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Custom Dropfleet Commander 3D Sectors - How To
Hey folks, a short (ish) post today. Whilst waiting for UCM's finest, fleet TARP led by Admiral MacBar, to arrive I have been knocking some custom 3D sector tokens together for fleet on fleet action. After seeing the lovely Hawk Wargames 3D Sector kits available in the Dropfleet Commander kickstarter I thought "damn I want me some of them." So I came up with the following, they aren't going to win any style awards but as far as tokens go they look ace on the board.
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| Homebrew 3D Sector Tokens for Dropfleet Commander |
Some key things I wanted when making these was firstly to be very simple and quick to make. I didn't want to spend weeks building 30 of these guys, something I could knock out fast was going to be top priority.
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| First push molds of Dropfleet Commander space station sprue |
Secondly, paint jobs. I just wanted to quickly cover them, tart them up with 3 highlights and give them a wash.
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| The orbital platform is a missile sprue from gates of antares |
So I started looking at the lovely Dropfleet Space Stations sprue that I had lying around after last years Dropzone tournament and it got me thinking. Before I put the space stations together I should probably make a press mould of the surface details, it would work really well as city, industrial, military scape. So I did and here was the result.
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| Nuclear power station anyone? |
The images show the first set I did, they came out pretty well. I had a few sprues from other systems leftover so I started chopping up some bits that resembled buildings or silos.
They came together pretty well and most importantly they are very fast and cheap to make.
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| Close up on the push mold |
Then once they had set I used some very fine grain sand and flocked the edges, this aided with the transition and made it less harsh. Here's what they looked like after sanding.
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| Post sanding the city tokens |
As you can see they look pretty rough still, not to worry. The detail in the dropfleet sprues is awesome. I gave them all a base coat and did a quick pass. Took no more than 20 minutes to do the five above with a simple black coat in areas, drybrush metallics, blue, red, green, black wash then highlight with white. Simple's.
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| Two Nuclear stations read for action and an orbital defense platform |
Finally I tidied up the base edges with the colours recommended in the book for each token and I was done!
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| City-scapes completed. |
There we have it, cheap (if you have a detailed dropfleet sprue to push mold) 3D sector tokens for Dropfleet Commander. Enjoy.
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