How to make a Necron Power Station (part 2)

Nick speaking,

OK, so in the first post I went over making the foundations for this piece of terrain, and now it's time to look at the power generators themselves...

My generators are made from four Incredible toys that I got from McDonald's about ten years ago! I know that you are not going to be able to get hold of these yourself anymore, so I will let you come up with your own design to stand in for what I am using. Hopefully this post will give you some inspiration to do that...

First it was back to my Laser Cut Card 'off cuts' tub and my Bitz box. Using some Glyph and more Monolith biz, I managed to come up with this design, nothing special as it stands, but once they are painted up they look good enough...

Right, back to the building, and now I am thinking that I want to make this piece of terrain a little more 'interchangeable' with the option to remove the power generators as and when I want to. This was easily done with a few magnets on the feet and on the base of the foam board...

I will take a look at all the finishing touches in the last part of this mini series...

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How to make a Necron Power Station (part 1)

Nick speaking,

In this post I will show you some progress pictures and a few explanations of how I made the Necron Power Station for my Terrain Square Competition...

First I started with a foam board square. I am using a random piece of foam board I had, so it has some images on it, but it is the same stuff that you can buy from your local hobby shop. Once I had the square ready, I worked on my plans for the piece of terrain...

I decided to make a ruined building for my board, as I am lacking in that field a bit. I also wanted a second level to the piece to give me some height as well. First, I started by making two large side walls for one corner. I just got the rough shape at this stage...

Then it was time to get my secret weapon out for this project, and these were something that I have kept for a long time. Four Incredible toys that I got from McDonalds about ten years ago! I know that you are not going to be able to get hold of these yourself anymore, so I will let you come up with your own design to stand in for what I am using, but these will end up as the power generators for my power station...

Now it is time to go back to the foam board and start making the rest of the walls for the building, along with cutting out a couple of holes for a door and a portal in the floor. I plan on using a few old bitz of Monolith that I have to make it a bit more Necron like as well. I have glued some of the Necrons bitz in, but I will only glue the green portals once it is all painted up...

Now to my tub of Laser Cut Card Cyborg Glyph, 'off cuts'. Just in case you haven't heard of Laser Cut Card before, I seriously suggest that you go and check out their website here to see all the amazing terrain products that they sell...

Using this Glyph and a few pieces of cardboard, I first made a door for my portal, using the Necron Monolith design for inspiration. Then I put some some of the bigger 'off cuts' onto the walls...

That's it for now, in part two I will show you how I went about converting the Incredible toys into Power generators!

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Tyranid 'Loc List' Battle Report

Nick speaking,

Continuing on from my 'Tyranid 'Loc List' is back!' post, and it's time to get the army on the table. Here is a battle report of the list up against my arch enemy, Blood Angels. I was also very excited to be able to see my Laser Cut Card Cyborg Statis Tomb 'Bastion' on the table for the first time...

Stinger Hive Fleet 'Loc List' v1

HQ

1 x Hive Tyrant/2x Devourers/Hive Commander/Wings (250)

1 x Hive Tyrant/2x Devourers/Wings (230)

TROOPS

5 x Warriors/4x Deathspitter/1x Venom Cannon (185)

20 x Termagants/20x Devourer (160)

20 x Termagants/20x Devourer (160)

20 x Termagants/15x Devourer (140)

20 x Hormagaunts/Toxin sacs/Adrenal glands (200)

9 x Ripper swarm/Spinefist (153)

ELITES

2 x Venomthropes (90)

3 x Zoanthropes (150)

HEAVY

1 x Mawloc (140)

1 x Mawloc (140)

Points 1998

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Necron Power Station Showcase

Nick speaking,

For those of you that remember my previous post, I had a 2,500 subscriber competition over on my YouTube Channel during March. The competition was to make a piece of terrain or a diorama on a 12"x12" board. To support the competition and to encourage the build, I also joined in and built myself a Necron Power Station for my table. The competition was a huge success, and I will post up about the winning squares sometime soon. For now though, here is the Power Station that I made, which is fully magnetised so that I can have it in different configurations for my games...

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