u/JGrevs2023

Experimenting with a new to me way to make ladders from five mesh granny grating and popsicle sticks

I found some old produce crates in a recycling bin and decided those should become terrain. I immediately envisioned the scaffolding of ruins the skyscrapers and I think it works as far as dimensions goes but I'm curious what ideas you guys have for this project. It certainly needs a base and texture and I feel like maybe the first level should have walls instead of just open scaffolding. Maybe with Eva foam? How would you approach this project?

Making a tower from old printer parts.

Made a big multi level tower and bridge to go with my industrial Underhive board I'm making. These are the pieces plus some risers I'm making

Had a 3D printed tree that I wanted to make more sci-fi. So now we have the mechanicus reclaiming nature

We had an issue with mice in the house a few years ago and I just left these trees of rat poison in place just in case. I noticed the other day that all the poison had gotten dumped out but the little plastic sauce I had the pellets in hadn't moved. You can see in the shot the rat pellets on the cinder block and the plastic tray unmoved

I've seen no sign of rodents in the house so not sure what could have done this

This is near the roof of our basement you're a cinder block foundation FYI

But I don't have is an abundance of cash. But I do have is an abundance of cereal boxes, cardboard, and access to high volume printer so what better way to stock A necromunda or under Hive style board the only papercraft. Currently experimenting with some layouts. Obviously the cans aren't papercraft

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300pt Change Daemons vs 150pt Ogres and 150pt Saurians

My Daemon list is centered around Spell Accumulator and 2 Caster minions that can spam massive spells on repeat while Large Horrors sit on objectives until they go pop and then they can spam 6 shred attacks in the mid to late game .

Round 1 was mostly everyone getting into position and moving towards the objectives. Two objectives markers were claimed by the ogres and Saurians.

Round 2 the casters did caster things and popped a pretty gnarly shot into a group of chamelons and a saurian warrior inflicting wounds and shocking a large group. The ogre Devourer swung wide and reenforced the two objectives on he side of the board.

Round 3 lots happened here. Follow up magic casting as well as melee from the changelings dealt a lot of damage and removed several units. Change horrors contested the two objectives on the right while the furies flanked and the changelings further descended in the orges

Round 4 - a change caster got sniped by the surviving chameleon but one of the last ones ran through dangerous terrain to attempt another big fireball but failed. The fury disengaged from. His fight with the saurian veteran to stand on the backline objective. The changelings got a solid attack on an urge warrior to take the corner objective from the ogres

Conclusion

All in all a really fun game. I used some mimics as an area of dangerous terrain which I thought was funny.

Casters are strong and spell accumulator is a nice enabler. Being able to pull spell accumulator tokens to cast and then increasing cast chance with your own spell tokens is really good

Doing some experimentation tonight to figure out the right dimensions for a papercraft project. Seems like all of the scifi terrain I see is brightly colored and doesn't really fit the grimdark asthetic. Additionally, all of the platform and gantry type terrain I see is plastic and expensive or scratch built and time consuming

I am going to put some designs together and see what a papercraft board could be. I want to lean into the underhive/grimdark feeling but with tonights experiments I think I have a good idea for dimensions so not it's just a matter of designing the print files.

This could be a really interesting way to make a really dense board really quick and really cheap. Realistically you could build multiple 12x12 sectors which could be rearranged a lot of different ways. The biggest downside to papercraft that I have seen is durability and stiffness. But if you made most of the pieces (especially the platforms) from a single thickness of matte board or chip board, seems like this could be a really good solution

Experimenting with the idea of doing some DIY Necromunda&style terrain with papercraft. I haven't been able to find anything that has that gritty grimdark feeling and all the scifi buildings I can find are bright and colorful. The idea here is just to figure out shapes and scale but then to design it modularly with printed details (so what looks like a tunnel here would have pipes, wires, etc. printed on it)

Let me know if you have a source for textures or ideas. Forgotten Adventures has some great textures and greebly bits I'm going to experiment with