Custom Buildings/Terrain for Marvel With Pics

[Grungebob]

OK, not really custom per-se, but these Mega Blocks sets are terrific for use with Marvel!! Ninthdoc turned me on to these and I really think they add a lot to the game. Below is a few pics of a city street corner vignette I set up using my Bank from Mega Blocks:

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/DSC02365.JPG

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/DSC02363.JPG

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/DSC02362.JPG

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/DSC02361.JPG

Still got some stuff to do to really up the functionality but you all get the idea!

[hi1hi1hi1hi1]

Awesome! :D Now you just need to make everything completely destructable :wink: Like that mailbox, street light, sign post, and fire hydrant.

[Grungebob]

House rules can be fun!! :)

[hi1hi1hi1hi1]

House rules can be fun!! :)Yes and I forgot to mention why I liked it the most. The conctre as sidewalk (higher than asphault) made it look were good. When I get a Marvel set I'll have to set something up like this. Previously I thought the terrain was ugly to say the least.

[Grungebob]

Yep I am almost certain all of my maps will have this style of raised light grey areas to resemble sidewalks. It just seems to please my eye a bit more than what Ive seen so far

[ninthdoc]

Very nice, Gbob! I need to put my bank together. :D

[IAmBatman]

Good stuff, Grungebob! I'm sooo eager to get me some Marvelscape.

[Annerios]

Now, that's what I'm talking about. Great stuff!

Get some cars on that street, Gbob:

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/CarCard.PNG

Join us at the Marvel destructible object thread:

http://www.heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?t=9841&highlight=

and throw around some ideas for these great items.

[NecroBlade]

That is an awesome idea for a destructible object, Annerios.

GB, that stuff looks great. Marvel is going to be WAY more fun with more buildings and objects.

[Taeblewalker]

The terrain is beyond cool.

[Grungebob]

Now, that's what I'm talking about. Great stuff!

Get some cars on that street, Gbob:

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/CarCard.PNG

Join us at the Marvel destructible object thread:

http://www.heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?t=9841&highlight=

and throw around some ideas for these great items.OK Annerios!! Excellent idea!! Now I need cards for street lamp, hydrant, and mailbox!! ;)

[IAmBatman]

I've got a card for Pine Trees here, but I think all you'd really have to do is change "Pine Tree" to "Street Lamp" in the title and text to make it work for a Street Lamp.

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s31/IBeBats/Destructible%20Objects/PineTreeDestructibleObject.jpg

edit: oh, and it still needs a picture and hitzone.

[Grungebob]

We can have all kinds of awesome terrain based customs in Mayhem City!! ;) This is great!

[IAmBatman]

Oh, we've got plenty of goodies in the works over in the Marvel customs section. :D

[Grungebob]

Oh, we've got plenty of goodies in the works over in the Marvel customs section. :DYou mean that area that is supposed to be for custom Marvel Heroes???

[IAmBatman]

Hey, give us a custom terrain section and we'll put stuff there. :P I'd put more Superhero custom stuff in the regular custom section, but you know what with them being incompatible and all ... :wink:
Also, with me, you should've bolded "Marvel" more than "Heroes" since that's my biggest area of violation. :D

[Grungebob]

Snapshot of one of our games. Customs abound and New York is being ripped apart by a lava flow.

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/DSC02366.JPG

[Cavalier]

Snapshot of one of our games. Customs abound and New York is being ripped apart by a lava flow.


:shock: I love it. I've got to get to work on some Marvel Scape Buildings to go with the City Block Lexan mats coming next week to HouseMouseGames (/shameless plug) :wink:

[IAmBatman]

Sweet. You make those other two buildings yourself?

[Grungebob]

Well I painted them. They are resin kits you can get for a good price.

[Cavalier]

Well I painted them. They are resin kits you can get for a good price.Links?

[ninthdoc]

Well I painted them. They are resin kits you can get for a good price.Links?

http://www.armorcast.com/store/

[Fallen Templar]

What MB Set is the Bank from GB

[ninthdoc]

What MB Set is the Bank from GB

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5662775

[Grungebob]

Here's a nice looking Batman's Mansion

http://cgi.ebay.com/GOTHIC-CITY-BUILDING-LARGE-SET_W0QQitemZ250149158810QQihZ015QQcategoryZ2537QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ 1QQcmdZViewItem

[Lotus]

To expand upon gbob's post. Here are a lot of industrial and Gothic terrain sets, which are fairly cheap.

http://www.thewarstore.com/IMEXPlatformerHexagon.html

[IAmBatman]

Great stuff, guys! Keep it coming.

[Lotus]

I know I have seen this posted before as well, but there is always WorldWorks Games.

www.worldworksgames.com

Hmmm, I wonder, If I whip up some blank building templates would other people graphic them up, then we could all have nice free paper buildings to supplement our games? I could make a matching hex grid as well I am sure. The hex could be overlayed on top of the graphics, allowing us to have the rooftops be gridded.

[IAmBatman]

That's an EXCELLENT idea for a project, Lotus! :D Then we could all get some buildings that were free and printable and hexey like we want them. That would be a really great addition to this community.

[Lotus]

I'll have to start working on some templates, one of the goals should be that the models have to fold up, this makes storage a breeze. Also, we should probably attempt to have ruins for as many of the structures as well can, first I work on a simple building which is basically a full page printout per wall and the roof, so 5-6 pages will give you a 3ish story building. I'll also have to figure out how to make them sit properly on the hexes? Maybe a cutout in the center where a 7 piece hex goes, then you fit your building over this?

Let me know, I am off to work now.

[Doc_Savage]

Here's a nice looking Batman's Mansion

http://cgi.ebay.com/GOTHIC-CITY-BUILDING-LARGE-SET_W0QQitemZ250149158810QQihZ015QQcategoryZ2537QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ 1QQcmdZViewItem

That's a cool building, but too expensive. The war store link is a much better deal. Cheap flat rate shipping puts the total at $27 instead of $33. And if you buy more there is no additional shipping at warstore.

There is also a ruins version of the gothic building.

[NecroBlade]

Snapshot of one of our games. Customs abound and New York is being ripped apart by a lava flow.

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/DSC02366.JPG:bowdown:

[Cavalier]

Something I'm working on:

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/CityBuildings.jpg (like Thanos' glow?)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/CityBuildings2.jpg

This are just 'prototypes' made out of Foamcore with the graphics laminated over it.

[hi1hi1hi1hi1]

:shock: Amazing! Can't wait to see the non-prototype version.

[Lotus]

Cavalier, would you be opposed to letting me use those graphics after I get somewhere with the templates?

They need more texture though, basically they need heavily aged to give a mild case of neglect. Right now they are far too clean.

Anyways, the whole battlefield looks great, seems like a blast to play on.

[Grungebob]

Something I'm working on:

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/CityBuildings.jpg (like Thanos' glow?)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/CityBuildings2.jpg

This are just 'prototypes' made out of Foamcore with the graphics laminated over it.Looks a lot like downtown Indy!! :gc:

[Cavalier]

Looks a lot like downtown Indy!! :gc:

I think sombody's got GenCon on the brain. :lol:
So, which building is the Ram? :wink:

:gencon:

[Batmite]

Very cool. Can you go inside your buildings?

[Grungebob]

Very cool. Can you go inside your buildings?Only if you're an inch tall!

[Boromir_and_kermit]

Zoolander quote... 'What is this a center for ants??? It needs to be at least three times this size!' :P

I think it looks great Cav! I do agree that the graphics are way too clean. But as you said this is a prototype. I especially like light pole (which I assume can be thrown??)

Ben.

[deadeyedan42]

I agree that it would be awsome to have the doors and windows cut out, along with the back of the building, so that figures and come in, or go out. :D

[NecroBlade]

:shock: Amazing! Can't wait to see the non-prototype version.:word:

Is Spiderman standing atop a lightpost? :rofl:

[Cavalier]

:shock: Amazing! Can't wait to see the non-prototype version.:word:

Is Spiderman standing atop a lightpost? :rofl:

Zoolander quote... 'What is this a center for ants??? It needs to be at least three times this size!' :P

I think it looks great Cav! I do agree that the graphics are way too clean. But as you said this is a prototype. I especially like light pole (which I assume can be thrown??)

Ben.

Funny thing about that light post, it's actually a mast for the Megablocks Pirates of the Carribean ships that many of have used for boats. My boys put it on a map once and I thought it made an excellent light post. :P

[ninthdoc]

Looks a lot like downtown Indy!! :gc:

I think sombody's got GenCon on the brain. :lol:
So, which building is the Ram? :wink:

:gencon:

No, he's right. After a few brews at The Ram, I turn green and big and get up on the roof of The Ram. Looks like I damaged it a little in that scene. I hope they have nanobots like my old tavern.

[Panther]

I am actually rather partial to the stuff by Worldworks games that someone mentions a few posts back. The Mayhem line is perfect for Marvelscape, and Platform Command and First Light lines add the more interesting scifi aspects. I'm going to be getting some of this stuff real soon because I want to add some extras to my boards.

I also know that GW makes several very Gothic and dark buildings that if you time it right you can often get for under $20 if you are lucky.

There is also another line of modular terrain with multiple uses too. I can see anything from industrial compounds and oil refineries to factories. Then there are the uses of some parts for the base of a villain. I have a Hexagon and a Platformer set and am looking into ways to put it to use on a board or two. Hope this gives somebody ideas for some awesome customs.

Here are some links, though other sites sometimes sell it cheaper.

http://www.wargamesworkshop.com/ProductList.aspx?CatID=1&DivID=69&GrpID=345

http://www.wargamesworkshop.com/ProductList.aspx?CatID=1&DivID=69&GrpID=270

http://www.wargamesworkshop.com/ProductList.aspx?CatID=1&DivID=69&GrpID=344

http://www.wargamesworkshop.com/ProductList.aspx?CatID=1&DivID=69&GrpID=343

[Cavalier]

I just wanted to let all of you Marvel-philes no that the City Block Lexan mats are coming.

