I like how you’ve turned something you love into something new yet keeping the originality of it and giving it a new life. I think your Grandad would be proud.
You're grandfather would no doubt be proud to see his craftmanship and creativity survive and passed on. What he made went further than he thought, or just as he planned XD. When I have grandkids, I'd be telling myself, "I hope this inspires them to make things", and you showed it did.
This was very heartwarming. My grandfather painted cars in a body shop for a living. I have a Reaver Titan I have been building and want to paint it with him as I finally got an air brush since he is getting up in years and wanna have a piece we worked on together.
Awesome wok! My grandfather also made me a fort, I use to play with it every day as a kid. And I am in the process of making the fort again but with additional structures for myself and my daughter to play with. 😊
Absolute awesome project, youre grandfather would be proud of you. Inspired me to start a Project like this one for my self. Good Job greetings form germany.
My uncle made a fort similar that I eventually repurposed for 40k. After I grew up and moved out I left the fort behind and my dad eventually re-purposed it for my nephew. These things are amazing gifts that keep on giving :)
Hard to say what's cooler; space gothic knights or space gothic cowboys. Your first round of wash missed about 75% of the surfaces you probably wanted to hit, and you probably want to start with a darker wash; maybe 66% black and 33% brown. After the first wash I like weathering with a sponge and grey paint, I dry brush with it and drag it to make scratches, or dab it on corners to make it look like chipped paint. The only constructive critique I can think of is it still looks a little empty. If you are looking for more ideas, here's a bunch. Take the tops of the watch towers off move them to the ground level and build a outer half height perimeter wall around the outside with guard posts along a path leading to the fort portcullis. Print off more of those sentry guns for use down at ground level. Build solid towers with sentries/turrets at the top to replace the two watch towers. The walls of the fort would look more gothic if they were wider at the base then had sloped batters about 25%-33% up the height of the walls. Signs of beasts of burden being used; big round bales of hay, watering troughs, hitching posts. Signs of maintenance/mechanical things being used; tool chests, work benches, suspended fluorescent lighting fixtures, electrical power generators with fuel tanks and associated plumbing as well as electrical conduit mounted to wall to thing that would use power, air compressors and compressed air tanks with plumbed hard lines mounted to walls and soft hoses running to tools at work benches, hydraulic pumps and tanks with hard lines running to giant robotic arm cranes, or vehicle lifts. Evidence that this is a dangerous place justifying the fort; blaster marks on the walls, or maybe even arrows fired into the walls and watch towers. Evidence of commerce; vendor stalls maybe someone selling food (cactus and root vegetables), or weird animals and tentacles and stuff, maybe someone selling antiques, maybe some old hag lady with a table doing tarot card readings, it'd be really cowboy if there we some "ladies of the evening" if you catch my drift. Evidence of it being habitable; rooms, lodging, saloon, public baths, water fountains or features, tables/chairs/etc.
A lot of really good ideas here, however I think the transformation from cowboy fort into a imperium outpost was done perfectly. Of course if the cowboy theme was being kept then the ideas would be perfect. I do think you have misunderstood what he was trying to do here.
@@ForTheRoll If your grandfather was anything like most of that generation, he'd have been proud to know that fort still had meaning to you, and that you were still getting use out of the time energy/effort/money he invested into it in the first place. If anything, he'd probably wished he could have done more for you. It's an awesome piece of terrain, and if you post videos playing on it I'll watch for sure!!!
@@rowlandrat2694 If it has sentimental value to him, preserving a touch of the original cowboy theme may capture the intent to pay tribute to his grandfather. How much, if any, of that he want's to include is totally subjective. He's not going to build anything that doesn't resonate with him in the first place, so more suggestions are probably better than none. Space cowboys are undoubtedly cool, e.g. Firefly books/comic books/tv series, Cad Bane in Star Wars, the Rebel Moon comic books/movies, and countless other pop culture sources. Being 40k doesn't mean it has to completely stop being cowboy. Besides, ideas along these lines can be implemented in non-permanent manner, just the same as the crates and platforms.
Can you make a special fort for the Astra Militarum alongside with a number of squads from different regiments? I’m a fan of the Imperial Guard and Tau Faction is my 2nd.
Tactical and supply Fort surrounded by forested environment where a Chaos forces are going to a siege assault while the Cadian defenders alongside with a number of squad to platoon sized Guardsmen from various Regiments(Kriegs, Catachans, Armageddons, and Taniths will do) are willing to help the Cadians with their strengths for a defensive ambush while the Chaos are unaware of their existence @@ForTheRoll. Imperial Guard and Cadia Stands!!!
You can take a lot of time that you need@@ForTheRoll I’m okay to wait for 2 weeks and don’t overexert yourself sir on making your project. Also I’m from the Philippines and those Warhammer models are kind of expensive for me to afford as a regular middle class person.
