At CanCon this year I picked up a heavy block of MDF from
Battlefield Accessories, being their '
Sci-Fi Undercity' set. It just happens to have enough walls and columns to perfectly complement the card tiles with the new
Necromunda. I assembled and painted them for the Analogue Challenge and was so pleased I just got some MDF doors to go with them.
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| One 3'x3' setup |
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| Variation, with doors |
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| Ganger's-eye view |
In the kit you get 26 columns, 25 short walls and 12 medium walls, each 3" tall. Each wall is made of six pieces of MDF with simple card detailing. I assembled them with PVA and sprayed them black then gunmetal. The secret ingredient is Woodland Scenics Burnt Umber wash with heavy orange stippling.
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| MDF sheets |
I splashed out on some Tamiya 5mm Masking Tape For Curves, because I love the hazard stripe aesthetic for Necromunda. I used rattle cans to spray the doors yellow, then applied tape and oversprayed black. The tape doesn't sit perfectly around the recesses, which gives some cool effects. I got carried away with more rust wash and a light drybrush to pick out the struts.
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| Assembled, painted yellow, and taped |
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| Overspray black |
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| Remove tape when dry |
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| Rust wash, drybrush, and tidy outside edges |
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| Voila! |
I also got a few straight support columns. I had a few spare card bits I used to detail the tops to make them fit it.
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| Straight support column |
If you can't tell, I'm really taken with these. They're simple, durable, and effective. They give your games a more claustrophobic corridor gunfight feel than the suspended gantryways usually seen.
The tiles are very versatile and double sided. They can actually be offset 50% for even more options.
I do have one complaint: the doors are a little longer than the walls (particularly the smaller doors), so don't match up squarely in a big complex.
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| Door- wall mismatch |
When I was a teenager with the original
Necromunda, all my bulkheads had graffiti, bloodstains, propaganda posters,
etc.- and never actually got finished. I will be getting more of these new walls, and I'll detail a few up to have access pipes or be partially destroyed.
And they're durable enough to toss in a tub.
