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Miniatures Adventure => Future Wars => Topic started by: Tri3 on 12 September 2007, 03:43:07 PM

Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Tri3 on 12 September 2007, 03:43:07 PM: Hey I just found this site that has some really nice looking Sci-Fi terrain for a very good price.

http://shop.maljazar.co.uk/index.php
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Malamute on 12 September 2007, 03:46:00 PM: Nice looking stuff, I like the Comms tower :) Thanks for the heads up.
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: PeteMurray on 12 September 2007, 04:06:05 PM: These look like part kits from the Hirst Arts plaster moulds. So for your buck you get enough plaster bits to make the depicted item.

The Hirst Arts moulds make me all tingly inside, they're so clever.
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: demi_morgana on 12 September 2007, 04:14:37 PM: damn, THAT'S what I call cheap! :o
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Lowtardog on 12 September 2007, 04:15:33 PM: Those stone blocks look useful for cobbled streets
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Grimm on 12 September 2007, 04:22:15 PM: yes very cheap !! has some one ever order from them ?
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Rhoderic on 12 September 2007, 04:35:56 PM: There are other "licensed Hirst Arts casters" or whatever they're called, with similar prices. You see them on eBay sometimes. I think they're fantastic, because I find the molds a tad too expensive and I don't want to cast the pieces myself, and they're still much cheaper than the resin/foam stuff that other terrain makers sell.
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Admiral Benbow on 12 September 2007, 04:51:56 PM: Yes, in Germany for example

http://www.the2legends.de/

Have a look under "Hirstarts Steine". They charge 2,- Euro for a full set of castings out of one mold. For that money you wouldn't go through that process of buying the mold and cast everything youself. Only if that's a hobby on its own ...

But most of us paint minis and build terrain in their short spare time, so for me that seems to be a bargain.
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Hammers on 12 September 2007, 05:01:04 PM: Quote from: "Grimm"
yes very cheap !! has some one ever order from them ?

Oh, yes! I ordered a kit from then and being an old Lego fanatic... well, if Lego is sex, HirsArts is a full-body-sneeze. But enough with the horrible analogies; there is a certain art to casting them. It is not that hard to master if you follow the pedagogical steps in http://www.hirstarts.com/casting/casting.html and you can't do wrong.
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: Tri3 on 12 September 2007, 05:02:16 PM: How heavy is the Crystacal Alpha X compared to resin stuff?

Also they need to set up a paypal method for us over the pond. :(
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: PeteMurray on 12 September 2007, 05:07:33 PM: Quote from: "hammershield"
well, if Lego is sex, HirsArts is a full-body-sneeze.

:lol: Bravo! :lol: I do indeed LOL!
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: twrchtrwyth on 07 November 2007, 01:12:26 AM: Thanks for the link, they are very nice.
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: celtoslegion on 08 November 2007, 08:18:49 AM: Great link - thanks for the info
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: matakishi on 08 November 2007, 05:18:34 PM: (http://shop.maljazar.co.uk/images/cargo1.gif)

These are copied from Antenociti's resin ones. I wonder if they have permission?
I hope so because I don't like to see a friend getting ripped off :(
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: PeteMurray on 08 November 2007, 05:31:33 PM: Paul, they look like castings from Hirst Arts Mould 302 (http://www.hirstarts.com/scifi/scifi3.html). Perhaps Antenociti is also licensed caster? :?:

Edit: Yep. He just seems to sell nice resin castings of the same part. But they're both licensed casters. Whew!
Title: Nice Sci-Fi Terrain
Post by: matakishi on 08 November 2007, 05:37:40 PM: Good show, I can buy with confidence :)