A week or so ago a large, unassuming box arrived on my hobby desk. It had come all the way from the US and had kindly been dispatched by a company called Snot Goblin Gaming.

Snot Goblin Gaming are the creators of FutureProof terrain, a set of plastic modular scenery, designed for tabletop games such as Warhammer 40,000. Their aim was to create a system where you didn’t have to buy lots of scenery which you built and then had difficulty to store. They also wanted to create scenery which was much more affordable, because the best experiences on the tabletop should have scenery for you to battle over.

You can watch the full unboxing of this scenery in the video below:

They’d very kindly sent a full battlefield worth of scenery, as well as some additional ruins. These pieces all have that gothic feel to them, with plenty of skulls and swords on show.

The first thing that jumped out at me was the absolute mind blowing amount of components. You have the larger pieces, such as the single and double walls, floors, pillars…but then you also have small bits of ruins, corner pieces, even components to cover the connectors for the floor tiles to ensure your buildings look complete. Theirs enough parts here to create a tournament legal Games Workshop battlefield.

This is incredibly hardy plastic, nothing fragile about these parts, even the really small bits. They’ve used injection-molded ABS plastic for this scenery to ensure your buildings can take a few hits.

I thought I may have to ‘shave’ off some plastic, or potentially snip some additional bits off to ensure a good fit when the parts are pushed together, however I didn’t have to do any of that. Every component I tried was a snug fit, ensuring stability. Within seconds of opening all the little plastic bags I was building ruins at pace, seeing how each of the pieces went together.

There are no instructions (or at least I didn’t get any) however you don’t need any. Some of the parts at first glance you may think “what is that for?” but as soon as you start assembling you’ll soon realise what all the parts are for. Snot Goblin have literally thought of everything to ensure your ruins, no matter how you assemble them, look like the finished article. So long as you plan a little you can ensure their is no connector points showing.

Call me boring, but if there’s one thing I’d like Games Workshop to do a little more of, it’s complete buildings. I’m pleased to say it’s very easy to do complete buildings with these modular kits, as you can see in my example below.

Whilst I was testing out the scenery my 4 year old little boy took an instant interest. Soon enough he was joining me, connecting walls and floors together to create his own little ruins and buildings.

I’ve built so many buildings to test out the modular nature of the set, and I can confirm, it most definitely is modular. It’s almost worth ordering a couple of sets so you could really let your imagination run wide, and construct tall/wide buildings that would normally cost you a small fortune as a standalone kit.

The scale is perfect for Warhammer 40k minis, as you’ll see throughout the images and the video.

As well as the full set of unpainted scenery, Snot Goblin Gaming also sent me a number of pre-painted pieces. These are available in a variety of colours, as you can see over on there website, and again the finish is fantastic. It doesn’t feel like the paint is going to chip or anything like that, and its ace how they ensured key details are suitably painted, such as exposed brick work and skulls. Some even have what appear to be Chaos or Gang markings painted on them to help with immersion.

Pre-painted scenery is a brilliant idea, and is ideally for those gamers who don’t enjoy, or don’t have the time to paint up a whole battlefield worth of terrain. I’ve got my eye on purchasing a full pre-painted set, as for all the time I spend painting minis, I never seem to give myself enough time to do scenery!

Once the game is over, the pieces unclip with ease, so that you can store them away. I’m currently in the market for a plastic box with multiple sections, so that I can store each of the parts away in there own compartment, but you don’t have to be that organised. All the parts would easily fit in to a small box, saving you tons of space.

I’m finding it hard to find a flaw. Whilst there are 3 or 4 different wall designs, yes, you could argue a lot of your buildings may start to look familiar. I would really like Snot Goblin Gaming to release another set, perhaps with a different aesthetic, such as chapels or manufactorum, to mix up the battlefield. What I would LOVE for them to do however, is a Boarding Actions / Zone Mortalis / Kill Team Gallowdark set of scenery, with interlocking walls to make the interior of a building or spaceship, ideally pre-painted too.

I am partial to the official scenery that Games Workshop put out, however some are just too expensive, and once assembled take up a ton of space. FutureProof terrain works out roughly at half the cost when it comes to filling a full Strike-Force sized battlefield and can be stored away easily. You could argue it adds a whole lot of fun to the setting up the battlefield phase too!

I’m going to work on getting these painted so that we can feature them on a future battle report, so watch this space!

By clicking this link you can reserve your launch invite for when the project launches on Kickstarter to ensure you nab a VIP discount. You’ll have the option to go for both the unpainted and painted versions.

You can watch an advert for the scenery below: