Mini Mektown Madness

Only a small update today, not much to show today in the way of work as i have been a little busy rearranging the man cave rather than making/painting as i wasn’t happy with the amount of sawdust that my PC was eating while it was up here. I moved my main PC back downstairs and set up my old PC in the man cave so i still have net access and also managed to get some more work space in the process, bonus !

I started batch painting the final members of Rudniks Rebels which you can see below and i also managed to get the cutta/lugga to a point where they need painting, i’m doing surprisingly well and might actually get all of what i planned finished and maybe even something extra

Thanks, comments welcome !

More Mektown Madness

I picked up my goodies i ordered from the store the other day and have assembled my grots, most of them anyway

Im not to happy with the flag pole, its a little too big (wide) for the tiny grots hand so i will need to change this but other than some GS bandanas and a hat for the captain they are pretty much ready for painting. Here are a couple of lists i have made for them

Rudniks Rebels = https://yaktribe.org/gorkamorka/mob/view/102/Rudniks+Rebels
Rudniks Rebels (WYSIWYG) = https://yaktribe.org/gorkamorka/mob/view/108/Rudniks+Rebels+(WYSIWYG)

I have also started work on a (gigantic) big lugga for them to get around on which im hoping to make look like a rusty pirate ship, its only a frame at the moment and in the end i may have to rethink the lists and make a smaller ship for them with some cuttas but im not sure yet. Its a little bigger than the trukk further down but its is roughly the same height apart from the mast.

Last monday i had the pleasure of meeting @Flamekebab who generously donated me some resin parts to help create some mobs/vehicles. So far i have made this trukk for another mob.

They are still very WIP and have been put on the back burner for now as i attempt to paint more minis now than i have this year here is the list for them

Da Skrappas = https://yaktribe.org/gorkamorka/mob/view/99/Da+Skrappas

Comments welcome !

Necromunda – Vertical Hive

Not many words today but a few pics to show all the same, here is a dice tower and some modular walls, enjoy !

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – More Work

Another tiny update today, i got my lift in place and some more platforms added with a few supports, it’s in a pretty playable state right now, it wont be long until i give it a little test run. Comments welcome, thanks for looking ! 🙂

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – Latest Work

It’s been a while since my last update but i managed to get some work done on my Vertical Hive this weekend so its time for another update. I have the bulk of 3 shops done and more importantly the stairs which connect the floors. I’m still uncertain as to what to do with the floors surface, i just can’t seem to settle on anything 😀 i tried something with gaffer tape but its not giving me the effect i want. I still need to try something suggested by @ClockworkOrange over at Yaktribe but i didn’t remember about it until now, whoops !

Here’s some pictures of the progress, thanks for looking and comments are very welcome !

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – Odroid Vu/SHOW Update

Just a few pics of my Vu/SHOW today, i have my SHOW running a python script which makes it cycle through 3 screens of info and on my Vu i have set up a conky and transparent terminal wallpaper. I will probably play with this a lot before my Vertical Hive is finished so how it looks on the Vu is “up for discussion” still. Thanks for looking, comments welcome !

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – Detail Work

I got some more detail work done on my Vertical Hive, i have added some more pipework as well as ladders, lots of ladders. On top of this i have added some of old PC parts i had to the walls to break up the smoothness of it and i have also started work on the hive guys/tradepost/saloon shop fronts that i plan for the bottom section.

A small/rough list of things to do would be :

• Finish wall/ceiling detail
• Staircase down entire length of one side
• Lift down same side as the ladders
• Finish shop fronts
• Program Odroid/SHOW/Vu
• Add missing platforms to connect lift/ladders/staircase
• Smear filler on floors/sand down
• Create edges for platforms
• RAILINGS ! ! ! ! !
• PAINT !?! PAINT !?! PAINT !?!

I think that’s most of it, i should really write my plans down, it is still very rough around the edges (literally in some cases) but i would love to know what people think and any ideas they may have. Thanks for looking !

