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daboarder
08-06-2015, 06:51 PM
“Neo Australis is a high security technology park located within a bio-dome on the planet Svalarheima.

The campus houses offices and research labs for some of the most advanced tech companies within the human sphere. The companies represented on site specialise in a wide array of technologies such as biomedical devices, advanced materials and weaponry.

Campus security is state of the art to ensure protection of intellectual property and prevent corporate espionage. The corporate security firm North Star Securities operates out of Neo Australis, ensuring their vested interest in its security as well as a prompt response to any incidents that may occur on site.

The architecture and landscaping of Neo Australis is a fusion of modern technology and nature. Offices and laboratories are surrounded by the unique atmosphere and vegetation of the Australian bush.

By establishing a presence in Neo Australis you are ensured that your business will have a location that is both secure and within proximity of potential clients and partners.

We hope that you will seriously consider Neo Australis as the location for your research branch.

Regards,

Neo Ausrtalis customer relations



-Marketing pitch presented to prospective clients by the Neo Australis Strata.”



G’day all,



I am starting this thread as a place to collate the work I will be doing on my shiny new infinity table. The idea behind the concept is basically to take a mirrors edge like aesthetic and merge it with the kind that ingrained nature kind of look you get in some science fiction work and modern architecture.

Here is where the table is at to start, pretty basic and cheap starting point but I will be adding to it as I go, the first step after this one is to construct an ITS mission room. The idea I have for this is an “Internal park” rather than a room in the traditional sense.

After the ITS mission room is complete I will then be working on a number of road sections that can be placed on the map in a number of different ways, then I will be building new buildings and internal structures so that models can start getting inside for their battles.

The idea is to eventually start to phase out the carboard and such over time.



Please see some of the images of the current table set up.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/Arcology/20150730_182121_zpsbde7bt0c.jpg

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/Arcology/20150730_182129_zps2micqksu.jpg

Morgrim
08-07-2015, 12:28 AM
It's all very... blue. And white. I know you've said you're starting with a building and then more buildings, but may I suggest some scatter terrain of a few planters, just to get some colour in there? It's set in aussie scrub, so a potted spinafex (clumps of long yellow 'grass' material) and some tubs of kangaroo paw (thin green wires, some leaf scatter glued to the ends and paint the upper third red, a few clumps of long green grass material for it to grow out of) would help get some colours into it.

daboarder
08-18-2015, 04:47 PM
It's all very... blue. And white. I know you've said you're starting with a building and then more buildings, but may I suggest some scatter terrain of a few planters, just to get some colour in there? It's set in aussie scrub, so a potted spinafex (clumps of long yellow 'grass' material) and some tubs of kangaroo paw (thin green wires, some leaf scatter glued to the ends and paint the upper third red, a few clumps of long green grass material for it to grow out of) would help get some colours into it.

Hey Morgim,

Sorry for the late reply I have been sick and trying to write a paper for the last week or so and I wanted to give your reply a good answer not a rushed one.
You are right in that the table is currently very "high tech" with little to no greenery but thats partially because that was the cheaper way to get to a useable table quickly and partly because most hightech + foliage tables I see are a green table with high tech buildings, so like a forest table with high tech, whereas what Im aiming for is high tech with forest so to speak.

In fact my idea for the "armoury" or ITS mission room, is to invert the common idea of having just a building and instead having like a high tech research park. so trees and stuff in the "lab" so to speak. As to plant choice, I absolutely am going to be using aussie flaura including model train eucalyptus trees and the like. but thanks for the ideas for scrub plants.

here are some photos of the kind of things I'm using for inspiration.

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/urbantoronto-7185-24177_zpsjvsjz8ab.jpg
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/green3_729-620x349_zpsnel1guh0.jpg
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/green-square-melbourne_zpsmtioopo9.jpg
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/green-square-australia-garden_zpsht9vt5oz.jpg
http://pre11.deviantart.net/d411/th/pre/i/2015/065/9/c/biolab_concepts_by_tschreurs-d8km03u.jpg

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/1366848702GardenVillage-roof-farms_zpssaiz1zgf.jpg
http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/daboarder/8-e1425252337819_zpslribplry.jpg
http://img05.deviantart.net/0213/i/2012/169/9/4/life_lab_by_priteeboy-d53ziwy.jpg
http://orig00.deviantart.net/a034/f/2013/130/8/2/82f3eb7817dd0c89e28250bd97fc1c69-d64qslx.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b2/78/2f/b2782f664c09d331ee2a32ab210bb72d.jpg

Morgrim
08-19-2015, 08:11 AM
I think that will work quite well. You know those gumball machine type toy dispensers? Often they've got the toys in nice clear spheres that are good to repurpose for slightly sinister lab decoration. I've used some for a haemonculi's lab with tyrannids inside, but you could do it with plants like in your concept art above.

daboarder
08-21-2015, 03:01 AM
I think that will work quite well. You know those gumball machine type toy dispensers? Often they've got the toys in nice clear spheres that are good to repurpose for slightly sinister lab decoration. I've used some for a haemonculi's lab with tyrannids inside, but you could do it with plants like in your concept art above.

hmm yeah I might, I hadnt actually intended to put plants in balls exactly, was more just illustrating the style. BUT, could work really really well, thanks morgrim