Armies and Campaigns

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Space Hulk 40k terrain

After reading the first part of Wolf Time I was inspired to create some Space Hulk corridors that my marines could advance down as per their chapter specialty. Boarding actions.

I've tried to make corridors before but it didn't work well and I ditched the idea. You can see the "ruin" in one of my reports is actually supposed to be a intersection. This time actually drew out the design in CAD and used graphics chipboard rather than cereal box grey cardboard.
 The square part on the left is the intersection and rectangular one on the right is a corridor 

 I'm ignoring the outside of the box for now concentrating on the inside of how the ship corridors will look. 
 Below are in progress shots of how the corridors look with some bits in them
The results aren't perfect its me bodging things again.
 I started out with a couple of corridors and a intersection. The corridors are 150mm long (6") and about 100mm wide with the idea being to be able to put two terminators side by side in a corridor. 
Little details are going to be the key but I want to keep the cost as low as possible. One of my favourite building materials is very much going to be in evidence. SPRUE! 
For starters it's going to go on the inside of every door to give them a more 3D shape

I checked out some videos of what other people had created to get inspiration. This guys space hulk table is awe inspiring. YouTube link.
 He used a lot of GW pipes. This would be too rich for my budget but it gave me an idea. 
 I could get some good looking parts by using DAS air drying clay to take imprints of the pipes control bits. Although backwards these provide nice little details that if you don't look too closely give the right impression. 

 I tried my ideas out in CAD. To fit a whole table I would need 20 corridors and 10 intersections. With each element taking up 2 pieces of card I'd need 60+.  

It would also still be very uniform so I built narrow corridors that used only a single piece of card that would allow more mixed floor plans.

 Next I came up with doors a simple print graphic onto a thin bit of cardboard that slides into the door frames.
I found the door looked a little rough so I added some sprue to the outside to give it some more texture.
Floors needed something 

So grating using a plastic packaging from the premium oranges covering the edges with card. 

With a lick of paint these look good