Thread 95685146

It's time for the best thread on /tg/ to make it's monthly appearance!

Post terrain you're working on, cool tables you've played on or seen online, awesome pics of terrain, and scratchbuilding advice and tutorials!!

I made this

In the process of making these. Haven't had a chance to touch them for a couple weeks though....

>>95685163
Very nice serving tray, I like it. Will make a cool charcuterie spread

>>95685189
Very nice indeed, love the model too

>>95685189
Kinda cool, but my brain is annoyed trying to figure out what the fuck is holding the giant stone slabs from collapsing. I would add some kind of supports attached to the main pillar

>>95685539
It's magic

>>95685163
>>95685189
Sick.

>>95685539
It's not done yet, I got wooden struts to add underneath.

>>95685146 (OP)
I'm trying to recreate this build, I think it's taking pretty good shape so far, I just made the gatehouse way too big when I look at my photo next to this one. Too late now though, Im not gonna go back and make a new one.

>>95685146 (OP)
I told myself I’d finish my kill team terrain by now for this thread but I haven’t even started.

>>95688585
Most high energy Warhammer fan

>>95688531
Neat. That's a nice boat, c'est tres joli

Finally this thread again. I finished some new projects since the last one.
First up, some market stalls. I tried the dried baby wipe technique that the anon recommended in a previous thread, real happy with it.

>>95688531
That's crazy impressive. Is it your piece?

>>95686584
Looks good to me. Keep us posted on the progress, looks very promising. Do you mean to make the interiors playable, with removable roofs and such?

>>95690634
Next project finished is some modular graveyard pieces. First time trying static grass, too.

>>95690658
And here is it all together on the table from last weekends session. Got some compliments from my players on this setup which is always nice.

>>95685146 (OP)
Here’s a forest/woods terrain piece that I made for Warhammer Old World. Pretty basic but I think it looks decent enough.

>>95690729
Beware of the beastmen though, they don’t like trespassers.

>>95690619
Yes, all floors will be playable with removable top floor and roof

>>95690619
>>95690634
>>95690651
>>95690658
>>95690675
Good stuff

>>95688531
I'm getting Icewind Dale vibes.

This is taking me much longer than I anticipated

>>95693265
Nice dumbbells, you get those at the dumb store? Building's looking good though.

I spent April 3d printing buildings for a German revolution project. Now I have 11kg of filament worth of houses in 28mm I need to glue together. Pic related are some of them. I'm wondering what to use to base them on. Foamboard might turn into warp city and MDF sounds pricey for this size.
I also need to put in platforms in the buildings so minis can actually he placed on the upper floors

>>95694528
Beautiful, where did you source that armoured car?

I have found 3mm ply at 12dollarydoos per square metre from local Bunnings.

You might be able to get away with reusing sprues and cardboard for upper floor, when sufficiently coated in spackle.

Here’s a piece of earthworks I did up on Monday for that trench game. Made from the foam that came with an old phone case, wood,cardboard and some old bases that were broken.

>>95694733
The armored car is from wargaming3d, finding normal 1910s cars as STL files has been surprisingly difficult. There are some truck and wagon STLs though.
I'm thinking about using foamboard resting on balsa wood supports that I will put in anyway to support the exterior walls as the interior floors

I would love some plastic Shipping Containers for sci-fi usage, any ideas?

AT-43 from Rackham used to supply the miniatures in them, they were amazing.

Series 3 Star Wars Doorables toys come in a really nice shaped one, but I am struggling to find them in the UK. Here they are pictured with miniatures.

Got Proxxon cutter, foam and all. Blueprints, scetches, pictures to model after and everything.
Just can't get myself to craft like I used to. I need players to motivate me. Without friends I feel less motivated. Who am I going to show these to? I'm not narcissist, I enjoy crafts, but I want my pieces to be functional, playable.

>>95694733
>source that

You know you can just say "get that", right? "Source that" is soulless corporate speak that regular people use because they think it makes them sound more intelligent.

>>95695134
That's what this thread is for,.to show off your work

>>95695276
Don't be cunty; we're all friends here.

Not sure if this fits, but I've been working on my DnL terrain

>>95697296
What's DnL? It fits

>>95697524
Dungeon and Lasers
It's a terrain system

I kinda regret not going the FDM+openlock route, but whatever

Anyone doing smaller scale terrain

>>95697958
What is this for?

>>95697958
Maybe not that small, this is 15mm
>>95700679
Ants!

>>95700679
Battletech

>>95697958
Small terrain is fun, 1/600 scale was the first terrain I did, really should get back into it

>>95688613
I’ve spent a year and a half on a single kill team. I did spend most of that time looking after a newborn though.

>>95693265
How durable is that?

https://www.mojehobby.pl/products/Bedzin-Zamek-Kazimierzowski-7448567.html

Some helpful diagrams on how to turn pic related into a cardboard model and also how to handle it with similar pocket castles

>>95705778
Did they actually provide screenshots of all the pages? Nice, except for the watermark ruining the text pages so I can't feed them to google translate.

>>95702899
1. They are up every 4 hours dicking around, so even if it isn't brutal physical labor it still takes a toll
2. Anon says they spent most of the time looking after a newborn, maybe the wife was at work, or they're the wife.

Some people really just have to turn every post into an argument.

Only terrain, no arguing.

>>95702899
>Newborns sleep all day
She didn’t. And when she did I had other things to do. Like working or sleeping.

>Breastfeeding
Only matters for the first couple months. She had issues feeding so we both gave her the bottle since she was born.

> Your job as a father is only to support your wife in her natural role as much as you can
You sound like a shitty husband and father. Nothing wrong with looking after your children and giving your wife a break.

