Terrainfest 2025 – BigGrim returns to Necromunda!

With all 3 MDF kits for the Zone Mortalis style of gameplay build and dry, I looked to cleaning multiple copies of the walls and doors from the Necromunda core box as well as the crates, tentacles and other odds and sods.

This is the typical kinda work. Clip from the sprue and clean the mould lines from these VERY thick pieces of GW plastic.

The big thing has been filling three 9-litre Really Useful Boxes with all the mdf terrain. The Necromunda wall and door sections also fit.

The crates and other game pieces go into a handy clipped tin.

A 4-litre Really Useful Box has been filled with all my Orlock sets. 2 full Ganger boxes, 1 Champion and Wreaker box, a set of Quads, a couple of weapon sets, the resin Champion sets and a pair of Ambots.

The Death Quadrant sets also have some rather splendid walkways, ladders and stairs.

I do like having each set cut from the frame, laid out properly, and cleaned off. I did this with all the work I’ve done up to this point, though I didn’t take pictures of the core set.

As I built the walkways, ladder and stairways, I attached them to pillars to dry and cure properly and in good form. These are REALLY nice. The stairways in particular are spaced so that a minis base can slide between them, showing that the ganger is up the stairs! Brilliant!

With the primary set built, I discovered that the way I’d banded the pillars together had made the slots slightly off kilter. As I did the two Death Quadrant packs, I banded the pillars differently. I banded them vertically, as shown in the photos. This worked MUCH better! As a result, the walls and pillars slide together smoothly, instead of being a bit of a struggle, as with the original pack. Lesson learned!

Death Quadrant Complex:
Iron Labyrinth – Death Quadrant Complex

I also built the walls, which went together easily enough and banded the same as before. Finally, the walls and gates went together. With the games, I secured them to pillars, inserted the doors into the spaces, and slid toothpicks between the gate and wall sections. This allowed them to glue in a good position. I left them like this for 2 days to cure properly.

Well, TerrainFest 2025 is here, and I’ve brought out the Iron Labyrinth sets. This project started fairly recently and I have built the entire  TTCombat Iron Labyrinth Ultima Complex :

Iron Labyrinth Ultima Complex:
Iron Labyrinth Ultima Complex

Carefully removed from the MDF frame and built, glued with PVA glue thinned with a touch of water. I bought multiple rubber band balls from Tesco and used bands to hold them together. I will say, the instructions could be a touch better. The pillars in particular, were a pain. I saw that I had put the slotted uprights in the wrong way, and had to take them all off again and reglue them properly. That was a pain in the bum!