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--- blog:miniatures:40k_display [2024/07/11 14:00] – [Space Marine Tile] john
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 ====== Warhammer 40000 Display Shelf ======
+This display was designed to span the entire width of an Ikea 'Billy' shelf, so I had the thought of two opposing forces - [[blog:miniatures:gw:wh40k:spacemarines|Space Marines]] on one side, and icky, [[blog:miniatures:gw:wh40k:chaos|Nurgle Plague Marines]] on the other.
+I'd never played Space Marines, nor had I played Warhammer in some 20+ years, but on seeing some of the latest designs in 2023/2024 I had an urge to build a display after I had cleared the shelves of this bookcase of //clutter//.
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+The scenery building ended up being loads of fun, and reminded me of one of the main reasons I started playing miniatures games all those years ago. It's creative in a way that building and painting models alone can never match.
+I also got to use some bits and pieces that I had stored away decades ago, and would have simply sat in a box otherwise.
 ===== Space Marine Tile =====
+The Space Marine (specifically for Deathwing Dark Angels) was intended to be a ruined/bombed out gothic chapel, with some ancient tomb in the centre. It would be surrounded by typical 40K style concrete, blasted and smashed by countless battles.
+Since I wanted both display tiles to be seperate, and I knew they would be fundamentally different, I decided to use some simple resin concrete barriers at the edge of the Space Marine tile to act as both a divider, as well as a barricade against the attacking forces of Nurgle.
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    * Bag of assorted grit/small rubble, etc
    * PVA white glue
+   * Resin 'concrete barriers' from an Ebay seller
+   * Resin 'ruined gothic tomb' from an Ebay seller
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    * 10mm XPS foam board (38cm x 25cm)
-   * 3D printed 'Alien Bile Spires'
+   * 3D printed 'Alien Bile Spires' from an Ebay seller (I didn't want to print anything this large!)
    * Assorted grit/rubble
    * Model railway ballast
    * Cork boulders
    * Static grass and flock
-   * Epoxy resin adhesive
+   * Epoxy resin adhesive (approx 100ml)
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-==== Under display lighting ====
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+I mixed a very small amount of Vallejo //Game Colour// __Camoflage Green__ into the resin, no more than 4 drops, and it produced a wonderful, disgusting, vomit-inducing dirty green/brown/yellow water effect. Just what I was hoping for!
+For any normal water effect, I would have probably used a hair drier on warm to get the bubbles out of the resin, but for this Nurgle-tainted river of slime it actually looks better all //frothy// and //putrid//.
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+=== Under display lighting ===
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 ===== Finished Display =====
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+[[:blog:dioramas|Back to Displays and Dioramas]]