Well I finally succumbed to the dread Games Workshop marketing engine and purchased a Cities of Death Manufactorum box. $45nz locally seems like a reasonable price, particularly since I get a 10% ‘VIP’ discount from my local games store.
The contents of the box aren’t that impressive, consisting of three large sprues: two of the Manufactorum sprues pictured here and one standard COD Floor Panel sprue which is shown in Aaron’s earlier post. My sprues were a little warped too and there’s a noticeable curve on serveral of the large, thick panels which is a little annoying. The pieces you get those seem fairly useful and I can see you could have a lot of fun mixing and matching a couple of boxes.
The real reason I bought this box was to experiment and I think I’ve figured out a way to combine the COD panels and Hirst Arts gothic blocks. So this Manufactorum box will probably be converted into one intact ’substation’ block roughly 3″ x 4″ and 3 1/2″ high and one substation that’s been severly damaged in a corner. The roof will be flat with COD balustrades with a ladder up to it so figures can be placed on top.
Of course I’ve had to pilfer quite a few Hirst Arts blocks from the Cathedral casting piles so it’s back to casting plaster for me. I really *must* cut the base for that Cathedral and start building it!
Previous CoD post: Cities of Death.
I’ve been anxiously awaiting the Manufactorum set as I am an Adeptus Mechanicus fellow through and through. I’ve been fighting the urge to fork over money for the large COD building set with something like 28 sprues because I can see the fun having tons of panels to mix and match. Instead, I’m going to get a Manufactorum or two to help start my AM terrain collection and then decide where to go from there. Maybe I should spend the money I could spend on the large city set ($175 US) on a few Hirst molds instead. Any recommendations besides Gothic blocks? :)
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I was briefly tempted by the large+standard building+rulebook boxed set that Aaron ended up with. However it contained no Manufactorum pieces which were what I was really after! So GW missed that sale.
Keep your eye on the blog because I’ll post some WIP progress pictures of what I’m building once I actually have something worth posting! I hope to get the basic structure put together this weekend.
For 40k style sci-fi terrain the Gothic blocks are pretty much it! Mr Hirst has recently expanded his lines with some sci-fi molds, but they have a very clean ‘Star Wars’ feel to them that doesn’t grab me.
can anyone show me any good pics of good ideas for a city fight board i am really desperate so far ive got: a railway and a tiled like floor and some 5hit ruins lol(which i made out of foam)
Mason, there’s a lot of excellent 40k tables out there, in particular a number of German gamers have created some fantastic stuff.
Try the galleries here or here for inspiration.