AT-43 Terrain; Elysian Ice Crystals

Recently in our Infinity club we’ve been working on a table using terrain from Spartan Scenics. You would have seen several posts of me building the terrain and various set ups we’ve had of the terrain over the course of the slow grow.

One thing you would also have seen is that it has a snowy mat, and we’ve been gearing up to make this set an ice world set. One of the guys has been making some slight icy hills for the board, but I wanted to track down some cool unique terrain for it. So I present to you the AT-43 Elysian Ice Crystals!

They come in two varieties, and each set as one of each; a small one and a large one.

As you can see they take up about 3”x3”, and we’re going to use them as impassable trees; so low vis and saturation zone but you can’t move through them.

Much like the bunker, these guys are really difficult to track down, but I managed to find a couple of sources to get some for myself and the club.

I did not go overboard I swear

Cheers!

dulydude

Necromunda Terrain Part 5

And the Necromunda scatter terrain continues (at last!)!!!

First up, the final 3 types of scatter; ok, I know I said two, but I realised that my plan wouldn’t work without buying more GW parts which I had no desire to do, and also allowed me to make them functional for Necromunda (and to some extent with all the terrain for Infinity). So I made three pieces, in duplicate of course!!!

And also based!!!

So we have a long crate on the ground with a couple of fuel cans, will provide some good soft cover. And along with it that strange cylinder like canister from the battlefield accessories pack, which also provides soft cover. And lastly we have the pallet with a box on it, provides soft or heavy cover based on the angle, and you can also stand on top of it to gain soft cover. Tempted to make it a house rule that if a loot token is on top of the box you have to climb on top of the pallet to get it!

Cypher and the Kempeitai were on holiday...

But you can see what sort of size they are

Oh yeah, and I’ve undercoated everything!!! Thought I would include one of the Necromunda platforms to give you a bit of scale comparison.

An inverted Deadzone matt works rather well for this
Also...do you think I have enough scatter for necro?!!!

As you can see it offers some nice soft cover!

 And I wanted to throw in an AT-43 UNA Defender Cobra too for the hell of it!

Defender Cobra is HUUUUUUUUUGE!!!

Cheers!

dulydude

AT-43 3’x3’ Vinyl Matt

So my mate Sync is a crafty genius and figured out a way to get some cheap matts made up. I won’t tell you how because he doesn’t want me to tell people how, but basically we have cheap awesome matts that someone else is making and selling for…5x how much we got it for?

Anywho, AT-43 has this community random mission set up, and requires a 3’x3’ playing area for 2 players with <2500 points. So I needed a 3’x3’ matt that had a ruined city theme to go with the urban terrain I have!

Sync came across this company called P-Work paper wargame and told me about this. We discussed what to do and suddenly I had this urban matt!

Simple layout using the random mission set up rules

Alas it isn’t very photogenic because it’s vinyl (reflects light), and needs to be flattened properly (as you can see). But other than that…it’s pretty awesome and I thank him greatly for this little board!

Cheers!

dulydude

Infinity Terrain Part 2

YAY I’m back! Long story, don’t ask. All you need to know is that it’s currently a very busy time for me!

BACK TO THE BLOG!

So a while back I mentioned my idea for a Japanese slum <see post here>. In order to make it I would need buildings. Now let’s get a little hypothetical here, assuming the Yu Jing want to incorporate the Japanese, but also have them as second class citizens, they would obviously have them live in housing estates, thus the buildings would be very plain, boring and easy to construct. But as it’s a slum, it would get covered in graffiti that wasn’t being cleaned up, and would probably be next to something industrial because land would be cheap.

And to add in another fact I would need to store it without my girlfriend killing me for taking up too much space. I would need to have something that is plain, but could be spruced up with graffiti/posters, and also with a massive storage capability.

And then came Bandau with these simple and cheap looking buildings (for Infinity), that could stack and be stored inside one another! WIN!!! So I waited till I could get a good deal, for which my friend Sync heard about from Slave to Painting, and I bought it. And the other night I finally had time to build it.

Now I won’t give a review because Sync has done that rather well and our views on the product are very similar (here). But here are some pictures anyway!!!

And there's the good old Kempetai
Cypher hasn't been preforming well recently so no air time for him!!!

 

 

Thinking of putting a soccer pitch in...

So yeah, kind of simple, doors are in funny locations (especially when stacking), but they are pretty good. My main issue is that larger bases cannot get up the stairs at all! And my main point to improve this product is that they should have put the door on the front side (ie where you can see straight up the stairs); would have made more sense while stacking.

Anywho, along with the buildings, I got the Bandau Advertising Panels, one of each pack! And for modularity I decided to assemble them with 3 corners, 3 straights and 6 individual panels. These panels also clip onto the buildings or can be used as fences. And with the bits with holes tempted to have the ‘muddy window’ house rule to prevent shooting through them when not next to them.

I like them, simple like the rest of the Bandau terrain system, but very functional.

So lets now see what it all looks like, because I know that's more interesting that this text! Oh FYI I got 4 sets of those buildings!!!

Notice the use of the Panels on the buildings themselves, either blocking or gnerating
interesting sniper spots!

Don't forget the AT-43 shipping containers!!!

So I definatly need some terrain for the road, maybe just 1 truck, and some smaller scatter terrain to minimise these massive open spaces (like some of the early Warsenal stuff, or even their new ITS pack).

And now the important point…can I store it?

Yeah I got this

Cheers!
dulydude