You know the drill, post you terrain collection, WIP terrain, or terrain inspiration!!!!
WHERE can I get the most amount of SHIPPING CONTAINERS for the CHEAPEST price possible???
>>96425751GET some WOODCUT to SIZESCORE SOME DEETZPAINT DAT BITCH
>>96425776Won't you see the grain?
>>96425839Yeah, unless you do enough surface prep to deal with that. In which case you'll simply be left with a crudely rubbed-for-your-pleasure rectangular block of something on the tabletop, because shipping container shave a touch more going on with them that his method completely skips/glosses over.
I want a photorealistic table like this
>>96425839>>96425882I suppose you could use the inner layer of corrugated cardboard on the outside, I dunno why you wouldn't just skip the wood then
>>96425751Beside the aliexpress NOT! Lego containers?
>>96426535Those look too fake, not like real containers >>96425751All the good plastic ones I find are like $10 per container minimum, which is absurd pricing for a plastic box. Wargames Atlantic announced they're working on a set of them (why?). I'm sure the quality will be incredibly mid, but depending on the price they might be worth buying. Sincerely with the price, if you plan on filling out a full shipyard or something you might as well get a resin 3d printer and print some, it would be cheaper than buying them
>>96426680Forgot pic
Trying to craft an apartment building, just started on it today
>>96425661"Thanks for making a nice table for our COC game dude. Thing is, we wrapped up that campaign a year ago and are now playing D&D. Can you do the same, but medieval, by next week?"
>>96430063"Sure, if you pay triple the market rate for a rush job:^)"
>>96427753Looks like the right shape and size. Planning on cutting out windows and doors?
threw something together
>>96426080Terrain is always a compromise between price, looks and practicality.
>>96430649good work>>96425661
>>96430596Yes, of course!
Bought this interesting shaped toy container for sci-fi terrain but it's got a bloody logo on two sides. Will be a faff to file off
>>96434385I would just fit a piece of cardboard over the logo'd sides and paint what you pleased on the cardboard instead of laboriously filing down some impact plastic.
One of the best beginner projects out there.
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>>96435120Brit in Australia actually lel
>>96435168Brit can mean a lot of thing, Pahjeet Singh,
>>9642575120 minutes with an exacto knife. I bet you could even do a nice job and turn out a bunch in an hour.
I got some pieces for trenches printed from a local business, and I need a sturdy but not too thick board to glue them and foam on. Any suggestions?
>>96436956I use 1/8 plywood cause it's convenient, I see people using that dense brown MDF stuff alot. No cardboard.
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>>96437600Man, how am I supposed to fingerblast a hot goth girl under that guy's stern and watchful gaze?
>>96425661Jesus christ. My ork terrain still isn’t painted. In my defense I’ve been on a holiday.
I love making tropical islands, keeps me warm during the winter.
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I'm done with bricking, so now instead of cutting XPS I'm cutting cardboard sheets with roof shingles.
>>96440824What's gonna happen when a fat dopey Warhammer player sits on this?
HOW can I make the most amount of FAVELAS for the CHEAPEST price and EASIEST workflow possible??
>>96440840He would hurt himself. Insides are full of screws and barbeque skewers
>>96440863Interesting, for what game? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tvzbCqCIJg8&pp=ygUUU29sbyB3YXJnYW1lciBmYXZlbGE%3D
>>96440863Corrugated cardboard is your friend and your roof.Also, get a few friends and do it together. Bonus points for variety since everyone will be doing his shacks in his own style.
>>96432623This reminds me of the Alamo in San Antonio, even though they don't look much alike. Like it was some old historic site that got preserved as more modern buildings sprung up around it.
I am... a bit closer to completing my city board
>>96437747His back is turned. Go for it.
>>964447203d printed or crafted? What game is this intended for?
>>96440824Beautiful work so far, looking forward to see it finished.
>>96446947Wow, this looks awesome.
>>96425751Filament printer
>>96446947Where did they get these buildings? Anyone know?
>>96447140These vertical terrain tables always make me cream in my pants
>>96447320And another
>>96447280Monster Fight Club cityscape, a little bit of money.
>>96446197Everything except the bases and the mini are 3d printed. Intended for any game set in a inner city really I'm not going to limit myself when I put in the effort, but currently it's best for 1890-1950s
Some progress on my apartment building. Making every floor playable is beyond my current skill level, so I am going with a removable roof and only the top floor playable
>>96447328>>96447320would love to make a vertical board like this, but i feel like its wasted space since you have to make each level empty enough for your hands and your models to fit in.>>96447140maybe if it was cut in a triangle sort of like the front of this? But even then, you get the fitting problem the further you go into the back of a level.
I have created this obelisk for a running campaign with Dwarfs, Vampires an Tomb Kings. It's still a wip: I'm still missing the TK bits, the decals, the dusty finish...But you get the idea.
>>96453350This is the other side.I also have two smaller obelisks on 40mm bases as objective markers.
>>96453350>>96453356Looks good Anon. What's the lore behind it and the campaign itself?
>>96453350I love the skeleton arm still holding the banner up
>>96425751dollar store foam boardcard board torn to show the corrugated sidecutting tool of some sortgluepaint1) make Cargo container shape with foam board and glue.2) glue corrugated cardboard on exterior3)paint.you will feel good about yourself after doing this.