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – Mini Update + Sharing

Only a tiny update today and an announcement that i have setup a Facebook Page and Twitter Account for people that prefer to follow things that way ! Now on to some pics of the tiny amount of progress i have made on my Vertical Hive, thanks for looking !

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – Tech Goodies – WIP

Today i realised something great, i can combine 2 of my loves/hobbies into 1, how cool is that ! ? ! What is this other hobby ? Linux ! I have always been a fan of Linux since i was introduced to it about 8 years ago by one of my friends, so much so that i didn’t use MS Windows for 8+ years up until the start of this year and my epic new PC (8-core i7/16GB RAM/4GB GTX970) which i had to get a Windows 7 license for because “i’d already spent way too much money, so why not that little more and see what i’d been missing !”.

I have a Raspberry Pi Model B an Odroid U3 and a Beaglebone something or other (can you tell i haven’t used it much ?), i also have 2 x 9″ touch screens (Odroid Vu) and something called an Odroid Show which can be used to display various stats as well as just images depending on its use. I am going to use my Odroid U3/Vu/Show on my Vertical Hive. I plan to make it so i can remove all of them if necessary and also access any cables i may need to. The Odroid Show will be used as a “working” display for a control panel or possibly a hive guys/grills/trade post/bar menu and the Vu will be used as a massive billboard to display various propaganda/news/topical events.  The best thing is that the Odroid U3 runs many Linux distros and Android so its basically a mini PC/tablet built into my hive !

I’ll stop with the Linux chat now as this is my other geeky blog 😀 I finished the stairs today and stuck the 2 bookcases together with “No more nails” and a couple of brackets for good measure, apart from a few ladders most of the “Sectors” now have a complete floor plan. Other than that i haven’t progressed too much. I do have an awful lot of electrical bits available to me (a full pc plus the pics below) what should i do with them ? Just cut them up and plaster them to the wall/ceiling or rip things off them first and then cut them up ? Any suggestions are welcome as i have no idea what to do with them i just know i should use them.

Right, time for a load of pics to try and help try and explain that crazy mass of nonsensical text up there ^^ comments always welcome, thanks for looking !

Necromunda/Scenery – Vertical Hive – Floor Plan Update – WIP

I don’t think i have ever been or ever will be this excited about floor plans in my life ! I got a bit of work done today on my Vertical Hive, it doesn’t really seem like much now i’m looking at it but i have a better idea of what i want for each level, whereas before i just had lots of ideas which i classed as my “plan”. 😀 I will try to provide a little description of what is planned before the corresponding photo, if you have any thoughts/ideas/comments then please leave them below. 🙂

First up is a front/rear shot of the full WIP, the things on the top are the gantries for top and bottom sections (they are upside down) the only section which has its ladders/walkways in pretty much there final position is the top one, the other 2 are just to show points of access, there will be more i just didn’t have enough things to hand and didn’t want to go upstairs to get more. 😀 In the bottom photo on the left side i plan to create a working lift which stops at the 3 brown platforms with stairs on the opposing side but round the corner that link up to the black/white platforms if that makes sense !

Now for a little description of the top section, this section is actually slightly smaller than the other 2 and so the lowest platforms in this section will probably be fenced/walled off to deal with the problem of certain minis not fitting under it, fortunately i don’t have this problem in the other sections. One of the gantries from the top will connect the top 2 platforms and be hung from the ceiling.

The middle section needs some ladders and stairs making to connect the platforms together, because the ladders will be more than 4″ tall i have decided to provide a quick/risky route as well as a slow/safe route to the highest platform/gantry in this section/all sections.

I left this last section pretty barren/basic so i could try have some fun with the details and try to create a trade post//drinking hole/town area with the space. The platform on the left will be connected to a platform/walkway hung from the ceiling heading towards the right.

So that’s it, if anybody has any thoughts/ideas then please leave them below, thanks for looking ! 🙂