"15mm shanty town and vehicles- pics" Topic

I've finally updated my site after a year. There are pics of my 15mm shanty town and a couple of recce vehicles for my NAC company. Hopefully a few more updates over the next week or so.
Shanty
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Vehicles
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Very nice. You could make a tutorial about creating some of the terrain like the wet paper rolls :)

Wow. Nice, nice, nice!!!

Thanks for posting those photos.

Dan
PS. Would also enjoy knowing how you made the tent roofs look so awesome.

Love the work and echo Dan and Pole Bitwy's request for a tutorial.

Makes me think about building my own shanty town again . . . . .

Jeff

Couldn't be easier. Just cut the paper towel to size (a little bigger than needed) and cover with watered down PVA. It dries hard (leave for at least 24 hours). Then paint and drybrush. It really is very easy. It's a shanty town so be as messy as you want, it'll look fine.
As for the rest, I used match boxes and piles of thick card to get the basic shape and then glued matchsticks/corrugated plastic/balsa wood etc to it. It really was easy. I did six bases, all 12 inches by 4 inches, in two nights. Then I added detail like a wrecked car, piles of rubbish bags (balls of blue tack painted black) or a toxic pool. I also made one substantial (but wrecked) building out of foamcore but the basic shape was 4 matchboxes with the foamcore glued to the outside.
The important thing is the core of the building. My first attempts consisted of trying to glue balsa wood or matchsticks together to make the walls. Very fiddly and messy, took ages and they kept falling apart. Once I hit upon the idea of making a solid core of boxes/card etc and just gluing the texture to the outside, everything else was plain sailing.

Yep, those are very nice. Just last night I started working with the ShantyTown cardstock set I got from DriveThruRPG, so I guess we have some sort of weird synchronicity going on :)

Very, very cool. Thanks for sharing the pics and the method.

The recce section is nice too.

Wow, that was impressive! I need some terrain like thos.

AB,

I must give that a shot!

Thanks so much for the explanation.

Dan

Very very nice ! Thanks for sharing.

Vulture

OK, I've sent out 9 e-mails with 9 PDF's of the
OTR rules attached.

If anyone else wants one, please let me know ASAP
as I may (emphasize 'MAY') be operating within a
finite (and short !) timeframe to be able to work
under the agreement reached with Don Perrin.

BTW, if any of you happen to see Don at a con somewhere,
tell 'em 'Thanks'.

I've been bitten by the bug. Here's the original post.
If anyone is interested, here's a painting guide as well.
After construction, the whole thing was just sprayed brown and the shanties drybrushed various colours (bright as you like- corrugated iron and tarpaulins come in all colours). The whole thing was given a thin wash of brown paint to dirty it all up and patches of orange were drybrushed liberally over any metal areas (corrugated iron/car/scrap scaffolding etc).
Sand was then glues to the base and then, once everything was dry, the whole thing was drybrushed with a light sand colour. A bit of static grass was added here and there et voila!, a shanty fit for any SF peasants you care to mention. By the way, I finished this more than a year ago, before I'd heard of District 9. But GZGs Crusties are on my shopping list.

Love what you've done with the Goannas. I've use 6mm scifi turrets on mine,I've also seen the trojan turrets used.
But yours really give them that light armoured recce look,
also great stowage going to have to locate some myself.

I've updated the description on the site, but the stowage is a mix of Command Decision/Skytrex 15mm WW2 and GZG.
I originally used the Goannas for police support vehicles with Trojan turrets but was never happy with them. I much prefer their new incarnation.

Neat stuff! I like the Zombie and Low-tech force pages.

How do your PP figs (IDF) look next to GZG and Rebel?

NVDoyle,

This might help some:

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TMP link

Dan

Very nice work.

Chris

Dan,

It helps a lot, thanks!

(Well, it's a little frustrating, actually – both the GZG and PP figs are so good, but the newer GZG stuff (the crews, at least) is quite large…eh, as long as I don't put them on the same base, I should be okay.)

Re our (GZG) figures:
If you mean the "free trader crew and passengers", then the individual figures vary in height and build according to their character – for example, the "security consultant/mercenary" is quite tall and "beefy", as he should be, while the "cute teenage girl/psionic weapon system" is a lot smaller…..

If you are looking at our strictly military ranges, then the more recent releases are generally slimmer (but round about the same height) as the older stuff.

I've just stood one of our new UNSC Light guys next to a PPig Belgian Officer (WW2), both in upright standing pose, and any height difference is negligible (0.5mm at most).

Jon (GZG)

Thanks for the info, Jon – as I'd been more focused on military unit-types, the character-variance in the ship crews slipped by me.

Noah