The small obelisks from ArchonStudio.>>96453356>loreA determined necromancer wants to travel from Sylvania to Khemri to find the secrets of immortality. He travels south, breaking his way through a dwaven mountain pass around Karak Hirn. The dwarfs rally an army to chase him down.From Khemri a Tomb King pushes north to reclaim ancient territories in the Badlands, clashing with the necromance's hordes in the process.And obviously the dwarfs are not too particular when it comes to killing undead, attacking both armies on sight.The Necromancer faces immortality or destruction as he tries to harness the death magic of the ancient obelisks...
Posting Mordheim terrain to keep the thread alive.
>>96463725Nice stuff anon, I love the rickety platforms.
My current collection of jungle terrain. I calculated that I will need another 120 palm trees to get the table I want to make.
>>96463779Thanks>>96463790Going full 'Nam?
>>96463790I want to make a jungle terrain, I'm just dreading the need to paint all the trees because the aquarium plants are all too shinny
>>96464249What if you just spray aquarium plants with matte varnish?
>>96464312In my test it still looks odd. It's the lack of depth some wash is needed for them to not look like aquarium plants.Some random one in terrain do not matter but an entire clump of them? It sticks out a lot.
>>96464249You can do it with rattle cans, I use graffiti paints that are quite cheap, I prime with mnt 94 amazonas green and then just give them a quick dash with a lighter green ink, but it works with rattle cans as well, but I prefer using my airbrush to lighten them upAlso, get shitloads of paint stir sticks to allow you to mass paint the plants.
>>96464057I am going to build enough for a full jungle fighting table, using the 3rd edition catachan jungle terrain generator.
>>96463790Where do you get the trees? I'm about to make a Vietnam table but aquarium plants are very overpriced at Amazon and the store
>>96464569Aliexpress, at least in my third world country the shipping is the only expensive thing about them
>>96464569Aliexpress, search for plastic model palm trees.
>>96464603if you're making a whole table, alibaba might be an even better option. I do find it advantageous to have a sharp nipper to cut the flash from the plastic plants. While you don't need to do it perfectly, it's nice to make things go faster and easier.>>96464623Also, this was a decorative moss mat I found in a hardware store. The most bang for your buck so far in my jungle journey.
I got bits of very thick corrugated cardboard from a friend after he moved and turned them into containers.The branding and technical details on it were designed by myself and printed on decal paper.The results is still a bit of a mixed bag:>The larger decals broke down during transfer. So I had to cover some of the containers in rust, to hide the defects.>Even after spraying varnish over them, you can still see the transparent part of the decal. I don't know how I could improve this.
Any of you got experience using XPS foam with honeycomb structure? Is it flat enough to be non visable after a primer and a layer of paint or will that stuff drive me crazy?
>>96463725Are the walls plastic or prints? If plastic, sauce?
>>96465818Same question but for the opposite reason, that looks real exploitable for alien insectoid terrain.
>>96465818Its not flat at all.
>>96466075A shame, so I have to keep buying the overpriced amazon stuff.
>>96465260On the other hand, sticking the caps of baby formula bottles together to make scifi containers worked pretty fine.I added a bit of sand inside, for the weight, and used epoxy glue to make sure the two caps stuck together solidly.
>>96466614>baby formula you really hate to see it
>>96466042Plastic. It's the Ruined Hamlet from warlord Games.It feels a bit small for 28mm scale, but it's good conversion fodder.
What's a good architectural style for Imperial Knights that isn't medieval or Gothic? Art Deco? Neoclassical?Want some terrain to go alongside my army, and since I want their homeworld to both be a more recent discovery and be higher tech than a Feudal World, those two are a bit disqualified. Especially since I want to make it more a Merchant Republic style where guilds form the aristocracy over hereditary nobility.
I saw an old tutorial I think in wip about a decade ago for spellbooks for scatter terrain. Involved wrapping pieces of I think popsicle sticks in paper but it might have been something else. Any chance of anyone here seeing it too or did I fabricate this entire thing at some point and forget?
Iron tree inspired by the White Dwarf on demon worlds.>>96470097I don't have the tutorial, but that sounds simple enough. A piece of wood as filler (or an actual stack of mini pages) wrapped on 3 sides by thin cardboard, giving you both covers and the spine.Also, consider decals for cover decorations.Whyloch's Armory on YT has plenty of tutorials like that.
>>96466958Nah, don't worry. Baby was mostly breast fed. Just... it took a little bit of time for the mom to start producing enough, because it's our first (and because small boobies).The formula was just there to ease the transition.
>>96470200>Iron treeDamn this looks really really good. Did you use leftover sprues, for the branches?Where did you find these perfect miniature barbed wires?>>96470088>good architectural style for Imperial KnightsArt Deco is the peak of western design, you can't go wrong with that.There is this anon out there who's kitbashing a whole army in this style and it's amazing https://www.instagram.com/chaz_models/
>>96470405Nothing wrong with baby formula. Breastmilk is only important for the first 3 months or so.No such thing as too much terrain for skirmish games right?
>>96470458Not spures, though it would have worked just fine. These were scraps of styrene i-beams, rods and pipes, round and square, stuffed in some leftover plastic tube. The "bark" is layered paper rectangles.The barbed wire is from Bits of War / Kromlech and comes as brass sheets.
>>96470521>No such thing as too much terrain for skirmish games right?Literally yes.I've played against people that complain that it meant they could walk their giant/ogre through the dense forest, but the elves and goblins could fit, as if that wasn't the point.More terrain always.
>>96465818It's only on one side, so you can just trim that structure off.
>>96470027Thanks anon!>a bit small for 28mm scaleUgh. I'll keep it in mind though.
