Budget Wargaming Terrain

>>53075210
Spaniard? also what terrain are you after and how much are you willing to spend?

>>53075256
>Spaniard
Dont know what that is.
We play 40k and I in particular have an interest of getting the guys into Shadow War, so some Imperial and Industial (specially Industrial) Setpieces would be cool.
In terms of money, I don't have much. I basically was looking for a way of making most out of cheap craftmaterials and/or papershit I already have available

>>53075338
You type like a Spaniard its weird. However what you need is Trash terrain by Commissar Gamza.

https://www.youtube.com/user/GamzaTheEternal/videos

>>53075398
>You type like a Spaniard its weird
??????
I have zero clue what you mean
>However what you need is Trash terrain by Commissar Gamza
Thanks for this, thou

>>53075414
the way you type its similar to comments on social media and YT posted by Spaniards

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>>53075210
Just use your imagination.

Pringle cans silos,cardboard mouldings, fruit cup huts, bendy straw pipes, lightbulb-paper sheet metal. You can make literal trash look good with a half-decent paint job.

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>>53075210
These are pretty neat. Simple and functional terrain. They are tall enough for infantry to hide behind them completely and they provide good shooting position on top. Easy to make and can't get any cheaper than cardboard.

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>>53075659
Here's another cardboard thingy

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This guy's stuff is cheap but has a certain charm to it. Made for Rogue Trader 40k rather than super grim serious nu40k.

http://therealmofjinnai.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/Buildings

>>53075210
bumping thread for creative juices.

If yiu can find them download the citadel how to make Wargames terrain books.
Its got some good advice, normally the 40k general has links.


In general most recyclable household waste is good for making terrain from. Only real cost is time, glue and paint.

I'm in bed but I was gonna do a bunch of terrain building tomorrow. Will post some stuff if thread is still up

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>>53075210
I don't know if it's really that cheap but I use modular panel based terrain (like GW's or Pegasus Game's) and stretch the panels with bits of textured plasticard with currigated/slat/stamping textures.

I'm going to base them on squares and make a modular industrial ruins board. I'm not going to have a main board with ground texture, just the bases of the terrain touching. Might be cool dunno.

>>53076034
>citadel how to make Wargames terrain
You mean this?
http://mork.synology.me/side/warhammer/How%20to%20make%20wargames%20terrain%202nd%20Edition.pdf

>>53075578
bitchn'

Check out this kit https://www.maelstromsedge.com/medge/store.jsp?p=8
You get a bunch of little greebels and bits to make buildings and such.

Foamcore and extruded polystyrene insulation are your friends. They are cheap and incredibly versatile materials.

>>53077644
>Foamcore
Can you hotglue this stuff?

>>53078002
Yeah, works realy well.

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>>53078002
yes.
Just don't use superglue or aresol driven things like spray paint.

If you Do want to use superglue on it then prime it with a few coats of Gesso to act as a barrier between the foam and the glue.

>>53075578
>Just use your imagination
That's asking too much from like 70% of people.

>>53075578
>Pringle cans silos,cardboard mouldings, fruit cup huts, bendy straw pipes, lightbulb-paper sheet metal. You can make literal trash look good with a half-decent paint job.

yeah, but imagining what you want to make using what you've got and actually imagining HOW to make that work are two different things.

the second one is much more difficult.

>>53075659
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHc_qsvP9oY

This is a cool fucking thread

Post MOAR cheap-ass repurposed trash as epic wargaming terrain plz

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Here's a bunker I made from some plate carrying cardboard box. Top hatch has blown off and I don't know where it is.

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>>53076154

Nice man, I got one of these when they were common in UK Poundshops so I have plenty of greebles. Now you only seem to get them for like £8+postage from dodgy Russian ebayers, I think the original company is Tehnolog and Airfix licensed some of it as "Robogear".

I've just realised I gave away all my transfer sheets to some random guy on a FB trade group. The IG tank ones could have been useful I'm realising.

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When you buy things like electronics, you often get molded cardboard packaging. I find it makes great impassable-style terrain. It has the look of low-lying bunkers and concrete buildings when turned upside down.

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Shameful plug on my blog. I made some fantasy ruins for really cheap, and I like the method a lot.

>http://bitsaddiction.blogspot.com/2017/04/city-ruins-terrain.html

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>>53075210
Towels.
Everyone is fond of towels.

