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And the last 3 sprues have been reviled with some information on what might be coming. Looking like a must buy for me.

The next Ruin scenery frames to follow on will be Frame C and Frame D which will consist of broken wall sections and pillars and additional accessories that we can fit on the frame - at the moment it looks like bowls, pots, possibly a flying bat, possibly a raven, arm holding an orb. Frame E is a low wall section with large pillars and a long separate pillar for customisation.

Not feeling it.. I was so-so up until this last batch of photos. The accessories sound nice though :/

Wow, yeah...

I had high hopes considering they do some good stuff in plastic. But those ruins are entirely uninspiring. Not seeing anything there that tempts me at this point.

Valete,

JohnS

These seem really poor, especially given the source. Doesn't seem like they took advantage of any clever modular possibilities either.

Yeah, I have to agree that they're pretty underwhelming at this point.

Seems like you could rough up a thin sheet of insulation foam and get a similar result. And they don't actually look like ruins of something, just stacked piles of bricks and tetris pieces.

It works a lot better to imagine an actual building first, then create ruins that look like parts of it, rather than intentionally start to make ruins that look like nothing.

I think it looks fine. Perfect for scatter terrain. Plastic means sturdy for transport.

It doesn't always have to be some gaudy monstrosity....

I don't think skullgothicwall skulltower or anything like that is what people are asking for here - just something ...a little nicer looking?

These came out years and years ago, from Rackham as pack-in terrain for Confrontation: Prepaint Plastic Edition


more here
https://azazelx.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/more-fast-scenery-confrontation-walls-dust-dragons-teeth/

Given Renedra's pretty good rep, you'd expect something better than what's shown. Maybe they're just badly posed with a bad paintjob and bad photos, but it's not like the Rackham walls above took me long to do or photograph with my cheap-arse camera and they look a ton better than the Renedra ones at this point. Hopefully they're just badly painted and photographed, since I'd like to have nice cheap & easy ruins to be available. I know I won't be the guinea pig buying them until there are a few reviews with good quality images out, though.

I'm also a little wary on the angles of the damaged archway in the first shots. They just look ...off.

Yeah, after seeing them all, the sculpts are just plain bad.

The stonework doesn't bear much resemblance to real-life stonework. The blocks are too large for a dry-fitted wall with no mortar, and there isn't any surrounding debris. The confrontation ruins (which looks quite similar to quite a few old ruined monasteries and such that I've visited), or even any of GW's OOP terrain are much better. Ideally you have the cladding on the outside, and then parts where it has been damaged to reveal the rougher stones and mortar in the centre, creates a good variety of texture.

Finding good reference material for historical european ruins is very straightforward, and it shouldn't have been too difficult for the sculptor to take their time to build it properly, stone by stone as tabletop workshop does with their terrain.

Warlord Games' ruined farmhouse is more pricey, but looks much better, IMO.

It depends what you're after. I spend too much money on miniatures to think that "cheap" is better than "looks good" when it comes to terrain.

The painting isn't helping, either; something a bit more interesting than "black then drybrush grey" would have made those look better.

A resounding "meh" from me. Seen MUCH better than these. A swing and a miss.

The quality isn't great, but I'm hopeful the cost will be low. I need to order a boatload of tombstone kits from them, and I'd love to pick up some scenery while I'm at it.

Those ruins are terrible and a big missed opportunity. As many others have said, they don't look anything like actual ruins and the texture on the enormous stones just looks lazy.

Those look terrible. Super crude and bafflingly bad texture. I am amazed that they would show this off, even as a prototype. Shame, too, as they do some very good work.

That arch on the left really bugs me. It should have fallen over without the keystone in it. Just another detail that adds to the visual appeal of a lump of coal.

Seriously, why no vines or anything to add a little visual interest to the pieces? Why are all of the stones so enormous? The textures are seriously awful. Like the stones were quarried by blind baboons or something.

Gah, what a waste and frankly an embarrassment.

That's the arch that really bothered me, too.

Gotta agree with the general reponse. Is it me or are the lines of stones crooked, too? The bottom row on the first part seems to be sloping, just a bit.

So glad that arch is annoying others, it's bugging the hell out of me.

It looks like they didn't bother to hire an experienced sculptor to do them, instead they were made by someone with 5 minutes experience of using green stuff.

It's a terrible missed opportunity, especially when you consider how much plastic tooling costs.

Still gonna buy some sprues. Looks like it'll take all of three minutes to drybrush and add some silflor vines

They're no Limited Edition Skull-Shaped Rocks, but they still feel like a waste of scarce HIPS tooling capacity.

It might be worth reposting some comments on their FB site.

https://www.facebook.com/renedralimited/

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Warlord Games' ruined farmhouse is more pricey, but looks much better, IMO.

It depends what you're after. I spend too much money on miniatures to think that "cheap" is better than "looks good" when it comes to terrain.

The painting isn't helping, either; something a bit more interesting than "black then drybrush grey" would have made those look better.

I'm not sure if you've seen that one in person. I bought their ruined hamlet kit which is basically the same kit a few times over. It looks good on their website but a lot of stuff doesn't line up very well at all and the building is closer to 25mm scale or smaller. I use mine for Mordheim and built them as large as I could manage out of the kit but next to my Escenorma ruined village set, the two do not look like they belong together. They do however match up fairly well to the cardstock Mordheim buildings.

Yes, I've seen them in the plastic. Not the biggest, since they're designed for a platoon-level historical game rather than a skirmish game, but still good enough.

Another preview of an upcoming project, stone buildings.

Looks very similar to the Pegasus line but with more solid windowless walls and medieval flair vs Pegasus' gothic.

https://www.facebook.com/renedralimited/





And the earlier ruins are on sale now

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The ruins aren't bad in the flesh. I like that Tower.

That tower is decent enough. I'd consider it based on price. Those ruins look bad, and should feel bad. I can't believe someone paid the money to make a HIPS mold out of what appears to be a small child's clay sculpt.

The tower looks promising but it will depend on price and versatility of the kit(s).

The other ruins aren't exactly terrible - if I saw them for sale at a dollar store, I'd be ecstatic and buy a handful of them. The problem is, I expect better quality from Renedra, especially at their price point, rather than $1.

- H8

That tower looks like it would fit pretty well with the Pegasus cathedral kits. You could combine the two for a pretty convincing.. uh.. thing.. (maybe a keep or something like those big Bavarian castles?)
It's crazy how different the ruins are in quality from that tower kit.

Tower looks great, ruins are terrible sculpts, even with a great paintjob and a lot of care and attention (like in the pic below), you're still better off with some .mdf ones from 4ground, for things like Frostgrave/ Mordheim etc.

They're just not worth it for £5 per frame and just look like something you could make by taking a rolling pin to some clay, cutting out shapes and then scoring some lines across with a toothpick for the bricks. In fact, that was probably the process used to sculpt them. :(