> Any father that uses childbirth as an excuse for something is either just making shitty excuses, or has a really shitty and lazy wife
I only paint when the desire really takes me. When I’ve barely slept or can spend time playing with my daughter I’ll take that over hobby stuff. Perhaps I could have cut some video game time in the evening after she went to bed but I wasn’t feeling very creative after a long day of work and looking after a baby.

>>95705840
It was a whole series of cardboard models, made for cheaps by a bunch of enthusiasts. They are no longer in print for quite a while, but if you dig through their page, you can find way more similar models, with a full scan of the "manual" included.
I've poted Będzin castle, because it's like the textbook example of both a pocket castle for big battles and also a really neat standard template for skirmish-tier games.

>>95705778
>>95706413
Cheers m8, you're right, attractive pocket castle with good potential for games at multiple scales

Did a trashbash (plus some printed signs and doors) for some sci-fi terrain. Really fun process.

>>95707432
Forgot pic like a hoser

>>95707437
And here's the finished result.

>>95707441
Looks really good anon.

>>95707437
very nice, i feel this is pretty much how they came up with most of the scenery and gadgets for the original star wars trilogy

Pine tree

>>95708030
You make this?

>>95697958
I havn't really made any for a very long time, but I painted some of those cheap buildings from aliexpress for ligma, for the price they actually serve their purpose pretty well and are big enough to provide cover to almost everything

>>95714227
where on aliexpress did you find them? A cheap source of 6/3mm terrain would be cool

>>95705778
>Out of stock
>But they post the whole scan
Noice!

Bump. Good threads don't deserve to die

I’m think about making more paper terrain. It’s just so much easier than painting. But I kind of like painting. I’ve been considering trying to make terrain out of some trash but somehow that seems to require talent.

>>95720187
I think paper terrain is great. It's perfect for when you want to fill a big table quickly and cheaply and have it still look good.
I've honestly thought about dropping $300 on a circut to do the cutting and scoring for me.

The nice thing about trash terrain is that if you fuck it up, you lost nothing of value.

>>95720187
really doesn't take a lot of talent. the trick to good terrain is to add detail.

if you make, oh, lets say a castle wall, and you just use foam, make a box, it'll look shit.
do the same, but use a knife and carve in stonework, and paint and it'll look far better.
get some balsa or basswood, make a wooden walkway on the top, put some 2mm square holes in the wall top, and then paint green stains running down the wall from the holes, and suddenly the same model becomes great.


Here's a tool for people carving foam:
https://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Max-Wax-Heat-Pen-With-1-Tip-prcode-999-BAH

"Max Wax heat pen" = you'll find them on ebay and the likes too

I bought one of these for working in wax for casting bronze - but with a nearly flat battery its great for doing detail carving in foam. (the flat battery means its not so hot it just melts the foam)
expensive, but great for if you're making lots of detailed stuff.

>>95690734
Nice. Where'd you get the trees? I've been looking for some good scatter pine trees that aren't total Chinesium trash

What 11kg of filament gets you in terms of 28mm buildings

>>95724532
There's what, $30?

>>95724837
90€ off aliexpress. If you know where I can get filament for under 3€ a kilo (that works preferably) I'll take it!

>>95725113
It's been a whole since I bought filament. Looks like I'm not going any under $10 a kg

>>95690634
Hey Anon, if you're still ITT, could you tell me where you got that pack turtle(?) in the lower right corner of this pic?

>>95726798
NTA, but that's Reaper #44053: Dreadmere Tortoise & Drayman. It's a very cool piece.

>>95726941
Neat, thanks!

>>95726798
>>95726941
Yes, that's the one!

I've never been good at dry brushing I always leave too much paint on the brush. Would a dry brush pallette help me? Terrain seems like a good place to try and improve before doing minis.

>>95724152
I just bought a pack of trees from a model railway shop. Not sure about the brand.

>>95730678
Just test it on the edge of the base or a piece of sprue. You don't need a lot of detail to see how much you're leaving behind, just an edge.

>>95685539
>Kinda cool, but my brain is annoyed trying to figure out what the fuck is holding the giant stone slabs from collapsing.
>t. picrel

Bumpin with some more recent projects

These threads are too good to die this young

>>95737077
>>95737085
>>95737098
>>95737098
>>95737111
Sick.

Cantina interior. Need a better solution for the floor since this print doesn't have one. Grabbed a couple faux stone vinyl tiles at the hardware store to test. Any other ideas?

>>95737098
Oh man, this is so cool. Balsa abd wet wipe?

>>95737157
Looks good.

Older pic as I haven’t done any photos in a while but I made some cacti. Also done some basic ruins and a pool. Not the best maker but it fits my needs.

>>95737157
I think if you just grime the floor tile up a bit with some washes it'll look fine.

>>95737492
Thanks man! Yeah that's it, I got the wet-wipe-in-PVA recommendation from an anon in a previous terrain thread. Good stuff, though I recommend putting down a layer of mod podge before painting.

>>95737157
Well, I automatically heard the music in my head, so mission success, anon.

I made these 2'x2' squares a while ago before I realized that they're too fragile to actually transport anywhere. They're backed on normal EPS

>>95740948
Thanks anon. I love your stuff, it looks so alive.

>>95737098
>>95740948
Those like fantastic. Any more stall close ups?

>>95745685
Thanks bro, I've gotten a lot of inspo in these threads and /wip/. Happy to be able to share something!

>>95746677
Thank you! Yeah I can post some more.
The thought process was to give points of interest for my TTRPG players, so I tried to make stalls with some actual gameplay purpose. So far I've posted the potion/herb/medicine stall and the food/ration stall.
Here is the blacksmith stall which, yeah, you can imagine why the players would visit.

