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I'm thinking these pieces will nicely complement the Wall of Martyrs scenery.

Unexciting but appropriate.

Best terrain feature is that theres no skulls or Aquilas logos spam! I spend ages trimming that stuff down!

Sector Frontera works pretty well doing double duty with fallout wasteland warfare and other games as well

Those walls!



I'd plan to buy 4' of them if I didn't already know it would be cheaper to buy a 3d printer...

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
So actual brainy thoughts.

This is….kind of cool, I guess. I’m most visually invested in the ruins and ad mech stuff. I like the sheer scale of it, and it’s gothic hallmarks.

This stuff, for the now, seems a bit generic for my tastes. I mean I do not by any means dislike it. Certainly it’s reminiscent of early 40K homemade terrain, relying as it does on simple geometric shapes.

I think I may properly get invested once I’ve seen a full table of this, and I certainly do appreciate the stylistic variety.

This pretty much sums up my exact thoughts.

Am I crazy or does it look like the opening "hatch" on the landing pad is about the same size as a munitorum container?

Wait.

Hold on.

Is that guy reaching his sword OVER the security wall?

What is this a security wall for ants?

Well that's $400 saved.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Wait.

Hold on.

Is that guy reaching his sword OVER the security wall?

What is this a security wall for ants?

Well that's $400 saved.

Yeah, but you'd still be safe. It's got spikes on it so by video game logic anyone touching it would suffer instant death.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Wait.

Hold on.

Is that guy reaching his sword OVER the security wall?

What is this a security wall for ants?

Well that's $400 saved.

It's not a wall, it's a stockade . It's meant to keep the grox in not genestealers out.

He's using his chainsword to trim down the spiky bits, it's about safety!

New idea: Space Marine chapter who do topiary with their chainswords in their down time.

 krijthebold wrote:
He's using his chainsword to trim down the spiky bits, it's about safety!

New idea: Space Marine chapter who do topiary with their chainswords in their down time.

Emperor's Trimmers?

Hm, yes. Or perhaps the Shrubbery Angels.

Obviously the Knights of Ni!

Someone is going to lean down to check LOS and poke their eye out on those spikes. I thought GW learned their lesson with that big spikey AOS chaos castle.

Well this is great The "landing pad" looks like a way to do an old school hill, without making it a series of green flocked platforms

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Wait.

Hold on.

Is that guy reaching his sword OVER the security wall?

What is this a security wall for ants?

Well that's $400 saved.

It's not a wall, it's a stockade . It's meant to keep the grox in not genestealers out.

"Build me a security wall."
"How big we talking boss?"
"I'm thinking something that'll like mildly convenience a potential intruder, as long as he's like not too eager to get in."
"You mean something that might stop a middle school student as long as he's not that good at jumping and doesn't have any friends who can give him a boost?"
"It's like you read my mind."

I think I need to see something actually landed on that landing pad, as at the moment it only seems appropriate for a storm talon. I'm sure a Valkyrie or storm raven gunship could fit on it, but if it obscures nearly all of it, is there any point?

At least this one has stairs leading up to it.

My problem with the Sky Shield was always that there was no easy way for anyone to get to the ship (yeah there are ladders molded to the supports but not really easy access).

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Wait.

Hold on.

Is that guy reaching his sword OVER the security wall?

What is this a security wall for ants?

Well that's $400 saved.

It's not a wall, it's a stockade . It's meant to keep the grox in not genestealers out.

"Build me a security wall."
"How big we talking boss?"
"I'm thinking something that'll like mildly convenience a potential intruder, as long as he's like not too eager to get in."
"You mean something that might stop a middle school student as long as he's not that good at jumping and doesn't have any friends who can give him a boost?"
"It's like you read my mind."

I grew up on military bases. Its either exactly what you're describing (or less) or chain link fences (which are hard to do well in plastic).

These are taller than the people using them, and have firing slits (which is something I can't say about modern military installations I've seen), so they seem fit to purpose.

Voss wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Wait.

