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So I was curious if anyone here has bought stuff from Zen Terrain?

I am tempted buying and I was wondering if anyone else could share their experiance?

In a nutshell:

Zen terrain provided fantastic customer service. The communication was second to none with many updates indicating the status of your order (production, shipping etc.). Models arrived in good time, securely packed with no broken pieces. The models come pre-cleaned and removed from the sheet packed in baggies.

About the models themselves: They require glue for assembly. Some models have very fragile fine pieces. Some parts may have a very tight fit. Tolerance on the parts is very exact. Some of the kits have parts of equal thickness that give the option to sit flush or recessed, but there is no retention mechanism to limit the recess making assembly fiddly. This is an issue on the military outpost, but seems to have been corrected for the food vendor.

I have the following kits:

1. HAB complex - This thing is fantastic. Good fit and easy assembly. 5 out of 5.

2. Military Outpost - This thing has some fiddly issues with parts that need to be manually protruded or recessed. The antenna is kind of primitive looking so I didn't use it. It appears to be of an older design and has some issues with ease of construction. 3 out of 5.

3. Conversion Kit - These are great add on bits. A caveat: The supplied antenna is fiddly and kind of useless. The air conditioners are NOT symmetrical, so if you have OCD like I do, don't rotate them 45 degrees. If the kit had more ladders, or sold ladders separately, it would be great. 4.5 out of 5.

4. Planter Set - 5 out of 5. I was an idiot and assembled one with some of the etched parts facing inwards. A noob mistake.

5. Food Stand - This is half built. The card portion of the bottom of the food stand is a pain to insert. Everything else is going swimmingly. The extra sign boards provided can be put on scratchbuild buildings. 4 out of 5.

In general. Great stuff. The HDF they use doesn't have the same issues with splintering that the Micro Arts Studios board has. There are no leftover gribbly bits for conversions though. At the advertised price, you can hardly complain!!!

Overall: I give them:

out of 5 possible

Here's a short review -

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/622821.page

I lookd at the website--uh, what currency is that?

Thanks guys for sharing! Was enough to push be over the edge, I'll buy from them.

 Jimsolo wrote:
I lookd at the website--uh, what currency is that?

Polish zloty. You can change it to dollars if it scares you though.

 Jimsolo wrote:
I lookd at the website--uh, what currency is that?

It's in Zloty - the currency of Poland.

Also, many Euro countries tend to use a comma where the anglo-centric use a decimal point (so 20,90 is not two values separated by a comma, or a number of thousands missing a digit, but 20.90). So don't let the numbers scare you, either.

Lol, I've got no fear in my heart. I was just curious about the conversion rate. (And I couldn't figure out how to change the prices to USD.)

Nice stuff! And starting today, everything is 10% off!

If you look to the left of zen's website you will see a small USA flag that switches it to English and changes the money to euro's

Just placed the order. I will let everyone know how it goes =)

Got conformation of my payment going through, they have vaction until the 26th though, so update will have to wait.

Just recieved my order. It all looks awesome! I'm really happy with the transaction, having recieved multiple mails from the company informing me of what stage the deilvery was at the current time.

Would recommend!

Nice to hear that you also got the same stellar service. Which items did you get?

I'm sorely tempted to buy the bike bar and the dice tower.

 keezus wrote:
Nice to hear that you also got the same stellar service. Which items did you get?

I'm sorely tempted to buy the bike bar and the dice tower.

I got three Residential Modules and one Military Outpost! I haven't assembled them yet, but they look freaking awesome =)

http://www.zenterrain.com/en_US/p/HAB1-bundle-pack-3/108
http://www.zenterrain.com/en_US/p/Military-Outpost/100

Glad to hear it looks good..


I've got some incoming, tracking says its in New York as of today. Can't wait to pop it open.

First one finished!



Very easy to assemble and smells very nice

Thanks for sharing! Nice piece of terrain, there. Now paint it!

 Reality-Torrent wrote:

 keezus wrote:
Nice to hear that you also got the same stellar service. Which items did you get?

I'm sorely tempted to buy the bike bar and the dice tower.

I got three Residential Modules and one Military Outpost! I haven't assembled them yet, but they look freaking awesome =)

http://www.zenterrain.com/en_US/p/HAB1-bundle-pack-3/108
http://www.zenterrain.com/en_US/p/Military-Outpost/100

Just a warning: The military outpost is a bit fiddly to assemble. The doors need to be edge glued (i.e. offset a bit back from the face of the building) to give the illusion of depth. Same with the light above the door. I think Zen could have designed it a bit better, but its one of the old kits.

The HABs are stack-tastic and look pretty awesome as a tower.

 kronk wrote:
Thanks for sharing! Nice piece of terrain, there. Now paint it!

You wouldent happen to have a picture laying around? Of a painted one, that is.