Some scenery for the 'Book of the Astronomican' campaign

The title says it all, no mistery left. I'm talking about the 'Chapter Approved. First Book of the Astronomican' campaign set released in 1988.

 

Short-haired Space Wolves. Never seen ever since

The campaign is set between Space Wolves and Orks, the Space Marines raiding on three power stations prior to the final assault on the Ork stronghold. They should destroy the power plants in order to shut down the Castle's defences. The campaign requires some buildings, so I came up with these. For the first scenario, the 'temple' (an oooold generator on which the primitive inhabitants built a temple) I made up this structure using foamboard:

 

Orks provided for scale purposes. No Ork was harmed during the works

 

It was fun, but I was terrified about plain walls. My intention was to provide some texture, to make it even the slightest resemblance to the illustration on the book. This is the slow step by step:

 

Grav-elevator. Fun to use

 

Some extra details were needed. Weathering, grass, dirt...

 

So this was the main buliding. Close enough to the original, at least for my purposes.

 

But then I had to face another issue, the big Ork statue in front of the temple. The campaign info tells us that the original statue was built by the primitive dwellers of the area, but when Orks invaded the planet, they desecrated everything and replaced the original head for a new one, resembling their own gods.

Using the illustration above as a guide, I begun to raise the statue to these amalgamated strange gods! 

 

I used a hollow structure and sculpted on it, using DAS putty. I used green stuff for the face and some other details

So this is the boy!

 

Oi! I'm kinda Buddhist Ork. You didn't expect that, did you?

 Once assembled, the temple looks like this:



Believe me, it's really big

 

Next day... Some more cheap scratchbuild scenery!