Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Why would they do this? Is this true or just an error on the GW website?

It was a good deal on craters so naturally they're getting rid of it. Not like I use craters much these days (rip Mech).

Old product retired?

IDK when the "moonscape" was introduced.

I remember a storm of complaint a couple of years ago when GW produced a set of craters and the detail on the actual product was much softer than the publicity pictures had led people to believe.

Maybe the moonscape is the same product, the moulds are worn out and need to be replaced or something.

GW recently have canned the Mighty Empires and Planetary Empires sets. Firms need to refresh their product lines and get rid of stuff that doesn't sell.

The moonscape were of a better quality than the Planetstrike markers though.

Still seeing it on the US site. But I can imagine them removing these as the sell out of back stock. GW has been moving toward a more crowded board since 6th came out.

moonscapes are pretty much mandatory in 6th, like tape measures

I don't get why GW don't inform their customers about this.

 fishy bob wrote:
I don't get why GW don't inform their customers about this.

Yeah no kidding, so people can buy them up. What happens on ebay after the fact means bugger all to them.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Old product retired?

IDK when the "moonscape" was introduced.

I remember a storm of complaint a couple of years ago when GW produced a set of craters and the detail on the actual product was much softer than the publicity pictures had led people to believe.

Maybe the moonscape is the same product, the moulds are worn out and need to be replaced or something.

GW recently have canned the Mighty Empires and Planetary Empires sets. Firms need to refresh their product lines and get rid of stuff that doesn't sell.

Yeah that was the PlanetStrike terrain they are different to the moonscape as they have crashed ship parts and objectives molded on them. I have set somewhere still in the wraping they used resin masters for the painted pictures but the actual pieces where vaccum formed plastic and they lost a load of detail and have a weird lip on the edges that don't blend well with the table I never got round to using them as they require a good bit of work to get usable again. Pity the moonscape is going they seem to have discontinued a good few terrain pieces over the last year hopefully there is new stuff coming to replace it as paint and terrain is about all I buy from GW these days.

Moonscape is still available on the US site. Already have two sets of it, wonder if I should order another one or two? You can never have enough craters, especially with all the exploding vehicles in 6th (which I like, whether its my vehicles or my opponents', explosions are always fun).

You can just buy these from Amera for like a quarter of the price.

 BrookM wrote:
The moonscape were of a better quality than the Planetstrike markers though.

Significantly so. The Planetstrike markers were God-awful. I returned both of my sets.

The regular craters though are great. I use them in most games.

I just bought two packs as they are really nice. I wonder if this is just a redesign and they'll just add skulls (well duh) and marine helmets and stuff to make them more recognisable as a GW product. With less in a pack and a price increase.

Unless the GW set is of idiotically better quality, just head over to a site that carries Pegasus terrain (like the Warstore) and get their version which runs about 17 dollars- PREPAINTED. Might as well pick up their river sets, too, as they are hard plastic that snap together -prepainted as well- for the same price.





While sets like the Gardens of Morr are really cool, I see no real reason to buy terrain from GW, as you can get better stuff for cheaper prices elsewhere, like sets of fully textured hardfoam terrain from Micro Art studios.

The pegasus craters looks like they were moulded off giant puffy nipples.
To be honest there's something about the GW craters I just really like.

Now that I have seen it I can never look at them the same way again.

Never cared for those rivers. Much prefer the Galeforce 9 ones. Now if I could only find some...

They sell crater moulds at hobby lobby. Five bucks gets you arubber mould that can be used again and again

http://www.3t-studios.com/archives/2805 I think now is a good time to make our own craters and make them better than any product.

Obviously, this means that GW is going to roll the Moon into Cities of Death. It will be called "Urban and Lunar Landscapes of Death."