>>95748016
Here's general adventuring gear. One of the last stalls I finished, and in hindsight I wish I made more of them in this style.

>>95746677
Here is a stall for artifacts/loot/curiosities. The thought was that players can dump random loot for gold here. I couldn't be bothered to paint the stripes on the inside.
I used some random beads and plastic crystals for jewelry making to make some gems and what not.

>>95746677
And finally just a stack of boxes with the same base dimensions. I realized I don't have a close up of it, but it's to the right in this pic. Just for clutter really, along with a different path to the upper platforms, and I made the gap between the boxes big enough for a mini to hide.
Six market pieces in total!

>>95748064
Man, that's amazing. I'm jelly of you and your players

>>95690651
Looks great

I love lurking in these threads. Cozy and inspiring. Thanks to all the posters!

>>95745640
they look cool
how did you do the roads?

>>95730678
I use that exact one and it's pretty handy. I wouldn't pay big money for one, but if you have a printer, can get one cheap, or feel like DIYing your own (aka gluing old unneeded minis to some plasticard) it's a very useful tool.

>>95737157
You could hit up the floor with some pigment powders to dust it up a bit.

>>95693265
It's been a week, how is the progress going?

>>95685163
I like this, but cutting so many bricks, do you get yourself into some grind mindset and just keep slicing?

>>95752387
NTA but getting a little foam cutter table helps a lot.

>>95724532
Probably could have gotten more out of it if you tweaked some stuff. Those walls seem unnecessarily thick. Even with low infill that adds up in both time and material. Looks cool though.

Battlemats count, right?

>>95753056
Here's another one with trees I made.

>>95753059
And a little dungeon mat.

>>95753056
>>95753059
>>95753062
Pretty cool, anon. I've been wanting to do something like this myself for a little while, but I dunno if I'll ever get around to doing it.

>>95753056
>>95753059
>>95753062

These are nice anon, any tips or particular tutorials you used?

I could do with a little martian desert one

Forest scatter I made out of toy trees, fake plants from the dollar store, that rubber stuff people put under their bongs (which I stole from a stoner event), acrylic caulking and little leaves made from that card punching stuff sold by Greenstuff world.
The trees are magnetised, to make storage easier.
I couldn’t prevent the rubber base from bending, sadly.

>>95753614
NTA but it may be the same thing I did for mine: rubber mat + acrylic caulking. I followed this tutorial: https://youtu.be/CiF7i43VkUE

>>95752387
I have a foam table cutter. I just knock out a huge tub of bricks every time I start to run low. It only takes about a few hours from cutting to texturing them.

>>95754381
The colors and composition give me some Beksiński vibes

>>95753056
Yes homemade battlemats are kino. What exactly is this supposed to be though? Random shapes?

>>95706105
Absolutely lovely.sdks

>>95748016
>>95748023
>>95748041
Great work thanks for sharing. I really like the merchants integrated into the stalls. They tell a great story.

>>95748699
Not that anon, but if you look close you can see the edges of the flock mat for the grassy parts. It looks like it's mostly brown paint and now static grass for the middle parts.
>>95754362
They look great I'll have to invest in a leaf punch.

>>95752703
Probably, I had work enough just sourcing the buildings so I'm happy with it. It's still a fraction of the cost in money and time compared to any other method however

>>95748699
It's an EPS base covered in wall filler and then shaped into roads with the putty knife while it was drying. Really simple and fun to do actually. Then everything got a brown basecoat before it was flocked with static grass from a really cheap chiniesium applicator. This was a mistake however, looks good but it's a bit too fragile for play and storage. The roads got a overbrush with lighter brown.
In retrospect I should have made the roads more narrow to fit both 28mm and 15mm

>>95756822
thanks
I was considering doing a battlemat sometime soon, but tiles like this out of XPS sound good too

>>95754887
Thanks!
Yeah, I wanted to go for something art-y, unsettling and alien rather than realistic.

>>95756497
>They look great I'll have to invest in a leaf punch.
I think greenstuff world sells pre-punched leaves and, honestly, I would recommend that.
Punching all of these took much longer and was more tedious than I expected.
Here is a WIP image, by the way. You can see the magnets, there

just made a simple western cardboard building, was entertaining and a nice change from the long terrain projects
i may do a whole board as its quick and entertaining

>>95760241
That's a good bit of work anon, well done

>>95760241
looks cool, I am planning to do something simple like that too once I am done with the current things

I've not really got anything to contribute. I just want to bump.

>>95685146 (OP)
Is this true op? You're the faggot who keeps spamming /tg/ with low effort troll threads >>95765845

>>95766036
I'm not that nigger, that's ust your garden-variety shit-stirrer.

What do people think about the terrain on Temu? I keep seeing ads for it. I know it's probably better to make my own but I feel I lack the skills for it.

>>95767179
If you mean 3D prints, I bought some recently
So the quality of print is so-so (you can see lines if you inspect it closely), but perfectly workable for a terrain, unless you plan to do some high-quality photo-shots with zoom
Some simple but nice thing is a SF modular container set which you can stack in different ways to have different buildings for various games

Anyone done any work with tea lights?
I was thinking thy cheap led ones would make good bases for like sci-fi holographic displays.

>>95766036
Yeah what are you gonna do about it

>>95766104
You're not OP you faggot lmao

>>95767320
I bought some cheap 3d printed terrain off ebay and it has massive lines. Is there anywhere that makes 3d printed terrain that’s not garbage? I don’t want to get a 3d printer. It seems like it’s own hobby.

