Apocalypse 40k Terrain

[bugbait_nz]

Its about time that I had some decent terrain, now that Apocalypse is out I thought it would be appropriate to have something big.

I intend to be making something worth fighting for so I plan to make some tank traps, barbed wire, sentry gun towers and fortifications.

I have always liked the Forge World Imperial Fortress but I don’t have $2000 NZD to spend so I will make my own. After a recent successful dumpster diving drive by (rear window down, stop car, grab the good bits, throw it in the back on top of the unimpressed kids) I managed to acquire enough hi-density white foam to start.

It will be for my Space Wolves, I cant imagine them being into the big pointy towers and so will drop them in favour of more guns! maybe some Vulcan mega blasters or something, don’t plan of having an Imperial Eagle on the front gate but a Thunder Wolf instead.
Not too sure about all of the arches either, maybe it is required to break up the walls, can make that decision later.

About 12 foot of 75mm thick white foam later and I am at this stage, spot the space marine?

Looks like it will be mounted on 3 x 60cm sections, and about 40cm high, a bit bigger than I originally thought!

Stay tuned for irregular updates.



* * * * Index * * * *

Shipping Containers, page 7

PLANS - Fortress, page 10

Scratch built Autocannons Page 10

Scratch built Lascannons Page 11

Fortress painted Page 13

Plasma Generator Page 18

Start of the Thunderhawk Page 19

Ork WAAAHG Banner Page 21

Start of DOW SM HQ Page 21

PLANS - Air Traffic Control Tower Page 22

Start of the Bastion mini fortress Page 22

PLANS - Mini Fortress, Page 23

PLANS - Dawn of War Armoury, page 26

Start of the Defense laser Page 27

10 man bunker Page 36

PLANS - 10 man bunker, kindly supplied by Irondad Page 34

Finished Promethium Refinery Page 40

Finished Promethium Fuel Cracker Page 43

oil drums/barrels Page 44

Finished Promethium Bulk storeage tank Page 45

Start of the Fortress of Retribution Page 47

Road overpass Page 54

Road overpass Sentry Post Page 55

3 small fuel tanks Page 56

Propane Tank and tripple tanks Page 57

Lascannons for the new fortress Page 59

1st half of the trench Page 60

PLANS - Fortress of Retribution, by Irondad, Page 63

6x4 cityfight roads, Page 66

Borderlands/Fyrestone hab and Bar, Page 67

Borderlands barriers, Page 68

Borderlands wreck, Page 68

Teleporter, Page 69

DoW Heavy Bolter Turret, Page 70

Borderlands Old Haven (Infinity), Page 71

Double Barrel dice tower for Infinity, Page 73

Bugbait out.

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[old guard]

Marvellous! I love a big terrain project, I take it that you have delved into the FW website for additional pictures. would I be wildly of the mark in suggesting that COD components are going to feature quite heavily here? You may consider me a frequent visitor to this thread so come on keep it going.

[N810]

Looks like you are off to a good start

[swamp_slug]

Wow, awesome! I look forward to seeing the rest of the terrain. Will you be making a table for this as well or is it just going to be scatter terrain? Because that would look good on a rocky snow covered board (especially as it is Space Wolves themed)

[bugbait_nz]

I have had a look through the COD stuff on FW, some very nice ideas that I will be using if all goes to plan.

Dont have a table yet so at the moment they with be all scatter terrain, all of my guys have a kind on desert base so the idea was to do the same for the fortress and say it is one of thier minor outposts.

Thanks for your ideas, keep them coming.

Small update

I have both left and right angular wall sections cut and being PVA glued to a tall section and another straight wall section, based on 6mm hardboard, these will make the complete left and right bits, centre section will be made last, I expect the glue to take a few days to dry properly as 24 hours was not enough when I was making the first walls.

Doing a bit of a production run cutting a lot of small fiddly bits out of 5mm foamboard, these will be used on the top of the walls where the troops will be standing behind, these bits are the uprights.

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[bugbait_nz]

Small Update

Left and right walls still drying + some pics of the wall template being used to make the platforms that go on top of the angular wall sections. Must have used too much PVA as one of the boards has warped, only about 3mm, not too bad.

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[devolutionary]

You need a table, I need the opposition dammit! Looking good though man. How you going to texture it?

[bugbait_nz]

Thanks
I dont want it to look like the painted FW example, way too new for my liking. Going to have to do some test samples for the texture, want an ancient + weathered look, first plan will be plastering and stipling in the drying plaster and then a light sand to give it a flat look with pock marks, will have to experiment, who am I kidding, most of my terrain doesn’t get past the black undercoat stage . . .

Would also like a bit of battle damage + the crumpled tail section of an ORK fighter boma sticking out of the base of the wall + . . . getting a bit ahead on myself I think!

[devolutionary]

I think so too, especially considering I saw you eying up that Thunderbolt thread with thoughts of an airfield. And you keep trying to convince me you have no time these days

[Tyrion]

Nice work so far. This will be very interesting!

[bugbait_nz]

Update

Progress with both of the wall top sections, will be adding a bit of extra detailing. Top platforms are not glued down as I plan to plaster over the walls so that extra details/damage can be carved in one day.

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[Severian]

Looking very promising mate! Keep it up we will be watching

[bugbait_nz]

Update

The little bits are very time consuming, this has taken AGES to do, but at least it is starting to look interesting. Still a few more details to add to the parapets.

Lessons learnt - Little bits, make more than you need, sort them by size/shape and discard the non conformists.

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[N810]

Nice wall, very well designed.

[matz]

super nice makes me want too do the same thing

[bugbait_nz]

Update

WIP pics of the guard stations that go on top of the high points on the walls, need 4 of these, all 5mm foamboard at this stage, bases will be thicker. Dividers are proving very handy for transferring measurements.

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[StaffordGames]

Looking very good so far. Can't wait to see the final product.

Ed

[general trooper]

Now this is gonna be good!

[old guard]

This is looking seriously good. Can we hope for measurements or dare I say it templates? can we? eh...eh...can we? Go on mister...show us.

[bugbait_nz]

I will do some template pdfs once everything is worked out, thanks for the encouragement.