A Custom Order

The Army (ies): 

Praetorian Imperial Guard

Sisters of Battle

Bloodletters of Khorne

What was ordered:

• 2 bunkers and a line

• 2 large bunkers (1 imperial, 1 chaos)

• a set of hills with arches between that had parts that looked imperial and parts that looked chaos

• 2 forests

Commentary: 

Well.... I don't think I charged enough, but not because the guy didn't think he should give me more.  I kept saying, "no, no, it's not that big of a job."  Well, look at what I had to make!  It doesn't really look like that much.  But consider, first of all, that everything had to be made twice.  There had to be interchangeability.  You had to be able to get inside the buildings (and one of them is kind of three stories).  And let us not forget that any time chaos is involved you have to intense amounts of crap to get it all working.  You have to cut card.  You have to destroy miniatures.  You need skeletons!  I tell you, it was a real blessing that there was a whole bunch of Halloween stuff in the stores.

The main feature I was told to concentrate on was that the hills have arches large enough that vehicles could pass under them and so that's where interchangeability comes in for the hill sections.  The arches themselves are not attached.  Note:  for arches you want to put ground above and below the arch to insure durability.  I decided to go crazy with strange looking wooden fences to make the chaos stuff really stand out and I played a bunch of Dawn of War on the chaos levels to get my bearings straight on this.

As for the forests, they're pretty standard except that the trees are magnetic.  I put a plate of galvanized metal below the grass.  This is one of the few times I recommend one of those rolls of grass you can buy at the train store.  I had one lying around that I'd never touched and it came in real handy.

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