Tuesday 7 February 2017

The Pump House

A little while back I was given some prototype parts from GW's Cities of Death buildings sprues. I wanted to make a complete building, and had just enough complete panels to create this little building below, which I'll use as a little pump house or housed transformer or similar.
 
"Mmm...reaching that control panel might be tricky."

I forgot to take photos of it unpainted, but essentially it is constructed from 6 of the Cities of Death panels; two each on the long sides and one on the short sides. As the windows were originally open, I covered up the holes from behind with plasticard. The roof was also made from plasticard, with a couple of Hexagon Platformer sections added. The door is from the Trash Bash Bits Kickstarter, whilst I think the airconditioning units come from Ainsty. The only other addition was a scrap piece of corrugated plasticard over one of the windows for interest.
 

Painting was very basic - I primed grey, then drybrushed with a lighter grey. I then drybrushed some areas with a brown, added brown and black washes on the panels, and a blue-green wash on the windows.


The door got a yellow brown and some sponge weathering plus washes. The A/C units got dark brown with lighter brown sponge weathering and washes. And that is that!



 
I think I must have built this building over a year ago, so it was nice to get it painted and done in less than 2 hours!

18 comments:


  1. Those windows make it look almost Victorian.

    A practical and useful piece of terrain to have finished.

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    1. The windows are pretty classically proportioned aren't they? I enjoyed painting it.

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    2. Georgian, I would say. Great work - a very nice building :)

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    3. Georgian? Yes, you're probably right with the 12 panes :)

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    4. I'm no expert, I just enjoy Grand Designs etc!!, but Georgian would be my view of you were to pick a period!

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  2. Awww... and I thought this post was going to be about a Slaaneshi night club :-(

    Still, pretty damn cool for an 'actual' pump house ;-)

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    1. Slaaneshi night clubs are another project. Sounds like they'd be fun to model!

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  3. Man, at first glimpse it looks like something you bought, not a scratch built piece. Wow. So cool!!

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    1. Thanks Suber! It's an assemblage of parts, but I'm happy with the end result :)

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  4. Remain envious about the prototype panels!

    Very nice work, and it should be useful for a number of settings, either as the single "municipal" construction in a area of run down habs, or a cheerful cog in a more imperial oriented city.

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    1. I'm very grateful to have a few sections. I wish I had more though!

      It'll certainly find a home in plenty of future set ups.

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  5. Upon first glance I thought it was some solid resin effort, not a mishmash of pieces. Very impressive mate.

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  6. Two hours from start to finish is pretty speedy. Good man.

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  7. A very effective amalgam of bits. I reckon the fact that it's so cosy probably makes it easier to use heaps than some larger pieces.

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    1. A bijoux residence for the discerning man about town. A single room crash pad for those on the go...

      It's definitely a useful addition :)

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  8. Sometimes good work is accomplished with the simplest methods and in the quickest time. Nice one axiom :)

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