Category: 10mm terrain

Banged out a quick terrain piece for the alien world last night.  The colonists need some excuse to move into the neighborhood, and this mining outpost gives it to them. Lot of blank (advertising space on the front of this piece.  Might fill that up with a printed sign...

You can find a lot of places covered in red dirt on this old blue marble on which we live, so red dirt alone is not enough to convey the idea of an alien world.  For that you need aliens, and not just alien animals.  Alien plants go a...

…Preferably mineral rich land on an uninhabited planet.  If you can’t have that, the ‘mineral rich’ is more important than the ‘unihabited’.  At least for rapacious human colonists.  To that end I picked up more 12-inch square boards to build a modular terrain setup for some tabletop sci-fi action. ...

With all that rule nonsense out of the way, we can talk about the other fun stuff like figures and terrain. As always, I’m looking to keep it cheap and contained in a single “under the bed” style plastic tub.  That means 10mm figures, found items, and terrain boards.  For father’s...

Not the stores, the miniature wargaming product that you can find in the diorama section of hobby and craft stores.  Ten sturdy plastic trees for around twelve dollars ain’t a bad price. Check out this little gem: Toob Trees – 10 hard plastic trees for ten bucks. The scale...

How’s this for a slick little tree? This creepy old tree was liberated from my son’s Lego box. It started out life as a piece from a Lego knock off brand. It came in a giant orc head with a bunch of not-Lego orcs. It’s the perfect size for...

Remember two days ago when I said there was something off about the Tomb of the Tiny Pharoah?  I figure out what it was.  I wanted more contrast between the nice tile work and the dirty side halls, but couldn’t quite figure out how to achieve that.  My wife...

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, peeps.  How about some nice Irish standing stones to celebrate. These are actual stones, based on 12mm steel washers and painted up in colors to match the river stones.  The steel washers secure the stones to magnets that line the transport box.  The bases were...

As promised, the outdoor tiles are complete.  The rivers don’t line up nearly as well as hoped, but they do provide tactical, interest to each board.  Here you can see a 1-tile offset, hardly the end of the world. No flocking on these boards – it would look HUGE!...

Last time you saw the first of what should be several outdoor terrain tiles.  These open up the field of play, but if you’re going to have an open field, you might as well just use gridded paper.  The whole point of the tiles is to present a 3D...