Tank Tower

This buildings consists of a Pringles tube, a Necromunda Bulkhead, some drinking straws, foamcard and card. The balkony is actually suspended using barbecue skewers. I drilled small holes in the Pringles tube, inserted the skewers and, using hot glue, put a piece of card on top. Using balsa wood offcuts the whole thing got some more stability. Using another small tube I added another tanktype thingie, which further helps to strengthen things. I found, that whenever you have a round surface like those big tubes, you need something to get them more interesting. On this one I added a steel band to reinforce the tank, made very fast out of a 5mm wide strip of card, which has been indented with a nail every 5mm. I turned it over and used hot glue again to fix it to the tube. Then I drilled more small holes and put old screws in, which when painted don´t really look like screws, more like some important technical gadget on the tube. The ladder is from a model railway piece of rail. Take off the metal rails and using clips cut it more or less accurately down.

I tend to paint my Necromunda Bulkheads a little bit more intricately, as the detail on them is just too good to miss. On this one I added a small piece of mesh behind the bulkhead, and behind that a piece of card painted black. The effect is that the viewer kind of thinks that the part behind the bulkhead has been fenced off on purpose. The mesh has another use: no one can, accidently or not, put something inside, rattling around when transporting the whole building. It has been based on 5mm plywood, which gives a very strong base, that does not warp at all and is not too heavy. Using watered down PVA white glue, Kitty Litter and sand I decorated the base.

After undercoating the whole thing with watered down black acrylic paint (use the big pots... and a big brush, which helps define structure on the parts. Use several coats instead of one heavy one. In fact, all the normal things you should consider while painting) I drybrushed with silver. When this was completely dry, I used my special "Rust"-Wash to get a gloomy, long abandonded and possibly no longer working look. The base has been drybrushed with Snakebite Leather and then with Ivory, final highlights with SkullWhite. Voilá, another piece of scenery that has almost nothing of the looks of the original contents of the Necromunda Boxed Game.

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