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Anonymous10/07/25, 07:08No.96697753Occasional Terrain General
Let's have a positive terrain thread.
Post pics of cool tables and pieces, share tips and tricks, discuss your latest projects.
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Anon10/07/25, 07:11No.96697760
I got my son interested in wargaming so we also started doing terrain together. Made some cliffs from XPS plastic and I tried making some trees from flock and jute rope. I also took some old tin cans and sprayed them with a metal primer to make some gypsy solos for gaming boards. My next idea is to make more rock piles and craters for lighter scatter terrain.
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Anon10/07/25, 07:15No.96697769
And here are some of the cliffs we did.What are some best practices for making craters? I've seen guides for doing them from tin foil pie plates, others use chunks of XPS.
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Anon10/07/25, 07:18No.96697778
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Anon10/07/25, 07:52No.96697908
Posting some cool stuffs.
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Anon10/07/25, 09:36No.96698289
Fuck yeah
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Anon10/07/25, 15:44No.96699837
Is basing welcome here?
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Anon10/07/25, 16:28No.96700110
How dare you bake my thread for me
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Anon10/07/25, 16:30No.96700121
I finally got around to finishing my fur battle mat. Bases occasionally don't stand straight and you can't roll dice on it, but it looks kinda neat.
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Anon10/07/25, 20:35No.96701826
Now for some inspirational stuff.
Saved this one some time ago.
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Anon10/07/25, 20:39No.96701856
28mil Barrels from toilet paper rolls.
This one is mine, pretty much sums up the whole process in one pic.
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Anon10/07/25, 20:46No.96701922
I really like toilet paper rolls as material.
These look so real, I was asked if I was working on my car's muffler when I made these.
The key is the rust effect paint job.
Apply sand mixed with PVA in a random fashion, then undercoat black.
Paint the whole thing silver, pick out the sandy parts by drybrushing, bring them up from a dark brown to a glowing orange, tone back down with lots of black wash, apply silver and orange drybrush again where it's needed.
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Anon10/07/25, 20:49No.96701952
These are super simple yet super messy.
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Anon10/07/25, 20:55No.96701999
The good old spiky 40k 2nd ed. cacti can be pushed up to the next level with a nice paint job.
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Anon10/07/25, 20:56No.96702006
I make posters from cut outs from supermarket flyers.
Mostly labels of booze bottles but also other cool looking stuff.
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Anon10/07/25, 21:00No.96702038
Picked this toy fire truck from the streets, I regularly go through bulky waste when there is some, lots of great finds.
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Anon10/08/25, 01:54No.96703932
I saw a "spider skeleton" in all the Halloween decoration stuff on sale at the moment and was really tempted to buy it to use as the basis of a terrain piece. The only problem is I think it's just a bit too big. I think a 30cm circle is about the max sized base I'd use for that kind of "flavour" terrain but the spider skeleton was about 40cm wide. I could maybe fold the legs up more or something but then I don't think it would look right as an old giant skeleton sitting in the middle of a wasteland.
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Anon10/08/25, 02:49No.96704214
Basic tips for making a better looking table1) Make coherent terrain, think about where your board takes place in, and place your pieces as if you were recreating a real place in the setting rather than an artificial paintball arena. A major issue that I see in bad terrain images is that players blindly take whatever terrain pieces they have available at the local shop terrain shelf and throw them all over the table with no coherency or theme. Avoid this at all costs. Do not put tree terrain on a volcano mat, do not put buildings on top the roads on your city mat. This should be self explanatory to anyone but unfortunately needs to be said still.2) Make hills for 2D mats environments that would realistically not be a flat surface. A city or village mat being flat works mostly fine, but if you're playing in a forest, desert, mars, etc. the flat board will look out of place and strange without some hills. Even making a few large platform hills to break up 30-50% of the table into elevated terrain can instantly improve the look of a neoprene or cloth mat tenfold.3) Do not care about symmetry or competitive play layouts. Avoid these like the plague, they always look unrealistic and bad. If someone at your group insists on using these layouts then try to convince them otherwise, and if that fails, refuse to play with them. Foster a community where to get games in people need to put in effort to make the board look good.4) Objectives. Objective markers are no different from any other terrain piece. Make sure they match the rest of the theme of the table. Come up with an idea of what the objective represents, why would the armies be fighting over them? Of course, avoid neoprene circle objectives at all costs.