>>96470544I think I could have fit a few more in. Next time. I have some nice paper houses that would go nicely.>>96470663
Bros I'm in the middle of an international move and all my crafting stuff is stuck in a box for the next 3 months while it ships over here. I think I'm just going to rebuy some of the basics so I can craft in the meantime. What would you do in my situation?
>>96472725Consider trying out some materials that don't need a lot of tools? PVC foam, modelling compound etc, maybe even consider sculpting?
>>96472953Mm, that's a good idea anon. I have been spending more time on sketching and painting, but this is probably a good time to actually learn sculpting.
>>96472725>in the middle of an international moveI've been there.It's a great opportunity to try some new techniques, therefore buy some equipment which you don't already have, so that you don't end up with duplicates when your crates finally arrive.Another option: Depending on how quick you work, 3 months can give you enough time to complete a project. So, for example, if you only ever made buildings before, now could be the time to make a battlemap.The materials you'll need for it will be mostly stuff you don't already have and which will be used up for the project.
>>96440863I dont know but here is a sick favela table i saw at a convention.
Early WIP termite farm table for Quar.
saw one of the coolest tables i've ever seen today
>>96478653Damn, there has to be £3000+ worth I'd wrecks on that board. Looks good though.
>>96478321This looks amazing. It's crazy how modern warfare tables always look so good
>>96438281>>96438284looks very cozy anon. makes me want to run a high seas campaign
I put my hand on a RIDICULOUS quantity of expanded polystyrene (two sheets 1.6*2 METERS in size).What are some easy builds I could make, using those?I already have a bunch of scifi buildings (see pic rel).I also made a good amount of rock formations.I wanted to start building terrains for a sword and sorcery campaign, but I guess cutting expanded polystyrene into little bricks to make ruins won't work very well.I wanted to make a bunch of North African/Greek-style adobe out of cardboard (to make them stackable) and covering them with textured mod podge, but I guess I could use the styrene for that instead, if I give up on the idea of making them stackable?Anyone has another idea?
>>96479034>I also made a good amount of rock formations.By which I mean pic related. This was done using insulation foam.
Gonna dump some kino shit when I get back from the grocery store
>>96426080>>96479239I love these. Maybe one day when I get into modern setting games I'll try something like these.
>>96479334Modern settings are cool because it demands high effort terrain, because it's so familiar to us it basically has to have realistic terrain or else it feels uncanny
>>96479377How did he/you make the low stone walls?I tried a bunch of techniques but nothing really satisfying>Glued using white glue then painted makes it look like a chocolate bar>Glued with superglue + baking soda makes it look frozen and will look like a solid block if painted
>>96480300mmm tasty granola bars
>>96478653Oh, I saw the making of video for that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNuIxzEdUQ&t=6594sNeat to see a pic of it 'in the wild'.
>>96480880>>96479377>>96479239>>96479231>>96479217>>96479068>>96478958>>96478321You know these buildings have playable interiors and removable roots, and most awg and historic games have special rules for buildings, how fighting in/out of buildings affect combat, LoS, etc. and seeing these pics, compared to all the Warhammer terrain hate threads that keep spamming the board... It got me thinking. Why does Warhammer NEVER have playable buildings, troops never enter buildings, and indeed correct me if I'm wrong, but Warhammer 40k doesn't even have rules for buildings and going inside. Why is that? I have NEVER seen a warhammer 40k table or terrain with playable buildings or interiors? BEST case scenario is some guys can stand on the roof, but even that is extremely rare. Pic related
>>96480990At least during 3rd and 4th you could get inside buildings.Things like bunkers usually get the vehicle treatment. It was there but it never got too much attention, since usually fighting in interiors was it own separate scenarios with their own rules like Zone Mortalis or Boarding Actions
>>96480990I notice this as well. The only definitive ruleset for indoors I can think of for 40K is Battlezone: Cityfight, and that essentially said "cut out floor plans for each building and play on them seperately". I am sketching out floor plans for modular, playable interiors for 40k for my local, because I hate that all we have are old cities of death pieces glued in random half square shapes, or half square styrofoam ruins that are chipping and snapping apart.I think it might be because 40k has so many units that arent human shaped, or are jsut really big, especially nowadays, and it just sort of is made an afterthoguht because trying to make rules that apply to both a guardsman and a dreadnought probably makes people pull their hair out.Can you give me names, or even links, to those wargames that you feel have good rules for playing in and with buildings? Would really help me out.
>>96481500See that's the thing.... Not every unit SHOULD be able to enter a building. That is the benefit of infantry in real life, their purpose is to take and hold ground. Infantry can dig in, hunker down, fortify positions in buildings. Tanks and dreadnaughts can not. That's exactly how it should be.
>>96450353Any good guide or manuals for modern buildings like these?
>>96481631Yeah on YouTube
>>96481631I don't have any specific tutorials but you can make them the same as any other building, with foam poster board and hot glue.
>>96478203Great advice anon. The one thing I can't do much of right now is paint, since the airbrush and all my paints are shipping. But I can still start on a battlemap or two. I've been wanting to make my own spearhead battlemap because the GW one is simply cardboard. I'll start there.
