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6/27/2025, 7:59:48 PM
>>95963447
>Any recs on terrian? Both mats and buildings?
Cheapest is garbage with cardboard and sprue glued to it. A paper corrugator is great for dressing things up, and you can also cut strips of paper or light cardboard with a couple different cheap tools to hide joints, make shingles, etc. Check the Broheim site https://www.broheim.net/downloads.html for a lot of good articles about straight cardboard build
These guys https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp have a selection of cheap plastic sprues that you can use to dress up boxes, chipboard, and plasticard to make much more interesting terrain. They also have a spectacular terrain-making blog. I use these a lot. There are also quite a few people on etsy and similar platforms selling windows, doors, et. al. to dress up plain kits
Trees, bamboo, and other basic modeling supplies are stupid-cheap on Aliexpress, whenever they get to you. Otherwise it's the aquarium store for you
TTCombat makes very cheap, decent-looking MDF kits that you can add more detail onto easily. In particular they've got a really nice container ship and some construction site stuff along with a ramshackle Western town. There are a number of other cheap MDF producers out there but it's a very local thing and hard to keep track of.
Above that is 3DP companies, "premium" MDF, and things like Mantic's (overpriced) boxes of plastic terrain. The Walking Dead terrain set is an oddly good deal, everything else not so much
>mats
I made two out of canvas, grit, and caulk. Pic related is my first. They only save about 20-30% over just buying a mouse-pad mat on sale, but they *are* about a third the weight and you can customize them heavily. I *highly* recommend you get a mouse-pad style over the vinyl ones, though, they hold the printing better (vinyl scratches more easily) and they don't constantly try to roll themselves back up. You can make decent-looking asphalt terrain tiles with "travertine" vinyl flooring and paint.
>Any recs on terrian? Both mats and buildings?
Cheapest is garbage with cardboard and sprue glued to it. A paper corrugator is great for dressing things up, and you can also cut strips of paper or light cardboard with a couple different cheap tools to hide joints, make shingles, etc. Check the Broheim site https://www.broheim.net/downloads.html for a lot of good articles about straight cardboard build
These guys https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp have a selection of cheap plastic sprues that you can use to dress up boxes, chipboard, and plasticard to make much more interesting terrain. They also have a spectacular terrain-making blog. I use these a lot. There are also quite a few people on etsy and similar platforms selling windows, doors, et. al. to dress up plain kits
Trees, bamboo, and other basic modeling supplies are stupid-cheap on Aliexpress, whenever they get to you. Otherwise it's the aquarium store for you
TTCombat makes very cheap, decent-looking MDF kits that you can add more detail onto easily. In particular they've got a really nice container ship and some construction site stuff along with a ramshackle Western town. There are a number of other cheap MDF producers out there but it's a very local thing and hard to keep track of.
Above that is 3DP companies, "premium" MDF, and things like Mantic's (overpriced) boxes of plastic terrain. The Walking Dead terrain set is an oddly good deal, everything else not so much
>mats
I made two out of canvas, grit, and caulk. Pic related is my first. They only save about 20-30% over just buying a mouse-pad mat on sale, but they *are* about a third the weight and you can customize them heavily. I *highly* recommend you get a mouse-pad style over the vinyl ones, though, they hold the printing better (vinyl scratches more easily) and they don't constantly try to roll themselves back up. You can make decent-looking asphalt terrain tiles with "travertine" vinyl flooring and paint.
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