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I did the live chat thing and sent a customer service form, haven't heard back from either one yet.

Any thoughts on whether it's better to (at least partially) paint the terrain while still on sprue? I imagine priming and airbrush basecoating at least should be fine? All the bridges are in places that won't be seen much, and they can be touched up with the brush manually later I'd imagine.

Painting each tile individually... I can't think of a good way to hold them.

I was considering laying them out on a flat surface and doing the two sides in batches. Spray, dry, flip. Of course this is all disembodied speculation .

You're an ideas man! No bridge points to clean up afterwards and it should get the edges well. I find spraying on sprues to be convenient where possible, but a big table full of tiles on newspaper should work really well.

I've been using a can of spray from lowes that is (extremely) close to space wolf gray, and paint sticks fairly well to it

From Lowes... does that mean Valspar, or do they have a 'dollar' equivalent like walmart's colorplace or w/e you call it. I have great luck with Krylon, and didn't like the one Valspar I tried, although it was only one can and probably something i missed (seemed satin/glossy, and I always get flat, but maybe I didn't etc).

@Yonan there was a post on the mantic forum.. the guy was doing them like I said, and if you keep them all facing "up" or whatever, you can spray from the "top" and instead of being thorough and going in from varying angles you can leave that bit of shadow the spray leaves under raised bits. Adds a little bit of depth, almost like pre-shading, and it can be done even with a rattle can.

I think he was following that up with salt. Like prime black, salt, grey, salt, white, salt. Remove salt, pretty neat weathered tiles without a whole lot of effort. I'll probably be doing the sponge weathering myself, it seems a bit quicker (and quicker drying) than anything to do with hairspray and salt. That, and I've never done the salt trick, and am somewhat unwilling to try it out on shiny new DZ tiles.

I loosely intend to fully paint my tiles and then seal (possibly dip then seal, but the simplicity of spray-spray-sponge-sponge-seal is fairly tempting), and then collect them all into a pile before I start making buildings. Like not every single tile, just a batch at a time. Will probably have to file the connector sockets out a little bit due to the paint, but it sounds like that has to be done fairly often anyway. Dipping screams durability but it's a little more intensive than just a quick and dirty wash, what with having to spend a little more time cleaning up the extra dip... Airbrushing beyond the basecoats is out for me until I do some training, and I don't see it happening before I get my stuff, even if that is a while off yet.

It is indeed Valspar, the name slipped my mind.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I've been slaving away too. Haven't really "got" the system to the point where cool designs would come to me by heart, so it's all a bit all over the place. I call it Bunghole Station.

Looks cool. It reminds me of the base they defend in Starship Troopers where they find the cowardly general.

^ Probably only a matter of time before someone makes a replica of that using battlezones, it would be quite straightforward, in the film the outer walls even have a tiled appearance roughly equivalent to three of the half-size tiles.



Here's a version of it that was made using the platformer/ hexagon stuff:




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Double post, but I bring you a juicy pic of the ruins battlezone!



Should add a lot of versatility to the core worlds set since ruins are easier to move minis in and out of during a game.

The ruined tiles might be a good way to make a board thats good for an intresting game with lots of cover without it looking like a paintball field.

Definitely a more subtle way to leave the side or corner of a building open for sure.

Ruined Battlezones look good - I still don't know why I went in for 3 of them though!

Survey 2 will probably see me order a few more of the Fortifications Zone.

And at this point, I feel safe in saying that we all cannot wait for GrimDork to get his Deadzone stuff.

Haha, I appreciate the sentiment Alpharius, especially after the whole "Ralph" incident of yore

I've hardly gotten anything done hobby related since the move, so if it was going to happen to someone, may as well have been me anyway.

Initially, I wasn't very sold on any of the 3 variant BZ types, but they've all been growing on me. Especially fortifications and landing pad, they just change the look of the core set so much. Ruins will probably be great for having an "intact" building look, while still having access.

Ah.. thanks ScarletSquig, got me missing Starship Troopers now, what a brilliant game that was..

But some kind of cool re-creation might be possible once the Zz'or have been released perhaps?

 Alpharius wrote:
Ruined Battlezones look good - I still don't know why I went in for 3 of them though!

Survey 2 will probably see me order a few more of the Fortifications Zone.

And at this point, I feel safe in saying that we all cannot wait for GrimDork to get his Deadzone stuff.

Agreed on all counts! I think I'll be happy with my 2 Ruins zones, but 2 Fortifications isn't nearly enough. It's easily the best looking set. Oh, and another dozen accessory sprues, please!

 Alpharius wrote:
Ruined Battlezones look good - I still don't know why I went in for 3 of them though!

Survey 2 will probably see me order a few more of the Fortifications Zone.

And at this point, I feel safe in saying that we all cannot wait for GrimDork to get his Deadzone stuff.

I had been following his blog in anticipation and was very disappointed when he didn't get his.

You guys are making me blush. Or perhaps it's just the fever. I think there was a carrier monkey at christmas dinner, a lot of us are turbo-sick. I don't get sick like this, so I'm being a huge baby about it =/

I may have to get more fortifications too. I think I got 8CW and 2 of each of the rest. I think between what you get with battlezones/multi-bz-sets, I've got 16 accessory sprues coming (the $5 one, before the split... so 32?). I was gonna be bummed if I didn't get a crap load of those (they were running out) so I'll be kind of glad of (hopefully) getting everything at once.

Got a yndij from christmas crazy box assembled... dunno if i could lift a brush tonight though

C'mon second survey, papa needs an outpost surrounded by a plague zombie horde!

A whole load of not-Squat models to play games of 2nd edition with, for me! Bikes, Hearthguard in Exo-armor, normal Warriors, and a support weapon (probably a Rapier)

I figure that if I get the main set, the expansion (with two more bikes) and the new Iron Ancestor, there will one model I can't re-purpose as a counts-as, and that's the little demo drone, lol.

Awesome, it's always really cool to see squat armies being made out of the forgefather range, and bonus points for using 2nd edition too!

I made a gun tower out of assorted scenery stuff. Might shorten the guns....

That's interesting, are those lamp posts for barrels?

Is that what they are? I thought they were antenna or something. It's not like it came with instructions...

I think maybe. Forget instructions I don't have anything yet , but from what I've been seeing that's what they're for

Sorry to hear that. If they had done that to me after KoW; I may have had to use some frequent flier miles for a ticket to the UK....kidding....sort of. I hope you get your stuff soon.

Yeah, a general guide in the box would be a good idea... I don't want to have to sit at my computer and look on their website to put stuff together.

Cunning use of the lamposts there agnosto!

I'm currently attempting to build a building of vast proportions. Hopefully if it doesn't collapse under its own weight I will snap a few pics.

@cc I'm interested. I want to make a 2x2x2' cube so your efforts will be good research material for that endeavor.

Great DIY Agnosto! I think it looks better than the fortification gun tbh.

Ditto, I'm really looking forward to seeing some of that Z axis getting filled up.

Thanks for the coments folks. Do you all think I should shorten the gun barrels?

I think it looks good as is, it might look as good or better shorter, it's hard to tell. You could always glue it back on again I guess if it ends up looking worse.