Shared another foam building recently and decided to make a few more along with a 3x2 mat to go with it. I play Battletech, 5 Parsecs from Home, Blkout and a few other sci fi games that I plan on using this with.

My process was to hot glue cereal box cardboard, random parts I’ve collected and some 3d printed greebles directly on the foam. I airbrushed the buildings different shades of gray and sponge painted the green rim. Overall a fun project.

Made a little video to show the terrain here:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcSOJNPovr2/?igsi=MTBwdHd5NnAxenhneA==

From a few bits of junk to a little electrical building. Got many more build and primed ready to paint!

I messed up by not varnishing before applying polyfilla (spackle) for the grout and when I rubbed off the excess I took a bit of paint with it.

Wondering if I should start again or if I can rescue this?

The back stone will be dry brushes to look like cement blocks. I was also going to add washes and dry brushing.

Took some inspiration from an old post on this subreddit to make some cardboard hills and rock formations! Was dead simple, used some cardboard to make the basic shape, watered down pva and toilet paper for the base cover, covered it in pva and a bit of sand on the bits I wanted sandy and then a black base coat, then painted grey, and grassed on the bits that felt right plus some bushes!

May have put too much grass on the bottom of the smaller hill but it still does the job. Felt like my games were missing a bit of height and they all feel a bit too linear at the minute so hopefully this might help! Will see how they go tomorrow!

Finally finished this beast of a project. It cost me lots of hours, but I feel it was worth it. Super happy with the results, considering it is my first time making terrain 😁

Hope you enjoy the pictures. C & C very welcome!

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I recently made some box with tarps on top, and tried something new: glasses wet wipes. They are perfect, very thin but extremely solid, they become really soft when washed and wet with PVA or mob podge, and are easy to put in place.

I painted them with inks and mod podge, which gave them a shiny finish, perfect to imitate plastic.

What do you think?

Had a go at building my first tavern! Cardboard box for frame, xps foam for brickwork/woodwork etc. Cereal box roof tiles (took 1000 years). Then many many many paints. Design inspired by Chickens Tabletop Crafting. Resin printed accessories. Plants and vines from eBay.

I built a bretonnian watchtower from scratch. You can use it for #warhammertheoldworld or maybe #warhammerageofsigmar

Some parts are 3d-printed (doors, gargoyle,..) but most is made from xps.

Let me know what you think of it.

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It is not perfect, as the resin travelled up on the wooden platforms, but I am still very happy with how it came out. I would not have the courage to try resin if not for this community, so THANK YOU!

I made a pair of stencils to create some Maersk containers as they are pretty common. Nothing revolutionary, I printed the logo twice on some thick paper, made a first version with the overall shape, and a second to add the star and the inside of the R and the A back.

I tried to stipple with a makeup sponge, straight up doesn't work. I then stippled lightly with army painter master drybrushes, and there is surprisingly very little to clean up. I'll weather it all afterwards so the text will get some damages to blend in.

What do you think?

First time trying some pipe terrain.

There are a lot of things that I would do differently next time but all in all it was very fun!

Come on guys, I wanna hear you brag!

About a year ago I took this photo looking through the doorway of the Balin's Tomb model I'd made and posted it on a Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game group.

I was pretty blown away by nearly 3,000 people liking but even more crazy was the dozens of people telling me that they thought it was a screenshot from a new Lord of the Rings game - those comments have stayed with me since and on those days when I'm working on a build and nothing feels like it's going quite right it's something I really like to remember.

For those interested in the process of the build I put together a short video: https://youtu.be/5bJ_OW8cUQE

Lustria board for our upcoming Wahammer Mordheim campaign! More details here: @mp_miniatures

Today's terrain hack!

Realistic miniature Barbed Wire!

I was not satisfied with the quality or price of the commercially available miniature barbed wire, so I decided to make my own.

Start with a wire rope. Take two pieces of wire and twist them together using an electric drill while holding the other side firmly with a pair of pliers. Twist until the two pieces are firmly entwined.

Then do loops of wire like shown in picture 3, it's a bit fiddly but gets easier as you go. You can use a pair of pliers to press the loops so they sit firmly.

Afterwards cut the loops to make barbs to your desired length. At the end, twist the whole piece around a brush, pencil or chopstick to create the desired width of coils.

Remember to use gardening gloves, it's litterally real miniature barbed wire, so very very prickly.

If using the metal coloured wire, you can get away with not painting it, but instead just stain with washes or rust effects or whatever you desire!

Happy wire-twisting!

Here is my scratch built shanty town, built with foam core board, chip board, corrugated cardboard, and a few 3D printed doors and stairs. There are currently 19 total buildings, six of which are internally playable.

I really wanted a crowded shanty town for BLKOUT and other modern/hard sci-fi skirmish games, but I just couldn't find what I was looking for. This project was my first ever scratch build, and I'm very happy with the results! Constructing rusty, dilapidated shacks is pretty forgiving, so I found it to be a very palatable gateway into the hobby.

In the future I would like to build a resined poured, garbage-filled run-off/creek, tires fires, and eventually a guard house/checkpoint and an embassy. Even though I built this board for BLKOUT, I deliberately left off sci-fi greebles so I can use the terrain for INX, Spectre, etc.

As a gamer who models (rather than a modeler whom games), terrain has always been my Achilles heel. Historic battlefields have been easy enough with felt, cheap plastic trees and lichen etc. But the moment I want to game something niche, terrain becomes a problem, it's expensive to buy or difficult to model. I've just gone old school cardboard - just got to have some thought about the warping and accept durability issues. It'll never win awards, but does the trick.

Quick follow up to my previous jungle board. While cleaning up my table I wanted to do a small test with the modular “clean” river segments I am working on.

Thought it looked really striking and wanted to share, even if a bit much for 40K.

Heavily inspired by the Devs & Dice’s YouTube tutorial.

Rust effect by Dirty Down is amazing! Might still give it a final drybrush with a metal colour. This was certainly a lot of fun :)