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 Apple fox wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 SgtEeveell wrote:
New article on Necromunda Terrain on WarComm

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/if42sefc/custom-markets-and-crazy-conversions-created-by-the-necromunda-team/

Looks pretty good. Except for, you know, using hundreds of dollars of kits to create terrain.

To be fair, the whole point of those sorts of articles is to be inspirational, rather than practical. But, yeah, I think there does come a point where looking at these things and realising that you would never be able to afford to build them just becomes a turn-off.

I'm tempted to take a couple of those and see how cheaply I could replicate them ... Probably not the best use of my spare time right now, though!

individual each piece isn’t that expensive when you consider a full plastic kit should last a long time.
But to get a full playable table it adds up fast.

And things like the modular Zone Mortalis and Sector Imperialis are prone to causing "well, I like the project I have built so far, but now I want to expand it like this..."

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Apple fox wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 SgtEeveell wrote:
New article on Necromunda Terrain on WarComm

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/if42sefc/custom-markets-and-crazy-conversions-created-by-the-necromunda-team/

Looks pretty good. Except for, you know, using hundreds of dollars of kits to create terrain.

To be fair, the whole point of those sorts of articles is to be inspirational, rather than practical. But, yeah, I think there does come a point where looking at these things and realising that you would never be able to afford to build them just becomes a turn-off.

I'm tempted to take a couple of those and see how cheaply I could replicate them ... Probably not the best use of my spare time right now, though!

individual each piece isn’t that expensive when you consider a full plastic kit should last a long time.
But to get a full playable table it adds up fast.

And things like the modular Zone Mortalis and Sector Imperialis are prone to causing "well, I like the project I have built so far, but now I want to expand it like this..."

GW made them a box every trip set of terrain.

Necromunda has the misfortune that it started right around the time GW spiked the cost of plastic terrain. Used to be significantly cheaper (per sprue, let's say) than miniatures.

The idiotic decision that launched a thousand MDF terrain lines!

I'm going to try buying two big bottles of ABS like resin and printing up Print Minis terrain until they run dry. I know GW is doing quite well, but I still don't understand how getting platinum plastic syndrome and pricing themselves out of the terrain market made a whole lot of sense. It also stifled their own Necromunda expansion releases, with Dark Uprising and Ash Wastes being slow, difficult sellers, and Hive Secondus pulling out the terrain to make it affordable, and therefore making it unexciting and not a good deal.

Pricing is an odd fish for terrain, I’d guess.

End of the day they’re still pretty substantial kits. And you’re buying the convenience of highly modular* kits, which you know will be structurally sound when built properly. And being GW specifically? Designed for the rigours of game play.

Scratch building can of course be essentially free. Horde your cereal boxes, interesting yoghurt pots etc, and then make whatever your imagination can conceive. But, they’re easy to bodge right up. It might look great, but have structural weaknesses. Which can lead to models being damaged.

But as I think I mentioned earlier in this thread? The latest WD shows a bunch of scratchbuilt/heavily converted Nurgle terrain. Including some WIP shots and descriptives.

Sure, it’s not a step by step. But it is a pleasing return to the days of old. Mostly.

*GW really needed to push that feature more, instead of relegating it to the designer’s social media feed. Silly, silly decision.

Honestly the biggest issue with necromunda terrain is that it seems to be made with the intention to expand it, but they honestly haven’t put out a lot of add on kits for it. So you need a lot of the same kits, and a lot of work on it to customise it if you want the good stuff.
It’s also got that issue of it goes together in specific ways, and the tiles make you build it even more restrictive.
3d printing goes a long way for what should be the prime example of terrain.