Building Hive Rome in a day..... not quite

It fits nicely in the Cities of Death box.
 

        My project today started simply enough. We want to build some ruined city  buildings. So we got together, and got out our building materials. In which, just so happens to be from  Pegasus Hobbies. My friend got about 7 various Gothic city & ruin sets. The two of us started brainstorming. There is just no way we can make the buildings on the box.  I just want to add here, these kits are very nice and easy to assemble. My cousin draws up the plans for the fist building. Meanwhile, I am cleaning & assembling the pieces together for this large building. The foot print of this structure is 15" x 12". at least it will be when we get to cut the base. A three story tall line of sight blocker.
     



Administorium

Mausoleum

        Next, we decide to work separately, I start on a Space Marine hero Mausoleum. He starts on a administorium complex. The mausoleum has the same footprint as the first building, 15"x 12". And is going to sport a crypt and statue honor guard. The other building is smaller at 12" x 9".


    At this point we need to add embellishments. The ones in the kits are highly detailed and appropriate for a Gothic style world. Of course we will be adding some of our own details in to them as well. I believe, after these 3 monster buildings, we still have 3 unopened boxes and a large box of leftover sprues.

    The future is not nearly so grim for this battlefield. We will be priming & base coating  them next time we model. We are also going to build "totem/ badge" pieces of terrain. My cousin's main force is the Space Wolves. My primary Imperial army are the Dark Angels. So we are going to build wolf  & lion statues and add heads, or trophies, to them for major wins against our opponents. Also a space marine, possibly chaos marine, tomb.

   OK, hope you enjoy this little bit of battlefield buildup. I will keep you informed of progress in this & other endeavors going on here. Thanks.