Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Unobtanium Processing Facility from Garbage

Xenos Rampant has spurred me on to finish some long pondered, but not completed, terrain projects. The need for more cover has certainly helped motivate me to rummage through my boxes of "useful garbage" that I started collecting a few years back when I started the 15mm Science Fiction project. 

Here is the Unobtanium Processing Facility that I started a few years back, got frustrated, and then shelved. 

Before

It was lacking something, and too symmetrical. So I ripped the silos off and played with different arrangements. 

There used to be a company in town called Fram, that made oil filters. Somehow I came into possession of a Fram piggy bank made from an oil filter. The busy end, minus the plug to keep coins in, I thought looked interesting, like something raw ore would get dumped into. Careful positioning to hide the coin slot and add some Kinder Surprise eggs, and we have this:

After

The silos are made from CnC mill bit containers. I glued four in a row onto a piece of paneling and hot glued greebles on top. The pink things are from rolls of paper towel.

Some spray painting and voila!

I treated the processing plant the same, with sand on the base and various coats of spray paints, involving some elaborate masking to spray the white on the low building. The chemical tanks were painted in yellow and red to make them pop.

This will add some height and drama to my battlefields now, as well as giving a narrative reason for any settlement and ground forces to be actually deployed.