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Post by Adkenpachi on Dec 1, 2012 12:50:10 GMT -5
I have all the same crap i always have, mostly nids now and a little tau necron eldar sisters and assorted guard.
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 1, 2013 3:59:23 GMT -5
He has his uses, lol. I like to paint my own though.
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 4, 2013 10:04:55 GMT -5
Can you guess what it is?    More to follow later, all my kids are awake now. |
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Post by Soap on Jan 4, 2013 10:12:05 GMT -5
You not finished yet?
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Post by scotti88 on Jan 4, 2013 10:13:28 GMT -5
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 4, 2013 10:14:49 GMT -5
Nope, got to tidy up cook dinner and got friends round, I also need to find time to drink several beers. The main shape will be done today, then need to look at craters, a fire step and other bits.
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Post by Cosmic on Jan 4, 2013 11:24:39 GMT -5
Not bad, Foster  I hope the terrain on to will be all slanted and definitely not completely flat like most? All lumpy, bumpy and rounded like it should be |
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 4, 2013 11:29:21 GMT -5
@cosmic, I have a box of filler sat ready to make it look like it should. Craters will also be added, just researching them now. scotti88, Yeah I've seen photo's. This isn't ww1, this is the grim darkness of the far future and the Emperor likes his trenches straight. |
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Post by Soap on Jan 4, 2013 11:32:21 GMT -5
This isn't ww1, this is the grim darkness of the far future and the Emperor likes his trenches straight. Haha! So that's you told scotti88! |
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Post by scotti88 on Jan 4, 2013 11:58:28 GMT -5
Consider my put bk in that dark box I poped out of lol
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 4, 2013 12:06:10 GMT -5
So you should be scotti. I do forget that humour isn't easily portrayed on the internet. But back in your box scotti.
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 5, 2013 9:40:01 GMT -5
The lollipop stick graveyard.  |
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 5, 2013 15:56:17 GMT -5
Today they are round holes in polystyrene tomorrow they will be craters.   |
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Post by Boobs McGee, Esquire on Jan 8, 2013 17:15:42 GMT -5
Today they are round holes in polystyrene tomorrow they will be craters. I kind of expected an evil laugh somewhere in there foster. Keep up the good work ;D |
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Post by Soap on Jan 8, 2013 17:18:26 GMT -5
Your dragging your feet at this arnt you! I expected this to be finished weeks ago... Even though you only started... Erm... Last week? :/
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Post by sapperq21 on Jan 8, 2013 17:18:35 GMT -5
hey! nothing wrong with straight trences, the foxholes that ive been in on field exercises all the front and back walls were straight! thats cause heavy junk came in 1st.
but cant wait! looking good
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 8, 2013 17:35:02 GMT -5
I've had a busy few days, work will re-commence on this tomorrow.
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Post by Adkenpachi on Jan 8, 2013 17:59:58 GMT -5
Thats nothing soap, i started months ago and all i have done is half a house and some cut up foam...
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Post by vegna on Jan 8, 2013 19:06:19 GMT -5
www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/flanders/images/york/yorks_viewabove.jpgthat's a link to a re-constructed 1917 trench. can see there are straight edges at the top. the reason you have the sharp corners are to stop automatic weapons being deployed and wiping out the trench or for shell blasts. So I'd say trenches being straight isn't a huge problem  My fix to make them look slightly more natural, round the corners slightly, if you round the corner that sticks out in a single cut then stick it to the opposite corner.
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 9, 2013 2:15:34 GMT -5
You might have a point with rounding the corners, I'll look in to that.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jan 9, 2013 18:50:06 GMT -5
Yes. MythBusters did an episode--based on a story of how the Germans in WW I would dig their trenches to have sharp corners to provide better protection from blast waves--investigating how various trench geometries affected blast wave propagation, and confirmed that trenches built with sharp corners did serve to mitigate the effects of detonations occurring within a trench, allowing those who were around a ninety-degree turn from an explosion in the trench to potentially survive or suffer lesser levels of injury.
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 9, 2013 19:13:06 GMT -5
Saves me cutting corners then, literally.
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Post by AshotNINJA on Jan 9, 2013 20:19:23 GMT -5
tactically too having lots of 90 degree turns in a trench system (as opposed to a straight of curvy one) helps provide cover internally against assaulters inside your trench network, they would have to fight hard for every section, and wouldnt be able to shoot straight through.
angular trench networks are / were more common .. and althouigh not often used in todays wars, the role of hesco barriers have taken over in a similar fashion in the same trench angular styles, just above ground.
(useless information i just had to share)
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Post by vegna on Jan 9, 2013 21:19:50 GMT -5
Yeah what I said about the trenches. And I didn't mean rounding them off hugely, just a small amount, like 2cms either side to look smoother. But I guess it depends on the trench you want. I pictured being dug by hand, we tend to round the corners a bit...we're lazy |
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Post by BG. Foster on Jan 11, 2013 16:21:34 GMT -5
Well I finally got round to doing some more on the trench board.  And with duckboards.  |
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