Hive World Terra

Industrial Complex: What to do...

Method

  1. Set out your work area, covering it with newspaper to catch spillages and some MDF, thick card or a cutting mat to cut on to protect the surface underneath.

  2. Collect together all of your materials (always best to be prepared and not have to wander off looking for something part way through)

    My Materials for the Industrial Complex

    The materials I used for my Industrial Complex (from left to right):

    The bottom of a Pringles Tub (remember to empty it first!), Wine Corks (available from Brewing shops quite cheaply), Bendy Straws (picked up from a cafe where they gave you a can of Cola, a glass and a straw that you never use), a White Thing found in my bits box, a Round Thing from a piece of computer cable (make sure that the cable is not going to be used before you remove bits from it!), a Mini M&M's tub and a Hydrometer tube (Hydrometers are expensive, but the rounded end to the tube looked different, and the hydrometer was getting thrown out so I took the tube)
  3. Lay out your various tubes and pipes on the boase board, drawing around them so that you know where they sit, not forgetting to work out where the pipes will go.
  4. When you are happy with the positioning, glue the tubes in place. You will have to cut holes out of the side of the tubes to fit the straws in to connect the tubes. It makes it look more realistic than trying to cut the straw to bend around the tube. If you are using corks, you can glue a few together to get different heights of tower.
  5. Add any extra details that you found in your bits-box. As you can see below, I used the White Thing as an outlet for chemicals (complete with pool of chemical made from glue) and the Round Thing as a different connector between the main Pringles 'vat' and the Mini M&M's 'vat'.
    My composition for an Industrial Complex
  6. To add realism to the bigger vats, add some strips of thin card around the top and at equal distances running down the sides. This makes it look like the large vats have been built from several large pieces and riveted together with metal plates covering them.
  7. Undercoat the piece completely black to give the Silver a good base.
  8. Paint the 'vats' in Silver (A failry dark silver, along the lines of Boltgun Metal)
  9. Add extra details to the vats with paint. Ideas include stencilled identification numbers down the side of the vats, chemical leaks, rusted areas or anything else that you can think of. Don't forget to paint your added details from your Bits Box.
  10. Finally, paint up the base of the model. I left my base black to fit with the black City/ash-waste areas of the board. Alternatively, you could paint the base up green with brown areas of dead grass around the base of the vats, if it fits in with your boards.

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