Expansions For Scratch-Built Sector Mechanicus (Part 1) for Warhammer 40k, Kill Team

[Music] hello everyone why lock here welcome back thanks to all of you who submitted ideas following episode 115 with our modular catwalks if you're new here go check out that episode first and then come back anyway I got over 90 unique ideas to go through obviously that's not gonna fit in one video like I thought so there will be a series of follow-up videos I can do over time I think I have enough here ready for this first episode so I thought I would get it out on YouTube so you could enjoy it anyway here's a rapid-fire series of miniature little projects you can do to expand and enhance your modular catwalk system I need to start out by quickly addressing a design flaw and it is this scenario here at an intersection there isn't room for two fences at a corner the solution is inelegant but by my estimation this only appears a handful of times in a fully setup complex so I think making eight of the following short fences will be a good enough band-aid so just as in 115 you rip quarter-inch wide strips of chipboard and you make the fence in exactly the same way as before except instead of the strips being three inches wide they're only two and 3/4 of an inch wide so you leave off a quarter-inch and the clamp instead of it being two inches wide is one inch wide still centered this will allow it enough play to be biased left or right as needed in those corner scenarios so what about this situation is not common but if you want to connect to tabbed ends together or two slotted ends together it's helpful to have some adapters ready so a male adapter is simply a 2 by 1/2 inch rectangle of chipboard with the corners clipped per usual done [Music] for the female adapter cut two rectangles that are 3/4 inch by three inch and then two more that are 3/4 inch by half inch glue the small ones on the ends as you see here and then complete the sandwich with the other large one now you might be wondering the tabs are only a quarter inch deep shouldn't this adapter therefore only be twice that or half inch wide yeah that is true but with manufacturing error maybe one of your tabs is slightly big whatever this accounts for that and here's one of those inserts being used you can see still plenty strong enough now let's build a hexagon platform again we want our edges to be in multiples of three inch so let's just start with that set your compass to a three inch radius and draw it out on the chipboard make sure you keep a compass set exactly as is now to draw a perfect hexagon plant the compass anywhere along the circle and draw a small arc intersecting it like you see me doing here it's easier shown than described move the needle to that intersection and do it again do this all the way around and then use a ruler to connect all six intersections like this and go ahead and cut it out and that's how you do a hexagon this right here is the bottom of the three layers the approach from here is identical to what we did back in 115 a white glue on a quarter inch wide frame leaving two inch gaps centered in each side paint the inside black and then insert your cross stitch mesh which you've already spray primed black then attach the top layer which is another normal hexagon but with some portions removed leaving a half inch wide frame so to make this top layer you'll draw out the hexagon as we just discussed then connect each opposing vertex with a line giving you three lines and then on each side of those draw another which is offset by a quarter inch then you just go around the perimeter drawing lines 1/2 inch in from the edge [Music] cut out those sections with a fresh knife and ruler here it is put together for a bigger platform the approach is identical just remember however long you want the sides to be that's what you set your compass to remember that one rule and you're good to go paint these up to match the rest of your walkways alright moving on let's make a balcony as usual a three layer sandwich like all our walkways the bottom layer is this shape it's just six inches on one side three inches on the other and diagonals connecting them the middle layer once again is where you have your two inch tabs and or slots and in this case we have both the six inch side will have two tabs and the three inch side will have one slot also note that the two diagonal sides have slots as well but be careful you Center them because those diagonals are not three inches long they're a little bit longer finish up as usual cut that pre-primed plastic canvas mesh to fit paint black insert it and glue on the top frame layer here it is assembled and once again paint it up just like your walkways now this piece has a couple of uses here's the first when I made it for as a balcony just protrudes off an existing walkway and you use the three inch slot to put a support in to hold it up but also and I should have realized that I was making it the angle matches that of the hexagon so here's a 12 inch hex I made sort of a landing pad and this balcony piece fits perfectly on there to extend it you can imagine three of these put on every other side would make an awesome looking deck and then of course this could just serve as a stylish intersection instead of a support just insert another walkway how about a banner I made a template you can download below in the video description print it up and you draw whatever you want on it I have no artistic ability so I used Google Image Search and Photoshop to put together this ad mech banner by the way the template assumes my soup cans height so if yours was different simply chop off each of the two short ends of the template by however much you need to kebab skewer chop a three inch length and paint it up gunmetal or a dark brown or something like that whatever you like and we're gonna wrap the banner around it so apply a glue stick to the back of the banner and wrap it around and carefully line it up so that the banner itself is now double thick paper [Music] with the glue still damp in there cut away some bits like it's tattered couple Nick's on the sides and really torn up at the bottom then crunch up and crinkle the banner a little bit and then if you have a grex earth shade or other dark washes you can use them here I actually just took some acrylic craft paint brown and black and watered them way down into washes and I don't really know what I'm aiming for here's kind of going back and forth mixing it up feeling it maybe going back to the water jar to thin it out and smear things around just mixing it up to get two shades of grime on the banner we're gonna give that a few hours to totally dry it might be really mushy and soggy right now but it will crisp up very nicely once everything dries the mounting piece to hang it very simple just a rectangle of chipboard and then hot glue on some decorative hooks like from jewelry or you can even bend paperclips whatever and then you pop