STC: Hive Terrain from Dimensional Lumber pt I

Okay -

Process is pretty well considered, and the wood is cut. I'm trying to build a good deal of cheap terrain out of dimensional lumber and stuff I have just laying around. I use laminate flooring for the platforms, plus whatever plastic lids turn up.  And junk. Heavy sprinkling of junk.  The laminate is 1/4" by 8" by 48", but it's got these notches on the sides to slip it together, so I chopped that out. If I were cleverer, I'd have found a way to include it in the design but so it goes.  To keep the decks at the standard Necromunda height of 3 inches, I just gotta cut it all to 2 and 3/4" and also 5-3/4" lengths. I'm shooting for at least a few platforms that can be taken apart and held together with either magnets or screws, and stuck in a box for storage and multiple configurations.

Today with a couple of precious minutes before work sans my juve and Gang Leader, I turned a bunch of trash wood from under my porch (and some scraps from the futon-turned-game table) into this:

Which will have a little more panache than this'n Nintendo-cartridge-on-the-half-shell bolted onto a hacked up 4 by 4 (like so):

Although, to be completely fair the entire process of mashing the junk together was fun beyond recounting.  I woulda painted it tonight, but frankly I'm beat. Watched Real Detective, instead.

The gunner's nest looks like this when primed with Krylon:

You can see where the mold release or whatever caused the spray paint to shrink back.  I don't think it'll negatively impact the thing very much.  Lastly, the 4x4 with plastic top and metal sides after a coating of Krylon enamel (bear in mind that although I think about these issues a good deal it's a process of discovery and improv more than anything else):

You could totally beat a Genestealer to death with this thing. It's like S7 AP3 and it confers Dubious Egress to any units that start the turn on it.  You'll need to buy the dataslate to have access to those rules.

Tomorrow I will maybe fiddle with the bases and platforms and work out a magnet system... Flush-mounted neodymium in the tops of the supports and washers underneath the platforms?  Possibly reversible?  See where I'm going with this?  I trimmed the 8' lengths of laminate flooring down to 7' square, and so maybe that's a weird number. I don't know how it will work out yet, but the good thing is if I use wing nuts or magnets, nothing will be set in stone!

And don't forget to remind me to explain my thinking on ubiquitous hazard stripes and whether it's worth it to paint them by hand...  With the thing I'm thinking of they'll be all over everything.

EDIT: I thought I was all clever and searched it up on google and somebody didn't just beat me to the proverbial one-two, but they also used LASERS

DAMMIT

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