Fortified manor I started making and then forgot about. All interiors are playable
>>96481500>Can you give me names, or even links, to those wargames that you feel have good rules for playing in and with buildings? Would really help me out.Warzone first edition had some very solid, simple rules that are pretty similar to some of the stuff for early Warhammer. Which is unsurprising considering the way Heartbreaker got started. You can find the rules on the Mutant Chronicles wiki site (https://www.mutantpedia.com/Warzone.html). The first version was a tunnel-fighting system from Chronicles magazine, that was then elaborated on for the Capitol Bridgehead, Brotherhood Cathedral, and Bauhaus Bunker boxed sets. They're designed to play with floorplans on a side table as a sort of hybrid zone-system. Units can shoot out of buildings easily as long as they have access to a hole, but it's substantially harder to shoot in without a flamer, and stuff like mortars can't do it at all. Larger units are limited by their base size or silhouette, much like Infinity (see below). Moving around in a building is heavily-constrained by doorways and stairwells. Combined with short LoS indoors it can make for some very spooky bughunt games. You could also look at other modern skirmishers like Last Days, Reality's Edge/This is Not a Test, Zone Raiders, and the like. They generally have very similar rules to old-school Necromunda.Infinity basically treats buildings like just another part of the battlefield, albeit with a ceiling. The whole game has a lot more (for lack of a better word) precision to it than Warzone, because it's more tournament-oriented rather than an up-jumped RPG mass-combat system. It assumes you can just take apart all the buildings, somehow without disturbing the models inside, and do very tight LoS and reaction checks. Moving around is a lot more abstract. "Into the Breeding Pits" for first edition Frostgrave is a dungeon-crawling expansion. It has some interesting ideas, like blown initiative rolls placing traps on the board.
>>96481559Dreadnoughts are pretty well known for entering buildings, though wall breaching is even more of an uncommon and interesting rule than building fights. The solution for units holding terrain is flamers, grenades, and barreling a dreadnought into them.
>>96482642Stop forgetting about it an finish it. I want to see it finished, you little slut.
>>96478653>DOW1 referenceKino sovl
>>96482642Fucking nice
>>96447320That's how Necromunda and Spacehulk should be played.
>>96480300Thin strips of expanded polystyrene, scored with a pencil to make groves that look like the gaps in brickwork - straight for bricks, irregular for stones.
>>96484062How do the dreads get up to the 124th floor on that deathworld hive block, or down the small passagway to the underground sewer system? Not everywhere is accessible by an object the size of a bus.
>>96484989Same reason any heavy armor dudes do. Because they need to get there and the game is about facilitating those sorts of things. It's an incredibly ancient discussion wondering how many times space marines or even worse, terminators, fall through staircases or into basements.Wait until you figure out dreadnoughts probably shouldn't be able to walk well on their stumpy little legs at all. New rules that they have to be dragged into the battlefield by tractors, perhaps.
>>96484972>Thin strips of expanded polystyrene, scored with a pencilI tried that, too, but it still feels too regular.
>>96485173That's about right for stone wallsT. Nta but I'm a bong that hikes and a lot of our land is covered in stone walls
>>96478948I’ll take the advice of our doctor over some random dude on a Mongolian basket weaving forum.
>>96485559b-but the doctors are in league with the lizardmen, they swear an oath in school!!!4
Some more garbage terrain. A Gunk Tank for Necromunda, some kinda (shampoo?body wash?) bottle glued to a weed whacker line spindle, various greebly bits added for detail.
goddammit. Anyway, you can kind of see it in action here
>>96485559Good.... but always remember doctors can only give advice on products like this due to studies done and published. Also remember that the people making these studies and the places publishing these studies can have their own agendas.
>>96480722Another angle of it. Apparently it regularly gets used for games which is cool
>>96479034Modular table with hills. Trench works. Craters. Cobblestone and building lot street sections for ye olde urban skirmishheim.
>>96485957>being AmericanLMAO
>>96486356>Israelimy condomlenses>modelsAnyaral: The World Of Twilight
>>96427753Some progress on my apartment building from earlier ITT
>>96485559>>96478948Ok, I'm the original father anon. I *would* take a well-sourced advice from 4Chan over that of a random doctor. I wasn't going to dwelve on the topic given that it's pretty far from terrain making, but just so I don't leave the wrong impression, let me insist a bit on what I already wrote:Baby WAS breastfed and took most of her baby weight this way.She was breastfed as long as needed, that is: until she started being able to eat solid food (and all home-made from fresh and organic ingredients). After that you are not supposed to keep going because... you know... baby starts going teeth and these are hard on the titties. The formula was only necessary in the very beginning, because it took a few days for the mom to lactate in large enough quantity.>>96425751>SHIPPING CONTAINERS for the CHEAPEST price possibleHere's how I made mine: pieces of thick corrugated cardboard + corrugated paper + hard cardboard.But, honestly, if I were to start again I would give Temu containers a try because these were a lot of hassle for a result that's not stellar.At least I got the benefit of being able to create my own logo and stuff.
>>96486350These minis are absolutely incredible! Where are they from?>>96486323>Modular table with hillsDo you have a specific example in mind?>CobblestoneThat's my main question, actually:Is it possible to cut expanded polystyrene into bricks or stones? By nature they don't take shapes very well, so they will retain very sharp edges, which would look weird for big stones.
>>96487642>Where are they from?I am sure you read the thread and saw it later, but Anyaral: The World Of Twilight
>>96487592Those could work for walls in a zone mortalis like thing.
>>96487748>Anyaral: The World Of TwilightHoly molly how is this the first time I hear about this collection? https://shop.worldoftwilight.com/collections/miniaturesThese models are adorable! This is right up my alley! Damn, just when I thought I was done buying any more miniatures.
>>96487865yeah it's good to see something different than n+1 orcs and elves, fantasy or sci-fi humans
Milliput is terrain related right?What’s the best way to shape milliput into rocks? It seems deceptively simple looking yet I feel like it is easy to mess up.
>>96447207Seconding. You don't even need one just find someone with one.
