SAMMAHS2 Board Continues

Hello Voidwalker! I got the photo area set up so I could get shots of the work gearing up on the Relicta Stellas boards. As promised here are the main pieces from the SAMMAHS2 port board.

This is the first of two main structures on the board that are meant to represent a few of many floating cliff faces in the port area of the SAMMAHS2 floating cities. These two cliff structures will be connected by multiple gantries at different levels of each of the pieces. The main plastic toy structure at the center of the piece is, what I believe to be a Pirates of The Somethin’ toy that I’ve dismantled quite a bit and halved to create these structures. The rest of the rockface , floor, and ballasts are made from recycled cardboard and hot glue. The top mechanical looking section is made from a larger scale G.I. Joe ship gun set attached to the screw cap fitting of a large plastic supplement container. This screw top is attached at the rockface so that that section may be removed for transport/storage. This can also double as different play surface by taking the gun rig assembly off and plugging its hole. Ill get into photos on that as I finish building out that section. The moving parts of this toy still work and will be fashioned as more storage for other vehicles. This is to represent a sort of garage/port for smaller civilian aircraft, hence the landspeeder. The lights here are created from a Turing of battery powered LED’s hot glued into the structure from inside the cardboard structure. Trying to turn this into a more brutalist concrete structure by repeating rectangular shapes on the ship facade and eventually filling them with spackle.

The second structure/cliff, shown here, Is made from the their half of the pirate ship toy, and more cardboard in the same way as the previous. Most of the action on the 2’ x2’ board will take place presumably between these two cliff faces and the gantries connecting them. I plan to have the gantries connect to a smokestack type cylinder that will be built around an essential oil vaporizer for a cool steamy smoke effect. Hopefully this will help the entire board to be more playable with multiple ways to reach each area. I hope to share more with you soon on this board. With the talk of an Adepticon 2021 and possibly another chance at making Relicta Stellas happen, I would love to complete the two boards I had planned to reveal there. Next I plan to photograph the pieces for the board I’ve tentatively titled “The Breath of the Organthus”, the name of a large YOD vessel thought to have been lost within the Cicatrix Maledictum. Big creepy daemon infested ship… a real gross party for sure.

Hope this finds you all well out there floating in the void. If you feel like checking out some articles I’ve written that might be getting a little more exposure, check out www.grimdarkcompendium.com where the newest play-by-play on my YOD assassins should be up pretty soon. It’s the second out of three parts if I don’t fuck it up and get canceled. I go into the deets of how I built a small arms specialist Vindicare and some of the disorienting bases representing the Organthus. The third installment will be the painting process where all the magic seems to be happening at the moment at least. I’ll leave you with a WIP shot from where I’m sitting with them. Have a pleasant darkness, my old buddies!!

I have a few more base tones to get in here before I start in with the oil and enamel products. Let me know what you think?