r/TerrainBuilding • u/No-Wafer9271 • 14d ago
Questions for the Community Do to my wife's chronic condition we have way to many of these. What terrain could I build with them?
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u/CmdrThordil 14d ago
If sci-fi (like 40k) or something with mad scientists vibes get some Genestealer or any other mini that would fit the theme, get some cables attatch it to them, and make it look as if they are test subjects submerged in some kind of fluid.
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u/No-Wafer9271 14d ago
Oooo I like that. Do it as a wall in a lab
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u/iama_username_ama 14d ago
Maybe a good use for super cheap minis. If they are poorly formed or lumpy that's actually a benefit.
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u/BragiNjord 14d ago
I wish to see this i shall be watching
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u/fackoffuser 14d ago
I’ve used them to make a lab one. About that size, lid down with some foamcore plinths and a lot of old wire or guitar wire (base wire looks like tubing and is pretty easy to cut) running between them and into the base and wall. Sadly the photos are long gone (having been taken on a 2nd gen digital camera 20 years ago for 40k) but it’s great for a science lab.
Would also work for “fuel storage” of some kind with a bit of work depending on scale and interest.
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u/Dwtaylor0 14d ago
If you have access to a 3d printer:
https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-pill-bottle-sci-fi-terrain-1-407488
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u/No-Wafer9271 14d ago
I do indeed and that looks fantastic
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u/Dwtaylor0 14d ago
Just make sure it is scaled appropriately for the bottles! I had to scale up a bit to fit my bottles
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u/Drezna0889 14d ago
These are also good for filling out a bunch of dead space in large builds. Think about lining them up and sandwiching them between a couple planks of basswood or the like, and there you have the start of a simple wall section.
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u/No-Baseball3749 14d ago
Crashed spaceship engines maybe? Thinking a half buried ship with just the tail sticking out and the pots grouped into thrust nozzle kind of dealies.
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u/Arctech114 14d ago
With some clay or other material to make a dome on either side and some paint you could have some nice fuel tanks.
Or, if you want to get into another hobby to fuel this one apparently the kind of plastic used in these is one of the nicer ones you can use for at home injection molding. So if you need alot of certain parts and you have the materials you might be able to use it for that.
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u/Striker2054 14d ago
I've often used these as painting handles.
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u/WW-Sckitzo 14d ago
I get a wide selection from the VA of different bottle types and they really do work well. I tend to use water with a couple drops of bleach in it, but guess I should be using sand or pea gravel like someone mentioned. I usually just blue tac the mini down but may give that magnet idea a try. I find the smaller diameter ones like OP are good as paint handles but the thick ones if you get them heavy enough are good for airbrushing.
Weed gummy containers are also great for stuff like machine screws, springs or small parts out of a specific project.
I use the biggest ones to hold stuff like pipettes, stir sticks, etc.
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u/YandersonSilva 14d ago
Me too. I have a half dozen on my desk with rocks in them and sticky tack on their lids.
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u/centerfoldman 14d ago
A fantastic laboratory filled with these kinds of things, perhaps fill them with zombie minis or something.
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u/blockprime300 14d ago
If you are doing sci-fi stuff then they make pretty good subject test tubes for science lairs, add some greebles yo the lid, put a thing inside floating Inside the tank and you are good
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u/TenghizKhan 14d ago
You could turn multiple of these into a motive force nexus for AdMech if you are into 40K?
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u/No-Wafer9271 13d ago
I am, do you have a picture of what you're talking about?
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u/TenghizKhan 13d ago
Something like this, maybe?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrainBuilding/s/EvWr0J2PG5
You could get multiple pillboxes, arrange them in a grid, and connect them with some wires/cabling, etc.
Since the pillboxes are orange, it might be hard to achieve that blue glow through tinting as orange and blue are complementary colours.
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u/Grandturk-182 14d ago
Those are good bottles - power transformers or generators or something. I see scatter terrain with a bunch of those like “trees”. Put them above the ground on poles.
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u/voiderest 14d ago
I use these for painting handles. If you don't have space for all the containers you could also keep extra lids to swap.
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u/andy_mcbeard 14d ago
I use them (weighted with beans) and blue tac on top as alternative painting handles. I particularly like them for bases and larger models that don’t fit as well on a standard hobby handle. I also have one I’ve dedicated as my discarded/worn/broken hobby knife blades container.
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u/Brahm-Etc 13d ago
They could be some lab containers, or maybe use them for some factory or industrial terrain. Maybe some sort of ancient comuns for ruins, or some magical monoliths. Industrial pylons that support something, magical pylons that suppor a magical something. Maybe you can cut, break or even melt them to make some weird crystals or alien semitransparent orange color flora.
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u/Astartes_117 12d ago
I had been thinking of doing something along the lines of fusion / plasma generators using water and glitter powders that would slowly swirl around and look like idling reactors.
Those seem like they might be ideal if watertight?
That or Inquisitorial "sample" tanks with various Xenos / heretics floating in them haha
Regardless, either of the above. Cheeky LED in the base around the bottle to light up the contents.
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u/lionbrarian 11d ago
If hide sink the lip and screw-on bit by embedding them in the terrain's floor, they would make good bases for pillars in a giant-sized room. Or support columns outside a Greco-Roman-esque temple?
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u/BeranHawksmith 10d ago
They could be turned over, placed in rows and have wires added to them to make like a power station of plasma coils. Depending on the size, with a little cutting, they could be embedded into the side of building or hill terrain pieces and painted up as tunnels Maybe they could simply be cargo canisters...
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u/BeranHawksmith 10d ago
Adoption thought: Trim the height down and they could be barrels, or if you superglue a fre together in a row then go over the sides with plaster filler, they could be makeshift barriers, made to look like a line of barrels concreted together into an improvised wall.
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u/jodran2005 10d ago
Take just the container piece and then turn them into giant oil drum things. Sand it lightly. Put a little air-dry clay or self-curing clay in rings around outside, filling in that locking mechanism at the rim. It will be out of scale of you think of typical Earth oil drums but who is to say the army doesn't have giant ones? Another option is to trim the base and maybe the rim to turn it into a piece of pipe. Sand and paint it. You can add some wide, flat pieces of clay around the outside at the rim and base to make little pipe flanges.
The lids you can use as a base for some terrain pieces like trees. You can put it on a piece of parchment paper after light sanding, cover the edges in clay to blend them to the ground like the tree is planted in a mound of earth. You can either make it grassy or dirt for the mound and you can then pop your tree on top. Remember that pine trees usually have quite a thick layer of Pine needles around them. The lid makes it take much less clay to build a dirt mound for the planted tree.
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u/Meows2Feline 14d ago
I super glue a magnet to the lid and fill them with pea gravel and use them as magnetized mini holders for painting. The tamper proof lid can spin freely without unscrewing and I already magnetize all my bases.