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Hi everyone,
I have been wandering on the forums here for a while but never got to create an account or participate in discussion / threads.
After about 10 years living abroad, we decided to come back to france and I decided to go back to the hobby i had left for way too long.
So here I am, I decided to go back to necromunda that I played a lot back then, and start a new gaming board for it. I'll be posting the updates here mainly to keep a trace and benefit from your advices and opinions.
Let' see how it goes!

So when i came back, I went to my mom's place and found those, from about 20-25 years ago :

So I started a new modular board.

So for the first one, i took an old bad looking bunker i made way back and started building on top. Now looking back at it, maybe I should have just started from scratch...

I was in a dead end with this, as the general shape didnt look very interesting, mostly because I was constrained by the basic shape.
So I decided to go up.

That was early september, then i got a 3D-Printer for my birthday, so I could pring some bits and pieces, modules etc...
Since i work in video games, i can model quickly anything i might need.

Then i got sucked into work and did not have much time, but I managed to make some scatter

Then i ran out of filament of course, so I had to go old school on some scatter military crates.

Damn, if those were what you made over 20 years ago, I can't wait to see what you come out with now! Awesome looking stuff, that table will look brilliant when you've finished it!

Thank you! im affraid i dont have much time available for the hobby nowadays, and i had to re-stock on pretty much everything, so basically starting from scratch again

And last week made some heating units/ smokestacks

Very cool, definitely proper old school underhive ambience.

Excellent-looking work, my friend. There can never be enough creative crafty types for cool basing and scenery in the hobby. I'll be interested in seeing what else you come up with and how it'll look when painted up. You're doing the Emperor's good work, son!

A note on thread placement; maybe this belongs in P&M Blogs if it's to be an ongoing project with regular (or semi-regular) updates?

Yes, that is the case.

And started to paint the scatter, crates and barrels

impressive work my man, looking forward to you progressing! I just got back into it myself, so i'll be looking for inspiration here myself im sure!

Nice work Jodas1.

Cheers,

CB

Managed to get some painting done yesterday

Really nice terrain. Surprising that terrain pieces that size survived so long in storage while you were away. Nice scatter too. Always essential for Necromunda. If you you're looking for more inspiration for Necromunda scatter I've made a few pieces you'll find in my galleries.

Do you have some players lined up for a post-covid campaign? So you still have your original minis too?

And started detailing the smoke stack.

Those little electrical boxes up on the gantry are doing a great job of sellin the whole thing. Great looking build. I'd happily shoot an unfortunate ganger off that ledge.

This looks great! I love the greebles, but you have some solid upderlying shapes that remain playable.

I'll keep a eye on this.

Thanks! The small parts are 3d printed, i am currently looking into casting them so i get a lot more.

Added railing for the smoke stack

This is inspiring stuff! I might have to break out my polystyrene and give buildings another try.

Good work on the terrain, the added details really make them.

Painting the generators now, i basecoat in black, then a mix of brown, orange, red and yellow tones. Then i paint recesses with masking fluid, and covers that with paint. Once barely dried, i remove the masking fluid using a very hard brush to reveal the rust underneath the paint.
Then add highlights and more washes.

Nice work your doing. The scratch builds are particularly well done.

I got a Ender3 earlier this year. I haven't done any Necromunda stuff with it yet, but I have found lots of .stl files on thingiverse for it.

I like modeling my own, but 3D printing is nowhere as trivial as I thought

Some excellent terrain coming along here, I absolutely love your old mine entrance.

I've been making little bits to print on an Elegoo Mars and it's been one of the best hobby purchases I ever made. The 3D modelling is a larger learning curve though, so you're well ahead on that one