Underhive Market for Necromunda

In my second week of the Woehammer ‘How to Paint’ series, we are keeping with Necromunda – it’s what I’m playing at the moment so it’s what I’m painting!

Just a reminder for those new to this series, these won’t be stage by stage and will keep a similar format to the Hobby Updates or yester-year, but they will continue to have the list of paints available.

Necromunda

Is this the best game GW have ever released… well it’s on a par to Warmaster at least and is a great campaign game and fun skirmish adventure. Is it ‘fair’ in any meaningful way?… well no! But who cares it’s more a GM led campaign than anything else. I love it..

Can I say something new about it … sure, but there’s 8 of these articles lined up and I don’t have that kind of imagination.

Underhive Market

The Underhive market is part of the Games Workshop ‘Zone Mortalis’ scenery style and whilst it could be used for 40k this is definitely a Necromunda kit, and it is packed full of line of sight blocking market stalls with trip hazards, gun selling and scattered coins available.

Pictures

How do they play?

Necromunda excels with 2 things – line of sight blocking scenery and height, and whilst this kit doesn’t assist with the second one it is great for the first. I have left a few fire lanes on the tile, but if you’re in the market then you’re unlikely to be shot from someone on a different tile and that makes for a better game of Necromunda.

I have glued them onto the tile though as the pieces are a little light and I think they would be easily knocked around and disturbed during play – not ideal if your line of sight blocking terrain moves.

Paints Used

Starting with a Black Undercoat for all pieces I selected different colours for the canvas of the market stalls. I was going for simple but with different colours and in the main I stuck with the colours of the tiles although blue and green did sneak in there as well.

The other items are painted in the same colours, but with a drybrush of leadbelcher in most cases – see the tiles article – to tie it into my Necromunda boards.

Colours used were: Mephiston Red, Kantor Blue, Mechanicus Standard Grey, Orruk Flesh, Rakarth Flesh, Leadbelcher and Balthasar Gold

With generous toppings of Nuln Oil & Agrax Earthshade.

Buying a Box

These are available everywhere, so try your local FLGS first – or ask them to order in for you. If you don’t have a local FLGS then Woehammer has an affiliate link with Element Games which gives us a small kickback to buy more toys. I think this is one of the best value scenery kits for Necromunda at £34 RRP.

In fact I will definitely be buying another one and using the stalls as single pieces to add more interest to other Zone Mortalis Tiles.

— Declan and Eeyore