(KICKSTARTER) TTCombat - Wild West Scenics

[Stepman3]

They have a cartoon quality about them...I could see them being useful with Eurekas Teddy Bear cowboy range or possibly Brigade Games Gnome Wars but not if you want "realistic"...

[Doomsdave]

Yea, but you could make your own sign to fix that......at least they don't look like Barbie Houses or made by Fisher Price. Not bad for the price and for the gamer on a budget this isn't a bad investment on some of the select buildings.

Fair point; well made. 

For me it's just a threshold of diminishing returns.  How much effort would it take me to make a similar piece?  Does this save me substantial time or is it substantially better than my own efforts would produce?  etc.  I realize for some price is the main concern. 

[Conquistador]

<snip> I realize for some price is the main concern. 

Realistically, that would be me.

Urban terrain is more time/locale specific.   Natural terrain can be used lots of places (well, Venus not so much.)

Gracias,

Glenn

[FifteensAway]

For me, most MDF, regardless of scale is...meh.  It just hasn't 'arrived' yet.  I know I'm swimming against the tide with that mind set but it is mine.  I did buy the 4ground 15 mm fence set to use for a stockyard (though I need a loading ramp to really make it work) but the thought of painting it does not appeal.  Is MDF really that much cheaper to produce that resin?  Or is resin just that much more hazardous to work with?

[Elbows]

Resin means molds.  MDF means a single (well, in big operations likely several) laser cutters.  I think the MDF stuff is popular for several reasons:

1) easy to pre-paint
2) cheap basic material
3) can be made to order if needed
4) no molds, no shifting, no bulk materials
5) can flat-pack which in turn makes shipping much cheaper/easier
6) because the design is nothing more than a small file on a computer a company with a single laser cutter can have hundreds of designs with no need for factory space, molds or additional storage.

I think each has its place...and I'm a bit picky about my MDF.  4Ground is simply marvelous, but I love my Crescent Root adobe structures (and adobe would look weird unless the frame was simply mdf and you plastered it after the fact).  I do find a lot of resin terrain is pretty awful (old designs, sloppy sculpts etc.) so it's rare to stumble into a nice one.  As for hand-made stuff, we've already beat that horse into glue.