Building An Industrial Hive Table

I’ve finished the Necromunda Underhive Box’s plastic terrain.

The ammo crates have two sides. The obvious side is filled with ammo or guns. The other side is empty but can fit the rigged explosives left loose.

I tried adding some large areas of peeled off paint. I think the result is a bit too large but it works from a distance.

The tentacle was finished pretty quickly by stippling purple, green and finally yellow over black. A couple of glazes of green to tie it all together and only a gloss coat to finish for the slick look.

In addition I added some rust to the ramshackle barriers I’d finished earlier in the month.

I’ve been painting up the plastic objectives  in the Necromunda box and the resin pieces I got with my TTCombat box. Most have just had their varnsh applied.

The final pic has some lamp pieces I bought from Zinge. My plan is to add them to some terrain pieces casting a weak, promethium blue light. They’ve only had a coat of Vallejo Game Air Electric Blue and a quick burst of white in the centre. I’ll Add a metallic to the bars on the lamps and that should do.

I worked late and managed to get the table primed. This meant I didn’t get to my tournament list till the early hours of the morning of the tournament. If that sounds like an excuse it’s because it is. I got mashed.

Anyway the table was a bit busy for Infinity. It could’ve done with fewer walkways ‘cos line of sight was hard to spot. Also the taller structures needed spacing further out. Otherwise it played well and the Necromunda players there were very keen to try out that game on it.

Now the tournament is done I can crack on with this at a more sedate pace.

Here’s a sample layout I tried before the Infinity tournament. I kept the larger structures in the middle to cut down long fire lanes.

I’m very impressed by how configurable the table’s components are. It’s not hard to switch things round and covers the board better than their demo table at Salute showed.

I’ve had some problems posting these pics as part of a larger entry so I’m adding them in their own post. Please bear in mind that several pieces come with cardboard detailing that hasn’t been attached yet. I’ve put them aside to be painted separately.

TTCombat’s terrain arrived and goodness there was a lot. I knew there’d be alot but still.

I’d like to give a shout out for Jamie at TTCombat. I was going to a local Infinity tournament in over 2 weeks and asked if there was a chance I could get the terrain to have it built in time. He got it to me in time.

That didn’t stop me understimating how much there was to build. The terrain comes with walkways you can arrange in a variety of ways. This means barriers are removable. Each barrier comes in 5 parts.

I’ve had my eye on a few of GW’s underhive kits thinking one or two might give the table an Underhive feel. The Galvanic Servohauler was a good price and a nice kit to build.

I wanted a yellow base colour but unfortunately only had black primer. Here’re the steps I took to get the colour up to a kind of hazard yellow. They required successive coats of US Field Drab 70.873, Ger C. Orange Ochre 70.824, Dark Sand 70.847 and Lemon Yellow 70.952.

I’d ordered a double-sided mat from Gamemat.eu. One side had an industrial looking area while the other had a wastland print. I chose this because once GW haev released the old gangs they’ve mentioned expanding the game into other areas potentially including the wasteland outside the hives.

It arrived and I’m very happy with it.