I picked up this kit from eBay for £5.99 as an alternative to buying multiple packs of scenic bases. I'd been a fan of the Scibor basing kits that I'd used extensively on an Eldar army for Warhammer 40k - partly due to them adding real interest to the bases, but also as a cost issue I found one base kit would do twice the number of bases a similarly priced base pack might provide.
The Kromlech kit came with eleven resin pieces of rubble, in a variety of sizes. The attention to detail is lovely with cracked concrete, bullet holes, discarded pistons, pipework, wiring and other odds and ends half buried in the earth.
My criticism of these pieces in how they're presented on the Kromlech publicity shot above. Even if you disregard the possibility that some of those bases might be recessed, the clearly flat GW-esque bases show the base bits to be fairly thinly raised off the surface of the base and aside from the detailing do not stand particulary proud of the base surface.
In reality they are actually pretty thick pieces of resin with a good few mm of difference between the top of the slotta base and even the lowest point of the resin piece. These pieces are not the wafer thin shards of rubble your mind expects them to be - naively or not. It sounds like a minor issue, but even on a smallish 25mm round base, they will still require some green stuff and additional detailing to be added to fill out the flat gaps around them. In addition, in a game where line of sight is king, having your models stand an additional 3-4mm taller than you'd like is not something to ignore when their average height is less than 28mm to begin with. You will end up with some fairly chunky little bases when you're done.
That aside, they do make for some handsome base decorations and I've so far enjoyed rusting and weathering them up to look suitably like some ruined Ariadnan outpost on the far reaches of Hadrian's Range.
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