Necromunda configurable boards Picdump - Part 2!

The terrain is the third army on the table, tis true. See below some setups + inspiration for anyone with at least 45 minutes before the game starts! Main thing I drew from this was that I need some big blocks of COLOUR!

Weekly Progress: A relaxing drive through the Underhive, Necromunda bystanders, Escher Enforcers based

So, who wants to take a caravan through the underhive? Anyone?

This board was initially setup to play the caravan mission, but turned out to be pretty well set up for other games too. At the time of playing, I've still not had the opportunity to get an actual Caravan mission game in, as the gangs have been fighting over the ambush site itself.

My cheap and lazy rivets Tutorial

So every scratch builder has their own way of doing things, and all work differently. My take on these is below, and my results are here and the easiest process to do them quickly too.

So I had a batch of stuff scratchbuilt and wanted the ability to make them have some texture, without always relying on material like PVA/greenstuff/Modelling clays etc to do so.

Necromunda scratch Terrain and GW bits

Height is what the Underhive needs, for all its low down, sump-slicking goodness, there's a whole world of pylons and vertical scariness for bullets to explore. Its a long way down from the high points too!

Necromunda configurable boards

Mixed up Mortalis and Necromunda.

Combine them people, combine them now! So I’ve been able to play a few games on this terrain and its getting better each time.

Weather me up - more Necromunda terrain!

Bring on the oils! You can't go wrong with some decent weathering. 

Gang hideout

So after starting a gang I realised I needed some more terrain in the urban space! So I had a decent amount to kit out a ZM, but themed stuff would be better. I decided that I wanted somewhere that I could defend in a Campaign setting.

Weekly progress: Necromunda Shanty and Mortalis 'joiners'

Not so much weekly progress but pretty much the only thing I've been able to attempt to get completed for a good month or so. Blame the family I say!

This was a Antenocitis gift from the missus when I thought I might enjoy Infinity (which, it turns out I did not). These flat packed buildings normally form three similarly sized stackable blocks, and they can be built quite easily. 

Unless you're me. I don't know why I think that force is a good way to get these MDF lasercut buildings to go together, but it really doesn't work. 

DIY Necromunda Mortalis floor tiles

So I made some tiles. Some pitted Mortalis tiles.  I'd wanted to expand my board, but not my debt, so I chose to use some of the out of the box Necromunda tiles into some filler ones for the battlefield.
With some Polyfilla and a bit of PVA mix and a press mould, I made some more flat surfaces for my terrain to sit on.

Weathering makes me moist...

Necromunda Terrain goodness!

Nothing brings a piece to life like great examples of natural elements (or unnatural elements) enhancing the paint process. If anything its also a great way to get some really weird colours added in.

DIY Battlefield. Final stages. weathering and games

So I knew this was going to be a labour of love but this has gone on for a fair old time!

DIY Battlefield, third stages

I made a fair amount more progress on the Snow board One of the main things that I see whenever a Snow board is referenced is the disparity between blue and grey tinting to the snow.

Normally when you see these boards completed they always have a very grey tint to them, and that's not necessarily the look that I would expect to have for a field of snow.

See the picture, blue sky, dark shadows on the snow.

You'd expect blue with ice, not so much with snow.

I ran a couple of testers to see if I could identify which look I wanted most across the whole board. 

DIY Battlefield, second stages

So this has taken a fair amount of time, but mainly due to this being stop-start. Doing this all in one go would be far easier, less mixing stuff, less building etc. 

I started with the divider section as a tester. this should help me see how things work and how the actual process would work. 

DIY Battlefields: Laminate flooring?

So I’ve been wanting a decent gaming table for some time so I’ve been through the wringer for what to really pick.

You have a number of options.

1. Battlemat + Table + Terrain
2. Custom tables with storage.
3. Single board battlefields
4. Multi-board

Zone Mortalis Ship Bridge

Zone Mortalis is awesome, a great environment and atmosphere, try it! My Zone Mortalis complement of tiles is currently sat at 7 official (6 painted) 6 unofficial painted. I still wanted a bit of a focal area, or target to aim towards. Hence a ship bridge.

State of the Desk; Sons of Sek TAAAAANKS, some scenery, and some non GW beauties

Tanks have been the focus over the last few weeks. Love em! In an effort to get as many of the core Sons of Sek guys painted I wanted to get these finished and working away. 

Soon I'll put together a picture spread to showcase what these guys should look like. Aggressive!

I'm trying a new paint scheme with my Chimera and Wyvern chassis' that took a lot of work. And in the end I'm not sure whether I'm convinced it was worth it. Wyvern first.

Tutorial; Cheap, easy snow for Warhammer bases Part 2

As the article about Snow seems to be extremely popular, I thought I’d make a follow up.

The prior article is here: a simple recipe for making snow bases for Warhammer. It’s a nice read, some good tips, and processes. It’s a tutorial. Obviously,

The snow mix that I swear by is simply Bicarbonate of Soda, PVA Glue, and Water. Nice and easy and cheap!

The tutorial covers how to mix and apply but it is brief in its description, it doesn’t address some the factors that I have finessed with this technique lately. So on to Part 2!

State of the desk; Mortalis, Dark Mech, Stormtroopers, Apocalypse

So the desk this week has had a nice tidy after a busy couple of days,

First things first, Mortalis. This was a real “I'm not sure what to paint next. Let’s paint that”, moment. There have been some ridiculously nice colour schemes for Mortalis. See here for the eventual aim (landing bay).

I went the route that suited me best. I wanted dirty, rusted and oiled, but with some semblance of unity. Black and silver looks great as the internal corridors of a ship, but with a little extra work I hoped I could add some more character to it so that it could be other things as well, a bunker complex, the bridge of a ship rather than the bowels, laboratory etc.

I also didn't want to take forever, I have 7 more of these sections to do.

(Slightly) Cheaper Zone Mortalis; Scatter Terrain

As well as all the Sons of Sek fun and games, I’ve been cracking on with some generic scatter terrain that will work for Mortalis, and potentially Infinity as well (although this stuff does look pretty gothic).

Some resources first, literally anything works for small terrain, if it looks interesting, grab it, keep it.

(Slightly) Cheaper Zone Mortalis; Deck grating

I have been searching fairly high and low for this and finally I have found what this stuff is called in the UK. 

Plastic Canvas!