Epic Buildings Using Hawk Wargames Free Graphics

While watching the Olympics last night, I thought I would put together a few buildings for Epic. I have long since traded my original Epic buildings, and you have to have a cold, heartless, oppressive Imperial City to fight over, so I decided to repurpose the the Hawk Wargames free building facades for the good of the Emperor.

A while back, Hawk Wargames released pdf's of their artwork for what would become their card buildings for Dropzone Commander. These shots below are of the card buildings released.  

But as Dropzone Commander is 10mm, the buildings are just too big. So I used the original artwork, scaled it to 60% and voila, its ready to go.

The facades were printed on a laser printer, cut out, and fixed with spray fix to a building box cut out of foamcore or gator board. I made the first couple with gator board, but for such small buildings the increased structural rigidity is not needed and it is a real drawback to speed, cutting and burning through knife blades. 

So we (me and the boy) switched to foam core and started rocking out building shells.

Here are the first 7 buildings guarded by my recently finished Ultramarines:

Since I can print these out at will, I can have as large a city as I need. I have 8 buildings, and about 30 more printed out. 

I have some predators, drop pods, the rest of my bike company, and some titans to complete, then I am gonna work on enough terrain to fill a 6x8 table. I have a pretty good start with my JR Miniatures terrain, I need new roads, rivers, urban layered terrain and some additional hills.

  

Dropzone Commander - Can it be more epic than Epic 40k?

Well, I have been watching this develop, along with many people who have a very soft spot in their hearts for the classic GW Epic 40k game.
I have spoken of my love for EPIC Space Marine. I have boxes full of painted and unpainted Epic minis. So a well supported sci fi ground combat game is right up my alley.

Then a few months ago the images for Dropzone Commander started coming out. First in ones and twos, then one a day on the Dropzone Facebook page. Now some stunning atmospheric shots of the armies form the Hawk Wargames website. And preorders for the minis are up there as well as a favorite US online store, The Warstore. Here are some of those shots:

It doesn't get better than that for eye candy. Simply stunning, and apparently the buildings are going to be released as customizable as well. the figs are 10mm. So bigger than epic and Microarmor, but smaller than Flames of War. You get the picture.

Not much is known about force sizes, costs of armies and mechanics of the game. And that's too bad. I think maybe how cool the minis are, was too much to keep to themselves at Hawk Wargames. And the rules themselves weren't ready. So now Hawk is having to answer too many questions and is distrated from getting the complete package together to sell. Hard to keep minis this cool under wraps, but I wish they had. I hope it isn't detrimental to the overall system.

I have immense respect for Frontline Gamer and he has done a great review of where things sit right now with the game. I would encourage you to take a look at his article.

Even though it wasn't on the options list for the BG's group game. I think maybe it should be.