each end of the bar in there and use that empty lower half of a fence clamp to hang it underneath any walkway ladders gonna show you two methods cuz I realized not all of you might have access to this secret ingredient a hair curler this is from Dollar Tree they're like eight in a pack for a buck or something like that so unclip this outer shell part thing and then just gonna hold on to that for a moment the inner part has these like rows and I'm going to cut them out I laid two of them end to end and chopped off excess so that there's only two inches of each remaining my overall ladder height is gonna be four inches yours might be a little different if your original soup cans weren't the same as mine then just a small bit of chipboard or cardstock or something to act as a patch and hot glue and weld these two ends together [Music] okay now kabob skewers measure out four inches and chop gonna need two of those [Music] and back to that original shell from the hair curler a thin bead a hot glue and attach a skewer such that there's a quarter-inch sticking out on one end like this here's both of them attached then I measured how far apart the skewers are you can see the ruler here I'm going to round up to one and a quarter inch so from chipboard I cut four strips one and a quarter inch long and a quarter inch wide lay a bead of hot glue on one of them and set the end of the ladder in the middle and the other assembly straddling it like this another bead of hot glue over those and a second strip on to complete the sandwich then you go and do the exact same thing on the other end ladder and skewers and hot glue sandwich between chipboard lastly we need the tab so again one and a quarter inch long and a half inch wide nip the corners as usual and notice there's a nice channel here with lots of surface area in there that's by design fill it with hot glue and stick on the tab don't fiddle with it let it totally cool and you'll have a wicked strong connection right there at this point take it outside and prime it black from here you just paint it up to match your other features remember we were focusing on just a few colors so over brush of the entire thing with gunmetal maybe the upper and lower ties are gray or whatever to match your walkways few random hits with copper or you get the idea paint it to match the rest of your set whatever motif you've been doing now if you don't have access to those hair curlers or don't want to use them here's the toned down version chop the two vertical rails as normal so four inch kabob skewers and then sandwich both ends with chipboard just as we did a minute ago small difference here is that you can actually make the ladder however wide you want since you're not constrained by the size of that hair curler shell piece and again attach the tab to one end just like before and now simply glue on some rungs you could use more kabob skewer or popsicle sticks or something like these flat picks since it's wood on wood and there's nothing to hide the connection point you might want to use white glue instead of hot glue gonna have to wait a little while for dry time but it'll look better so here it is with two rungs on it for example you got it from here I'm not going to finish this piece because I already made four of the other kind there's a quick look at two of them again at the end of this video we're gonna show a big setup with everything in context [Music] I got to thinking what goodies are in my electronic supply box there's got to be something cool-looking in here yep the fuses from episode 99 when we did the ad mech objective markers so I took a few of those and then a colored sharpie tinted the glass with it after a few minutes that will be permanent no need to seal or varnish or anything then I built a simple mounting plate it's a one inch square of chipboard and then two small bits to form the clip itself a quarter inch by half inch and a half inch square this is easier to just show than describe white glue on as usual and attach them to the back to make a clip then I painted it black again chipboard still takes glue very well after a coat of matte acrylic paint some tiny dabs of hot glue to secure these metal ends of the fuses to the plate and then over brush the remaining areas with gunmetal as per usual to match the rest of your collection so it just clips onto a railing like this dead simple probably still a lot of untapped potential with these fuses I'm sure actually I hope that one of you will outdo me and we're about to go to the table to see the final product but real quick some reminders if you like what you're about to see please don't hesitate to hit that like button subscribe reminders etc etc there is a link in the description below for my Amazon storefront easy free way to support the channel if you want just buy your stuff through that link and for all you 3d printers out there while ochs crafting goods is sponsored by heroes horde which has an excellent range of high-quality models including but not limited to all true tiles lines which are open lock compatible also check out my modules over on the DMS guild and remember $3 patrons get free copies of all my releases now stick around because in a moment I'm going to show you all this with models in context but first I thought it showed just the terrain so this complex I built with every piece in my collection for these walkways from episode 1 15 take a look at the end of this walkway it's got a wall support section just dead-ending it that's possible with that new adapter piece that we made there's one possible use there again I got 90 unique ideas to get through so if yours didn't show up in this episode give it time I'm gonna wheel over here to a different part of the complex look at one of the hex pads that we made yep and the next to it is the balcony let's pan over to the other side of the complex here's a triple high tower with two ladders POV kind of gives me vertigo and then the large landing pad the 12 inch hex now I'm going to load this up with ultramarines and necrons and just get out of the way I'll turn the music up and let you enjoy remember all this terrain we've made in previous episodes so I'll put links in the video description if you're interested in those enjoy [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] by the way all this is on a frontline gaming mat that's the while axe Armory brand of choice if you liked this particular project here's two more that you should go check out right now also enjoy this community showcase and don't forget to subscribe and click that bell reminder icon I am wile OGG thanks for joining me and I'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Wyloch's Armory

Views: 60,117

Keywords: Wyloch, Black Magic Craft, DM scotty, luke's aps, diy terrain, scratch build, warhammer 40k, 40k, catwalks, scaffold, modular, sector mechanicus

Id: 8lti_ApyC8U

Length: 18min 31sec (1111 seconds)

Published: Fri May 10 2019