome centrepieces for a table. If they're buildings with detailed interiors, they can drive some very fun and engaging gameplay too. But they do have one drawback - they take up a ton of storage space.
There is a bit of a backstory on this amazing piece. It was built by friend of the Conscripts Paul K., from whom I recently picked up a bunch of models in a bit of a hobby selloff. One of Paul's conditions, though, was that I take this as well.
It's an injection-molded plastic model kit from Pegasus Hobbies. I'm not sure exactly what exact kit(s) this was built from but it's the Gothic City for sure. The parts are super-detailed and very sturdy; this is injection-molded plastic, not brittle 3D-printed resin, and is all the better for it.
As the model didn't have floors, I made some out of plasticard. Otherwise the second-floor doors would be opening out into empty space and we cannot have that can we!
You can see the scale of the structure more clearly here. The Dialogus is proclaiming from the balcony, accompanied by a Sister Superior and Imagifer standard bearer.
You get an even better sense of the scale here when vehicles come on the scene.
Throw a nice statue on a pillar in there too!
Paul also made me take gave me another ruined building made from the Pegasus parts.
This'll made a nice addition to the Cathedral surrounds on the table.
I did a bit more detailing on the Cathedral before calling it done...
The kit included a ton of cool detail parts, like these light sconces and all the gargoyles you saw in the other pics.
I painted the doors dark brown as shown in the Pegasus promo pics, but didn't do a lot of detailing on them. Honestly once the doors are assembled on the model, it's very difficult to get your brush in to paint the details. If I was building this kit I'd paint the doors before final assembly.
This is gonna be super-fun to play a game on. Maybe Orks vs. Sisters in the battle for Armageddon...?
That's likely enough pics of these buildings but I can't help snapping away, they're just so photogenic. Despite the space they take up in storage I'm really glad to have them, they look so cool (especially the giant Cathedral) and they should be fun to play a game with! Thanks Paul!
2 comments:
Oh, wow, that's amazing! Fantastic build. I had a quite smaller building, but what you have here is truly impressive. Pretty cool work!
Just fantastic dude, what an amazing centrepiece!! Whenever the game time arrives for its debut, I hope I can travel to be part of it!
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