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Anon10/08/25, 02:51No.96704221
can you not make the terrain general AI?It looks like shit
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Anon10/08/25, 02:59No.96704246
Idk why he thought that was a good idea
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Anon10/08/25, 09:41No.96705756
Nice table anon, care to share your techniques?
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Anon10/08/25, 10:11No.96705855
>trolling and shitposting in one of the nicest threads on here because you have nothing better to do in your lifeAnyway. I need to make some rocks.How the fuck do I make rocks like these traditionally? They look great but I'm not using 3d prints
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Anon10/08/25, 13:24No.96706554
I recently got my hand on an unreasonable amount of styrofoam and was considering building a full table worth of modular labyrinth walls.
But I'm wondering: is there any point of making these for wargames?
Even for TTRPGs, honestly: you only have encounter in one room after another, do you really need to represent the corridors in between?
It's too bad, I already built enough rock formation AND enough scifi buildings to fill an entire table and some more, I don't know what to do with this styrofoam.
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Anon10/08/25, 14:06No.96706833
i've finished a pair of old school ork houses, they were really fun to do
to be honest i just made them because i found the material in the trasbin in front of my house, i dont play anything retroi have two more built and prepared to be painted
maybe i will try gorkamorka with a friend just to use them as i dont have amything to use them with
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Anon10/08/25, 14:08No.96706853
and the other one
i posted the first one some days ago on the /grog/ general
for the ones that dont know, during 40k second edition ork houses looked like this
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Anon10/08/25, 21:24No.96710267
Shit I haven't been able to work on in almost a year. There's a whole pile of other cardboard buildings I've glued stuff to waiting for me to have a chance to prime again.
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Anon10/08/25, 22:25No.96710692
I have currently started on some terrain to purpose for multiple games I have been playing recently. I am following some guides and will post whenever I end up finishing them. They are a set of like 5 or so hills. Split between desert ones and woodland/greenland ones. Using cardboard so hopefully I don't fuck it up too much.
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Anon10/09/25, 02:16No.96711970
the AI table for the general is gay. Don't do that again
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Anon10/09/25, 04:22No.96712658
I made this a few months ago. I haven't been able to work on it since, have had some health scares and doing some house work but im feeling better and the house work is done. Hopefully this weekend or next I'll be able to bang out some more stuff.
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Anon10/09/25, 04:26No.96712679
And here's the other side. I wanted to add bones and other bits but this was mostly a spure of the moment build and very little was planned ahead of time. I'll definitely go back and add some stuff though.
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Anon10/09/25, 04:28No.96712689
This was the last bit I did before I got sick. Planning on making a larger game board out of this one off terrain piece.
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Anon10/09/25, 09:36No.96713698
>make outline of toxic waste pool with scrap and nearly expired clay
>realise this could have just been a few layers of scrap cardboardOh well, its fun to glue bits together, going to put filler in the holes soon then skim the whole thing. Still needs more toxic waste barrels.
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Anon10/09/25, 10:51No.96713927
Anybody got stuff that uses storm drains and gutters? Looking for a little inspiration for a future project.
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Anon10/09/25, 16:39No.96715858
Here's everything I've managed to finish in 2025 (except one base for a large forest, but it's nothing more than a piece of MDF with sand and flock).
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Anon10/10/25, 07:37No.96721135
I'm debating getting a hotwire table, like a proxxon or a hercules or something similar. Anyone got a recommendation, or tip on what to avoid, before I drop $150+?
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Anon10/10/25, 12:48No.96722212
Some cool terrain pics I saved over the years.
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Anon10/10/25, 13:08No.96722323
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Anon10/11/25, 02:37No.96728411
bought a roll of this stuff to cut into strips and turn into roads/rivers but boy does it reek of rubber. I'd return it but its the best value rubber roll by dollar per square footage I've found, so before giving up on it I'm gonna try to clear the smell. Air it out a few days, spritz with vinegar, than wash with soapy water, and than cover in baking soda. hope it works.
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Anon10/11/25, 12:03No.96730453
Wip of my first ever terrain piece.
The roof is currently drying.
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Anon10/11/25, 13:06No.96730670
Recent terrain project.