>>95769053
Etsy has lots and tends to be pretty good as they have less is competition. Just check the reviews in advance.

>>95767320
>a SF modular container set which you can stack in different ways to have different buildings for various games
You got a link brother?

>>95769364
Yeah boyeeeeeeeeees

Some recent Necromunda terrain.

Base is a dollarama clipboard with the clip cut off. Concrete is pink foam. Pipes are from a scotch ( container? tube?), a spice container, a xan, and sone toy pipes from Amazon. Foam board for the shanty and platforms, doggy poo bag rolls for supports. Walkways are popsicle sticks + knitting mesh.

>>95769810
>one toy pipes from Amazon.
I gotta get me some of those.

>>95769810

Spray primed black, then a rusty brown, then fucked around with craft paints until I felt done.

>>95769364
Well, Temu links are for some reason absolute fuck up for me, but it's called Sci-Fi RPG Terrain Set - Colonial Base & Colony Scaffolding from a shop called TRPDICES
I bought the colonial base set at first, but now I ordered the scaffolding set too, so I can mix those two

>>95769364
Where the FUCK fuck fuck and roll high school is there a hobby store this big still in the UK?

>>95769810
I like it.
>>95769816
I feel like it's a bit too bright for Necromunda.
>>95769843
Neat. Maybe try tinyurl or something to shorten it.

>>95769843
Looks like the listing is set to sold out and the store is gone.

>>95769968
It's a Boyes lad

There's a lot of big LGSs in Yorkshire. My favourite is actually Mighty Lancer Games out at Bridlington. Ridiculous range in that shop.

>>95770092
>Yorkshire
Aaaaaaah just immolate my shit up right here and now ladddddd

>>95770092
(Thanks though)

>>95770104
Where are you located, me old mucker?

>>95770092
Fuck me mighty lancer referenced on 4chan. Never thought I'd see the day. Bless you east riding anon, I make the journey there from norf riding to take the wee'uns swimming at the pool but really it's to sneak in here

>>95770139
Now then lad. Aye I prefer Scarborough for the seaside (which itself has had a few good shops over the years) but always suggest Brid first so I can pop in lel

>>95767889
I made these, using tea lights, cotton and black spray paint.
It's only tangentially related to terrain buildings though

>>95770237
Looks like terrain to me.

Making a small random bits sci-fi piece. Gonna paint it tomorrow.

>>95753614
I followed a tutorial by berserkerworks

>>95770080
Weird, it works for me.
It shouldn't be somekind of regional settings, right?
Try searching for the set manually, maybe?

>>95770237
Oh, those look better than I would suspect

>>95770383
Looks kinda like a juice bar.

Painted up stone sci-fi bits today.

>>95770606
I tried that and it doesn't come up.

>>95770139
Wish I had a nice lgs but the only one nearby pretty much has nothing but magic. I haven’t played modern magic since they went full woke.

>>95770383
>>95769810
Based junk terrain makers

>>95771403
>Looks kinda like a juice bar.
Yeah, I was thinking of making some machinery, but ended up like this.

Are your stuff on the pic resin or FDM prints?

>>95770223
I'm a Scarborough lad myself. Good boyes stock here, and Roll It have moved into a bigger premises on Victoria Road. Friendly lgs if you've not been there.

>>95740948
Amazing textile as others have said. Is it as simple as dipping a wet wipe in PVA and forming it? Working on a celebratory piece and want to experiment with flags/bunting

had some spare resin to burn so i turned it into a graveyard
tried vallejo stillwater and its turning cloudy after few days, should have just used epoxy its way cheaper too

>>95707441
Very nice man. The weathering really sells it.

>>95690729
>>95690734
>>95753059

Love these. There's something about this style of little moveable terrain copse that really reminds me of old school adventuring. I blame Baldurs Gate I.

>>95773050
Looks great imho anon, fits the gloomy graveyard feeling.

>>95695093
There are so many STLs for shipping containers it would be impossible to list them. AliExpress has them too.

>>95770123
Trapped in Lundun innit
Imprisoned by my need for sleep as well

>>95770092
On the opposite side of the country to me... Guess its time for a pilgrimage

>>95772806
FDM
>>95773050
I'm with the other guy. I thought it was intentional. Looks like misty foggy swamp.

>>95774266
>FDM
Nice, I was looking at those STLs too but wasn't sure how well they'd print on FDM

I finished these up a little while ago. I wanted something gross that could work in a few settings. It's been an alien hive, Nurgle pestilence, and a Cthulhu... something.

Toilet roll trees is one of the builds with the best speed + inexpensive + good look ratio.
I don't think I ever posted it in these treads before.
I purposefully went for a colour scheme that looks unreal, because it's for an alien forest, but you can perfectly go for something more realistic.

>>95774439
>toilet roll trees
I'm stealing that idea. What's the "waxy" bark texture made of? Hot glue?

>>95774266
>Looks like misty foggy swamp.
Or poison, which would explain all the skeletons in the pond.

>>95771403
Oh hey, I printed the same piece! It's a really cool one. I used fluorescent decals for the screen, so it glows under UV light.

>>95774439
Those look sick. Any WIP pics?
>>95774450
Yeah, is it hot glue or air dry clay or greenstuff or what?
>>95774336
They printed fine. FDM is best for terrain imo.

>>95774544
Sick. It is only after seeing you're that I realize there are screens on the side. Lol
Where did you get the decals?

>>95770023

Yeah, I thought it was a bit too bright myself. I was trying to achieve a look of originally painted pipes falling into disrepair, but I do need to work on weathering it more. I'll try to grim up the next piece a little.

