As I've mentioned in previous posts, a lot of the terrain i've made (buildings and structures) is based around rectangular, 'standard template' panels. It has some handy advantages such as uniformity, straight edges, scalability (just add more panels) and looks ok - if somewhat plain unless you throw your bitz box at them.
When used on the tabletop they appear to me to be quite stark. Not necessarily out of place, but kind of 'immediate' out of the landscape. This is fine and fits my own vision of a grimdark out-post on some gritty imperial backwater.
Perhaps it's worker housing for a refuelling way station between large settlements. Maybe it's a small administrative settlement for a nearby mine. Perhaps it controls one of a thousand valves for a promethium pipeline that spans the globe. The 40k equivalent of a service station in the middle of nowhere.
Why am I thinking about this? Well on the weekend i watched 'red sparrow' which was not to my taste ('heavy handed and obvious' i believe was my immediate review upon leaving the theatre; 'jam-packed with stereotypes, ham-fisted and lazily written' with further retrospect).
Anyway there were a couple of excellent camera shots of 'russian apartment buildings' (which i haven't been able to find as yet).
This reminded me of my terrain (or vice versa). The ones in the film really popped out of the flat, snowy ground; obviously the perspective was a chosen one and i'm sure a mcdonalds was just out of camera shot.
Anyway, if i hadn't already made some terrain like this i would have. They're also not entirely dissimilar to some of the old style Epic building, though those are more arch-y obviously.
There's inspiration everywhere; even in lousy flicks.
Update 2020-06-01 (yep 2 years on, time flies): Just watched the 2019 miniseries Chenobyl. Lots of snippets of similar architecture shown in there. So stark.
Until next time...
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