Category: terrain

Miniature wargaming is a three dimensional hobby, so it is only right and fitting that it be fought on three dimensional fields.  Over the course of the last couple of nights, I put together a couple of hills, and here’s how I did it.  These are all pretty basic...

Remember that plain old terry cloth battle mat I showed you last week? For those who don’t. It looks great! Using a two-inch brush, I just dry brushed the whole darn thing in one short evening.  Before starting, I polished up the three terrain bases by adding static grass,...

Last time we looked at the forest base.  This time let’s look at the canopies for the still as yet unrevealed new project era. What you’re looking at is a cheap and easy alternative to the method used by these clever chaps here.  Their forests look great, but they...

The terrain starts off simple. Free CD bases measure about five inches across, and that makes them about one sixth the size of my battlemat.  Perfect.   Rough Ground Sand and rocks from the yard, glued and primed. As mentioned previously, the golden rulebook for this box is Neil...

Still prepping to run a game of “Five Parsecs From Home”, a game that calls out for a bunch of random figures more than a coherent squad of uniformed types.  The failed experiment in tweaking 15mm figures left me with a couple of heavy armored alien types.  To split...

In anticipation of a new terrain build – 15mm interiors something along the lines of Tiny Solitary Soldiers – here are a few pieces of scatter cover.  First up, three plastic trees.  These are repainted Toob Trees primed black and dry brushed up.   The bases of the trees are fortification pieces from...

Yep.  So.  Got some paint on the farm fields.  Just need some dull coat to take the shine down a notch.  These fields give me three easily stored square-ish terrain blocks that will do a fine job blocking line of sight and travel times for ground pounders. This one...

The single most important tool in a wargaming arsenal is probably one of the more over-looked – the humble table.  The last thirteen months Team Abox lived in a dingy and tiny little rental house while saving up for a mortgage.  Last month that dream came true, and my...

Meh.  As far as terrain goes, this is nothing special.  Just some green scrubbers clipped, mounted, and painted up with yellow highlights.  They’re a bit small, even for 15mm, so we’re looking at soft cover, minor effects on movement.   If you really need a joke, feel free to...

It’s summertime.  No soccer coaching.  No homework.  No marathon training.  This is supposed to be the busy time for catching up on a year’s worth of miniature wargame stuff.  And yet, thanks to a big move and work and other boring real world stuff, progress has slowed to a...