The Rat War

By mgentile7, in Dust Tactics

In preperation of the rat war I started a sewer system. Tiles are basically 9cmX9cm. I will post more pics as I get them painted up:

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Whoa! Great work, I`m really impressed.

Thanks, I have about 26 sections cast and ready for weathering. I will makke another 25 or so soon or as many more as I have casting material for. Once I have a sizeable section painted ill post again.

what are you casting them out of, plaster, resin, etc?

fhaugh said:

what are you casting them out of, plaster, resin, etc?

I used smooth-on products. Rubber molds and resin castings. They work great and last a long time. The original sewer components were from anisty castings. I had to add the flat upper piece to all the components as the originals were to short for the DT minis. The base is a 9cmx9cmx 1/4"th piece of sintra (extruded plastic sheeting).

I hope to post more soon.

A few more pics.

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Wow, this is neat…

Lska said:

Wow, this is neat…

Thanks trying to get the next batch going. Hope to double the size soon. Then see what I have casting materials left for.

Some added pieces. Have more being painted right now.

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In my opinion you can start a mass production and sell them! ;)

Lska said:

In my opinion you can start a mass production and sell them! ;)

Would you be interested in some? Unpainted for now. Let me know.

As the new sewer rules have not been introduced yet I have played a few games with my sewer system using russian and german troops and the standard rules. The games have either been german crushing victories or a stalemate. Now for some reason my dice rolling has been very weak for the russians but when entering into close combat the germans seem to dominate most of the time. Anyone having the same experience or is it just bad luck?

The board however has been great to play on. I wish there were some more players in south new jersey.

Update board for Rat War

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Wow, can I come you your house! lol

Londoncopper said:

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Wow, can I come you your house! lol

Sure bring the beer.

All those sewer sections look AWESOME! If you could fine rats at that scale it would look better then awesome.

marcemtp said:

All those sewer sections look AWESOME! If you could fine rats at that scale it would look better then awesome.

Good idea. Im still working on more pieces but some details like that later would be quite nice. Thanks for the compliment.

There are a variety of rats out there, even the Lego rats look pretty good, although huge, but we have rat the size of dogs round here so their not unbelivable.

Miah999 said:

There are a variety of rats out there, even the Lego rats look pretty good, although huge, but we have rat the size of dogs round here so their not unbelivable.

Yes I believe some of the fantasy sites have 28mm rats. When the time comes ill look for some. I still have more sewer sections to bang out

Looking pretty sweet :)

Major Mishap said:

Looking pretty sweet :)

Thanks pal, too bad you could not stop over for a few games.