People actually bought those? They're so expensive for something that you can easily make yourself. I should make a tutorial for the ones I made out of sculpley. You just make a bowl, smooth the edges down so it blends onto a flat surface, then smash it up a bit and bake it. The glue tiny rocks and sand to it, and paint.

 scarletsquig wrote:
You can just buy these from Amera for like a quarter of the price.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Unless the GW set is of idiotically better quality, just head over to a site that carries Pegasus terrain (like the Warstore) and get their version which runs about 17 dollars- PREPAINTED. Might as well pick up their river sets, too, as they are hard plastic that snap together -prepainted as well- for the same price.





While sets like the Gardens of Morr are really cool, I see no real reason to buy terrain from GW, as you can get better stuff for cheaper prices elsewhere, like sets of fully textured hardfoam terrain from Micro Art studios.

Links, gentlemen. Links.
You don't expect us to google these things ourselves, do you?

On the craters - I got a set (two sets?) for Christmas about 3? 4? 5? years ago. As DaveC noted, they have an odd lip, soft details, and to make things worse, they're pretty warped as well. I think I spray primed them, but not sure if I've seen them since I moved house a year ago. I know they never got finished...

http://www.amera.co.uk/product.php?range=z
look for z-250 and z-251.
cheap as chips, indeed.

http://www.thewarstore.com/product33314.html
4 feet of river. Nice stuff.

Still not sure why I did this instead of calling you a lazy moocher but in more creative terms - call it an unintentional new year's resolution

I found the Pegasus pre-painted ones to be pretty useful for 28mm sci-fi wargaming. Maybe I just got a good set?
YMMV.

 heartserenade wrote:
http://www.3t-studios.com/archives/2805 I think now is a good time to make our own craters and make them better than any product.

Great article! Thanks for the link!

Munga wrote:
People actually bought those? They're so expensive for something that you can easily make yourself. I should make a tutorial for the ones I made out of sculpley. You just make a bowl, smooth the edges down so it blends onto a flat surface, then smash it up a bit and bake it. The glue tiny rocks and sand to it, and paint.

I made some years ago out of the foil "cups" that custard tarts come in. Might have even been off the back of a White Dwarf article...




Automatically Appended Next Post:

 Bolognesus wrote:
http://www.amera.co.uk/product.php?range=z
look for z-250 and z-251.
cheap as chips, indeed.

http://www.thewarstore.com/product33314.html
4 feet of river. Nice stuff.

Still not sure why I did this instead of calling you a lazy moocher but in more creative terms - call it an unintentional new year's resolution

Thanks Bolo. That joke was already made in my post. I half expected someone to LMGTFY one of the links. Though to be fair, links and pics are always more useful. Warstore's prices for shipping outside of the US have always been a bit OTT, but that Amera stuff looks amazing, and cheap. UK shipping is often quite reasonable as well, so I definitely need to look into their stuff in more detail... especially once my Secret Weapon and/or Games & Gears tables arrive....

 scarletsquig wrote:
You can just buy these from Amera for like a quarter of the price.

Cheers for pointing this company out, some fantastic stuff cheaply priced. Never heard of them before!

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Unless the GW set is of idiotically better quality, just head over to a site that carries Pegasus terrain (like the Warstore) and get their version which runs about 17 dollars- PREPAINTED. Might as well pick up their river sets, too, as they are hard plastic that snap together -prepainted as well- for the same price.





While sets like the Gardens of Morr are really cool, I see no real reason to buy terrain from GW, as you can get better stuff for cheaper prices elsewhere, like sets of fully textured hardfoam terrain from Micro Art studios.

They look like they're flat too. We use a mix of GW and homemade craters, and they always cause a huge problem after with placing infantry on top of them, especially if there was a squad inside the vehicle before it popped. We could really do with some flat craters

They're still there? Am I taking crazy pills?

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440312a&prodId=prod1095502

yeah thats the american website. no idea why they're still there

Thanks for those mentioning our name and link. we do rivers too, lots of pics painted on our fb too. Dakka Dakka members have been good enough to share their pics with us so you may recognise some names when looking at the albums

Thanks again for mention
Jane from Amera
Www.amera.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amera-Plastic-Mouldings/339773496075836?id=339773496075836&sk=photos_stream