>>96470097I think that was pic related. It's in the WIP mega https://mega.nz/folder/TvQFCaLb#w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw/file/OqRxBKQQ
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>>96478958Needs a circus poster.>>96478368Neat, looks like a bunch of beehives with termite flavor. What are they farming from the termites, exactly?
>>96487896Thats really high fantasy comfy dude, nice work>>96482642very nice>>96486295I bought a recast warhound for this exact idea for a table. I'll procrastinate it for another year or more. >>96486364Big flex, very nice. You know what you're doing.>>96486491Marvel? Thats a mighty building
>>96485012I agree. We have to keep in mind that everything about 40k, the lore, the rules, the culture, etc is designed only to promote the purchase and use of the current range of figures. As it's difficult to make rules that cover the current figure range, with it's nine foot tall space marines, dreadnoughts, winged demons and tyranids, vehicles and huge 'heros' balancing on tactical rock piles, GW just doesnt bother with decent rules for fighting inside buildings. This may be why most 40k players just don't bother either and mostly stick with the occasional solid terrain display pieces and L shaped cardboard.
>>96485173They would look ok with a bit of paint. Maybe glue them to lollypop sticks and add random bits of foliage and earth piled up against them (using wood filler), add random extra rows to each long one to break up the straight lines a bit? Walls tend to be built straight, with nature making them more 'organic' over time.
early WIP
>>96435029>>96435002>>96434963>>96434947I'm just getting back into the hobby after more then a decade out. I originally became interested via articles like this in White Dwarf back in the day. I left as White Dwarf was going weekly, but even before that, terrain guides like this were becoming a rarity. Does modern White Dwarf ever have cool terrain articles and how-to's like this, or is it just painting guide for GW's plastic terrain?
>>96492310Well, for eating i guess. The Quar are some kind of anteater hunanoid.
>>96490533>first you sculpt some circles>then you make it look like a rock Maybe practice with Plasticine or something similar first to get the hang of it. Or just use foam. Or rocks. or bark.
>>96492233neat thanks anon
>>96425661Anyone know of a source for instructions for the terrain crate stuff? It’s literally just a shitload of pieces and zero instruction.
>>96492993Nice. What's it meant for? Looks trenchy right now, but the pipes are making me think Necromunda.Pic to stay on topic; dummy proof evening project. Dog poo bag rolls glued together and painted like rusty metal.Instant industrial scatter terrain.
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>>96500052>Dog poo bag rollsCash register receipt rolls work better, get a local shop clerk to keep theirs for you.
Painting terrain hurts my soul because as with minis it looks bad until a point, but that point is much further away because of the size.Also I have no idea what I am doing.
>>96509825Just cover it in grass and call it a day
Making a bunch of fields using the classic coir mat, small 2 are finished, larger ones are still WIP.I do enjoy how they look and how playable they are for how little effort, time and money they take
>>96511479that's a classic, what are you using as a base?
>>96485496>I'm a bong that hikes and a lot of our land is covered in stone wallsaye, same here. Well, except continental Europe, so our walls are only just a few steps removed from just being a pile of rocks.It's funny, terrain building for me is all about trying to encapsulate the world around me. To try and "put it in a bottle", so to speak.
>>96463790I need MORE jungle boards!
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>>96515115I finished these recentlyIt's plastic palm trees stolen from cheap plastic dinosaurs toy sets + two advertising recycled rubber coasters + a few dollar store plants + acrylic caulk + paper leaves made with the Greenstuff world leaf puncher.The trees are magnetised, to make everything easier to store.
>>96516029>paper leavesThat sounds interesting I used random spice like the terrain tutors for mine. What kind of paper?
>>96515115This anon has jungle fever!
>>96516164I need to repair and remake my terrain and a jungle theme seems pretty cool.
Anyone here know where I can find some roman guides on forts or just ancient themed architecture in general?, working on a project with my old man with ancient Rome and what not. So anyone here know where I can find some?
>>96510637I can't put grass on my sci-fi urban buildings!
>>96516474Then make them abandoned buildings overgrown with nature!
>>96516145>What kind of paper?Just ordinary print paper, which I soaked in colour ink and left hanging to dry overnight.
>>96516474sci-fi buildings are super easy to paint! Just make them look like concrete and you are good to go. See >>96479034It's>Dark gray coat of mod podge>Prepare a mix of white, a dash of black and a hint of yellow ocre, to get a light gray>DON'T mix them perfectly>Apply with a sponge>Once dry, add some streaks of humidity where it feels it should appear, with a diluted dark gray washBoom, done
got a ton of cardboard, foamboard, and some insulation foam. any advice on making some easyterrain for hexless battletech?
>>96516770>mod podge>dark gray washdon't have those, what I had is white colored primer, so I decided to go over all of them with black to get into the corners and nooks, but I feel like that was an unnecessary step.I want to make them look similar to the pieces on the bottom left, so planning to do what I did with those. Drybrush white and then as you wrote grey-black-yellow plus streaking stuff.
Anyone ever tried ordering laser cutting services to make terrain pieces instead of buying premade MDF kits?Wondering if it's worth it or not
>>96517464>white colored primerWait wait waitWhich kind of paint are you using? Not miniature paint, right? Terrains are very large pieces, cheap acrylic is all you need.Mod podge is basically just glue. It works like primer, to make the piece easier to paint. It also protects and hardens it somehow.
