Destroyed Monolith

[RudyPicardo]

In an effort to help out our local store in creating terrain, I present to you a destroyed Monoltih

Destroyed Monolith (Isometric View 01)
Destroyed Monolith (Isometric View 02)
Destroyed Monolith (Side View)

The reason for making the Monolith was that currently one of our local's store gaming boards only had the Citadel Wood and Hills set to use. I usually want at least 1 terrain piece that can be considered a 3+ or 4+ save. Thanks to a Necron player, he donated one of his older Monoliths. You'll note that this Monolith has been painted slightly differently. I don't know how to identify the parts of the Necron parts that well, but I'll do my best to give explanations.

First, I think most of you will notice the lack of green. As you'll see from this shot of the Necron crystal I went for more of a red color scheme. It was primarily inspired by the recent White Dwarf issue (issue 34.

On the Games Workshop site, I saw a rotating image of a Monolith that used a brass color for the middel sections of the Monolith. So I did my best to duplicate that color scheme. I didn't want to make it entirely black, as typical Monoliths are. So I base-coated the piece in the Foundation paint Adeptus Battlegrey, then did a coat of Boltgun Metal and Chainmail, to get that metallic look. I finally heavily overbrushed/drybrushed Chaos Black. In my opinion this color scheme is what a model with "living metal" should look like.

I do like the look of this destroyed gun used in the Gauss flux arc. I used a friends lighter to get that melted look, which suggested that it took a shot from a Melta gun or lascannon. Right now I don't like my paint job, so I plan on burning it again to give it a more authentic look. The other destroyed weapon to me was supposed to represent damage as the Monolith was destroyed (versus rolling a weapon destroyed on this model).

One of the most difficult yet fun aspects was trying to make this model/terrain a game playable one. First, I cut the model in half (or should I say less than half). That way I could make another one if I needed to or if this project looked terrible. Although I don't have any WIP pics, I made efforts to make the Monolith flat so you can put models on top of it. This included propping the piece on a several large rocks (which I found in a parking lot) and using an actual level to make sure the piece was close to being..well level. I also used the Necron Crystal and one of the other pieces from the Monolith to prop up the brass colored plyons for better stability. As you can see, I'm comfortable in putting two of my Sniperfexes up on this destroyed piece.

Finally, I thought I'd present a few quick pics to demonstrate the game playablity of this terrain piece:
Carnifex sneaking around to shoot at Ork
Winged Warriors assaulting a Vindicator
Termagaunts assaulting a unit of Orks (isometric view)
Termagaunts assaulting a unit of Orks (top view)

[psichotykwyrm]

Rudy, thats an exceptionally awesome terrain piece, both in concept and practice.

Kudos to you sir.

[Beardy_Wierdy]

Nice, very nice and a welcome departure from just multiple hills, trees, and Battle For Macragge crashed spaceships.

Makes me wish I knew some Necron players, I want to go out and kill a Monolith now...


And that vindicator driver deserves a medal, getting it up there.

[Triple Threat]

Wow that looks great! Rep. On a side note, what kind of wings do your tyranid warriors have? They look great as well

[omgitsduane]

Yeah its pretty nice, I just hope you did something to the other side of the monolith instead of just scraping it, I'd probably make way more rubble out of it or something similar.

[Hive Fleet Ruina]

again you amaze me with your skills in converting:happy: :rep:

[RudyPicardo]

Originally Posted by Triple Threat

Wow that looks great! Rep. On a side note, what kind of wings do your tyranid warriors have? They look great as well

General Triple Threat
The wings are "Dark Pegasus Wings" which I believe are from the Fantasy Dark Elves set (not sure because I just ordered the bitz). Obviously you can't bitz now from GW, but outside of other third party vendors, I've heard that they plan on releasing some "bitz packs" for wings in the next month or so.

Originally Posted by omgitsduane

Yeah its pretty nice, I just hope you did something to the other side of the monolith instead of just scraping it, I'd probably make way more rubble out of it or something similar.

Commander omgitsduane
I have enough parts to make the other half of the monolith. I don't have that large curved piece at the top (because I used it in this terrain piece) However, I essentially have the other half to make a similar terrain. I haven't figured out if I want it for a city or grassy terrain board.

Originally Posted by Beardy_Wierdy

Makes me wish I knew some Necron players, I want to go out and kill a Monolith now...And that vindicator driver deserves a medal, getting it up there.

Hive Commander Beardy_Wierdy
I have to give thanks to the fellow Necron player, Alex who graciously allowed me make the terrain piece. Giving up an expensive model (even if it looked like it was built hastily) is a big deal. And seeing a destroyed Monolith terrain piece isn't as common as seeing a destroyed tank.

In regards to the Vindicator, to be honest, I just wanted to put it up there to give everyone a feel for the size and stability of the piece. I'm going to say that in this situation the terrain piece was probably within the deployment zone of the Vindicator and was deployed there. What should amaze all of us is how 3 Winged Warriors managed to survive long enough to attack the Vindicator?

[kore]

Once again Rudy, great work!

Now, are my eyes deceiving me, or is that thing bleeding a la Cylon-style? Perhaps it's the crystal. I refer to the Isometric View 2 picture.

[SmokWawelski]

Nice, but I would be heart-broken to give up a Mono for a terrain piece. Of course because I play them, otherwise I'd do what you did here :party: