Need a Robot Factory? Make Your Own With Hirst Arts.
July 30, 2014 by stvitusdancern
So, you are playing your favorite Sci-Fi game and all of sudden your old terrain has gotten a little long in the tooth. You think to yourself, "what I need is a robot factory, but where do I get one?"
Well fear not I have the answer for you. Make it yourself with these molds from Hirst Arts!
You might already be familiar with Hirst Arts from making your own terrain pieces or you might remember Warren and Lloyd speaking about them when they were describing how they built the Wolfsung table. So if you have some time and want to be creative, Hirst Arts has created molds to make whatever size factory you would like.
What is even nicer they have a really nice step by step guide on how to recreate the factory they show on their website, along with painting tutorials. I think there is nothing better than creating a really nice table and knowing you did it from scratch.
Is there some custom terrain casting in your future?
These are the best moulds in the business, if you check you will find many of the other commercial scenery manufacturers use Hirst moulds to make their pieces. Have seen a lot on KS lately using them. Hirst are fine with you doing this so long as you acknowledge them as the source of the moulds.
I would certainly like to have a few of their molds to create several features in a cityscape like what was used on the Wolsung table. those pipes and air ducts looked great. However, I don’t think Hirst Arts did themselves any favours with the paint scheme they used on this robot factory, its looks like a playmobile set. They should of got a professional model painter to make it look more gritty and industrial looking.
I think you will find it was painted as a Robo Rally gaming table. Fun game and lends itself to mini’s really well.
I see I misunderstood this article and that the purpose of these pictures was to appeal to robo rally players. All the same if they had a gallery of images that showed different paint schemes that show how these accessories could be incorporated into other game systems. In my case Infinity, then it would broaden the appeal. Luckily enough, Warren did an excellent job of showing how to utilise Hirst Arts mold in the Wolsung table that did just that.
I suggest you look through the entire site then, as there is a lot more than just one “gallery” of images, or products and might even pick up more tips on how to cast/build and paint terrain from the moulds.
Yeah, I did that. They used the same basic painting style throughout for the robot factory with lots of flat primary colours. They did a better job with their medieval/fantasy scenery. I am not disparaging their products, as I said I am interested in some of the molds. It is the presentation of this robot factory that does not appeal to me.
Really interesting stuff! Just took a look at their website. Amazing range of products!