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I found some interesting Necron STL's on Etsy, of all places, for $3 - so, I wound up with 3 interesting pieces of Necron Terrain for $6 in plans.

If I could do it over again, I might be a little more careful with sanding, priming with hi-fill primer, and sanding again. I got rid of most of - but not all - of the layer lines.

I don't have any work in progress pics of the actual Necron parts because they are very simple 1 piece prints with basic paint jobs.

Anyway, here is the build:



And the finished terrain:




What I was going for here was rocky plates that were shattered by the Necron structures pushing into them as they arose from the earth. Was I successful? ... No, not really. But I think they came out pretty alright. I don't think the final effect is amazing per se, but it's kinda neat, and I banged it out from beginning to end in less than 2 weeks, which is phenomenally fast for me.

Special shout out to the guys that gave me advice in P&M, like Flinty, Thatsummercampcrush, etc.

Those look really good! They're bigger than I had expected from what I remember of DoW - I think that's good. Makes them more practical in terms of actually playing with them.

Those big slab-like surfaces look like they took a lot of sanding to get them flat and smooth. An inherent weakness of FDM printing for something like this, but I can't think of a better method to make something with all the recessed details and precise chamfered edges.

I get what you're going for with the base making it look like it's burst out of the ground, and I think it works. Maybe hit the outer edges of the base with a lighter drybrush so it more closely matches the color of the surrounding tabletop? That might help sell the look that the base is part of the same earth and the pillar is breaking out of the wider surface.

Those are super super cool, honestly wish GW released more xenos terrain to buy like this, nice work!

 Wasteland wrote:
I get what you're going for with the base making it look like it's burst out of the ground, and I think it works. Maybe hit the outer edges of the base with a lighter drybrush so it more closely matches the color of the surrounding tabletop? That might help sell the look that the base is part of the same earth and the pillar is breaking out of the wider surface.

That's a really good idea, thanks!

The more I look at it, the less I like how the cork looks. I think it looks amazing in small bits but at that scale... I think it just looks kinda off. I really wish I had used slate now.

Ah well, there will be many more pieces of terrain in the future.