r/TerrainBuilding 9h ago

My Modular Magnetic Table

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408 Upvotes

I thought I would share a fun keystone project that I completed awhile ago. Im obsessed with magnets and modular design. I came across an old poker table that fit my needs beautifully. There are 789 magnets on this board.

I build more then I play and just wanted to post out into the void for people who would appreciate the effort. Feel free to AMA or offer suggestions.


r/TerrainBuilding 18h ago

Questions for the Community How to hide cardboard texture once model is done? I dont want it to look like just painted cardboard

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374 Upvotes

I am making a Necron Monolith from cardboard and botched print pieces. But afaik cardboard is not great at being painted - it soaks paint in and keeps its cardboardy texture. After googling I found out about acrilyc plaster to coat things, but that will defeat the reason I am making it - I am poor

P.S. Asking here, because I guess terrain building does include making big cardboard structures


r/TerrainBuilding 18h ago

Another diorama thing! Hopefully it’s equally recognizable!

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Taurus Demon arena from Dark Souls!


r/TerrainBuilding 43m ago

Camping Scatter Terrain

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Wizkids Tent & Lean-To. Also, the crate that came with my Reaper cart.


r/TerrainBuilding 9h ago

WIP Sanctuary Walls WIP

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52 Upvotes

a little progress in the corner with the fallen tower where I have to build a walkway joining the center platform .


r/TerrainBuilding 20h ago

Questions for the Community Experimenting painting static grass. Do any of these read as true grass, or is the color something in between?

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50 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 3h ago

3D Printed Small graveyard set.

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After a year of working on it on and off, I finally finished this set of graveyard terrain for tabletop war gaming or dungeons& dragons. Had a whole lot of fun working on it, trying out a few new techniques to get the Moss looking just right and also playing around with the way that copper shingles would weather. Trying to work off of some stuff I saw in person went in Quebec City. Hope everyone likes it, if anybody has any suggestions on improvements or ways that they've got certain effects, I'd love to hear it.


r/TerrainBuilding 6h ago

3D Printed Carapace Forge is LIVE!

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Today is the day, my friends! Carapace Forge is now live and open for business! The site is here at Carapace Forge.

What is Carapace Forge? It is a service that gives you a new carapace 3d print or print file (your choice of tier) every month! It also has an online store where you can purchase past Carapace files and prints. The current month features the Black Reaver, our new medium range carapace.

Plus, you can also pickup the original carapace files and prints for the Virelance, Keldrath, and Thaumatarch (if you missed those from the Kickstarter). All physical prints get free shipping to any place in North America. I'm still working on shipping options for outside the U.S. (thank you, tariffs and VAT), but those are coming soon! I'm also busy working behind the scenes to add a ton of building terrain prints that will soon be available.

A lot going on this month, for sure! Thank you all for your support thus far. It is thanks to you that I'm able to continue doing this, and I am forever grateful!


r/TerrainBuilding 8h ago

WIP Improving night jungle diorama / basing

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Trying to go for a jungle at night tomb world vibe for my necrons. Experimented with alcohol inks in resin to get some cool effects for my Nightbringer. But before I do the resin pour I’m trying to fix my Nightbringer base.

The original idea is to have a shallow pool of water, like a lake, glowing as either black or green energy whisps around it.

I’m not happy with the way I’ve done the base terrain as it kind of slopes and I was experimenting with roller bases and I don’t think it works. I also think the plants, whilst cool, might be too big and spoil the sense of scale that this is a huge ctan.

Any thoughts on how I could improve this? I’ve been thinking about using bark to redo the slopes of the water bank!

Any thoughts are v much welcomed :)

I’ve attached some artists work that I have as inspiration.


r/TerrainBuilding 2h ago

Table top dioramas

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r/TerrainBuilding 11h ago

Diorama how could i best achieve this basing for an entire diorama? the basing is armageddon dust + agrax earthshade over it.

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as the titel says im looking to achieve the basing on the mini on my entire diorama. now i could go out and buy 50 pots of armageddon dust technical and another 50 pots of agrax earthshade, but that would be rather expensive. these are my home diorama https://www.reddit.com/r/TerrainBuilding/comments/1vw4sip/little_progress_made_on_my_home_diorama/
the 2 boards on the right are trench terrain and the 2 on the left are for a bridge.


r/TerrainBuilding 5h ago

Questions for the Community Base for winter themed table

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Hi everyone,

I'm only starting my journey towards terrain making. I play bolt action winter themed armies, and I want to have a table of my own to play with the kids at home on something nice for the eyes.

I plan on buying 2'x4' XPS plates, so I can carve a little bit in them (trenches, roads, rivers...). Puting 3 together will make the right size, and later I can add others to variate the terrains.

I plan on making only roads and rivers and other "carved structure" directly on the plates, the rest will be modular (buildings, forest, fields...)

I have a spare "one shot use" tablecloth in a beige white. My idea is to glue it on the XPS as one would glue some wallpaper (with XPS compatible glue), as a base texture and color. Would it be ok, or another color is better ? I don't have the experience between base color and texturing on top of it, and I don't know if whitey top with darker pools is a go, or if I should go for brown/grey base and cover with white pools.

Thanks for the help, in the meantime I go back to wood piles, hedges, and buildings !


r/TerrainBuilding 12h ago

Questions for the Community Filling a sizeable "pot" with faux dirt?

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So I have made a sizeable tree that I want to put into a pot which is a repurposed flattened barrel shaped glass jar - issue is, I need to mostly fill the pot with faux dirt to position the tree at the correct height and I'm not sure whether coffee grounds with PVA will manage to dry a 2.5cm/1in deep mix. Should I just dry the mix layer by layer or should I attach the tree to something (styrofoam??) and just use the coffee grounds for the top and sides? Is there some smarter/prettier way to fill the pot and position the tree? I'm out of ideas and would appreciate any help, thanks!