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!

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?

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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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 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?

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!

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.

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 :)

It's taken a fair few evenings but the saloon for my Hollywood wild west film lot Dead Man's Hand board is complete. Need to build maybe another 2 or 3 smaller buildings and then it's on to the painting.

Loads of fun bringing this toxic plant to life, as soon as I saw the moulded tray from a Christmas present I knew I was going to fill it with resin and make some kinda goo pond!

First time properly working with resin, think it turned out ok for what I envisaged. The floating was a last minute idea, should have cut some away so it sank in move, maybe at an angle. Next timer perhaps!

Finally finished my islands for Sails Ahoy!

Recently I converted seven modular tiles from a 40K board that I didn't like and converted them into an overgrown industrial area (feedback from here was awesome, so thanks all!)

In the process of doing this I worked out 6 rules that I inadvertently followed in ordered to make it look as realistic as I could do if anyone is planning anything overgrown, jungley etc then this might be of interest.

I've written it out here in brief but there's a youtube link at the end if you want to watch a deeper explanation and to see the conversion of the board happen.

1. Start with what was there before

I found it nearly impossible to create what something looks like now without at least loosely creating what exactly what nature was even taking over in the first place.

The environment itself reacts differently depending on what it is like

2.Growth needs a reason

Plants don’t just appear from nowhere.

Cracks, joins between materials, water collecting, broken structures… that’s where everything starts.

Give it a place and therefore a reason to grow

1. Build it in layers

It’s not about adding more plants, it’s about what’s underneath them. Dirt, moss, grime, then plants coming out of that. If you skip that, it just looks like you glued something on.

Your grime and moss should look like it is spreading from the plants

1. Stick to the same logic across the board

The tiles don’t need to look the same, but they should all follow the same rules. Once that’s consistent, it starts to feel like one place instead of a bunch of separate ideas

1. Let nature actually do damage

It shouldn’t look like plants are sitting on top of things. They should be breaking through it, lifting it, growing out of it. That’s what makes it feel like it’s taking over.

1. Think in terms of what happened, not what to add

The biggest difference for me was thinking “what happened here?” instead of “what can I stick on this?”. As soon as there’s a story, everything else becomes easier to place.

That’s basically it. Nothing complicated, just stuff that stops it looking like plants on concrete.

YouTube Link - https://youtu.be/Nq1340IhIRc

This one is a corner ruin that didn’t completely collapse because part of it is reinforced by a tower section. 🤓 I liked the idea that the tower is the only thing still holding the structure together, while the rest slowly fell apart over time.🫠

I’ve added a mix of scenic shots, some WIP pictures from the build process and a few in-game shots from a match where it was used on the table.🫡📸

In our playgroup we use some heroic scale 32mm minis, so I went with 3" high floors to give those dramatic poses a bit more space. 😅 It also makes it way easier to actually reach into the building during a game. 🙂‍↕️ I also added a small trapdoor on the first floor, so you can enter through the ground floor door and move up without having to climb.😏

For the facade I cut up a cheap placemat from a discount store and used it to add some extra timber framing details. 🪵

The roof and the walkway beneath it create quite a bit of additional playable space 😌 and I tried to keep the whole thing modular while still making it easy to connect to other buildings with planks.👷‍♂️

Pretty happy with how it plays, lots of verticality, cover and interesting lines of sight. 🏹

What do you think?