Terrain Thread

File: 1428112494542.jpg (112KB, 800x653px) Image search: [Google]

112KB, 800x653px

>>50052822

File: 1428112561283.jpg (114KB, 800x767px) Image search: [Google]

114KB, 800x767px

>>50052947

File: Defence Laser.jpg (120KB, 1000x793px) Image search: [Google]

120KB, 1000x793px

>>50052822
Ah, I remember that

I recall 2 rules in particular - one, you could use it to stop orbital bombardments, two, it was in the rules that it HAD to have a pompous-sounding name

https://www.scribd.com/document/305806839/40k-Defence-Laser-Datasheet

Might need a little upgrading these days, but it's still cool AF

File: 1428116421955.jpg (43KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

43KB, 640x480px

>>50053061
I've always been fond of "Phallus Maximus."

>>50053181
Reminds me of Da Blue Grot's Funstikk. Even has a Little Bomber under the main part

File: PA311361.jpg (233KB, 864x647px) Image search: [Google]

233KB, 864x647px

This guy has a pretty great terrain blog.

This guy does great things for Necromunda.
https://thenickeninja.wordpress.com/

File: gift card plus sprue.jpg (16KB, 376x226px) Image search: [Google]

16KB, 376x226px

Billboards from gift cards

File: 1407567218388.jpg (113KB, 600x450px) Image search: [Google]

113KB, 600x450px

>>50055402

File: building looks good.jpg (91KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

91KB, 640x480px

>>50055413
The main body of this is 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch insulating foam. The rest is just simple detailing.

If you have a hot wire foam cutter and a cardstock template, you could do the cutting for an entire city in an afternoon.

File: Salute2012270.jpg (141KB, 1024x681px) Image search: [Google]

141KB, 1024x681px

>>50055413
Snow boards are the easiest thing to make look good because you can cover every mistake and dodgy detail with snow. And they look great.

Getting real tired of playing games at home with soda cans and stacks of books. I wonder what is the easiest/cheapest way to get enough terrain to moderately fill a 6x4 table or densely fill a 4×4 table.

>>50055637
Cardboard houses. Cut high density foam cliffs

>>50055637
dollar store foamcore, cereal box cardboard and insulation styrofoam are cheap as fuck. Most terrain is made of those three things.

>>50055637
The absolute cheapest way that doesn't look shit would be to make a load of hills and rocks out of polystyrene, preferably coated with something suitably tough and textured like tile adhesive with some sand mixed in. Extra bits of polystyrene, especially if you can get the dense type, can be carved into making walls for bordering stuff.

Roads are really cheap to make and whilst not really doing much in most games people play here, they do look nice. Just need something suitable flat and not prone to warping to make them out of, like vinyl floor tiles with some felt stuck to the adhesive side. Tiny bit of texture on top or even just the sides if doing tarmac, paint and bam, roads.

>>50055637
Or you can try papercraft.
http://www.germy.co.uk/paper25mm.html
http://www.toposolitario.com/workshop/index_papermodels.html
http://www.genetmodels.com/free-stuff/

How urban are city of death boards normally?

File: 1477011169755.pdf (1B, 486x500px)

1B, 486x500px

>>50055637

File: 1410054660944.jpg (40KB, 640x480px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 640x480px

>>50056516
iirc; Ideally about a third to half of the board is buildings, the rest is road, pavements, open space and other bits and pieces.

Urban terrain is a serious challenge to actually balance and not leave either huge open sight lines on roads or clutter up everything so much that it's hard to access parts of the battlefield, or just a variety of messes otherwise.

File: town square.jpg (2MB, 2963x1333px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2963x1333px

Not something spectacular such as OP, but I made this for my Mordheim terrain. Looks neat and fills the town square.
Ad some special rules the the "tree of woe", and it also fills its part in any game.

File: How to hill.jpg (4MB, 842x6180px) Image search: [Google]

4MB, 842x6180px

>>50057588

Made this hill as well, for my 40k games.

File: Trench2.jpg (2MB, 851x3544px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 851x3544px

>>50058558

And some trenches for Warmachine.

>>50058558
Very nicely done on the hill, I appreciate the work-in-progress shots to show how it was done.

File: hill.jpg (719KB, 754x1455px) Image search: [Google]

719KB, 754x1455px

>>50058617

Thanks! I ended up making it a snow hill, to match my battle mat, for good and bad.
My family didn't appreciate me collecting stray sticks and bark though, not to be recommended for the "normal" family man, if anything is to say about this!