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>>53079973
ravioli ravioli give me the terrainioli

>>53075210
in model railroading we use pink foam.
It's cheap and you can build whatever you need from it. You can also paint it. In fact you need to paint it.
Easy to build large structures with and very easy to work with.

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You can also check out aquarium supply places and pet stores. Sometimes they have this sort of shit for cheap.

>>53075578
>imagination
Is something you need to train up, its like muscles or good knowledge. You wont ask just anyone to squat thrust without good back muscle and leg work or anyone to build a functioning rocket.

>>53080026
>You can also paint it. In fact you need to paint it.

But if you're going to use any kind of spray on it, you have to base-coat it first or the spray can melt the foam.

>>53080050
depends on the foam. Some stuff I've used, had a plastic coating on it and I was able to spray it.
Best to take a piece off and test it.

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Bump.

>>53079726
I wish I had still some of these laying around

>>53078544
Gesso's pretty expensive though. You can usually get away with a few coats of Mod Podge or other PVA glue. Or if you're really worried about melting your piece, I'd suggest just taking the time and brushing it. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass, but it's also a guarantee that your shit won't get fucked.

>>53078989
These look so nice.
I wished they were easy to get

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Some posters for your buildings.

>>53084521
Oh god emperial propaganda.
This the best thing.
What would you say how to use these best

I want to build terrain. I'd rather build terrain than work on any more models. But I've no where to store it. Seems like a waste of time. So I don't do it.

>>53084575
Print out as is. Ruff up the edges and paste on side of building.
Just like how you see down town with band flyers and such.

>>53075210
What do people use for the bases for these?

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Also /wip/ has some stuff in their pastebin for building scratch terrain.

>>53078989
>>53084323
Found this here:
http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/Gaming/c9/index.html?osCsid=k313b9ebe06i166r8d3a3516r4
Seems like Pegasus Hobbies licences this stuff, but orginaly it was made by a russian company.
They seem to have some nice terrain pieces.
Has anyone had expierience with some of these?
Are they cheap compared to other stuff?

>>53079947
This kinda terrain could work for some xenos shit, like eldar exodites or maybe just very old eldar ruins or even ruins of some other, more primitive civilization

So I recently started painting up some Mantic Deadzone terrain, my plan was to salt mask it but that hasn't worked. No matter what I do I just can't get the technique to work, I dunno if it's the paint I'm using or what but I'm abandoning that idea as it's driving me fucking mad.

Anyway the long and short of it is I have about 4'x4' worth of terrain thats been painted a rusted brown and I don't know what to do with it. I really don't want to just paint over it and I sure as shit don't want to strip it and start again, at the same time I don't want it to just be rusty brown either.

Any of you lads have idea how I can salvage it or am I completely fucked?

I was wondering if I could make sponge stippling work in reverse, you usually stipple on the rust the main colour, what I'd be doing would be the opposite. I guess I'll just have to try it and see.

>>53084595
Sell it or give it away to your FLGS.

>>53084692
Cardboard is my best guess?
You should check Commissar Gamzas Channel, as >>53075398
recommended.
He uses some hard material for the base. His Intro is annoying and stuff, but his trash terrain series is solid.
Here is a playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJitBl78vLOY2bf28uxqnpIb-WLacCBX

>>53084874
Pics?

>>53084692
Foamcore. Cardboard. Chipboard. MDF. Really any rigid material could be used as a base, and you're most likely going to be covering it up anyway so it really doesn't matter.

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You can get solid results out of papercraft, but the ink can get expensive and the paper can be finicky. Once you get the hang of it tho, you can make all sorts of stuff and refurbished ink cartridges are cheap as shit

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>>53084942

Pic makes it look a bit lighter than it is in person but it's pretty much all like this at this point.

The failed salt masked stuff has already been stripped so no pics of that. It was just some crates so all the buildings are just primed brown like this.

>>53078989
>ultraclicks

Sounds like the indian call centre guy talking about web traffic "Oh yes we can give you the many ultraclicks for your websites"

>>53075210
i recommend you look up commisar gamza on YT and check out his trash terrain series.

>>53085512
If it is just primed brown I dont see a problem.
Just paint it in the color you want, maybe use the primer to get some nice rust optic on that ruin

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>>53084874
Are you trying to get a pattern where you put down a first color, then a protective pattern (the salt), and finally a 2nd color - then remove the protective material and reveal the 1st (base) color? If so, put down the first color, and then stipple on pic related with a natural sponge. Once this stuff is dry, it'll be easy to rub off and reveal the under coat easily.

