We have our annual club apocalypse game coming up and this year we needed something special to fight around. With that in mind I sat about building a set of fortress walls for the event.
I took a 4 foot piece of particle board and topped it off with two shipping boxes. Then I took a 2 by 8 and cut two pieces with my table saw at a 20 degree bevel. I attached the beveled ends to the towers and the board with screws. This really gives the whole thing someserious strength.
For the gate I used a pair of cereal boxes to fill the gap between towers. I trimmed the gate with balsa wood and doors again cut from thin particle board. I covered it with an Aquila from cardstock, by using a template I made from an Internet picture.
Next I topped the walls with balsa wood and used Aegis defense lines for the parapets. I covered the walls with cardstock rectangles to give some texture to give it a concrete block look. Then I used some plastic scenery kit Big D had lying around to cover the towers and build the towers on top. The arches and buttresses also came from these kits. Finally I topped it off with bits from my bits box and some stolen bits from a bastion.
Next up some more detailing, painting and then to tie it in with my existing jungle terrain. I’m pretty pleased with how it’s turning out. Thoughts?
UPDATE: – Click here to see the finished project
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I like the jungle terrain idea. That will be a really neat twist to it.
Looks great! How are you planning to use it?
We will use the imperial armor data sheet. It will be the main objective on one of the tables in our apoc game.
I went to a few castles in naples this morning and got inspired to do a similar project and some titans when i get back this summer, so i’m really excited to see this. When you’re designing a fortress at the 40k scale, do you think you should be able to take it apart and have the interior modeled, or would that be too much hassle? i’ve got lots of ideas, but without practicality and play-ability there’s no point in building it at all
Great job so far jester.
Sirhelnor, generally you don’t see interior fights in the 40k games. That is not to say there isn’t any however. A couple of great examples of this what you see in Space Hulk, and Kill Teams. It can work also in small point games (read no more than 1000 points, no vehicles, and a 6×4 covered in corridors,) but the investment in time to setup a game out weighs the time played.
The wall Jesters built is actually an exterior wall of a larger complex. Generally those walls are nothing more than reinforced (in modern terms, not sure what it is in the 41st) concrete and metal so normally no halls to fight in.