>>96521244There used to be a fabrication lab in my city that you could pay a membership, so I did create a few of my own vectors and cut them out there. If you want something VERY specific or a very large number of the same model to justify the time investment then perhaps it could be worth it, but imo for most people it probably makes more sense to just buy precut stuff.pic related, two of the buildings I made and then glued together to make 1 big one
>>96517464>Mod podge That is just another kind of glue. You can just use the good old craft glue or what ever kind of white glue you use around your part of the world for glueing wood that is white and mixed it with a bit of water.>Dark grey washMix black and white and water there you have a dark grey wash.
>>96521420>cheap acrylic is all you need.Yes, I am using something like 2 eur for 50 ml acrylics. The primer was something cheap too.>>96521462I see, thanks.So putting on a layer of primer after I coated it in diluted PVA was kind of a waste and unnecessary?
>>96522553I mean primer is there as a base color and something for the paint to stick too.Usually it is more important when you are painting over plastic.
>>96516425Roman Architecture by Frank SearPrinciples of Roman Architecture by Mark Wilson JonesA Companion to Roman ArchitectureClassic drawings of Roman Architecture by Piranesi and other renaissance artistsDe Architectura by Vitruvius
>>96516425>>96524872Roman Imperial Architecture by J. B. Ward-Perkins
>>96509825I feel the opposite. You can take painting both really far, but the point that terrain becomes "acceptable" is much earlier than with miniatures.
>>96526311True. Depends on the piece I guess.
I scored the terrain building jackpot and managed to finagle a construction company into giving me all the XPS foam boards theyve just had sitting unused in a warehouse. I've no idea how I'm going to store it but I can't pass up the opportunity.
>>96521459Nice work
I've found pic related at a local dollar store, how do I paint it? Do I need to put a primer on first? Is the glue + acrylic paint combo enough for wood?
Folks, I think I just found what to do with all of my >>96479034 styrofoam>>96533647>Is the glue + acrylic paint combo enough for wood?Yes, easily. You even just need it for the first layer.>>96517426>got a ton of cardboard, foamboard, and some insulation foamIf you are starting from zero, the insulation foam canyon build (see >>96479061) is easy and very versatile. You can also make rock formations with cardboard https://youtu.be/N0oqFdkr_wY but1- It's better for smaller scale (although it could be great for Battletech2- It takes a lot more timeAssuming it's corrugated cardboard, you can use it to make buildings, both ruined or not ruined. The more effort you put into it, the more realistic you can make them.
>>96533694thank you very much
>>96521459>>96531970Where do you get these? I would like a small scale cityscape
What's a good way to make pic related in 28mm scale?
>>965338293d printer
>>96517464I think that'll do for now. Gotta finish some scatter and minis next for gaming tomorrow.
>>96533829Square blocks of wood or foam. Drywall mesh tape, spackle or wood filler and sand for the top.
>>96534222>Drywall mesh tapeFuck man, that's what I was missing! I thought of makin them from some plastic mesh, but solid blocks with that tape seem much easier. Trips of truth indeed.
>>96534222Oh yeah I've actually seen this done on YouTube and it looked amazing
>>96534321Link?
>>96534159Nice work anon, would play on.
>>96533829Chop up a dowel rod?
>>96470521Eh, 6 months to maximize the immuno stuff. Formula from the jump is fine, though. Breast fed advocates mostly exist to keep it from dying out, but the truth is prior to formula tons of babies died from latching problems or other complications from breast feeding, and even into the neolithic there's evidence of humans expressing milk into animal skin to feed their babies. We've been beating nature for 10's of thousands of years.
>>96480990Why don't you see it? Because it's a fiddly pain to do (though I do love it). But 6e pretty well supported buildings due to selling you fortifications. There's even rules for buildings with multiple parts. RT had some neat rules around it, and one suggestion was to draw the interior of a building on graph paper and move the models to it or otherwise track movement on it as a way to deal with models going into interiors.
>>96535195thanks
Any ship interiors examples? i want to make some ZM terrain and i kind of want to play a scenario about last desperate deep strike into the bridge
>>96480990HH 2.0 had a WD supplement for ZM about city combat with stuff like plunging fire, wall bracing, burning, destroying your own barricades so they become impasable terrain. Fall of Nyrcon City, very fun stuff.
I'm planning on stating my own terrain making. What are some regrets you guys have related to terrain making so I don't repeat them and get the same regrets.>inb4 not starting soon enough
>>96540704Don't start a huge project first. Do smaller scale stuff to pick up the necessary skills to tackle large pieces.
>>96533766I think >>96531970 is from TTcombats dropzone commander range>>96521459 is gone because I lost the files I used to cut it years ago, but theres plenty of similar stuff from ttcombat, blotz, empires at war etc
Anyone made a photo backdrop before?I think it might help when posting my miniatures. My sci-fi stuff has martian desert bases so maybe that and a yellowing sky
>>96540704Have a vision of what you want you finished board to look like instead of making random shit. The biggest piece of advice is to ALWAYS FINISH PROJECTS YOU START
>>96540800I've wanted to make backdrops for some time. Besides having them for photos and display, it's good terrain practice because it's small and quick. You can also get in some 2D painting practice if you go for a painted backdrop: sky, trees, an open meadow, city alleyways, ship interior, castle interior, you name it.
>>96540800Not really a photo backdrop, but I did put some terrain I made together to make it seem like one coherent area of forest.
>>96542134Here's the same image but with some fluffy text to give it a bit more of an atmosphere.