As for your current brown buildings, you could put a few washes and highlights on them as well as streaks of rust and they'd be table top quality pretty easily.

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>>53086578
And while we're at it - have some PDF content for interest.

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>>53086619

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If your terrain doesn't at least have 1 Pringles can in it, your not doing scratch built right.

I often prefer seeing scratch built models before they are painted and detailed, they look so much cooler

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>>53086629

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>>53086650

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>>53086671

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>>53086644
If find your lack of classic 'spikey balls'... Disturbing.

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>>53086700

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>>53086753

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>>53086775

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When I was a kid my brother made warhammer 40,000 shantytowns out of toungue depressers, with bits of cloth and the right paint they could look pretty convincing. We used model magic to shape terrian and rocks form our big backyard to make boulders, etc.

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>>53086791

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>>53086814

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>>53086831

>>53085065

Papercraft just rubs me the wrong way. No heft, so fragile.

It looks beautiful, there's no denying that.

I've seen styrofoam spiky balls, but are those sponges spiky balls? Madness.

>>53086914
No, they're just the crusty looking floral foam covered with Gesso and then painted.

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I don't get to post these enough.

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>>53087205

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>>53087228

>>53087205
>>53087228
Classic 'Deathworld' terrain.

>>53075210
Ladders, straws, balsa wood, kneadite and empty drink containers are your friends. Google for the trash terain series, it's on youtube.

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>>53087311
And that's the last of em. Let's see what else I've got.

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>>53087346

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>>53087365

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>>53087383

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Theres a bunch of forums dedicated to sprue terrain

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>>53087404

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>>53087429

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>>53087480
And that's all folks!

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This is an objective marker, but the material's still useful...the skull's made up from used B&N gift cards.

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>>53087365
Heh, I created that!

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>>53087832

>>53084713
>They seem to have some nice terrain pieces.
>Has anyone had expierience with some of these?
>Are they cheap compared to other stuff?

Yah, I have some of their stuff. PLastic i good, he connections look a bit weird, but it's bearable. All in all good value for your money and far cheaper than GW. Sadly there are not many manufactuers who make terrain in this style.

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>>53075210
not sure if cheap terrain or tech gore but here you go

>>53075414
Open google ffs

>>53075488
He doesn't know what a Spaniard is you fucking moron

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>>53075659
>>53075683
Damn this are nice. It makes me sad that White Dwarf went from having all these awesome terrain tutorials to just being an advertisement for overpriced premade terrain.

Look at Wyrd Chronicles. It has lots of really good terrain tutorials.

If you aren't averse to buying premade terrain, there are lots of really cheap MDF terrain manufacturers on Ebay (The GBP being so low helps) and Andrea castings can be nice. I personally like TT Combat because of their good price to quality ratio, but they aren't quite as cheap as the Ebay guys. Also look out for people dumping Pegasus Hobbies gothic buildings on Ebay. Good hard plastic stuff that everyone and their uncle uses for 40K.

>>53087935
Its both and I love it

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I have an absolute shitload of old Meg Bloks Dragons stuff that I was thinking of converting into modular imperial/chaos ruins.
When I have the time to pull it all out of storage I'll probably post it in whatever WIP thread is up or whatever

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>>53086909
Occasionally you can just seal it, slush some resin around the inside then fill it with cement.

Then you can use whatever it is as a brick

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>>53092842
>Chibi 40k Sisters

>>53092842
Either that or wrap your paper-craft around something like a styrofoam center. I did that with the various paper craft cargo crates I made for 40K / Necromunda. They easily support the weight of minis.

>>53094076
You need to be precise with that thou, right?

>>53075210
If you spend your time working on skills and real job you will have money to buy real terrain and skills to earn more - dont be poor hamburga shit nigga

>>53075210
Look at real objects, and think what smaller things can be that shape. For example, the round tank in the OP pic? Cheap ball. Cover it in paint, add bits to it, stick it to a base.
Silo? Pringles can.
Foamboard covers a lot of shapes, and it's fairly cheap and beefy.
Sprues, boxes, cardboard, the thick corrugated cardboard box your models arrived in? All materials to be used.

