Terrainfest 2025 – BigGrim returns to Necromunda!

Necromunda is a lot of fun. I reckon I’ll try and get the gang finished off and we’ll get a few more games in before starting a campaign!

Then, more terrain. I have bought more TTCombat over the years and my folks have bought me more terrain too!

We have the following:

Sector 2 – Rigging Station White Box, comprised of the Sector 2 – Cloud Buster, the Sector 1 – Walkways, the Sector 4 – Storage Tanks and the Sector 2 – Slum Blocks.

The Cloud Buster excites me, as I remember an old “game show” style of scenario from Outlands, where multiple gangs fought to the top of a tower for mayhem and cash prizes. This feels perfect for that. It also scare me as that is a HUGE kit.

My parents delight in buying me (their 40+ year old grown-ass man) “more toys” at Christmas, and they got 2 Iron Labyrinth High Walls sets, the Sector 2 – Slum Complex AND the Iron Labyrinth Mega Turbine.

What to build first?

Brett and I had a test battle last night! 6 v 6. My Orlocks Vs his filthy Chaos Helots.
4 turns of mayhem, having a laugh, boggling at the resilience of Chaos Spawn. Much combat, 3 of my guys going down to one of his, and Brett failed his bottle test and then rolled to run. The game ended! 2 points to him. One to me. I claim moral victory while he claims technical victory.

Necromunda is a LOT of fun!

What’s that? Oh, a monster. Uh oh…

We advance towards each other. Quint, my harpoon-rocking Road Sergeant, is surprised when the door next to him opens of it’s own accord (Brett had a DEVIOUS Tactics card). He is even MORE surprised when he takes an overwatched grenade to the face from an enemy heavy. He suffers a serious injury and goes down.

I never got to fire my harpoon…

The Spawn reaches poor, headstrong Gunther. It murderises him and moves on. An increasing cluster of shooting and bonkers nonsense comes together in the centre. More of my guys go down, then Brett’s filthy Helots fail their bottle check and a 6 is rolled for the end of the game.

With this done, I couldn’t help but try the terrain out on the Necromunda boards that come in the original core box. I hope you enjoy them!

Here are smaller examples.

And here are large examples. 3×3 tiles.

Finally, Brett thinned down some Crawford & Black orange acrylic paint with water. This was liberally applied to look like rust. At this time, this has been applied to nearly all the walls, though walkways, stairs, ladders, barricades and the plastic walls and doors still need this final detailing. Still, this entire process took us 2 and a half nights. We’re pretty happy!

With the zenithal dry, we took a car sponge and tore it to pieces. Lots of odd, jagged shapes. Next, we splodged some Crawford & Black acrylic paints (black and burnt umber) onto a plate. Dipping the sponge into the black first, we worked it into the sponge, then patted the excess off. I used a latex glove on the hand holding the wall or pillar. I would pat the sponge off on the back of my hand.

We’d then pat this over the terrain piece, coating a lot of it in black.  We did this in a production line. Once we were done with all of it, we went back over it with the burnt umber. This went on with a lighter touch. Halfway through, Brett switched to a light grey paint and sponged lightly onto the edges. He did that as I continued with the umber.

Right! Priming!

Halfords Matt Black

Halfords Matt Grey

Games Workshop Grey Seer

Games Workshop Leadbelcher

Games Workshop Mephiston Red

Colour Forge Spray: Sunset Yellow

Army Painter Uniform Grey

Army Painter Oak Brown

Army Painter Ultramarine Blue

Brett and I gathered the above colours. I primed ALL the walls, pillers, stairs and barricades with Halfords Matt Black Primer.

Once I had a strip primed, Brett immediately took them up and hit them with zenithal sprays. I joined him once everything was primed black. We used silver, brown, red, blue, yellow and grey. We left these to dry. The next day, I did the same thing with the plastic walls and barricades.

With these three packs built, I assembled everything and created a test layout to see how it looked. I gotta admit, it looks pretty swish! Seeing it like this really galvanised Brett and I.

As with my Boarding Actions project, foamcore came into its own here. I cut A4 sheets into multiple strips and, with double-sided tape, I secured the pillars and walls, in preparation for priming!

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.