Building Bigger things.

Now I'm sure most out there will agree we like the FW city fight tiles. Now I like to be individual in my efforts to changes things even just the slightest to have something different. 

With this tile there isn't a great deal you can do unless you start hacking bits off it, adding more battle damage, or just adding the odd bit of additional scatter terrain. IMHO. 

So I thought well what else could I do?

Manipulation of the plastic GW buildings is fairly simple and can be an art in itself. I'm no ninja at it I won't lie but I've had practice and that has afforded me some insight. 

When starting a new project I like to draw things out on graph paper to get a feel for what I'm doing from almost an 'Engineers' point of view. 

So what the plan? Well I though the easiest way to add something extra to this tile was in fact....add something extra. 

What I plan to do over the next few weeks is design and build an additional Mechanicum styles building to add height to this tile without having to alter it. 

I've made a quick mock up of the beginning if you like. 

Now unfortunately for me my plan has be sat in the shelf. And what did Forgeworld go and do for the weekender....?

This:

The Gits! Lol

So what I'm proposing to do is have a little interaction with you the readers and take on some of your suggestion and ideas and use them to evolve my project. 

I'll entertain anything sensible, anything possible in my realms of scratch-building/conversion, and within my small budget. 

But I'd like to treat this as a bit of an interactive project with the community. 

There go then guys. 

Have a think at what you'd like to see, and have a think about what you believe I can do with this project. 

Most importantly let me know!

Looking forward to your comments, suggestions, and feedback. 

An update will follow in about a week with the way forward of the project, what I've done, and what I hope to achieve and fulfil. 

- Tylar ;)

Golden Demon HH Weekender 2016

There were some fantastic entries over the course of the weekend and I have to say some people really brought it. 

Our own Drake Seta had some great minis entered and won finalist pins for both his vindicator and breacher squads. 

Surprisingly no pin for his amazing Garro entry which even a lot of people at the event commented wondering why. 

However the winners were well deserved and the level of painting was exceptional. 

Here's a quick preview of his entries:

Pre-Heresy Death Guard Garro:

Death Guard Vindicator:

Death Guard breacher squad:

Here is a breakdown of the Top Entries in each category:

So finally here we are:

Here it is in all its glory:

Well done Andy a fantastic set of Demons for the day. Great Sigs' pose too lol. 

Well done to all those that entered, placed and won. 

Check out WHW FB page for more pics from the event. 

Until next time. 

- Tylar

Customising Your Tiles.

For those of you who have been lucky to have visited Warhammer World then you will be aware of the amazing City board built using the tiles available from Forgeworld. 

For a long time I wanted to emulate the board as best as I could and collected tiles as I could. 

I wasn't satisfied though with making an 'exact copy' and have had a good look at the board over several visits. 

The question was how?

First off was the large building at the top of the post with the laser cannon. Who doesn't want a massive building with a defence laser on their board?

There are few things that I wanted to change. The main one was the height of the bridge. 

The problem with it for me was simple. The FW one was built before Knights. I wanted to be able to get a Cerestus Chasis Knight under so I went up a tile. 

Next was how do I get it to sit on the statue platform?

The tile at Warhammer World I believe has been slightly modified. I built the lower floor for the tower first so I could change mine too. 

First problem though, it was going to be too big. 

So I decided to make a mould of the statue plinth corner and make four copies. I also had to cut away some of the resin too. 

Here you can see the new green stuff additions:

I also decided to add some additional detail using steps from another tile. 

So here is what the standard tile looks like:

And with my additions:

Just by adding these small additions it is now different from the original and it allows the building to sit perfectly. 

As some of the more astute amongst you have probably already realised, the building pictures were taken before the last stage of painting I did on my tiles. So my next post will have a closer look at the buildings I have made and this large one in particular. 

I hope you've enjoyed the read if you have any questions feel free to put them in the comments below. 

Until next time. 

- Tylar