resin terrain

[kujwa]

anyone know if/where i can get some resin Nid terrain? i searched Ebay but there was only one place in the UK that had some.

[gigasnail]

nowhere official. it's been out of print for years. plenty of *cough*that thing we don't talk about here*cough* and 3rd party sculpts though.

[yoritomo]

The only official tyranid terrain was made by Forge World, though that's been out of print for years now. They come up on ebay every now and then, but expect to pay through the nose for those pieces.

Games Workshop would rather you make your own tyranid terrain. This is fine if you know what you're doing. If not, well, let's just say I've seen some people's "practice" terrain and it isn't pretty.

The last option is 3rd party manufacturing. This is hit or miss. You'll probably end up with a 3D print of some tyranid terrain or a recast of existing tyranid terrain. Depending on how dedicated the person making the terrain is you may or may not get the results you're looking for. If you do decide to go 3rd party do your research and make sure they're a good company before you buy from them.

[gigasnail]

4th option: learn Blender. make your own.

[joysan76]

i did some by my own using pine cones. large open pine cone to create carnous broodnests, tiny immature pine cone to create objective markers, i also used aquarium plants and decore, some seems really somethign alien and tyranid...

this and yes found people producing their own unofficially version of the ancient OOP forgeworld models

[swarm492]

A few years back through ebay I became the proud owner of 9 FW capillary towers and a FW spore chimney.

..my wallet was not so proud

[Shadowwolf]

If you know someone with access to the forbidden technologies of ancient terra, there's a lot of cool stlsorry, I mean STCs, if you follow this link... cults3d.com/en/users/Alario/creations

Shadowwolf

[swarm492]

I've been interested in this stuff for a long time. Anyone know the upfront costs and difficulty of a venture like this?

[gigasnail]

Mar 12, 2022 19:12:34 GMT swarm492 said:

I've been interested in this stuff for a long time. Anyone know the upfront costs and difficulty of a venture like this?

hobby level SLA printers are very affordable. there is some learning curve getting them rolling, like anything else and they do require post processing work and a dedicated work area. there are literally thousands of videos to help walk you through the process.

[niiai]

Microart studioes have some excelent Tyranid terrain. Hard foam. Cheap. Looks good. I had to wash the oil out of it and greenstuff some spots. I really like it.

shop.microartstudio.com/en/