Take in the Scenery of Spartan Scenics
May 22, 2013 by dracs
This June sees Spartan Games head off in a new direction with their products, namely their new range of HDF and acrylic terrain which they are calling Spartan Scenics!
The first starter set is now up for pre-order and will allow you to create all manner of corridors, buildings and platforms, perfect for many different sci-fi games.
It can also be combined with the other Spartan Scenics pieces currently available, allowing you to create a load of towers, buildings for your minis to clamber over, in and around. Add to these some nice accessories and you can make some pretty cool scenarios and locations.
Combining the Starter Set (red), Towers & Platforms Set (blue), Corridor Set (green), Room Set (yellow) and Door Set (grey)
Spartan have released a couple of shots displaying the terrain pieces in use and it is looking like they could be promising additions to the 28mm tabletop.
There's even a space ship, available in different scales so it can be either an objective or the centre piece of the entire battle!
Is your tabletop going to look a little Spartan?
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Wow. That looks really nice. Obviously painted with an airbrush (or some mad shaky can skills and a lot of masking tape). Wish I could find some images of the unpainted pieces (that aren’t 3D renders).
It looks really good but I wonder why they went Sci-fi first and not something for Dystopian Legions. I guess it only matters how you paint it.
They’re probably planning on people who buy the scenery for other games as well.
There are a lot of other scifi minis games out there in the same scale. This stuff will be useful for Infinity, MERCs and even 40k if you’re not obsessed with putting skull imagery on everything. There are other steampunk games out there (Warmachine for instance), but the scifi market is arguably larger.
I understand that, especially if they are a terrain company. I would just think that a companys first foray into terrain would be for a line they produce. As to help showcase their line and game and not someone elses.
Now that doesn’t take away from the fact that I think it does look really good, and I like the way it is broken down into different kits that can stand alone or be combined to make something spectacular.
They make a scifi game. Spartan makes Firestorm Armada. Just as they have expanded the Dystopian Wars line into Armoured Clash and Dystopian Legions, they have plans to expand the Firestorm line into 10mm and 28mm games as well. It’s kind of odd that the scenery came first, but it’s easy to produce and probably has pretty high margins.
i really want that ship ,gonna make up some great warpath scenarios with it.
also ,really love how they’ve designer these pieces to be multi scale.
Now this is something I didn’t expect from them. A pleasant surprise to say the least.
okay ,so i figure you could fit 4 of those ships onto a 6×4 table ,and if you combine that with some nice walkways and platforms ,you could make an amazing space port table.
So when do we get a 28mm version of firestorm armada?
These do look fantastic.
Well you have a ship model. Now it’s just a matter of converting a few measurements and renting a warehouse to play in 🙂
PS please do this. It would be beyond cool!
Tink is a bit on the pricey side, i have a pledge at daedzone. And the scenery is super. Landing pads, fortifications with laser. Check it out at kickstarter.
This would be awesome for Infinity. £80 gets you the starter set, and that would comfortably be plonked down in the centre of a 4×4 board and give you a great looking mercenary base/research facility.
Working out the prices as well this does seem slightly cheaper than some of the other MDF stuff on the market, quality notwithstanding.
I think I just wet myself from glee.
Gary at the studio (Golem) did an awesome paint job on these!
Quite intriguing.
Love quite a few concepts realized there!
Whao, very nice stuff but I feel this is going to be VERY expensive!