Underhive Board (PIC HEAVY!)

[Dolnikan]

The board looks great but some more colour would help break it up a bit, perhaps some areas with flaked off paint.

[Brother_Brimstone]

Based on the fact that there was pretty much a universal feeling that the board tiles could do with a bit more interest, I decided to ink and poster them up a bit, with the occasional dried blood smear or unidentified chemical colouring. Here's the result;







Comments and criticism welcomed and appreciated.

[Dolnikan]

It looks a lot better now, I can't wait to see the painted buildings on it.

[Trasher]

That's great, but I can't see any buildings? 

[Brother_Brimstone]

That's great, but I can't see any buildings? 

Well, I can only do one bit at a time! Now the board tiles are finished, i'm working on the things to go on top of them. They shouldn't be too laborious by and large - just metal and concrete coloured spraypaints and a few muddy washes...

Still, there's quite a lot of them!

[Ancelyn]

  This project is looking better and better.

[Trasher]

Well, I can only do one bit at a time!

I'm sorry Brother_Brimstone, irony doesn't come through too well in text You've done a great job so far and I was only hoping there were buildings built already!
Spraypainting and washing the buildings sounds like a good plan to get the board playable, but with such a great start, please don't stop there! I'll drop a few links in the end of my message containing ways to make your underhive pop:

Imperial Propoganda Posters
Posters, sign up needed, haven't looked at these
Cities of Death posters
Tommygun does what with paper?

EDIT: Let's pray to the Omnissiah my links work this time.

[Brother_Brimstone]

Hey; thanks very much for the links! I already had a set of imperial posters, which I've used for this board, but having extra for future definitely won't hurt!

Anyway, on to the main event; THE BOARD IS FINISHED!





















All comments and criticism welcomed and appreciated.

[Fugitivus]

What a fun place to die in    Great industrial look & feel and lots of variety on a small surface. And plenty of obstacles & cover, which is good as it stimulates moving about and prevents both boring long range shoot outs and a rush to the middle with everyone quickly ending up in one big hand-to-hand cluster.

[Trasher]

Brimstone that's great! The posters really make the scenery come alive! Also, don't forget to check out Tommygun does what with paper for some boxes to clutter the underhive with Looks cool with the different levels and walkways. Is that vegetation I'm spotting?

[Adlan]

Looks beautiful.

[Dolnikan]

It's a beautiful board I'd love to play on. I like the dirty and industrial look.

[Myriad]

Not only nice looking terrain, it also looks like a good playing environment, which is equally important.  Plenty of niches, crannies and the odd rooftop.

[Inquisitor Octavian Lars]

The links do not work for me.

[Brother_Brimstone]

The links didn't work for me, but i worked out what was wrong. Here are some corrected versions:

Imperial Propoganda Posters
Posters, sign up needed, haven't looked at these
Cities of Death posters
Tommygun does what with paper?

The last one is especially worth a look. I've actually done a fair bit of papercraft in my time (i'm not entirely sure why or how, but it's just something i seem to keep finding myself doing...) and his papercraft objects are great!

Thanks to everyone for all the kind comments. It was a board based more around playability than aesthetics, but i did want to do my best to make it look nice. I've always been incredibly jealous when i've seen Necromunda articles and Inquisitor articles where the scenery makes the game really three dimensional, as the boards i'd always made in the past with friends were very two dimensional, so I made this with the specific intent of forcing myself to ensure the game can be played upwards and downward as well as side to side.

Kaled and I shall be playing on this board tomorrow, so i'll soon get a chance to see whether it was all worth it and whether I succeeded!