Here's another few pieces of Necromunda scatter terrain. Stole the idea from here. https://youtu.be/uIMfwD_wPeo?si=qjADwejHL8068HUr

Very easy for any anons new to terrain.

>>95773050
I agree with the other replies; this fogginess works here. If it's too white, maybe adding some very thin wash or contrast paint to the liquid would work. Or maybe a thin coat over the pool once it dries?

>>95774427
Looks disgusting. Well done. How was this made?

Some simple quick bunkers Ive done, zenithal sprays.

few dark and soft tones here and there to add depth. Easy. less than 2 minutes total work per bunker :)

>>95775960
>layer lines out the ass
>identical bullet holes on each bunker
Just no.

>>95775960
>>95776506
I didn't mind 3d printer lines. They are 3D printing houses now. 3d printed concrete bunkers for a sci-fi game makes sense.
Good point on the identical bullet holes.

Posting 3d printed stuff seems kinda low effort unless you designed/bashed the files yourself.

On a related note here's a ship I printed but did not design. Lol

>>95776658
I mean... it is 3D... and you did print it... and yet I can't help but feel you should've closed the tab with your GMail account, Daniel.

>>95774586
>>95774450
Yeah, it's glue gun. It's really easy to make.

Unrelated: I just posted this illustration in the scifi illustration thread >>95777308 and I was wondering which material I could use to hand-sculpt large terrains, to do organic shapes like these.
Clay would be super fragile and very heavy.
Sculptamold is, like THE most frustrating substance known to man. Unless I'm using it wrong, but it somehow manages to shrink too much when drying, to be useable in a mold, yet too sticky to be shaped by hand, yet when dries becomes too hard to be easily sculpted.

Another fun build:
Styrofoam, put together to just leave enough space for my phone.
The opening is on the bottom, so it's not visible when put on the table.
New time I will make a more elaborate portal, though.

>>95776658
>Posting 3d printed stuff seems kinda low effort unless you designed/bashed the files yourself.
Can we please not purity spiral this general? Just post and enjoy terrain. Fuck me.

>>95777488
>Can we please not purity spiral this general?
No.
>Fuck me.
Fuck no.

>>95777488
>Just post and enjoy terrain.
Pot calling the kettle black.
If you're going to complain at least post something while you do.

>>95748064
With such big and detailed terrain pieces, how do you play in an RPG context? Are you only playing on pre-destined and pre arranged areas? Or do you just kinda arrange things on the spot and reuse the same buildings for differe things? I've only ever used modular walls and various scatter pieces like trees and rocks.

>>95777436
Kino

>>95777436
very cool

>>95776658
>>95777085

You're over thinking it. Just be happy folks are working on terrain. 3d printing will be a major tool and part of terrain in the future. I originally disliked it but now I understand both sides. The guy still painted up terrain to put on the battlefield and it's not MDF L Buildings

>>95769816
>>95769810
fookin beautiful
>>95760402
This is what we call SOUL. Very Nice.
>>95760241
Chef's kiss anon

pic related my attempt at using some old food containers and old VHS tapes around after seeing some anon do it here a long time ago.

>>95776658
>that much chaturbate mail
lol nice danny

>>95772986
>Is it as simple as dipping a wet wipe in PVA and forming it?
Yes pretty much! I let the wet wipes dry out, then dipped them in about 50/50 PVA and water. It's very malleable to begin with, so you can shape it however you want, and then hardens over night. I recommend putting down a layer of mod podge after though, to give extra primer for the paint.

>>95778044
It's a mix of all of them I'd say, I try to find a good balance. If I suspect that the next session will mostly take place in one specific area, or if there is a large combat encounter coming up, I try to make something elaborate on the board, like the post you responded to.

A more impromptu setup looks more like pic related. That I can wing quickly during a session. We also use a bit of theater of the mind if the players do something unexpected, or I can't be bothered to do a new setup.

>>95760402
Ah yeah, cardboard is such a great medium. You can build up heights very quickly and it has a really nice cartoon-ish style.

>>95779259
A bro has to make a living.
>>95780220
>>95760402
This cardboard stuff is pretty charming..

>>95774920
Thanks! It’s styrofoam balls cut in half and blasted with a heat gun. Focus the heat on where the blister is hollow or open, but a light pass over the rest will seal off the foam and keep it from crumbling. Aerosol primer (you want the texture) and green resin for the… effluence. It would probably work for magma, too.

>>95776506
>>95776658
You realise terrain is terrain right?

You prefer me to post some L shaped 40k tourni shit? No, Ive worked on it and done it ;)

Yes its low effort, hence why its "simple quick"

heres some slightly "more effort" bits ive done recently.

>>95780845
forgot the file lul

>>95780845
No, it isn't.

>>95781154
Fuck off you purity spiralling cunt.

>>95781347
You will never be a terrain.

>>95685146 (OP)
really cozy manorhouse anon

>>95779308
Very cool, appreciate the example! How do you store all this stuff?

>>95774626
I wanted to make that same thing, but sadly xps foam is not a thing in my country.
So I'm considering just making the walls out of cardboard I'm just dreading the experience of cutting it and the inevitable warping

>>95783538
>sadly xps foam is not a thing in my country
It is. Your homework for today is to find out what it's called on your local market.
- t. couldn't find plasticard for the longest time until I learned it's sold as HIPS.

>>95783642
The product exist, but it would be cheaper to buy the actual GW walls than XPS foam.

>>95783538
Styrofoam from discarded packaging is plenty good enough for anything modern or futuristic.

>>95783538

What country?Try searching for insulation foam.

