SFX006 - Meller Heights

The Meller Heights building was purchased a while ago, in order to qualify for free shipping from a TTcombat order.  As such, it was built a while ago before this blog was considered, so there aren't any WIP pictures from the build (something I've done for the recent buildings), and instead we just have the built product.  

As you can see, the building is also still unpainted.  With the newer acquisitions I'm painting them as I build to try and make as much use of spray's as possible.  However with this building I'll have to do the painting separately later, which might mean it gets a more nuanced colour scheme.  Let's wait and see ...

That said, I was and still am really impressed with it as a piece of mdf and hardboard terrain:

SFX009 - Adnet Apartments

Front View

Side View

I remember it was super easy to put together (as you'd expect with mdf terrain), but for the scale and price (RRP £7.95) I was really impressed with the attention to detail on the building ... and the window-sills which come in strips which do all windows on one floor in one go are really clever. 

In order to the paint this building, I'm going to wait until I've completed a few more of the new buildings, before committing to a colour pallete / scheme, to try and match to the rest of the terrain,

This piece of terrain was what convinced me to the TTcombat Sci-Fi X line, and let to me splashing out on the BfE event board, as it's a simple yet impressive piece of terrain for a reasonable amount that really makes your games of Dropzone Commander come to life.  I'm really looking forward to building and sharing the rest with you!

Until next time Commanders ...

- Bsking

One great building does not make a city ...

... however lots of them all added together can look pretty sweet!

The last post looked at the modular city boards contained in the Battle for Earth event board.

This time it's the turn of the buildings. Included in the set are:

• SFX015 - Brimstone Rows
• SFX046 - Cradle Commerce
• SFX048 - Helix Labs
• SFX049 - High Line Track Curve
• SFX050 - High Line Track Straights
• SFX051 - Industrial Accessories
• SFX052 - Pyhagoras Tower
• SFX053 - Regal Financiers
• SFX054 - Level Steel Building
• SFX055 - Alphabet Tenaments
• SFX056 - West Side Brownstones
• SFX058 - Midtown Academy
• SFX059 - Ryan Memorial Stadium
• SFX060 - Kicks Stadium
• SFX061 - Construction Site
• SFX062 - Street Accessories

The buildings make quite the pile of wood!

Additionally, collected separately for various reasons (and featured previously in part) have been the following:

• SFX006 - Meller Heights
• SFX010 - Academy Building
• SFX057 - Dicington Tower

This should make a suitably sized terrain collection, and provide plenty of cover.  In order to pretty up the board as well (and allow the creation of some scatter terrain), a couple of sets of N-scale cars, trucks and buses have been acquired, along with a number of trees of various sizes.  I intend to cover each set in turn with a how-to / build record to show the process (and motivate me to keep going!) so I'll post them up each in turn ... wish me luck!

-  Bsking

New York, New York ...

Where better to start this blog than with the terrain to fight over?

I was lucky enough to pick up one of the Battle for Earth event boards from the UK Games Expo this year:

Battle for Earth event board promo picture

It’s a hefty package, and a lot of wood!

Just the base boards!

Work in Progress, base boards in left pile, buildings in right!

The obvious place to start building from was the modular base boards which are 95% complete -  just needing a re-do on the road markings for the crossroad piece, and add some small details to the storm drains.

The modular city boards included in the set are:

• 3 x straight road
• 1 x straight road with lay-by
• 2 x T-junction
• 1 x Y-junction
• 1 x crossroad
• 2 x dead end roads
• 2 x raised plaza
• 1 x flat board
• 3 x SFX047 - Flood Defense Board

This provides a large amount of variety to the amount of layout’s, and also already has 2 distinct elevations, which makes for better games of DzC in our experience!  In order to compliment this, if / when TTCombat make these pieces available separately I’m probably going to pick up an additional 8 pieces to allow either a 6ft x 4ft board (for large games / reuse for Adeptus Titanicus) or to provide greater variety to the 4ft x 4ft layouts possible.  However I’m very impressed with the quality and variety provided out the box, and would definitely recommend it to anyone given the chance.

Next post will take a look at the buildings included ...

-  Bsking

Pre-Campaign Briefing

+++   October 2nd, 2672, 05:02am, aboard the Strike Carrier UCMS Serenity   +++

“Alright soldiers, listen up and listen up good.  We’ll be entering Earth Orbit shortly, so make sure you’ve got a good hold on your weapons.  We’re going to be the first troops on the ground, so make sure you keep your eyes open and your wits about you!  The Scourge have had control of Earth for over 300 years ... it’s time we take it back!!!”

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Welcome to the Battle for Earth blog, about the tabletop miniature wargames Dropfleet and Dropzone Commander, made by TTcombat.

In this blog we’ll be tracking the adventures of our gaming group through the DropUniverse, as well as sharing our efforts in modelling miniatures and terrain for the various systems.

Hopefully you’ll find something here of interest!

-  Bsking