It’s been a little while but I have been chipping away at the labour of love that is my Necromunda terrain. In the first post of this series I outlined what the project was aiming to do without a sort of defined boundary to it. This is my attempt to kind of address that.
Any modular table needs a basis. Something that can be the foundations of a table on it’s own, perhaps with a couple of extras like scatter terrain added. And yet also with additions take it to another level, or look like a completely different area. With that in mind, I also wanted to take advantage of the idea that combining the MDF levels with the original plastic bulkheads made the bulkier buildings far more compact when storing. So was born the idea of a basic underhive table in a box. The box? The Necromunda 2017 release starter set box.
Now, for me, the minimum sized table that you need to play Necromunda is 3’x3′ and the test becomes whether there is enough buildings in the box to cover that. The table was short of 3′ wide but it was close enough to get a good idea.
A couple of the larger walkways there don’t fit into the box with everything else, and the odd bits of scatter you can see won’t be going in this box either. However, I think you can see that in terms of height coverage this works nicely. Obviously, there are buildings here that can stack, or swap layers around. So there are variations of build that can reduce footprint to enable additions of other buildings too.
So far it’s going to plan. I just need to keep painting and get the majority of this done. I have scatter terrain that I hope to be able to fit into the box as well as some plain walkways that are flat and already fit into the box.
To give an idea of how things could be added to this table to add to the narrative of the area itself I played around with one set I had been working on before this.
As you can see, it’s really starting to come together as a table, just slowly, and I have a fair bit of paint daubing to do on the scenery built and sprayed so far.
Until next time,
Poison Spurs 