Another garbage terrain piece. Perrier cans , bottle caps, wheels from a toy truck, scraps of thin plywood,cardboard, foam board, and some garden mesh. Acceptable underhive scenery.

>>95691575
That's awesome, anon. What materials?

An attempt at free handing on some scatter terrain

>>95786230
Looks good.
>>95786132
Nice. Are you going to leave the roof removable so you can use it for storage?

>>95756783
>>95724532
Those buildings look really nice! Post an after shot when you get it all painted up to please anon!
At least the thickness will be pretty durable.

>>95775960
>>95776506
I dont mind layer lines on what is supposed to be concrete, it almost looks like the marks from the formwork when they poured it.

>>95785275
South America Chile, we have earthquake so we can't build houses out of cardboard or bricks like northamerica or europe.
I never get used to thin the walls are up there, you can hear your neighbor talking
So they are made out of concrete. Insulation foam like xps exist but it would be cheaper to actually by the GW walls.
I'm starting to consider buying some xps the next time I'm in florida (I'm exporting canned food to the USA so I usually travel there)
I've made some terrain out of random crap before. I just wanted to recreat the video and stumble upon the issue that something like xps foam is not something you'll find easily. Even good old styrofaom sheets seem to be gone from the craft stores that I know they used to sell when I was child.

>>95788018

Huh. Yeah, that makes sense. Tgat being said, I see a lot of Euros using xps foam, and they don't build like north Americans.

You could also make those walls out of wood. If that's feasible for you. It would weigh more, but ift would wear pretty well

Terrain pic; I've started to get my buddies to graffiti a piece of terrain after we play a game. I figure it will add a bit of diversity to the art style of the terrain, and also let me make other people do my work for me. This is the graffiti left after my buddies Underhive Outcast Orks tabled my Goliaths.

>>95770383
Painting is gonna take a bit longer, I realised I need a bit more pieces still.
Not sure if the drybrushing was right, but I am bit clueless, haven't done any terrain before. Wanna get a result eventually that matches the cheap paper "battle mat" I have.

>>95788691
The drybrush looks good anon! You could vary the colors and dirty it down a bit with some warmer tone washes to give more visual interest and tie it together with the mat. Maybe some orange drybrush and brown wash on the metal to give a rust effect?

>>95784812
Gives me 80's gritty sci-fi vibes. Gorgeous.

>>95783119
Thanks man! Storage is the hard part.. I keep most of the terrain in these plastic bins with lids, so I can stack them. The larger pieces like houses I keep in two moving boxes. I stack all of the stuff in a wardrobe for now.

>>95786371
Sorry neither of those are mine. I saved from a defunct blog I used to follow years ago

I needed some warehouses for my Stargrave game, and just finished some cookies.
I'm pretty happy with the result, considering time&effort I could put into this

>>95787924
Same, the print marks are actually a plus in this particular case

I just want some decent plastic shipping containers. Noble Knight in the US actually has a load of the oop AT-43 ones which are great.

>>95794033
Yeah they look like sci-fi quonset huts. To they stack?
>>95794206
The look good, but the dimensions are weird to me.

>>95794476
>Do they stack?
Not entirely, due to paint and some added bits, but I use them to keep some other small stuff, like barrels, crates and tokens

>>95790021
>You could vary the colors and dirty it down a bit with some warmer tone washes to give more visual interest and tie it together with the mat. Maybe some orange drybrush and brown wash on the metal to give a rust effect?
thanks for the tips, I was thinking something similar by stippling very thin brown/orange colors, but I am not sure if I should drybrush more white on those big plain black areas like on the side of those vertical tube things, those rectangle plate with bolts on the corners looking things
actually I just remembered I have a "dark rust" effect paint that I never used

>>95794206
Nigga I thought you were telling me where to find good cheap containers, these are $22 EACH

Who tf makes shipping containers that are actually affordable

>>95797781
You can find some Not! Lego container for like $4 in Aliexpress they are about the correct size for warhammer models 28-32mm ish models

>>95797781
>Who tf makes shipping containers that are actually affordable
Well, GSW actually does

>>95790021
I like those minis. What are they?

>>95799126
They are 3d-prints. The STLs are called Scarlet Crusade Greatswords by Titan Forge Miniatures

>>95800450
Many thanks, friend.

I bought a 3mm thick acrylic sheet to base my 28mm buildings on before realizing it's a bitch to cut nice straight cuts in in with my handsaw and hobby dremel

Love seeing all y’all 3D print cucks and disciples of influencer-tier craft hacks still getting absolutely GAPED with your shit ass paint by numbers looking terrains. Yes there is a better way, yes I am known and admired for it, no I will not share it with you miserable fags. Stay gaped :)

>>95810121
Get PVC foam, you can buy cheap off-cuts on ebay. I can't praise it enough!

>>95810963
I should have. I've used it for 15mm building bases before and I'm currently using it for the floors of the 28mm buildings, but I was a bit concerned about warping when used as bases

>>95811035
I have used 3mm PVC foam for my mordheim buildings, zero issues with warping on my part.

>>95811035
>>95811070
>>95811106
>>95811121
>t. gapeoids

>>95799126
>>95790021
Also like the minies. You dont get many conquistador/late1500s/early1600s fantasy looking guys. even though its rad. love the solar theme.

>>95688531
We have the exact same hand and it's freaking me out

>>95811070
nice ruin. I probably should get some PVC but then I would have wasted 40€ on a sheet of clear acrylic I'll never use for anything else.

>>95812583
If you have the space to store it, it's not wasted if it's available for a future project. Having piles of stuff where you can take something from on a whim is great for creativity.

