Dungeoneering Tiles, Take Two
When last we met, I file-thirteened a pile of half-finished terrain consisting of a bunch of shoddy dungeon work. This time out, I built a dungeon using my preferred materials, foamcore and balsa wood. This time around, I used foamcore for the bases and balsa wood for the ‘walls’....
Castle Meatgrinder!
At this point I don’t know if Castle Meatgrinder! is the title of my next megadungeon, or just the working title for a fantasy terrain for tabletop skirmishing. In D&D terms it will be one of those spooky old castle ruins on the hill where a crazed wizard conducted...
Congestion – 15mm Traffic
Four cars and two bikes doesn’t do much to make a city table look well inhabited. It makes it look like more of a hamlet than an urban center. To that end, here are two more flit cars – four seaters this time, and a big bruising taxicab. All...
Standard Bikes, Custom Paintjobs
These fine jetbikes are available from 15mm.co.uk. Just a simple paintjob this time out. That makes a total of another 18 pieces of scatter terrain for the sci-fi table. Now, to do something about the far too rural looking drop cloth. All this scatter terrain works much better on...
Sci-Fi Scatter: The Embiggening
As mentioned previously, the electrical aisle of your local hardware store is a great place to find little bitty odd shaped things that belong in your bits box. Today, I want to show you how I turned a few of these bitty bits into a decent smattering of scatter...
Small Box Blues, Part Five
Over the course of the week we have been looking at a number of different strategies to maximize the gamable space that you can fit into a small storage box. As promised, today presents my own solution to the vexing problem of making a sci-fi interior battlefield with attractive...
Small Box Blues, Part Three
Last time we looked at a few ways that smart people approach the challenge of cramming as much terrain into a small space as possible. This time let’s look at how a dumb person does it. And by dumb person, I mean me. In addition to cramming as much...
Small Box Blues, Part Two
There are basically two ways to build wargame interiors. You can place freestanding walls on a ground surface (aka “the maze”), or you can integrate them into the ground surface (aka “tiling”). There is a third way, a hybrid method with tiles that represent rooms and corridors. Let’s look...
Small Box Blues, Part One
How do you cram as much gamable space as possible into as small a space as possible? We’re going to kick 2016 off with a week-long series of posts introducing my solution to one specific kind of terrain. Specifically, a solid set of sci-fi interiors that are attractive, provide...
A Tree Grows in Neo-Brooklyn
Four trees, actually. Nine more pieces of scatter terrain – what the cool kids are calling street furniture these day – have been added to the table for cover. When it comes to small bits of raw material for scratch-building, the electric aisle of your local hardware store is...