Now, now y’all think I have been sitting around. Another Epic city table failure. Ha!

                    I been painting.

          The FW church! The roof needs its final highlight of green. The upper or stained glass looking windows I am pretty much happy with. The lower ones will be a blue/black. I finished the inset statues on the front two towers. Also the flat roof was blocked in.

Forge World Cathedral

          Creating two buildings with my 3 year old. She has an eye for rubble placement. Can’t tell you why but her work is good enough.
         Both have the same foot print as the tank factory. The standard FW building and the tank factory’s foot print will allow for a different city each time. As none of the building will be mount to the board itself.
          It is amazing what LN2 and a needle gun does to resin. (I would practice on some BS pieces you have laying around. Also be very comfortable with LN2 before you even think of touching the stuff. Very bad, unrepairable shit can happen to you if it TOUCHES YOU!) The first building got just a very little rested on top. The other 3 well, they were submerged.

         The base is cork with plasticard layering the top and forming the walls. The small little boxes will have trees in them in the end.

           The rubble between the ruins is a layering process. To be completely organic, I will be building upon each prior layer of rubble. In the past, I would have back filled with green stuff or clay. It never ever truly looked real. New technique.

          Roads………….Holy cow……….roads. A crazy drinking monkey told me I would need more road tiles then any crazy monkey would ever want. Yeah yeah i said, I got me plenty. Well he was right. 200 beans and 2 days later SmoothOn to the rescue. Screw you FW, if you sold the dam things, I would not be wasting me good time.

          I initially planned on mounting a selection of tiles to plexi with white glue. What a mess! Two days of bull docking around got me no where with the white.

          I ran down to CVS for some old school rubber glue. The shit your mates were sniffing in 8th grade. It will get ya high, but attaches roads to plexi like it was its sole job.

         Then right on to the lego tactical ops. I rubber glued them down too. Then lined it out with clay, to stop any leaks.

          Mold release. There is nothing worse than digging your master out of rubber. Two light coats and one high with an after brushing.

         12oz of each part A and B. Total guess! But you’ll notice I selected the 60. With the extra pot time, you can add more on top if you screwed the volume/amount guess. Also it allows for extra mixing and time for the bubbles to pop up to the surface.
          I also use an unconventional tool. I hold a vibrating dick to the outside of the blocks and rub it along the plexi. I believe this helps the bubbles float to the top.
          After curing for 20 hours. De-mold time. It need some cleaning up, but I am very happy.

       
          I will have to make at least two more molds. Than I should be able to pour out enough roads to cover two GW realms of battle boards. Plus do some interesting cuts and angles with the roads throughout the city.

          The road tiles leading up to the Acropolis were changed out to the ruined road tiles. I did this because the tiles were smaller and allowed for more flexibility in laying down the road. Also the original idea of pinning the tile down while they dried with magnets caused them to shift position.

          For the road bed Pre-mixed grout was used. I am comfortable using it, its water based, long dry time, and looks like sand when dried. Besides I am sticking down tiles. 
         Bonus when pressing the tiles down into the grout, the grout fills the gap between each tile.

          The completed up hill road. The last tile lifted or flexed off the hill top as it dried. I don’t know exactly how I will get it back down. I think my two best options are to; One heat it, glue it, and hold it down with magnets. Two score the top, cut out some of the road bed, and reattach it.

          While things were drying, I began working on the traffic circle’s center piece. I took a light house base from some ship steam punk game and the DA from the box set. Both were ebay goodies. The DA was sprayed dark green. Then hit from an angle with light green. The base is not attached and both still need work.

          And I was dicking around with this guy again. Some days I hate painting him and others are a joy. But its a battle just to start up.