>>95812633
also, for this ruins I used Depron for the walls and UHU por to glue them together. I especially recommend UHU por because it's very simple to use and the bond remains flexible.

>>95812633
True, I went ahead and tried to see if I could use it and was pleasantly surprised that it wad soft enough to saw easily. About 1,5 hours work to cut it into 15 bases

>>95794206
Beautiful board anon. What are the minis, and which game system is this?

>>95811121
Love the windows, are they 3d-prints?

>>95811602
Thanks bro, courtesy to my gf for the scheme and paint job. I love the early 1600s style, and used the opportunity to bring it in to our home brew setting with an aggressive mercenary company.

>>95816185
They are from the original Mordheim building sprue, but I remember seeing STLs for very similar windows in the wild.

>>95810121

If you're in Canada, go to Dollarama and buy the cheap clipboards. Slice off the clip part, paint both sides with mod podge, and youre good to go.

>one more day off until I start my work week.
>supplies i ordered won't be here until I'm at work.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I've been waiting all week for this and I have to wait another week. I'll just have to content myself with prepping up some foam bricks and chopstick logs.

>>95685146 (OP)
Anons, I'm using some cardboard drink sleeves to imitate corrugated sheetmetal. Do I need to seal it with anything before spray priming? Someone once said that he used watered down PVA glue, but I forget if it was just a preferential thing, or actually required to prevent disintergration

>>95816208
>I remember seeing STLs for very similar windows in the wild.
bit off topic but that's one of the things that blows my mind about 3d printing contrarians, the utility for anyone with a fraction of creativity should be obvious

Painted up a statue. Now all I need is a good pedestal to put him on.

Bumping the thread with a hedge dragon

>>95819709
Sealing with PVA is not required.
On the other hand, acrylic paint mixed with PVA dries out rock hard, this is a good way to make cardboard and foam more sturdy.

Did I post this one before?
Did this a little while ago. It's actual water inside, with pigments. It's a bit risky, but I added a drop of bleach to prevent it from becoming a germ growth medium and then sealed the cap carefully.
The water adds stability too, it's nice.

>>95821717
I assume a 50/50 is fine enough?

Working on some modular palisade walls. Heres the front.
Also cutting chopsticks is a bitch, I almost want to get my chopssaw out from the barn to do all of em quickly.

>>95824469
Heres the back, I gave them some stone work to make them more of a permanent defensive work. Gonna add boards and takes to the top of the stones to "hold" the dirt in. Also gonna add boards or small fitted stones to the top walkway.

>>95824499
I've got 4 made, only one with the wooden wall, and I might make a gate too. They are large enough to fit two rows of 25mm bases on them for some fun seige games I'm planning with my old man.

>>95822263
that looks pretty cool, I like the screws and the beams, what are those made of?

Im thinking about doing horizontal wood planks along the wall like in the pic a with the bare back half being grass/dirt. Or should I just cover the entire top with wood planks?

>>95824499
>stone work
Makes sense from a gameplay perspective since you want to be able to put your dudes on top there, but why would anybody ever put an uneven palissade down in front if he already has a 6'-7' thick stone wall?

>>95825697
It's cheaper amd faster to build then a full stone wall?

>>95823783
The more water you put in it the more likely the piece is to warp. If you do wind up using diluted glue to seal it helps a lot to hit both sides of the piece, especially with cardboard, MDF, and other super-porous materials.

>>95825697
>Stonework base
>rammed-earth bank
>palisade facing
>duckboards or a roof on top to shed rain
It's a pretty normal hasty fortification scheme for.. well, anywhere.
A short, ruinous stone wall isn't enough to keep arrows out of your fortification. A 15-foot rammed-earth dike is. But it's then vulnerable to any asshole with a tortoise. And the rain. The palisade protects the front from sappers and gives your own archers some cover, the walkway helps keep rain off it and gives your guys even footing. It's the sort of thing a town full of people can get up and running on a few weeks' notice when their old fortifications are crumbled and old as fuck, or a military unit can throw up in a field camp on some previously-fortified and scavenged compound like an abandoned abbey.

These two were standing on a shelf and waiting for paint for three months...

>>95822263
I too would like to know what the metal beams and screws are made of

>>95825133
>>95829415
Nta but it looks like spures for the beams and probably greenstuff for the bolts.

>>95825133
The screws are 3D printed. The beams are pieces of packaging. The same I used for this:

>>95824499
>>95824533
>>95825314
these based on the Ash & Stone video?

>>95829740
Damn what's his metal sheet roof made of? I've been looking for something to make roofs like this forever.

>>95830118
Corrugated plastic? Like corrugated cardboard, except plastic?
There are even corrugator tools for making it, if you can't find any in the wild.

>>95830008
Yeah, lol. It's an easy build, I'm adding my own flair to it though.

>>95829151
Clean!

>>95830118
I was living in Asia back then and some of the fancy hipster coffee shops give disposable corrugated plastic cover with their cups, so you don't get burned with the hot coffee. I hoarded them to use in terrains.
I have never seen these outside of Asia, however greenstuff world has this, to make corrugated metal: https://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/texturing-tools/357-corrugator-tool-for-corrugated-metals.html
You can also find corrugated cardboard in art or paper shops.