>>96540704Start small with scatter terrain stuff. Like anon said, you'll build skills doing this, but you'll also build confidence. When you start bigger projects, find some tutorial on YouTube slnd follow it to the letter. After you do a few like this, you'll have the skills to brainstorm and build whatever you like.If you're buying crafting material and tools, just buy the minimum of what you need to complete your present project. Hoarding stockpiles of crafting materials is fine if you become the kind of person who churns out lots of terrain, but if you decide you don't like it, or you move on to a whilly different project, you'll regret having so much space taken up.The hardest part is getting started. Don't worry over everything being perfect, just sit down and start.Here's a good starter project that makes a very versatile terrain piece.https://youtu.be/RA-VgiDcMBE?si=SYWPRzpdBnSgOajg
Any idea what I could do with these? The office has a bunch of spares since they ordered them in bulk
>get hit with a really cool terrain idea>remember I have no space for it inside my house
>>96545867use up attic space, don't fuck up the insulation
>>96545871Attic has a single board plank across the house 2nd floor ceiling with a boiler on the very end.
>>96534159That's a really really good job, anon! Where did you get the gribblies from, the doors and such?Very good idea to make them modular
>>96544795Turn them upside down, SciFi grating and platforms
>>96545867Use your crafting skills to build clever space saving storage for your terrain.Build terrain that stacks like Russian dolls.Ruthlessly cull old terrain to make way for new. Build sick terrain pieces, give them to friends or your lgs.
>>96540704Pick a standard size for each elements, so they are modular and can be stacked and reconfigured easily.But this one>>96540840>ALWAYS FINISH PROJECTS YOU STARTis the best advice of all.
>>96546806>ALWAYS FINISH PROJECTS YOU STARTWhat is this faggotry? We don't do that shit in these parts.
Man, I don't have any pictures of my terrain. I've been working on dungeon tiles and dressing for a while but have only really taken pics of my minis.This one counts as terrain, I suppose.
>>96544795double perimeter fence for a prison compound
>>96545951thanksbits are mostly thishttps://www.thingiverse.com/sevenunited/designssome stuff like the door on the big building arehttps://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1569463stairs arehttps://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5258109
>>96545867I am thinking about donating some old terrain to my LGS
>>96533766>>96540793I made masters of most of the buildings and casted an entire city. I used the miscasts as rubble. This is a photo of it primed + airbrushed
>>96545867Make it modular. This table fits on the sides of my washer. It's an 8x4 I made early covid on MDF+pink foam that slots together. Then it's one big brown moving box for the entire table of terrain. It takes 15 minutes to set it up
>>96550119My original childhood terrain was been at the FLGS since the forum Terragenisis was the mecca for terrain building.
in other news, I banned AI terrain on the terrainbuilding reddit
>>96551948I just moved to Japan and the wargaming community is pretty small, with both Japanese and other people included. I think I'll be trying to make regular contributions of terrain pieces for the stores in my prefecture. if they want it of course... but I feel like these kinda things help grow the community
>>96551956>AI terrainwaitwut?
>>96551956You've still outed yourself as a redditor, so it's not the own you think it is.
>>96554854>muh culture war
>>96554854
>>96551948Terra-fucking-genesis, now there is a blast from the past. I remember some great stuff on there; like a bunker hidden in a cliff, and a guys gothic factory which he then destroyed to make a ruin.Such a shame it seems to be gone from the web.
>>96554854I don't trip fag but I give terrain advice for over ten years here. The group on anons who post about terrain are absolute top shelf lads. (Ignoring the L-shape-ruin thread guy who keeps making low quality posts). You'll see my WIPs in other generals all the time.Do you want to talk about terrain?
>>96557888Yeah when I was a teenager I failed at a few of their competitions (missed deadlines + entries not finished in time). There was almost no information about terrain building outside of that forum and a few geocities sites.
>>96444720the road feels too narrow
>>96559228They were in older towns.
>>96559304i know, but with those trucks that can't pass each other there it makes little senseyou'd also have an easier time using the terrain with wider streets
>>96559634>it makes little senseIt's a road that was laid in medieval or roman times, and designed for them and their use. They can't remove the buildings to make the road bigger at this point because the city and its buildings are over developed. They likely only put down cobble for the occasional horse-drawn carts, otherwise it was and is a footpath intimately. And the trucks probably don't pass each other, one pulls down an alley way or into a drive way if available to let one pass or reverses until it's clear. Old city layouts like this is why parking lots were invented. It's an attempt to integrate a modern systems into an outdated design, it will never really make sense. Pic related. It is an ambulance.>you'd also have an easier time using the terrain with wider streetsIrrelevant if your goal is to recreate a location accurately.
>>96559672you can say that all you want but in that case you'd have one-way roads and not see any trucks going both waysyou don't need to explain old city centers to me, i live in europe
>>96559889>but in that case you'd have one-way roads and not see any trucks going both waysNo, you allow the natural order of trucklife to take over and the stronger truck can establish its dominance by making the other one step down and reverse away.>i live in europeMy condolences.
>>96559927no need for condolences, i don't think anywhere else would be better than here
>>96481412>Since usually fighting in interiors was it own separate scenarios with their own rules like Zone Mortalis or Boarding ActionsMissed opportunity on GW's part, yet again, not do do infantry skirmishes set in boarding actions or fighting around interiors on smaller table sets.We used to play with intact buildings and armor values and they just behaved like a stationary APC with infinite firing points I think. It getting destroyed had an increased chance of killing the occupants. Was fun when my GW ran that bunker.
>>96560666>666Not gonna believe those lies Satan.
>>96478653What do you play in Melbourne? Do you like narrative or comp?
>>96552116What prefecture? I'm in Niigata
>>96565692Kanagawa
>>96559228Hm. Could perhaps print out a double width road for the central part and then keep the other tiles as smaller roads. Easy way to fill up more space on the table if nothing else.
