Category: terrain

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...

The boy traded off some terrain I built for him in exchange for more figures.  Well done him.  He figures he doesn’t need terrain because, in his words, “The store has terrain we can use.”  No son of mine is gonna be stuck using in-store terrain.  I’m raising him...

A couple of days ago you saw some junk being spun into Tau terrain in the hopes that the Tau terrain could be spun into gold – or at least some Imperial Guardsmen.  Here are the buildings with paint. The Tau stuff is really easy to design and paint....

The boy thinks he can trade some Tau terrain for more Imperial Guardsmen, so I spent a day knocking together some random bits of junk from around the house and this is the result. On the left we have a deodorant package with some disposal razor blade handles glued...

This post is the big reveal post.  Here’s where we see exactly what the highway of death will look on the table, complete in all its miniature wargaming splendor.  Cars, terrain, the whole shebang.  This is the culmination of weeks of effort.  It’s gonna be so satisfying.  It’s gonna...

Finished!  Using the wrong kind of dip meant this project took twice as long as it should have.  But now, at long last, here’s a full eight feet of Hawai’ian roadway just waiting for some auto-duelling mayhem.  Look upon my works ye mighty wargamers and despair: It’s still a...

Quick update for now.  The post-crash Hawaiian highways have some paint back on the ground and some trees based up.   Nothing fancy. Not a fan of that greenish plastic for the fronds on the trees, but it’ll do for now....

That took a lot more static grass than I’d hoped.  Static grass is probably the most expensive part of this terrain, and with all the non-playable surface on these tiles, it took a lot of it.   Two lane divided highways are possible with this set up,but only very...