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 judgedoug wrote:

Anyone know of a more docile looking beast to use for Aurochs, Grox, or any other number of vaguely bovine ish alien meat sources?

I am tempted to use Squighogs from Beastsnaggaz as lifestock

I ended up picking Battlezone: Fronteris after talking a bit of discount from FLGS (they normally sell at RRP). The items are high quality with sharp details. I almost wish they had minor battle damage similar to Vertigus buildings, it would make them easier to paint.

If you build bunkers with intact roofs, you are left with number of spare broken roof parts.

The board feels bit out of focus and photoshopped at some parts and scale of graphics are off by couple of percent but it's fine for Kill Team. For 40k I'd rather use a neoprene gaming mat anyway.

I like how Fronteris buildings look but I am going to hate painting them without an airbrush. I am going to try to do most of the work with zenithal undercoat.

jullevi wrote:

I like how Fronteris buildings look but I am going to hate painting them without an airbrush. I am going to try to do most of the work with zenithal undercoat.

On the off-chance it's useful for you. GMG just did a (mostly) rattlecan and drybrush paint up of this terrain https://youtu.be/J9SBEiGjZo0.

It's how I painted mine.

Pretty much followed that guerilla gaming guide, rattlecan of blue over black and drybrushed, then weathered with oils and pigments

That's ace

Thanks, it's a great method for painting terrain fast

On the topic of alien livestock, like I said toy dinosaurs might work.

Reaper's deep selection offers some real options too. Besides the Burrowing Horror I plan to use, a search for the key words beast, animal and aberration should turn up some good options.

https://www.reapermini.com/search/beast

https://www.reapermini.com/search/animal

https://www.reapermini.com/search/aberration/latest

Here's something for Farmer Brown's to milk!



Filth Beast

Or something more mundane but still alien?



Clubtail



Or a nice coop of Dire Penguins?

Still waiting my order to hit Cairo. Anyone got pictures of it in the wild?

Mine are in various states of completion.



The "landing pad", or munitions bunker as I prefer to call it, is an odd one. They look good, but the top plate is this weird single piece that doesn't even come on a sprue:

That's a great color scheme HBMC. Still trying to decide on mine (along with the previous Ryza and KT1 Fronteris stuff). Now I'm torn between yours and GMG's bluegrey...

I did see his video. Blue-grey is my intention for the other two landing pads, alongside my Bastions and a few other things.

Basically I want to make them fit in with this stuff from Gamemat.eu (which, despite the picture below, is actually way bluer in real life!):

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Mine are in various states of completion.

Spoiler:

The "landing pad", or munitions bunker as I prefer to call it, is an odd one. They look good, but the top plate is this weird single piece that doesn't even come on a sprue:

Spoiler:

The landing pad is basically the same as the shattered temple for sigmar. The entire base of that was one solid piece that wasn't attached to a sprue.

Another kit that vanished into the ether without warning...

[EDIT]: Found someone else who has put together a nice set of this stuff. I hope the pics work.

Is it possible to model the walls with the hatches closed?

No. The walls are single pieces so the hatches are always open.

Given the constituent bits look fairly thick, has anyone found much warping?

No warping at all.

My only disappointment with the kit was that the dimensions of the buildings and wall sections don't allow you to easily make enclosures with perpendicular or parallel walls.

I might end up taking a saw to a couple of the wall pieces to get a better layout.

The Black Adder wrote:
My only disappointment with the kit was that the dimensions of the buildings and wall sections don't allow you to easily make enclosures with perpendicular or parallel walls.

Yeah I noticed that as well. The walls probably should have been a little shorter.

 Illumini wrote:
Is it possible to model the walls with the hatches closed?

Related, am I right that the bunker only has 3 shutters for 4 windows?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Related, am I right that the bunker only has 3 shutters for 4 windows?

3 for 5


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For four. The shutters don't fit on the one with the pipe at the bottom. So for each building you'll get 6 shutters for 8 windows.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
For four. The shutters don't fit on the one with the pipe at the bottom. So for each building you'll get 6 shutters for 8 windows.

That shouldn't annoy me but somehow it does. It's like someone had a nearly perfect bit of terrain and then just messed it up for no reason.

I mean the broken roof tiles could be spared, I have clippers darn it. But making a shutter isn't quite as easy.

With 3 buildings, I've completely forgotten about the shutters. Maybe I'll glue some on before painting - but honestly would probably prefer having firing ports open

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
For four. The shutters don't fit on the one with the pipe at the bottom. So for each building you'll get 6 shutters for 8 windows.

That shouldn't annoy me but somehow it does. It's like someone had a nearly perfect bit of terrain and then just messed it up for no reason.

I mean the broken roof tiles could be spared, I have clippers darn it. But making a shutter isn't quite as easy.

I can understand the broken roof, as they're compatible with and were released alongside the Ryza Ruins, but the shutters is a stupid one.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
That shouldn't annoy me but somehow it does. It's like someone had a nearly perfect bit of terrain and then just messed it up for no reason.

I mean the broken roof tiles could be spared, I have clippers darn it. But making a shutter isn't quite as easy.

The broken roof tiles aren't for this kit. No really, they're not for this kit.

The hab building was made to supplement the original Ryza Pattern Ruins, and the broken roof tiles were meant to go on the existing ruins to make them fit with the in-tact hab block more seamlessly. But as there are no more Ryza Ruins, you're left with these broken roof bits that don't go anywhere.

As for me? I'm just keeping them all to randomly attach to other ruined buildings when I make my Orky table.

Slowly getting there:


Gold done. Washes next.

Once I've painted the Octarius terrain I'll get the Vox-Antenna and Auspex Shrine, have to chop them up and add bits from Ork vehicles to make them match.

Finally got my big box this week, can't wait to take a serious crack at it.

Has anyone tried using this with the Gang Stronghold? Is there any compatibility?

Aesthetically they're a good match imo, dunno about modularity between them.

No compatibility - the Fronteris stuff isn't modular like the SecMech/ZoneMort stuff - but this should give you an idea of the heights that allow some melding:



So those combined are one level of SecMech terrain high, which is two ZoneMort levels high.