>>96566185you could also go with the same road but imply that it's one-way or pedestrian only, both of those are seen on narrow old city roads like that
Tip for junk terrain hoarders; these hard plastic packaging bits that come in boxes of pistol ammo look like they'd make decent sci-fi/il industrial terrain. If you're a /K/ommando, or if you know one, scoop a few up.I plan on making raised walkway with them, but Im open to other suggestions.
>>96565692Kanagawa anon again. Do you have an LGS anywhere in your area Niigata anon?
>>96571947Niigata Anon here. There are board game cafes and shops for TCGs, sadly no place for wargames or RPGs. I get modeling painting supplies from local hobby shops that mostly sell Tamiya, Gundam, and train stuff. How's the /traditional games/ landscape in Kanagawa?
Made some more progress on the upper part of my 3D-printed dice tower last night.>>96567517Maybe heat vents on some kind of grimdark industrial doohickey?
>>96572455I just moved back after being back in the states for 7 years. The hobby shop that sold paint where I used to live shut down. But at least there is a GW store in Yokohama Chinatown area. There's a group on FB called Tokyo Tactical that plays GW. They play at Giant Hobby in Sengoku if you're ever in Tokyo. Also you should be using twitter/x if you don't already. People tend to communicate through that for some reason. but stores also have their own LINE groups.
>>96572455>>96572731>at least there is a GW store in Yokohama Chinatown area.There's also a BattleTech club on-base in Yokohama, if you have post access. Nose around military bases, the Navy guys play a lot of wargames and if you speak English well enough to post here you can probably find someone on Facebook to hang out with off-base. Even out Misawa way I still managed to get a couple games in, the hard part is finding space to play.
>>96425661https://nstarmagazine.com/OATHMARK_SKELETONS_FROM_SCRATCH_1.htmHas anybody tried to paint bronze statues with this kind of verdigris effect? Granted I'm not using armypainter green wash, I'm using a Les Bursley green wash mixed with some bright green paint to create the verdigris effect.
>>96573142Yes, but I do thick washes of nasty-ass turquoise craft paint over bronze, and then wash it up and down with browns and stippled cold greys. I'll dig up a pic later.
Been working on some wood floor tiles, lads
>>96575060Pretty happy with the results. Lookin nice on the table too
>>96575072Nice with a smaller project for once
>>96573142I have.
>>96575079that all together ended up looking pretty good, anon
>>96558751Very nice looking table, shame you're playing 40k on it. Look how the rules encourage troops to stand in giant blobs LMAO
>>96576088I believe that was 8th edition 40k. Our group moved over to Kings of War and Bolt Action right now. 40k is in a bad place. Best games for terrain is infinity/frostgrave/dropzone.
it’s been a while since Ive posted it because it’s been a while since Ive worked on if, but I finally decided the can will be a building not a silo or resevoir. I created an entrance/airlock for it. not sure what the second floor will look yet
>>96557888What would it take to get another place like Terragenesis up and running in the current day? Would it just be a website that has a discord?
got my basecoat down on my power relay industrial building thing
>>96584791I honestly have no clue, I know nothing about how the internet works it's why I still post here
>>96579446>not sure if filter or A.I.
I'm trying to decide on a theme that's relatively SF/fantasy agnostic to use in lots of different games. I think ancient roman city/ruins might fit. Any anons here have experience with making a set of terrain that works thematically for multiple games?
Did the real terrain hobbies guy die or something?
>>96597849It's not AI, it predates that shit. From what I gather it's just a low-quality camera vs lighting.
> Want to make a setup for warhammer> Want a setup that can do OW, AoS, HH and 40k-> -with a large centerpiece terrain fixtureHow the fuck do I pull it off?
>>96598402There are really only two basic layouts you need that you can use for 100% of games, a European countryside (grass, hills, trees) and urban city ruins (world from WW2 to modern to sci-fi)
>>96598402>>96600516>>96600592Green is the go between unless you're an ADHD teen, it's all nice and mean.
All my sci-fi stuff is on like "mars red" desert bases.So I'm kind of a bit torn on how that works. Stylistically I think it suits a lot of colour schemes, but like my Necromunda dudes are going to look slightly odd against the hive floor.I guess it can work for everything from like a near-jungle (if I buy a lot of aquarium plants) to Star Wars-esque "trading posts", and Necromunda ash wastes and I shouldn't worry too much
>>96601236That's why I base all my guys on grey or brown bases, neutral colors look acceptable on every surface. Red only looks good on red
>>96601264This is true. I just like the warmth I think, works with the kind of golds, bone and red tones I seem to use a lot.I actually bought a load of Necromunda bases first but realised that as they only come in 25,32,40mm I'd be a bit limited for larger stuff. Not to mention expensive.
>>96598522It's from an iphone5 camera I believe. I painted that table around 2017 before 2nd edition dropped. I ran demos in Philly for DZC and got a few guys into the game locally. I started to learn photography over covid and picked up a sony a6000 as my first camera. Previously I just took photos with an old Nikon Coolpix and the iPhone 4 and 5
>>96425661Anyone know where the city street battlemat from the OP pic is sold??
Is pic rel worth £50? It's mdf
>>96607882looks like something you could makes yourself with some effortso the question is how long it would take and if that time is worth £50 for you
>>96607882Yes I would 100% buy it. It would probably cost $200 to buy new and you would still have to assemble it
I really gotta make some trees STAT
>>96607882Looks more like printed cardboard.Either way, buy it and ad some depth with sand and tufts.
