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Ok, Mantic say the DZ scenery can be painted individually, then treated like lego. The reviews I've seen have been mixed, some saying this is fine, and some insisting that it won't work. I have the mega deal (starter set and bonus scenery pack) and I don't mind buying more scenery in the months to come, so I'm tempted to glue them and paint them as units before use. I should mention that I won't be using unpainted scenery, so it's either paint and construct, or construct and paint.

How are you guys doing it?

I'm going to glue. I've played without and it works fine, but I bought tons extra so I could make pieces permanent.

When you played without gluing did you paint them? I don't want to go to the trouble and then watch them chip or bend.

We didn't. They were primed and had light paint but not fully painted.

I think I'll build then paint, so. I want to be strict about only playing DZ with finished stuff. It's a compact enough game that there's no excuse for bare plastic.

That's definitely the way to go. Not only are the clips to deadzone prone to break when taking apart and reattaching them, but it's hard to keep a paint job intact doing so.

Best to glue and paint in sections that can be rearranged.

I made this building without using any glue to test the clips system:



http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/569350-Deadzone%20Building.html

It holds together fine. I learned a lot over the course of building it, and found the ability to un-clip and redo sections as I went to be extremely useful. You can sketch out a design, of course, but seeing it in 3 dimensions on the table changes everything. I also broke a lot of clips in the course of making it. ($$$ out the window.)

My advice for more complex builds is to use the clips first, provided you have enough of them that you can afford to break some. Then you can see the final product and decide then if you want to make it permanent or scrap it and start over. If you glue first and decide later that it isn't what you really wanted, or you just get a better idea of what to do with your tiles, you're stuck.

Someday I may disassemble the building above to use the tiles for a spacehulk board, for example. Since a Deadzone spacehulk board would need a lot of tiles and so be an expensive project, that's likely to save me a fair chunk of change, even with clip replacements factored in.

 Vermonter wrote:
My advice for more complex builds is to use the clips first, provided you have enough of them that you can afford to break some. Then you can see the final product and decide then if you want to make it permanent or scrap it and start over. If you glue first and decide later that it isn't what you really wanted, or you just get a better idea of what to do with your tiles, you're stuck..

I highly recommend this approach.

The alternative is to split the middle, and glue up sub assemblies that you can put together in a few different ways to form larger assemblies, and paint them like that. Sacrifice some of the lego ability for stability, damage control and ease of use.

First of all: that building is amazing!!!

Second, after speaking with head of American sales,it was definitely recommended to not take it apart once it's in place. You can do it, definitely, but it's not recommended