Imperial Dockyard

[Cosmic]

I took a trip into town today and found this beauty….



As soon as I saw it my brain kicked into gear and I thought to myself, ‘Imagine a unit of Guardsmen fighting a desperate battle on a dockyard!’……..wouldn’t you all think that? Admit it!

Once the mammoth sheets of plastic were assembled I got this…










The kit itself is all plastic, but the detailing is superb and it has a lot character. There’s no set way to position all the extras so you can have a bit of fun with it all. The pieces fit together beautifully, with only a few gaps, but they can easily be filled with greenstuff.

I’ve added some strewn plastruct girders for extra detailing as well as some ‘pipes’. It’s the perfect scale and can be turned into so much with some imagination. I’m not sure how I’m going to use it yet, I was hoping to make a gaming board in a couple of weeks so it may be incorporated into that.

This will require a lot of airbrushing and weathering, so at the same time I can provide helpful tutorials mixed in with this thread. First up will be undercoating and initial stages, as well as Imperialising it all! Wish me luck.

Cosmic

[Machine Gun Kelly]

Wonderful, with you painting skill it will be great. But why only one, think how awesome if you build a whole gaming table around it.

[Welsh Paul]

I really like that! I'm in the middle of building an industrial-styled board with various landing platforms, walkways, etc, so this would be a really good addition.

[straightsilver]

That's really nice, I just looked on the Italeri website and they also do this:

www.italeri.com/scheda.asp?idProdotto=2043&idCategoria=5&idSottocategoria=55

The two kits are compatable, so you can join them to make a longer dockyard, which is awesome as I have wanted to do a dockyard section for a city fight table for ages, so might have to get some of these too.

Looking forward to seeing you paint it though, it looks great with the guardsmen on it.

[KRIEGEIRK]

Good find bro! Im jealous!

[teku18]

Can't wait to see what you do with this.

[Rook]

Totally jealous! I am jealous.

And your skills are legendary so this thing will be a beauty.

[magot]

I wish you Luck Cosmic

[magot]

Seriously, I can´t wait to see what you will make of it.
do you intent to add a water effect? or is the dock a remaining thing in a devastated and dried up world? Like lake Aral

[treadiculous]

how much did this cost?

much liking this!

[emptyhat]

I thought it looked pretty awesome too Tred. I've ordered the long and be-staired docks and some battle debris.

[Jackal-0311]

This is going to be awesome!

[Cosmic]

Nov 26, 2012 19:05:16 GMT -5 treadiculous said:

how much did this cost?

much liking this!

Can't remember I'm afraid, Tread. £23 rings a bell....

@jackal: Cheers, however I haven't touched this thing since I bought it might not ever get done.

[BG. Foster]

Send it to me, I'll put it to good use.

[commisarblur]

Good terrain choice but I feel it is lacking the rest of the port. please try to assemble conjoining parts or craft ones. It would make a nice piece.