Building An Industrial Hive Table

More progress on the Galvanic Servohaulers. I’ve been a bit slow updating this project but there’s more to come. Previously I’d worked through several layers to get a yellow base. Then I moved on to repainting non-yellow areas black before roughly overbrushing exposed parts with P3 Bloodstone and P3 Khador Red Highlight. Other details were roughly painted with leadbelcher. After that I slapped Nuln Oil and Agrax Earthshade all over them.

Next I worked on the power glow on certain area. This was done by painting the lit areas in steadily narrowing layers of:
– Vallejo Panzer Aces 70.309 Periscopes
– Vallejo Model Colour 70.808 Blue Green
– Vallejo Model Colour 70.844 Deep Sky Blue
– Vallejo Game Colour 72.001 Dead White

Finally I glazed all the glowing areas in Badger Ghost Tint Plasma Fluid. Since it’s terrain I don’t want the glow too stand out too much.

After this I sponged on some P3 Bloodstone to make rusty patches with the odd part having some GW Leadbelcher painted in.

I finished with a drybrush of Leadbelcher in a few areas.

It’s tournament day! Here’re some pics of the tables. The first two are mine. My first two games were on my tables so I had the opportunity to ask my opponent how they’d change them. The feedback was generally good and the only recommendation was extra scatter terrain in each deployment zone. That was a good point and I’ll be looking to bring in some more when I get the chance. The tournament organiser added an opportunity for each player to rate the table they were on so I’ll be keen to see how they rated.

The tournament was held at Newbury racecourse as part of a bigger sales event. We got some time at lunch to look round all the stalls and after vowing I wouldn’t buy anything I bought a few bits. It’s a superb day out and I recommend it.

For anyone interested I came 9th out of 18 with a win, loss and draw. All the games were close and very tactical. A thoroughly excellent days gaming. I’ve finished last at the other tournaments I’ve attended so this was welcome upturn in form.

Recapping on the table used at the first, local Infinity tournament the problem players had was the table being too crowded. This time we dropped one of the chimneys and just had one, long walkway crossing the whole board. It worked well for me and my opponent so that was the layout set.

I have many more walkways in the set and if  I played Necromunda I’d probably roll out more of the set.

It’s done! Here’re some pics of the main pieces I haven’t shown yet. The were plenty more walkways to show but I don’t think we need to see more of them. I could do more but I’m a little burned out on this project and I think it’s got enough.

I might come back for some extra details on the chimney. I’m still undecided on the drain covers.

Some of the silos and the large chimneys had card pieces to add for detail. I used the salt / hairspray technique once again and added some rust effects with Mig products.

The silos’ pieces were fine and went on. Two of the silos have pieces to attach to make a large platform.

I left the detailing off the chimneys for the moment. They had drains and some kind of etched handle. I’m in two minds about them and have left them off. I prefer the big, grey slab of chimney for the moment. However, I did add some lamps to the chimneys with a quick airbrush blue behind them.

I used some moulds from Green Stuff World to cast some small nuts and bolts. I glued these to the leg sections of a larger building. It’s legs were a bit featureless and I thought they’d break up the long, flat surface.

To further embellish the bolts I tried adding rust streaks using the rust oilbrusher by Mig.

Hello everyone. I haven’t posted for some time but I haven’t been slacking. I signed up for an Infinity tournament – Infinity at Colours 2018 in Newbuy – and promised to bring a couple of tables. So that meant my time’s been spent trying to finish this table as quickly as possible. I did it but have only had time to post the latest updates now.

First up is the power generator. Hazards and the hairspray / salt rust technique were done as detailed before. The blue power view was done by progressively airbrushing narrower coats of Vallejo 70.966 Turquoise, 72.723 Electric Blue and White.

The TTCombat set came with a bunch of resin scatter terrain. I bought some extra to give a nice pile of obstructions and objectives.

On the large, red generator there’re some out of place white markings along the bottom. I didn’t notice these till editing the photos. I’d guess it’s the feared frosting effect. Not too sure though. I’m using a new primer and I’m slightly fearful it’s not adhered to the surface.