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Just wanted to post a quick pic (not the best quality) to see if you guys have tried anything like this? And does anyone think there'd be a decent market for us doing custom terrain layouts such as this piece? Thanks in advance, we're always open to ideas/suggestions etc .. Jason

From Here it looks like you sprayed expanding foam on a base - needs more work before I could say yeah or nay as a form of terrain.

Not sure what its supposed to be.

It looks quite organic....someone would have to want terrain that specifically has that look, in my opinion.

perhaps if you were trying to make an "alien table" or a tyranid terrain table it might work.

For those that want that look, the demand would be high....tragically, not many may want it....

I've a few 'Nid pieces of terrain made similar to that. Expanding foam gives a nice alien look.

I'm sure if you do a little more to the base to make it blend in to your table then this will be fine.

slyndread wrote:
And does anyone think there'd be a decent market for us doing custom terrain layouts such as this piece?

Honestly... no. At least, not a decent one - there are always a few people who will pay pretty much anything for pretty much anything, but good luck finding them. To bother producing for the express purpose of selling, you need something more. The blobby, alien-organic (or volcanic, if it's a cooled pahoehoe flow) look that expanding insulation foam gives has its uses, but you'd need to do way more than what you've presented to make buying something in that style more attractive than doing it yourself, to anyone with a bit of skill and time on their hands. That, or sell it so cheaply that they'll count their time saved the better bargain, but you'll likely only cover your material expenses and little to none of your time.

It's not as though this is an inherently bad piece, it's just very, very basic - the base is a thick rectangle with no edge treatment, the face is untextured/-painted, the barbed wire (?) is a crude, sparse coil, and the painting looks like simple and rather stark drybrushing with an odd accent color. Even assuming this is a test piece, it would need a lot of work to be brought up to a basic tabletop standard, regardless of one's opinion on the central form. Speaking of which, personally, I find the form rather odd - it can't quite be explained as either an organic (dead giant worm? giant tree root with burls?) or natural inorganic (lava doesn't flow like that) object. I don't want to be overly discouraging, but neither do I want to encourage you to dive in to a potentially fruitless endeavor. I suggest building a few one-offs, to the best of your ability, and offering them up for sale while taking stock of the production costs, in terms of time and effort, perhaps even more so than in materials. That will give you a better sense of the viability of a more serious venture better than one or two Dakka members claiming they might or might not buy one.