Hold on.

Is that guy reaching his sword OVER the security wall?

What is this a security wall for ants?

Well that's $400 saved.

It's not a wall, it's a stockade . It's meant to keep the grox in not genestealers out.

"Build me a security wall."
"How big we talking boss?"
"I'm thinking something that'll like mildly convenience a potential intruder, as long as he's like not too eager to get in."
"You mean something that might stop a middle school student as long as he's not that good at jumping and doesn't have any friends who can give him a boost?"
"It's like you read my mind."

I grew up on military bases. Its either exactly what you're describing (or less) or chain link fences (which are hard to do well in plastic).

These are taller than the people using them, and have firing slits (which is something I can't say about modern military installations I've seen), so they seem fit to purpose.

May wanna check out the posting history of who you're responding to. Jus' sayin'.

Because there are internet wall experts now?

These look pretty nice. More like the kind of buildings you'd see in the old Rogue Trader book than the modern stuff (albeit, clearly not made from food packaging). I'll probably pick up some of them to make a sort of frontier town.

Voss wrote:
Because there are internet wall experts now?

Yes, but it turns out they were running a crowd funding scam instead.

This looks pretty great. I’m probably done buying gw terrain though in the era of 3d printers

I'm just happy NONE of it is ruined! That's right! Look at it! It's all in lovely, pre-battle condition! You know it's a frontier because it's not a shell-blasted craphole yet.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Those walls! I'd plan to buy 4' of them if I didn't already know it would be cheaper to buy a 3d printer...

Pretty much this. If someone made this in 3d print and made a STL of it people would be like " meh its alright but its not GW" or if someone scratched built it it would look fantastic. But as a plastic terrain set, its kinda Meh.

I really miss people building their own terrain. I know it's been a great move for GW making terrain, but I miss that aspect of the hobby. I really miss the old GW store terrain when it was made by someone who cared and gave a feth. Now it's all "if it's not on the shelf we can't sell it in the store". That's the same reasoning they had back in the day about FW stuff, it's technically GW product but not readily available so it was a no go.

It's nice but kinda lazy and safe design is my TL;DR

Edit oh yeah and yes it not being in ruins is a HUGE bonus GW.

I've been waiting for them to do more Fronteris scenery. I like it and want to use it for my Necromunda Ashe Waste board.

I guess Rampart has GW running scared.

Don't like the looks of this terrain though. The radar looks like it was made from an erector set and the "bunker" is boring.

 FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Those walls! I'd plan to buy 4' of them if I didn't already know it would be cheaper to buy a 3d printer...

Pretty much this. If someone made this in 3d print and made a STL of it people would be like " meh its alright but its not GW" or if someone scratched built it it would look fantastic. But as a plastic terrain set, its kinda Meh.

I really miss people building their own terrain. I know it's been a great move for GW making terrain, but I miss that aspect of the hobby. I really miss the old GW store terrain when it was made by someone who cared and gave a feth. Now it's all "if it's not on the shelf we can't sell it in the store". That's the same reasoning they had back in the day about FW stuff, it's technically GW product but not readily available so it was a no go.

It's nice but kinda lazy and safe design is my TL;DR

Edit oh yeah and yes it not being in ruins is a HUGE bonus GW.

I still have the templates from White Dwarf for the small emplacements with the connecting walkway. I made some back in the day from cereal boxes and it was quite fun to put them together in different combinations and add towers but it was always the time and trying to convince partners that the boxes were being hoarded for a perfectly valid reason...

I do still hoard the 2nd Ed card bunker from WD 169 as well.

As for the wall, maybe it's a repurposed garden wall. A 40K version of a white picket fence outside a pioneers log cabin.


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 Stormonu wrote:
I guess Rampart has GW running scared.

Don't like the looks of this terrain though. The radar looks like it was made from an erector set and the "bunker" is boring.

The bunker being boring doesn't bother me. Like the Rhino, something that can be churned out in large numbers with no fanciness

I am not a fan of that radar tower though.