Tuesday 10 September 2019

Reactor Progress 7/N

Through quite a bit of real life disruption, I actually feel like I'm really getting somewhere now. Which is just as well really, since I got myself a Salute table for 2020!

Yay, go me!

vault-tec...
sprue-cycled

Starting with the biggest change (and yet the most to do) - a suitably imposing vault-tec style doorway. Bit of a bugger to cut out really, but also a lot of grief in the planning. I spent quite a bit of hemming and hawing time trying to make it functional, and conceiving how it could possible function in-world but ultimately the constraints of having some sort of walkway actually through the door and not nearly enough depth (piss poor planning etc) quashed those thoughts, so the door is glued.

So some oddments and curved sprues to gee it up, but still needs a lot of gubbinz to look convincing and a walkway that somehow looks like it might retract.

canal entrance

Quite a bit more complete, the canal connecting wall and doorway. Some printed hex paper cut and heavily superglued (note the cyano-fogging) ties it to the canal piece and is a nod to the old Doom textures. Finishing the tiles and a few decorations to add some life to it and this section is done.

battery component closed battery compartment open

Just around theside of that is the battery compartment on the external wall, now hidden away. I don't normally spend much effort on the externals - just enough to break up the sheet plastic really - so this is actually finished.

And in the top corner of the right pic, there's the magnets on the reverse side of:

magnet panels

The traditional magnetised panels; three of them in total. As per usual the intent is to allow the piece to 40k up or down.

So hopefully if I can get through the planning of the entrance walkway, this'll be done this time next week.

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