For a bit of nostalgia, I have decided to try my hand at a
40k Communications bunker over the weekend.
It was first featured as a terrain project in a web magazine by
Games workshop USA
called Black Gobbo (I miss that site!). Needless
to say I managed to track down the site through the "wayback machine" internet
archive, link below:-
Sadly to say most of the links are broken and the templates
are no longer available.
I managed to find one or two images using the wayback machine
site to get a rough idea of how to build this piece of terrain. Some of the
instructions are still available within the site (link above) but most of the
pictures are missing. So using any available pictures I can find and the
instruction in the site as my guide, I started to build the bunker.
Refer orriginal picture
First I cut four walls (roughly 5" x 5") out of a 5mm thick foam board. Next task is to cut the buttress elements and door components. Then on all four of the walls, I cut a 45 degree angle technique on the sides. This is to allow the walls, when fixed together to “butt up” against one another.
I then cut some groves into to of the side walls for
where the buttress would go in. The buttresses are cut out of thick 2 ply
cardboard. It was such a chore to cut the buttresses, so I cheated by cutting
less then needed. (I know the original instruction uses plastic card, but I
like using card board and it’s cheaper as well!)
After attaching the buttresses, I fixed three out of four
walls together with PVA glue. In order to make the roof of the building I
measured the opening at the top and cut out a foam board to suit. The roof
itself is held up by some extra pieces of foam board within the bunker. I only
then glued the last wall to the rest after fixing the roof.
I then proceeded to cut out 4 pieces of cardboard which will
be used to cover the corners of the bunker. Later I also cut out some strips of
cardboard as surround piece to wrap around the top. I then glue them to the
bunker as shown in picture below.
The top parapet wall was a little tricky as again I had to measure
to suit and cut out the angles to have the whole parapet to mitre against one
and other in a 45 degree angle. For this I used a thicker cardboard about 2ply.
To finish off I glued the doors and buttresses to the side(yes i know i have been supporting a particular fast food chain during my scratch building projects; just to show any cardboard will do and I do recycle all the time! :P) .
All you need is to paint, and it's finish. I actually used a Dulux branded paint "grey with texture".
You can add other 40k icons eg the imperial eagle or chaos icons to finish off,
but that is up to your own creative taste.
You can also use this as a bastion to your 40k games and add weapons to this piece of terrain as shown in picture above.
As always, good luck in your scratch building
Capt. Stainguard
Hiya, mate. The PDF's are still located on "the way back maschine" you just have to modify the Download URL to get at them.
ReplyDeleteOpen the URL in a new tab, and then cut out this portion "download/download.htm?/" and reload. :)