Tutorial: Dirty Industrial Scenery

[Shonuff]

Okay folks, my time for my own step by step. This is A step by step log which will be easy to follow so anyone can make similar scenery.

okay Step one. I got the size of the board needed.. simple enough.



Using average stuff around the house. Soda can?




So I started scrounging around the house, for bits and what-not, because this is supposed to be about making scenery for the everyman, not the bit collector or the man with a limitless budget...ah-ha! I found this styrofoam packing piece from a box something I bought months ago..




Look at that shape..so industrial...so Imperial.....mmmm goodness.




You know those cubes of soda? the one with two stories in the pack? there is cardboard in between the layers. Perfect scenery material. Time to cover the styrofoam.




Now simple solid panels would look OKAY.....but we don't want okay..we want industrial. And being inside one of those type of plants myself...I know things break down. And when they do, they pull off a panel and start hacking at the machinery behind it..
Lets cut up the big solid panels into smaller angled ones.




...nice.


All the way around, Sho. All the way around.


Lets test the base and the piece...




Reviler chapter brother Marine Shonufficus poses and models for size...



Now....Industrial LOVES skid plate...it Loves that metal grating....the diamond cut out screen-type floor grateing. Man, where can I get some of that....hmmmmm



Not to worry...i'll just blame the dogs!

Cut a piece of the "found" screen...


To size...



Shonufficus approves.

[Shonuff]

Something about this Steyrofoam piece. There is a cool angled cut out of the one side. would be perfect little cut out for some piping..lets grab some straws!!



Glue some more screen down on the entire base, because, well, it's industrial..greasy grimy industrial. The straws are on the other side, drying...now to glue down the steyrofoam piece down on the fence/grate flooring..



OKay...
Soda can, eh -t? okay well i can't have the top SHOWING a coda can. Time to cover the top of the can..

Glue that down. Perfect.


Now, we'll need a nice safety rail for the industrial Imperial machinists...
ah-ha! simple sprue chunks! Everyone has sprues laying around. if you play 40k you have sprues..if you don't have sprues, you can use strips of foamcore board. I'm going to use the sprues..because ..well I have them.



Self explained..



OK. I decorated the panels with rivets, because rivets is industrial. Looks good. Lets glue those sprue rails down as well as the soda can down in place. (notice the foamcore inthe top as well.)




I think the workers i nthe industrial place would want to keep tabs on the 'can' and make sure all valves and thinks are functioning. Which means, they'll need awalkway around it.. I used a <gasp> peanut butter lid to circle stencil.





OKay simple home pieces....need some tubing...ah-ha! Pens..cheap old pens.


They make excellent support poles....



Found some more straws...bendy straws! time to make some piping outside.



To be continued...

[Shonuff]

UPDATE:

Okay. so I looked at the pieces and knew I could put more goodies on it to make it more....industrial.

So , First thing I did, was dig into my bits. Inside the rhino, they give you this panel...


Cut it down the middle. Keep the door on the left to the side for later. Take the "control panel" and the "bolter" and separate them.


With the control panel and a bit of card (I used those preliminary credit cards that come in the mail the 'preapproved" ones....they're polystyrene too!) and made this.



So then I thought "why not another few bits and bobs... so I found this piece from the rhino sprue too..


And cut it up, keeping this part:


A bit of trimming, and it'll become a nice vent/access panel.

Now, onto steps. I have a nice piece with a suitable second level, and people need to be able toget to it. (plus i put the control panel up top, so the techs need up there too.)
Start with.....BUILDING BLOCKS! they start with a L and end in egos but we'll not go into that.





Cut off the nibs...



put some glue on some paper...


Trim it off.. make it neat:


Tada:



Then back up to the now placed and dried consol panel.. added a bit of heated and bent coffee stirer straw.

[Shonuff]

painting ohase 1













C&C is welcome.... this is only stage 1 of painting.. base colors and checking the color balance of the entire piece before shading, highlighting, and additional painting (rust, stains, shadows etc.)

Aperture Science...we do what we must, because we can.

[Shonuff]

It's finished. Nuff said. I'll let the piece speak for itself and any questions will be answered.










There. Simple way to make some industrial Scenery..step by miserable step.

[Archon Ur-Runihura]

Excellent work their Shonuff, you have definitely inspired me to get into action building some scenery of my own.

[Wakim]

Ha!

Nice of you to have done a wip on this


Now... be warned i`m a perfectionist if i point out a lot of stuff it doesn`t mean i don`t like your work :P I really have to leave now (post office, stuff, aiport, more stuff and so on untill late at night ) but i`ll come back

[Rellik]

awesome tut man + rep

[hairyyahoo]

play nice fishboy

excellent tute shonuff. i love the...ahem...found piece of screen door (poor dogs) shame we don't have those in rainy ol' england.

+rep

[themandalorian]

I thought this was just going to be another scenery tut, but that is amazing work, it looks very very good.


and the cake is a lie lol that's the best. I have stay alive song on my myspace

[Templar Mikeel]

I love the way you made the stairs, never thought of that.
In the future if you want something for a metal grille floor, try using that plastic cross-stitching stuff that comes in colored sheets, it works well, and your dogs will like you more.

For anyone doing this project, remember not to glue the cardboard onto the Styrofoam by using super glue! It will melt the foam!

Nice tutorial.

[kenshin620]

awesome man! portal FTW! (I saw what you did to the soda top!)

[dragonlady]

I wouldn't have thought of using the foam as a simple core for the actually wall stuff. I'm sure that this provides a great soundness to the structure, rather than simple flimsy cardboard.

Love the ideas.
Keep them coming!'

[Revolt]

For the good of all of us, except the ones that are dead!

Awesome use of the pens, wouldnt of thought of that!

[Shonuff]

Glad you all liked the tutorial. I have about 6 or seven more. I'll crank the next few out.

[Captain Slow]

Jebus!? all that outta a coke can a rhino sprue, some lego and some cardboard....and it looks really proffessional afterwards.
i am tempted to try my hand at some of terrain making now. i really am.

[Wakim]

Just a small point, warning strips on steps would be visible from the top as well :P you see, it`s important to notice the steps when you`re about to go down.


About the piece as a whole, it`s quite nice but would you consider making it more... battlescarred? a bended rail here, a hole/rip in the floor here (i`m an Alien fanboy), bullet wholes, a stuck choppa

As a final note, it owuld have taken me forever to finish it since i`d spend the time to pun all those bolts in a symetric pattern

[Stubber]

This is very impressive. I'll have to try it sometime...only I'll use an empty beer keg rather than a coke can.
+rep

[DuskRaider]

You crazy, beautiful man! All hail the terrain master! +rep

[IronWarriorofChaos]

WOW....its all i can say....

[Shonuff]

Thanks everyone fore the nice words.

@ Wakim: yeah , I can understand alot of people wanting ruined scenery and messed up battlescarred LOS blockers, but in my opinion, since I have over 6 shelves (6 foot long each) of battle scarred scenery, PLUS wanting to actually make a table of scenery that would be held INSIDE a massive manufactorum, previously untouched, this piece is rather pristine. The habit of every piece of scenery in the Warhammer 40k universe needing to be destroyed or near destructed, makes you wonder about the places and thousands of places yet UNTOUCHED by war.

Maybe this piece of Factorum interior sits on Terra (shameless website plug)
Maybe this piece is on a core system planet, untouched by war and upkept by the Techmarines...

lots of reasons to have some good solid scenery.

Plus, Anyone can make something half-@$$ed, cut here, break here, melt here..and call it 'war-torn scenery.' It takes alot more skill to try to make something....intact. (testing myself to rise above the norm of 40k scenery I guess)

And as for the rivets, they/I was following the metal Panels of the installation piece:

Now simple solid panels would look OKAY.....but we don't want okay..we want industrial. And being inside one of those type of plants myself...I know things break down. And when they do, they pull off a panel and start hacking at the machinery behind it..

Hope this helps explain why I put the rivets where I did. Not arguing, just explaining my thoughts behind the piece.


@ Stubber: You make one with a KEG....I WANT PICS! O.O

Originally Posted by DuskRaider

You crazy, beautiful man! All hail the terrain master! +rep

Wow...thank you! I may have to Petition Ikarus or whoever runs this site for that custom title! maybe even make a techmarine for the 40kTerra army, named Shonuff, Tech-Engineer and Battlefield Techmarine!

@ Ironwarrior of Chaos: Thanks!

[Rhaalidor]

Originally Posted by Shonuff

Wow...thank you! I may have to Petition Ikarus or whoever runs this site for that custom title! maybe even make a techmarine for the 40kTerra army, named Shonuff, Tech-Engineer and Battlefield Techmarine!

You CAN get the custom name. Become a Lodge Member, get a custom name, get a hefty discount from Ikarus, and help to support 40K Terra, all at the same time. Lodge info: 40kTerra Lodge - Become a Contributing member


Speaking of rivets, I'm supposing you used the nibs you cut off the Lego blocks? Darned good idea. +1 Rep for you. Again. Keep up the work, Shonuff.

[lame larry]

thats great work you have done * salutes*
i will try do do one like what you have done. thats great