"Post Apocalyptic Container Compounds For 15mm?" Topic

Check out this compound in Floresville TX:

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Has anyone made container compounds for their 15mm using enclosed stacked containers?

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If so, how do you manage the accessibility issue of your figures within enclosed containers?

Did you cut out the tops of the containers so they would have removable roofs?

Thanks,

Dan
PS. I'm thinking of revisiting my PA compound project at some point:
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Nice!
(and proud its in Texas, too… my home state)

could you use HO train containers?
there must be a cheap place to buy them somewhere…
the Train shop in town was too expensive for me ,
around $10 USDUS for 2 or 3 (I don't remeber which)

Chris

Chis,

These are the HO truck containers I used:

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Not the cheapest, true. But occasionally you get some great deals on ebay and other sources.

Dan

Thanks, Dan,
I'll keep an eye out.
Have you found any paper terrain containers?
That could really make the accessability easy,
just have some made up with no top.

Chris

Not yet!

I had planned to get it up and running since I did the first few link

Due to the containers being solid the base was going to be a fixed unit with shutters / blast sheild rather than windows using bits from GZG and The Scene for air con, radar etc.

You then distracted me with the semi-buried one so I may do he buried one first now!

The gold standard for cardstock containers.

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I cut the bottoms off and pick up the whole piece. Usually, I put a couple of blocks in the base where the corners go to keep it in place when it is down.

I found some interesting cages at the dollar store a few weeks back. I keep going back and getting more. I have 3 or 4 now. They are a bit big. To tall and not long enough for earth style containers but I'm converting a 40k Imperial guard gunship into a 15mm space transport and they look like the fit inside the cargo bay.

They have an animal in them that grows when you add water. They also have a little keychain thing on top. I cut that off and files it down. I also removed some small feet on the bottom so it could sit flat. A bit of spray paint and they look great. The ribs are really deep but I was able to apply decals to the first one.

I'm working on a TW scenario involving the transport and a supply depot build out of our new barrier fences. Still working on getting some more industrial looking junk as cover/supplies.

I found these on the same trip.

They come in packs of 4 vehicles each. The boat is usless. The helicopters have promise. The van and truck are maybes. I really just wanted the APCs. The issue is they are way to thin. Right length and width for a light APC. I'm working on converting them to grav APCs.

They have three villages of container buildings at Ft. Knox, one near main post and the other two out in the training areas. I have not seen the main post village but someone told me they saw a six story "building" there. The largest single building I've seen and been in is a very large 3 story "house/compound". This is a link to a large airsoft event that was able to use the facility. You might get some ideas from it.

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Is that a LAV 25? If so, it's way better than the one from QRF.

Are all shipping containers created equal?

For example, these are the ones the Floresville TX family used in building their compound ("nine 2.5-ton sea containers, to be exact"):

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In one segment of that show, they demonstrated how the containers can withstand shots from a .22 rifle at about 40 feet, with only tiny dents to the metal.

Dan

One of the walking history books at my LGS identified it as an LAV 25.

The turrets are kinda cheezy. It's plastic but the turret is die cast metal. I destroyed a pair of cutters because I thought it was plastic. I chopped the gun off an mounted a bit on top to make it look like dual laser cannons.

I'm still struggling with how to complete the bottom half to make it look more like a gav APC.

They are really thin. Like waste height on a 15mm fig.

I think that the short-lived BBC series Outcasts featured a settlement (Forthaven?) made with stacked containers:

The basic portions were containers, then they filled in with concrete columns, etc., it seems.

Dan

Variation on that theme: Over on the other side of town is a trailer house that somebody made into a compound/castle. The trailer forms one side of the compound, with walls of used lumber fence on the other sides. At intervals, there are thin boards sticking up well over the ramparts with pennants attached. The trailer house could be incorporated into your container compound as a luxury penthouse, or perhaps a place for the thralls to live (trailer trash).
Grelber