>>95829151
jesus fucking christ this is like the added value of like 3 full minis in bits
this is like printing 4 minis, splitting them, and making a flesh golem
this is the definition of wasting your life for cheap baroque effect
like buying premium china dinnerware just to break it and make kintsugi
this image hurts my lifespan

>>95836222
lmao

>>95836222
In the UK (and elsewhere) you can buy second hand miniatures, especially at wargames shows and bring and buys, for literal pennies. Don't sweat it

>>95836435
It's not about the money
It just feels wrong
It's the ratio of "original detail density" to "table spread"
You can make a wall of barrels, that would be neat
Or you can make a wall of shields, that would look cool
But this is a wall of barrels and a wall of shields and a wall of weapons and a wall of wood planks and a wall of bones and shrubs and a keychain and direction post and a wall of wall

>>95836571
And this feels right:
It's a makeshift barrier with carriages. What is has: Broken carriages parts and assorted rocks.
Was this supposed to refute what I said or something

>>95836514
It's probably made from spare bits from the bits box

>>95825314
I think if you support the back wall (where you currently have the dowels) with something holding the earth together then a half-plank half-earth walkway could look really good. It doesn't really matter from the perspective of a game piece, but it would convincingly look like earthworks build on top of/out from an existing wall, perhaps a little hurriedly, to establish a much more substantial fortification.

>>95836742
>Geez, i-it didn't cost me too much to draw this! You are talking as it was too expensive or hard to draw, it's literally easy and costs nothing, pennies!
What a weird argument for something I don't care when I look at the pic

>>95836514
It looks like a wall of junk. Stop being a sperg.

>>95836800
you have a coherent argument in a world where hastily assembled improvised barricades are all made by extremely autistic people

>>95836800
mate, in all seriousness: you sound like it's completely a problem inside you.
Where can the rest of us read up on those rules that you seem to 'feel'?
Are they a set of rules about how something is aesthetically pleasing as long as it isn't 'overdesigned'?
If yes, then please explain why you started your argumentation with blathering about 'lifespan'.

Long story short: the rest of us can look at and even enjoy a barricade that looks like it's thrown together from whatever random stuff was in the next best attic, barn or cellar.

almost finished with the first building. Still a lot of work to do though

>>95836514
sorry about your terminal autism, anon

>>95836514
With other words: it looks like a realistic barricade, and not like some artificial piece.

>>95824469
>>95824499
>>95824533
>>95825314
>fellow Ash and Stone King
Nice work anon, your doing him proud. I would go with planking at the top myself, unless your planning to run the Stone wall all the way up.

>>95840943
That looks real nice to be entirely desu with you. The balcony is a great detail.

>>95829151
>Soulful ramshackle barricade put up in a hurry

>>95836514
>Soulless copy paste single item

>>95845253
thank you, I also think it ended up being very good. I still ned to do a back yard for it, but that will have to wait until I've finished basing all 15 buildings

>>95840943
Sick. Are you doing a whole table?

>>95854453
yes that's the intention. I'm in the process of printing the streets, lampposts, scaffolds, walls, railings etc now. The end result is to have a 120x120cm 1910s/1920s city center. Although with some additions it could work for later eras too

the GW townscape paper buildings

>>95868381
Not bad. I love paper stuff.

>>95872447
>>95868381
I love paper terrain. Most of my terrain is paper. I'd post pics but people got shitty with me last time for it being somewhat thrown around the map haphazardly.

>>95872964
>I'd post pics but people got shitty with me last time for it being somewhat thrown around the map haphazardly.
Fuck them. Paper stuff is fun and cool.

I don't have a color printer any more, but they're fun to design.

>>95873660
Forgot the pic.

>>95873752
It's not all paper terrain but most of it is. I'd love to have the time to carefully plan out a map but I mostly just throw what I have on the matt to block sight lines.

>>95872964
>>95873660
Paper terrain is fully valid and I like it. I just personally like working with foam and basing materials to create stuff.

>>95872447
I recognise that Dave Graffam terrain. I've made the same clock tower but not the others. What do you use for the bases? Foamcore or something like it?

The missus was gonna throw this out, but I have other plans. Maybe paint it up like an aircraft hangar or something. I mean look at it, it's perfect!

Thing is, I've never worked with styrofoam before. Any tips?

>>95874044

space weirdos is top tier

>>95868381
>>95872447

Paper terrain is great, youre still putting an incredible amount of effort in to set a scene

>>95840943
This is dope

>>95876172
-Don't use spraypaint on unprotected foam; it'll dissolve. A layer of acryllic paint, white glue, or spackle will prevent it, though.
-If you're going to cut it, make sure to use a sharp knife and long strokes for a clean cut; otherwise the edges will crumble into into little 'beads' of foam (since that's all this stuff is). A hot wire cutter would be even better.
-Some weights in the base will help alot for stabilization, since this stuff is pretty light. Coins, washers, screws, fishing weights...anything like that attached to or inserted into the bottom will work well.

>>95874044
Looks great. Where are the files from?
>>95875675
>Foamcore
Yeah just foam board. The Dave Graffam models come with bases that are designed to cut and fold over it to hide the foam.

>>95876548
>Don't use spraypaint on unprotected foam
NTA, but card from foamcard is NOT protection, shit like primer or poster glue will seep through and make the whole thing uneven.

>>95876172
- wet your knife
- long straight cuts, don't saw
- if you DO use a saw for styrofoam, be aware that the shavings/individual cells are extremely static and a bitch to clean.

>>95824469
Progress on my walls.

>>95876619
>Looks great. Where are the files from?
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/115052/Cargo-Pods-Paper-Models?cPath=24998_25029
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/115924/Checkpoint-Paper-Terrain?cPath=24998_25029
https://www.wargamevault.com/product/210413/Honeycomb-Storage-Tanks-Card-Models-Kit?cPath=24998_25029

More Dave Graffam paper terrain. I find getting them professionally printed works best but some are printed myself.

>>95880347
Sick. Thanks senpai.

>>95876548
>>95876697
>>95876707
Thanks for the tips! Wish me luck

>>95879614
nice work