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Anon10/11/25, 18:16No.96732437
Today I tried making craters from foil. I filled them with paper moistened with watery PVA, what other materials I should use for filling them? Also, when making scatter terrain, do you use MDF bases or do you just cut cardboard to proper size?
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Anon10/11/25, 20:01No.96733059
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Anon10/11/25, 23:11No.96734090
doing a park-ish area for my warcry/mordheim board
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Anon10/12/25, 13:14No.96736936
Could be better, but I guess it's ok for my first piece of terrain.
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Anon10/12/25, 13:15No.96736941
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Anon10/13/25, 02:44No.96741562
bumps
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Anon10/13/25, 16:33No.96745130
Anons im planning on making a diorama with 1/144 size gundams( Roughly 7 inches tall) . Its going to be 2 Zakus guarding a excavation site, blah blah blah anyway, i need little figures and little excavation machines,any ideas where to get little machines for the little workers?
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Anon10/13/25, 17:04No.96745319
>mfw DISDAIN for L shaped ruins
Picked this guy up in Woolworth‘s and slapped some paint on. Would you make a base for him?
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Anon10/14/25, 13:07No.96750656
I have a bunch of these and I want to make industrial tanks out of them. What could or should I use to hide the engraved logo?
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Anon10/15/25, 14:53No.96758984
Not so fast
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Anon10/15/25, 15:09No.96759090
I think I've bitten off more than I can chew with my latest project. I'm trying to build a haunted house (and paint some Scooby Doo minis to go with it), and I'm having trouble keeping things straight. It's also taking a lot of time and I don't think I can do it by Halloween.
Guess I need to reconsider my approach, and probably drop the idea of a playable interior. Go for more of a diorama.
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Anon10/15/25, 17:51No.96760120
what do you guys think about this?
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Anon10/15/25, 21:25No.96761684
How deep of resin would be fine for wargaming terrain. 1/16, 1/8, 1/4? More?
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Anon10/15/25, 22:09No.96761946
Any advice on how to make good looking tents out of paper?
Tents are so universal they could fit literally any time period and could be found on (the edge of) any battlefield.
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Anon10/16/25, 09:21No.96765190
How would you go about to build a giant ribcage terrain like that?
You would imagine the spooky season would be great for that, but actually human ribs don’t look like what you would expect dragon bones to look like and most plastic animal skeletons are not very big, or have the ribs fused together.
I could sculpt them outright, a fairly light material would be needed.
I have a few ideas, but if anyone has experience with this it would be useful
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Anon10/16/25, 22:30No.96769753
This is the table for my game with my brother tomorrow.
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Anon10/17/25, 02:02No.96771008
Hey gang
I'm about to make trench terrain for my local for the first time. I may have bitten off more than I can chew, but it'll at least be better than the two mediocre and crumbling apart trenches they already have.
Can anyone help me identify what this material is? It's the base for like half their terrain collection and it's very durable because the bli remember these exact same pieces from back when I was in middle school like fucking 15 years ago, and only one or two of them have had the cities of death ruin break off, but the base remain solid.
Desperately need an answer, want to at least build the terrain this week before I go back to work camp for two weeks.
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Anon10/17/25, 02:08No.96771038
one half of the city board I decided to do. Intend to play Mordheim on it eventually. I love doing houses so felt that I didnt wanna do the ruined look however. Also kinda unhappy with the stone base.
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Anon10/17/25, 06:39No.96772366
I finished some scatter terrain this week, though maybe the craters need more drybrushing and some flock?
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Anon10/17/25, 08:54No.96772807
Is there a material that can be cast, which would be both strong and light enough to be used to make a large piece of terrain?
I want to make a mould of my hand to make a cool terrain out of it.
Plaster is the easiest, but it’s both fragile and fairly dense. Resin would be more durable but fairly heavy, for something that big. Papier mache would be ideal, but I don’t think it can be cast.
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Anon10/17/25, 12:34No.96773564
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Anon10/18/25, 20:56No.96783923
Did I overdo it with the leaves?
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Anon10/18/25, 21:11No.96784006
These are half of the first trees I ever made! Thanks to the anon that recommended me a video for doing foliage without getting it everywhere, the parchment paper was a huge help. I still got green fuzz everywhere tho
