Tech Bazaar Project 01 - Already Out Of Control

A few years ago I saw these amazing images of an INQ28 game that was on a beautiful board that had a little flea market area with Mechanicus type scraps and stuff. It was inspiring and I saved the picture with the tables full of stuff for my tablet's desktop image (it's been that image ever since). I started collecting bits (like, a micro-ton of bits) to do something similar eventually- well eventually has arrived...

I finished a Breakstone fruit and cottage cheese snack a couple weeks ago and decided I should use the larger side of the container for another 'shed' type of terrain piece (the original version is here). This time, though, I decided to try it on the side so it would be open to fit a couple of minis inside so they could have cover. 

Then I realized that it could be a little workshop or something and from there it was clear that the time to do the 'tech flea market' was nigh. I set about getting a CD for the base and some giftcards to help level the container because I liked the tiny step up from the lip. I used some fancyplasticard for the roof (it was my first time using this stuff and it's great but I didn't take into consideration the slope of the Breakstone container when I measured the size for it, but it looks ok). But other parts of the flea market (now redubbed 'bazaar') also began to take shape because the creative fever was now running rampant!

One of the other CD bases will have a 'relay tower' that's still a work in progress. Some finger-stick things are the base of the tower with a hard plastic straw for the main bit of tower. The top is an oxygen tube connector with a random radar dish-like bit from who knows where.

There are many denizens of the tech bazaar that needed to be made because I don't have enough in the already mountainous pile of opportunity... These two big fellas will be giant servitor-type guys (both from old board games- the left guy from Battleball and the right guy from Heroscape).

Next are these three- the big guy is tangentially related as a 'cyber-knight' or something. He's getting a chainsaw polearm and a couple of servoskull squires; the twin figures are planned to be functionary types who run the bazaar.

Then there was the wish to get something that looks a little like one of those GW Necromunda terrain things. I have been saving up those plastic fruit cup things for generations. They've mostly been used to mix glue or paint but this one is the first to be flipped over and get stuff glued to it to be a techno-thingy that looks pretty cool and can easily be plopped down wherever it's needed. 

This other standalone piece is made up of two different test strip containers, some sprue lengths, and a couple of plastic flagpole tubes... The picture makes them look taller than they are- the taller one is not quite 3 inches tall.

A couple of other pieces that came together in this initial flurry of construction are a 'data stash' and a a 'hover barrow' robot cart thing. The data stash has a slightly raised base made from the base of an LED click light, the table was the end stopper from some tube thing, there's a cap from a glue pen with a plastic pearl on top and two more lengths of the little plastic flagpoles. All the data things are just bits from all over the place.

For the hover barrow, the cargo area is made from a tiny container for foldable scissors. The hover chassis is a windshield wiper adaptor piece and there's part of an airplane model kit. There are some strips of sprue as the bumpers on the sides and the cargo is made up of several plastic pieces I don't know where they came from.

Primed converted figures. From left to right- there was a Kickstarter for robots with giant heads a few years back, that's where this body came from with a head from an old metal figure. the two functionary guys from Heroclix got headswaps and different left hands and some sort of cybernetic back wings. A simple headswap to join the Cthood repairt crew.

Here's what the whole mess of stuff looks like at the time of this writing. There will definitely be more to come...