Here are some photos of them:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/CityBlock1.jpg

This one is using Lotus' overpass idea
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/cityUpclose3.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa13/cavtech/cityUpclose2.jpg

[Lotus]

Figures, I ask in the other thread, when you post the answer in this one, kind of made me giggle when I opened this thread.

[Cavalier]

Figures, I ask in the other thread, when you post the answer in this one, kind of made me giggle when I opened this thread.I posted this one and then went back to the other and saw your question there...I, too, had to chuckle a bit.

[Panther]

There are other Marvel City Mega Bloks buildings as well. There is a construction site battle set that looks like it has a lot of potential. Various figures fighting it out on scaffoldings. I really need to get it.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5662776

[rdhight]

Off topic, but I went to the Mega Bloks site. I clicked on the Plasmaverse display that's up right now because I thought they might have some of that alien egg-looking terrain. They don't, but I noticed this on one of the toy robots in that line:

Spoke scoffs at dialogue and diplomacy as alternatives to military resolution. Impatient, sneaky and confrontational, Spoke believes in the proliferation of nuclear arsenal, mind altering plasma technology and directed energy weapons intelligence as the only method for solving global conflicts and guaranteeing stability.

Who on earth is that ad copy intended for!? The kids won't know what it means, and the parents won't want them to play with that guy when they're young and impressionable! I guess there's a narrow age range where boys will understand it and want the evil robot it describes, but it just seems weirdly political to me.

[Obsidian3d]

I love the buildings and lexan maps. It's all good stuff. I play Heroclix as well, so anything that I can swap back and forth between the games is awesome. Keep it coming.

[Doc_Savage]

After the case of the HS expansion set called "Angel and Demon" on Walmarts web site I had to laugh at the typo on this... Walmart discount web programmers...

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f60/Doc_Savage/megabloksbank.jpg

[Annerios]

My first attempt at a Marvel battlefield:

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/Marvel.jpg

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/Marve_%2822%29.JPG

More photos and info here:

http://www.heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?t=254&start=60

[Panther]

I don't recognize the building in your map Annerios. The one with the big armor doors. Where does it come from? I could certainly use something like that.

[Annerios]

I don't recognize the building in your map Annerios. The one with the big armor doors. Where does it come from? I could certainly use something like that.

It is made from parts of a Fisher Price Imaginex police station set.

[Panther]

Nice, I'm gonna have to see if I can find one. I think the Mega Bloks Alien Agency stuff also has some potentially useful buildings from what I have seen and am looking to find those as well. Also own a Hexagon and a Platformer set. I included some links to other stuff by that company in an earlier post. Once I have a little more time and cash I am really hoping to start churning out some decent terrain and custom figures.

Meanwhile, I'm watching all the successes and failures and trying to learn from each. Keeping my fingers crossed that my first group of customs will come out pretty well balanced. Til then, the least I can do is throw out links to potentially useful stuff I spot.

[NecroBlade]

I don't recognize the building in your map Annerios. The one with the big armor doors. Where does it come from? I could certainly use something like that.

It is made from parts of a Fisher Price Imaginex police station set.And it looks like it even has a breakable wall. It was made for Marvel! :P

[Annerios]

And it looks like it even has a breakable wall. It was made for Marvel! :P

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/Marvel_%2815%29.JPG

:lol:

[Hex_Enduction_Hour]

Very cool and devastating. Whatta mess of the place! Looks like the future in that X-Men arc, Future Past, (I think).

Well done.

[whitestuff]

Anyone seen this stuff in action? http://www.miniaturescenery.com/index.asp

In particular I'm keen on this... http://www.miniaturescenery.com/SeriesPage.asp?Code=CR

you can see in one of the pics, the highrise is built to fit over the top of the building in this set http://www.miniaturescenery.com/DataPage.asp?Code=BGNDLVL

This looks like it would fit in very nicely. Can someone who is rich buy it, use it in a Marvel game and take some photos so that I can see what it looks like. ;)

[LilNewbie]

And it looks like it even has a breakable wall. It was made for Marvel! :P

http://www.heroscapers.com/oldgallery/albums/userpics/Marvel_%2815%29.JPG

:lol:

Great picture!!! Looks like a scene from the Infinity Gauntlet series.

Excellent maps and scenery, Annerios! Thanks for posting the pics.

Newb.

[Carrion Crow]

The problem with the flatpack plywood buildings is the price. I know, as I looked at them as an option too (NB: A company called Flying Bicycle do a lovely laser-cut high-level gantry, but this is also a tad expensive...)

However, there is an alternative...

http://www.amera.co.uk/product.php?range=z

Whilst the top few are trenches, scroll down and you'll see building similar to the plywood ones, but for a much more reasonable price. Z233 Factory is just screaming out to be used in Marvelscape. Several of the items in the Fantasy section would work well fro regular 'scape as well.

Alternatively, get some Plasticville S-scale raliway buildings. Just the right size for 28-30mm figures and can be used straight out of the box.

They can be found here:

http://www.charlesro.com/store/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=CRSC&Category_Code=OBPTA

I personally have the fire house and aircraft hanger and they work fine scale-wise and you can build 'em with removable roofs. Chuck the vehicles however, they're rubbish...