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I'm quite fond of these.

http://www.thecommguild.com/roller/thecommguild/entry/terrain-tutorial-plastic-storage-tray?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

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TOILET TERRAIN
THE BEST SHIT, THE CHEAPEST PRICES

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It's all toilet paper tubes and cardboard. Took about a night to throw together ten pieces with some Elmer's Glue. Even the ladders are pretty quick to make with some balsa wood. The flat grey covers ok and then black ladders contrast well. I would like to drybrush this stuff a little but it's not a big deal.

Let me say again how easy this shit was to build. And if you live with women they use a lot of toilet paper. Materials accumulate quickly.

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Pringle cans are fun to use as well.

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Terrain complexity is the key to tabletop gaming.

>>53095564
You need more scatter terrain, imo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

>>53095602
The most important part of large terrain.

And you can use old sprue, drinking straws and random shit to make it.

>>53079726
That could ne greebled to be like... cogitor banks or other big bricks of imperial machinery

If you are in college or live near one, they might have a 3d printer you can use for pretty cheap. They will also probably have lots of failed projects, lumps and plates of plastic that you can take off their hands.

>>53087424
I fuckin love spru bricks.

>>53087935
I've seen people break open old electionics for greebles before, i think it is a great idea! Vacume tubs and what not look awesome

>>53095458
That looks so ducking fun to play on

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You can probably make some interesting structures using VHS Tapes, since they are pretty much abundant waste now.

>>53087424
That's cool.

>>53086813
>>53089288
I use the thin wooden coffee stirrers to make floorboards for my bases - works nicely.

Never seem to get nice clean cuts though, even with a sharp blade - maybe the coffee wood is tougher than hobby sticks.

And fuck building terrain out of it - I'd need to do four times as much measuring and cutting.

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>>53095643
Yes, exactly. They have this great, regular shape to them. This is one of the best pics I have of them upside down. Imagine a door made of plasticard on one end, and greebles like pipes, wires, ladders, radar dishes, and imperials symbols. Give each block a stenciled number, put three of the things in a row...

Imperial worker habs on a developing world.

>>53095789
I dismantled a printer for gears.

>>53078544
oddly enough i bought super glue at my store and was curious about its reaction to styrene, when to my surprise it did nothing. Lets just say being able to use superglue is a game changer on styrene

>>53079986

Are those made out of pasta

>>53088799
>He doesn't know what a Spaniard is
he is a fucking moron then

>>53096990
They are. Being able to spot interesting shapes and then paint them is half the fun of terrain building.

>>53085065

Go back to /po/, stormfag

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>>53075210
You can make stuff literally out of trash with a good imagination. Made this a day ago.

Take a trip around local trash dumps and look around the house. You'll find stuff you can use.

I love thread.

>>53094278
That's the easy part - print out your designs FIRST, score / pre-fold as needed, and then measure the size of foam parts you need to cut. A sharp utility knife or X-acto knife, a ruler, and a steady hand are all you need.

>>53096034
Heh! Hive World VHS! I've seen people take them apart and use the flat plastic surfaces as wall detail by gluing them to cardboard or foam surfaces, along with the interior bits as roof-top details.

>>53080042
The flipside is that it looks harder than it is.
>>53078614
It is more difficult but not quite as much. Literally just glue something to a cardboard base to use then paint it. Run on instinct and don't second guess yourself. The most valuable part is the paint really but the paint job can make darn near anything work.

Once you've done it once you will see what worked, what didn't, and you won't be daunted to try again. Also you will have a piece of terrain.

Then again, I'm a jackwagon who needs to get off his ass and make warmachine terrain. Stupid industrial era ass specificity. 40K was easier. Literally ANYTHING goes in that setting, and that made terrain easier for me.

>>53098384
>The most valuable part is the paint really but the paint job can make darn near anything work.

The nice thing about paint for terrain, especially buildings, is that you can do it with a solid color + drybrushing, then pick out little details. You actually don't want to over-paint, because then it'll be too much of a distraction on the table. It should be good background that you can pick out your minis against.

>>53075210
Autodesk 123d Make is free to download, easy to use and lets you generate layered up templates for corrugated cardboard

http://autodesk-123d-make.en.lo4d.com/

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I recently made the grass mat seen here. Components to make it were a sheet of teddy bear fur, some cheap craft paint (get the more fluid type rather than push out of tube stuff) light green and yellow paint (and a little bit of extra brown in places) a comb and scissors. After trimming the fur to get the overall length more appropriate, washed it, then after drying, lightly brush a mix of the two paints on them comb it through. Work in small sections. Do any additional trimming as you go, and you will probably want to go over sections more than once.