I would not have done something like this, to change something as sentimental as something my grandfather built. HOWEVER, you did a great job and I think you should be proud of what you did. I do have a question: why are all your 3d prints green? Is there a reason behind this choice of PLA filament/resin or is that what was on hand or cheapest?
Really apreciate the feedback and thank you for your kind words. The green resin was just what I had available in my printer at the time, no other reason. 👍
I don't think I would ever had a heart to change smth like this. On the other hand, wooden fort is still there. and it's giving it a new life.
I can defintiely understand the hesitation but know he would have loved to see the next generation have their fun with it like we did as kids. 👍
Your gramps is 100% down with you 'up armoring' his fort! You're literally building on a great legacy! Awesome work!
Yes! Thank you! Really appreciate the kind words.
I like how you’ve turned something you love into something new yet keeping the originality of it and giving it a new life. I think your Grandad would be proud.
Thank you very much 👍🏻
You're grandfather would no doubt be proud to see his craftmanship and creativity survive and passed on. What he made went further than he thought, or just as he planned XD. When I have grandkids, I'd be telling myself, "I hope this inspires them to make things", and you showed it did.
Thank you. I know he would have loved to have seen it. 👍🏻
This was very heartwarming. My grandfather painted cars in a body shop for a living. I have a Reaver Titan I have been building and want to paint it with him as I finally got an air brush since he is getting up in years and wanna have a piece we worked on together.
That sounds awesome! Would love to know how you get on with it.
Awesome wok!
My grandfather also made me a fort, I use to play with it every day as a kid. And I am in the process of making the fort again but with additional structures for myself and my daughter to play with. 😊
Very cool! Love that you can do it for your daughter too 👍🏻
Fantastic video man. Incredible results too!
Thank you! Cheers!
you made a really stuning piece, this fort's legacy is good
Thank you 👍🏻
Great job! Love that you were able to repurpose the fort built by your grandfather. Final piece turned exceptionally well.
Thank you very much! I know that he would have been proud.
Absolute awesome project, youre grandfather would be proud of you. Inspired me to start a Project like this one for my self. Good Job greetings form germany.
Thank you! Should love to know how you get on with your project and how it turns out 👍🏻 happy crafting.
Lovely work. I'm sure you did your grandpa proud by getting this fort ready for another generation worth of play.
I hope so! Thank you.
such an awesome piece of terrain with such a cool story. 10/10 mate
Thank you. Really appreciate it 🙂
I don't think I'd have had the heart to chop up and change something so sentimental as this, that being said, great conversion!
Thank you. It was a little bitter/sweet but I know he would have loved it.
That looks so good. I love terrain that has a narrative element to it. It's so much better than L shape ruins everywhere. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like it. I totally agree.
very talented build, credit to both yourself and your grandfather.
-also like your little show piece at the end, great use of Dawn of War voice lines.
So happy that someone else picked up on the DoW voice lines 😁👍🏻
Great work.
Thanks 👍🏻
this was so enjoyable to watch thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you too.
Well done - looks great
Thank you 👍🏻
My uncle made a fort similar that I eventually repurposed for 40k. After I grew up and moved out I left the fort behind and my dad eventually re-purposed it for my nephew. These things are amazing gifts that keep on giving :)
That is awesome! So good that the next generation is taking it forward 👍🏻
Awesome video and I loved the narrative glamour-shots in the ending! You got yourself a new subscriber for sure
Awesome, thank you!
What a awesome way to Up cycling a childhood toy
Thank you 👍🏻
That looks so metal! \m/
🤘🏻
What an awesome build!
Thank you!
So sorry to hear about your grandad. But what a cool way to honor his memory👍
Thank you, I hope so too 👍🏻
Its impressive what a difference populating the floor out made
Agreed, really brought the piece together IMO. 👍🏻
can't believe your channel has less than 1,000 subscribers. well done man, can't wait to see how far you go
You and me both! Looking forward to the journey 👍🏻
Very nice!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great work as always 👍👍
Thank you. Really appreciate the support 👍🏻
Fantastic build, would love to see that piece used in a full battle report to see if they recovered the asset ....
Sounds like this I’m filming a battle report soon 😁👊
Incredible video, I wish I could do what you do.
You can! We all start somewhere, just try your hand at something and learn with each project 👍🏻
Hard to say what's cooler; space gothic knights or space gothic cowboys.
Your first round of wash missed about 75% of the surfaces you probably wanted to hit, and you probably want to start with a darker wash; maybe 66% black and 33% brown. After the first wash I like weathering with a sponge and grey paint, I dry brush with it and drag it to make scratches, or dab it on corners to make it look like chipped paint.
The only constructive critique I can think of is it still looks a little empty. If you are looking for more ideas, here's a bunch.