>>50056525
cool, ayone knows if GW still sells terrain-grade expert cardboard?

File: terrain1.jpg (2MB, 3988x3988px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3988x3988px

Im pretty new at Terrain, I made these this week.

File: 2016-10-28 20.50.20.jpg (1MB, 2592x1944px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2592x1944px

>>50063564
and this

File: 2016-10-26 19.45.25.jpg (1MB, 2592x1944px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2592x1944px

>>50063564
>>50063572
also this.

File: 2016-09-17 23.37.13.jpg (1MB, 2592x1944px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 2592x1944px

>>50063637
And a wall and some bits

>>50063637
>>50063572
>>50063564
While you won't hear a lot of praise, it looks fine and will make games more fun than cans and books.

>>50063812

Thanks. Like I said, Im pretty new at this. Just started in the last 2-3 weeks.

>>50053061
>https://www.scribd.com/document/305806839/40k-Defence-Laser-Datasheet

Type: Super Heavy

So it doesn't use your fortification slot?

If I want ro build a trench of fixed width, what should I use for a base? Thick plasticard?

>>50064028
foamcore

>>50063564
>>50063572
>>50063637

As >>50063812 Mentions, its not the prettiest terrain, but it fills the role its supposed to! Its functional, its painted and its a whole lot better than playing on your mums kitchen table using various items of household items as your "cover" (like one did back in the day).
So keep it up, check out some tutorials on YouTube, one of my favourite is Terranscapes, but there are tons of others who are really great!

>>50063767

You guys have a pretty descent terrain collection. Its a shame you haven't spoiled yourself with a battle-mat, because really, the field needs some color and those mats looks ace!

>>50063749

Saved!

File: PaintingCompetitionWinner2016.jpg (401KB, 590x659px) Image search: [Google]

401KB, 590x659px

Where all my fantasy niggas at?

http://tabletop-world.com/

>>50063908
Like I said man, old-ass rules.

Also, it was Apocalypse, so no slots

>>50064055
Nah, expanded styrene is better; more durable and significantly more rigid than foam core but easier to work with than MDF; and, bonus, plastic terrain will stick to it just fine with the styrene cement you already own, if you wind up incorporating kit components like the Wall of Martyrs.

>>50065099
>Where all my fantasy niggas at?
In the same place as WHFB.

>>50066348
Ouch.

>>50066348
not nice anon, not nice at all

File: Fugabug.png (2MB, 1296x972px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 1296x972px

>>50064587
not the guy who posted the pic but the guy whose terrain it is: you're not wrong. That board needed either a lot of roads (didn't have any at the time) or a much better mat. Hell, could still do with much better mats even though roads are now a thing I don't lack. In particular this one should be on something which is mostly concrete/dirt and some patches of grass rather than fairly plain khaki.

>>50063749
That's really cool! What did you use for the mold?

>>50052947
>>50052822
>Stand by, ion control. Fire.

>>50055637
See: >>>/po/544995

https://mega.nz/#F!G8w3jBpb

key: !58u_ZlY-xUUhoKsEtdWFgQ

>>50057588

Thats pretty good looking anon.

10/10 would get warband-leader murdered upon.

File: gw-money.jpg (28KB, 318x320px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 318x320px

>>50063405
I've never heard of this, but I don't immediately think you're trolling. That fact saddens me a little.

File: imperialfirebase.jpg (160KB, 1010x701px) Image search: [Google]

160KB, 1010x701px

>>50068907
It goes back a ways, to the grim darkness of the 1990s. GW used to do cardboard terrain kits with plastic risers, a common component to the Necromunda game box of the time. I used to own an Imperial Firebase but it got ruined in a flood.

>>50069090
Oh! I thought you were talking about prebagged pieces of cardboard for making terrain... no, GW's terrain kits are all plastic now.

>>50069090
That shit was the best.

>>50069315
I was also thinking this.

File: battlesystems 2.jpg (231KB, 680x510px) Image search: [Google]

231KB, 680x510px

>>50068907

Check this kickstarter out. I'm curious to get me a set, due to the price is quite nice, and it would really fit well with infinity/kill-team. Granted its only a 2x2 board, you still have height to play on!

>>50070537
This looks like ass.

>>50073077
It looks fine to me, though I'd rather scratchbuild anyway.

>>50055637
Foamcore and Polystyrene are cheap as fuck and can be made into damn near anything. The expensive part is painting and flocking them to not look like giant pink and powder blue battlefields.