Friday, 30 March 2018

The Pump House


On the myriad of worlds in the Imperium there are many dark places where the machineries of Mankind grind and pump fluids and power to support the massed populations of the Imperium.

Down in the twilight of the pump house the air is thick with the smog of promethium burners and the heat exchangers create tropical climates within the vast industrial landscape. The floor is thick with carbon dust and many dangers lurk in every corner waiting for the unwary to pass by. Toxic pools of chemicals corrosive to the touch spew across the floor, their luminescence bathing everything in the sickly glow of radioactive waste. Yet amid this mass of grim dark horror, many archeotech treasures are to be found, enough to make even the sanest man (or woman) crazy enough to brave the perilous area. This is the turf of the Janitor and his Clean Up Crew and one thing is for certain, if you get an invitation to come down to the pump house you don't go alone!






The pump house floor is scattered with hazardous pools of toxic effluent

Pipes and walkways create plenty of cover and vantage points to defend the valuable Commodities

Experimenting with layout..

The scenery wont be fixed to make transport easy.

They will be glued onto as few a parts as is useful though to speed up set up

And so will be able to reconfigure the layout somewhat.

The Clean Up Crew
Apex Humongous (the Janitor) or just 'boss' and his two body guards 'Sinister' and 'Dexter' are never far away

'Ronin' has been given the task of educating the gangs juve 'grimey'

 'Kano' totes a grenade launcher and brute cleaver for when it gets close and personal.

 'Epoch' and 'Zenith'

Until next time......

24 comments:

  1. Yippee.....Rob's back and he's brought his Mojo with him :D

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  2. There is a long way to go with this yet only really got base coats on but I will hopefully make some progress over this weekend.

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    1. It looks good already mate, can't wait to see it finished.

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  3. You took the words right out of my mouth Dyl....actually, my words were a bit more colourful when I first saw the photos ;-)

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  4. Seeing Robs scenery as got my little brain ticking away for ideas;-)

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    1. Cheers buddy! That the whole idea of doing these blog's to both inspire and keep my own interest going.

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    2. Is that the full set from shadow wars i sold you too?

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    3. It is indeed and thanks again for that. Also augmented with a box of thirmic plasma conduits the galvanic servohaulers two heamotrope reactors and thermic plasma regulators.

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  5. I've got a load of shrine of the aquila floor tiles and a load of fortress of Redemption walls. So ill be using those for a 4x4 board.

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    1. Sounds cool.
      That's the beauty of the Underhive.....it can look like anything :D

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  6. What is it you have used for the floor the white board?

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    1. It started as the styrene packing off the top of my new washing machine sliced into 4 .....if you don't need a washer it be cheaper to buy the forge world tiles😁

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    2. Btw I edged the boards with a pvc trim to prevent them damaging to easy. Then primed with a mix of paint, filler, and pva glue to hide the tell tale texture of polystyrene. This seals enough for me to use three colours of spray paint to create the toxic pools. I then toped that with water effects.

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  7. I'm going for cultists but was thinking of a theme for the board im going to make. And came up with a idea of making something like a forge complex or a deep admech manufacturers for knights. Very industry dirty confined weapons of war for the imperium. My cultists are trying to infiltrate and sway the work force and wanting to eventually take over the forge in the name of the flawless one. And please there lord Gabriel soul gourger. While this plan is going on hive gangs appear from the deep to achieve their own goals and cross paths with the cultists. The defilers of the flawless host success or pay the price for failure. Bit long but that is what iv come up with for the theme of my board. Just thought might share for feedback or input to improve on my original idea;-)

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    1. Brilliant mate. That's what 'Munda is all about....the narrative, or as I like to call it, fairytales in the grimdark!
      In the big 'Under' everything and anything can happen :-)

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    2. Always opportunities for you to grow the congregation of the D.F.H ....brain wash a few captured gangers then release them to spread the good word.

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    3. I like the idea of a board with an under construction knight with all the platforms around it to work on the various parts ..... maybe it's time to open that copy of imperial knights renegade I've got in my cupboard of shame!🤔

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  8. Cheers guys i came up with that idea after seeing Robs board. I knew straight away i want a industrial complex or forgeworld theme board.

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  9. I've got hold of two of the new knights from forgebane so going to use them in the scenery maybe half constructed so it looks like it's a fully operational forge.

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  10. My bad the cultists are called Defilers of the flawed. As we are the Flawless host and everything else is flawed; -)

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  11. The home of the *other* Adeptus Custodes!

    Seriously, tho, that looks great! I need to get this Slaanesh Army done, or at least far enough ahead of schedule that I can get back to working on Terrain.

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    1. It makes a nice change of pace to work on scenic boards. although it really takes up a lot of room while under construction.

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