Take the tops of the watch towers off move them to the ground level and build a outer half height perimeter wall around the outside with guard posts along a path leading to the fort portcullis. Print off more of those sentry guns for use down at ground level. Build solid towers with sentries/turrets at the top to replace the two watch towers.
The walls of the fort would look more gothic if they were wider at the base then had sloped batters about 25%-33% up the height of the walls.
Signs of beasts of burden being used; big round bales of hay, watering troughs, hitching posts.
Signs of maintenance/mechanical things being used; tool chests, work benches, suspended fluorescent lighting fixtures, electrical power generators with fuel tanks and associated plumbing as well as electrical conduit mounted to wall to thing that would use power, air compressors and compressed air tanks with plumbed hard lines mounted to walls and soft hoses running to tools at work benches, hydraulic pumps and tanks with hard lines running to giant robotic arm cranes, or vehicle lifts.
Evidence that this is a dangerous place justifying the fort; blaster marks on the walls, or maybe even arrows fired into the walls and watch towers.
Evidence of commerce; vendor stalls maybe someone selling food (cactus and root vegetables), or weird animals and tentacles and stuff, maybe someone selling antiques, maybe some old hag lady with a table doing tarot card readings, it'd be really cowboy if there we some "ladies of the evening" if you catch my drift.
Evidence of it being habitable; rooms, lodging, saloon, public baths, water fountains or features, tables/chairs/etc.
What a great list. I’ll definitely keep these in mind. Thank you.
A lot of really good ideas here, however I think the transformation from cowboy fort into a imperium outpost was done perfectly. Of course if the cowboy theme was being kept then the ideas would be perfect. I do think you have misunderstood what he was trying to do here.
@@ForTheRoll If your grandfather was anything like most of that generation, he'd have been proud to know that fort still had meaning to you, and that you were still getting use out of the time energy/effort/money he invested into it in the first place. If anything, he'd probably wished he could have done more for you. It's an awesome piece of terrain, and if you post videos playing on it I'll watch for sure!!!
@@rowlandrat2694 If it has sentimental value to him, preserving a touch of the original cowboy theme may capture the intent to pay tribute to his grandfather. How much, if any, of that he want's to include is totally subjective. He's not going to build anything that doesn't resonate with him in the first place, so more suggestions are probably better than none. Space cowboys are undoubtedly cool, e.g. Firefly books/comic books/tv series, Cad Bane in Star Wars, the Rebel Moon comic books/movies, and countless other pop culture sources. Being 40k doesn't mean it has to completely stop being cowboy. Besides, ideas along these lines can be implemented in non-permanent manner, just the same as the crates and platforms.
@@drukawski Thank you, I really hope so too. Really appreciate the kind words. Sounds like I need to do a battle report 👍
This is actually nearly perfect rendition of the topmost landing platform from the novel Brutal Kunnin', down to the Centurion plate.
I'll have to have a read! That's wild if i've managed to recreate it without knowing.
@@ForTheRoll The orks who assault the forge world actually find the original Centurion plate and so the first Centurion is an Ork. :)
That’s nuts. That book is now on the list 👍🏻
Im sure your granddad is nodding. Pretty awesome, my man 👍🏻
I hope so! Thanks!
Can you make a special fort for the Astra Militarum alongside with a number of squads from different regiments? I’m a fan of the Imperial Guard and Tau Faction is my 2nd.
I’ll definitely see what I can do 👍🏻 what sort of situation/scenario would you want to see?
Tactical and supply Fort surrounded by forested environment where a Chaos forces are going to a siege assault while the Cadian defenders alongside with a number of squad to platoon sized Guardsmen from various Regiments(Kriegs, Catachans, Armageddons, and Taniths will do) are willing to help the Cadians with their strengths for a defensive ambush while the Chaos are unaware of their existence @@ForTheRoll. Imperial Guard and Cadia Stands!!!
I’ll get to work and see what I can do. You may have to bare with me a little, seems like a BIG project and want to do it justice 👍🏻
You can take a lot of time that you need@@ForTheRoll I’m okay to wait for 2 weeks and don’t overexert yourself sir on making your project. Also I’m from the Philippines and those Warhammer models are kind of expensive for me to afford as a regular middle class person.
I couldn't change it. I'd have just had to set it on a frontier world.
I would not have done something like this, to change something as sentimental as something my grandfather built. HOWEVER, you did a great job and I think you should be proud of what you did. I do have a question: why are all your 3d prints green? Is there a reason behind this choice of PLA filament/resin or is that what was on hand or cheapest?
Really apreciate the feedback and thank you for your kind words. The green resin was just what I had available in my printer at the time, no other reason. 👍
...you were meant to pass it on to your kids and grandkids. Instead you whip out a jigsaw.
Why would you do this to that beautiful piece of art your grandad gifted to you...
I totally understand that some people prefer to keep sentimental pieces like this exactly the same.
Huzzah