FIREBASE
Here's a glimpse of my snow scenery in action, featuring the firebase
and a couple other pieces. The table is covered with thin white batting,
which has been faintly sprayed with blue and grey spraypaint. The
icy chunks are cut up chunks of the toughest packing foam I've ever found.
Our new computer monitors at work came packed in the stuff- it's an open
cell foam, like matress foam, but much tougher and stiffer, almost like
nylon. Anyway, it doesn't paint well at ALL, so I just cut up some
big blocks of the white foam. By adding small slices of the foam
to my industrial scenery, I can make it look like patches of snow that
haven't melted away, which better blends the piece with the snow terrain.
The trees are cake decorations I stuck into blocks of the foam with coctail
sticks, then dusted with some white spraypaint. The end result is
startlingly effective!
As to the Fire Base itself: since some of my favorite real life scenery
has recessed detail (pits, trenches, access hatches, etc.), I decided to
create a large, concrete raised area that I could build into instead of
onto. I then decided to make it into a gun platform, inspired by the coastal
defense batteries of World War Two. The open area in back on the left connects
to a ramp from my elevated roadway (see Gangways
for more info on the El). Even with the ramp, this thing is almost impossible
to assault.
You can see the gun pits and other recessed detail in this back view:
Eventually I plan to mount some Heavy Bolters in the corners for close
defense. This is one of the largest pieces I have made- it can fit entire
buildings on top of it! I actually created this monstrosity before GW came
out with their cardboard Firebase kit, although I just recently completed
the second Basilisk cannon.
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