>>53099467
So, did you essentially dye it, or did you paint it using acrylic paints? If you used acrylic I would imagine that the fibers are stiff / stuck together when it dries?

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>>53099467
Pain the arse to photograph though. Bit more of a close up here.

>>53099467
> Grass mat
I never understood that. It stains, it's uneven and tips models over, and it's got to be dyed and nailed down.
Why not just give the baseboard a coat of green paint and leave it at that?

>>53099527
Nope, not dyed, painted. As I wrote: lightly brush paint on, comb it through.
Fibres are fine and flexible because it's only a small amount of paint and combed in so they don't clump.

>>53099786
>Why not just give the baseboard a coat of green paint and leave it at that?

Because I wanted a nice grass mat? Also it doesn't stain because it's acrylic paint. The optimal method is to use an airbrush but, well, that requires owning an airbrush. No use of dye. Also why nail it down? It's a sheet, you can just roll/fold it up when you don't need it.
As for models tipping over: not a concern. Trimming down the fur helps a lot with that and I don't play anything with plastic models on plastic bases which are prone to tipping over.

>>53099786
It might be kinda shit to play on, but I will say that it looks fly as hell

>>53099467
>>53099542
What game / rule set is being played in your picture?

>>53100333
Was trying out a small game of Baroque in that one.

>>53100395
Put some Space Marines vs Exodites on there.
I want to see Space Elves riding Dinosaurs fighting against dudes in Power Armour

>tfw British

I've noticed that Europeans and Americans don't mind playing on more simple tables and terrain. Here you basically have to have a fully painted army and a bit of terrain to contribute or you're an idiot or GW lover.

>>53101598
Sounds ruff.
MInd posting some british terrain?

>>53086644
The problem is I don't eat pringles and if I put up a craigslist ad asking for old pringles cans I know the ones I'm going to get will be absolutely disgusting.

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>>53101588
I don't have any Eldar, or elves in general. But did have this.

>>53095564
I like your toilet terrain, it would be such a blast to play on.

Could post my cork table again.

Done more work on it. Made a little spaceship to be crashed in a crater and working on a cork mountain that fits together with magnets so yoou can take it all apart.

Problem is it all looks like total garbage since it's not painted.

>>53102113
post it anyways, we could give pointers to give you ideas for final changes before you paint it

>>53099467
>>53099542
That looks really nice.
It would probably annoy me to play on because I play precision autist games, but it looks gorgeous.

>>53101598
I suspect it's the paucity of game stores per square mile relative to gamers, or some such similar metric.
Certainly there are pic logs of American tournaments out there that I'd be embarrassed to have in the public domain if I were the organiser, but there's also often a far smaller 'local' population of gamers to generate or demand much terrain in small-town America.

If your game store commonly has no more than ten concurrent occupants including staff, hosting a thirty-person state championship or something is naturally going to stretch your terrain stock to the very limits.

>>53102262
I still have 7 or so 1x1 tiles to make before I have enough for a 4x4. So I'd really take any ideas.

I have to make some extra tiles too because I have a set of specific ones to add the mountain to the board.

Not sure the best way to photograph it. Guess I could do each tile.

>>53080038
This. Easy "jungle" sets to help fill out a board, or just get a few and some of those smaller fake plants to do a run down and nature conquered factory.

>>53103631
Bump

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industrial terrain is the easiest to do on a budget. Just get a body of some kind and glue grids on them. Here is the first prototype for my the take on a container type of terrain.
>blocks los
>medium sized
>makes sense to have multiple ones
>stackable
I won't add any more details to keep it easy. It could use some wires or pipes though.

>>53076154
Why not just use corrigated carboard for those panels?

>>53106788
Is that a gösser Naturradler?
Holy shit.
It like you can drink good beer and have cool terrain.

>>53107823
Absolutely yes! Based Gösser caught on in my part of germany.

>>53107867
Wait you can buy them in germany?
Holy Shit Balls!

>>53108006
My local Trinkgut started to order it (both bottles and cans) and now even the Rewe has the cans.

>>53075210
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsmD5774MOQhjYBkXqu3Jdw
I recommend watching these, shows you how to make a whole load of stuff out of poundland materials and places to source cheap foam and shit like that.

>>53108283
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsmD5774MOQhjYBkXqu3Jdw
That one was new. I will check it out

>>53087935
It's just a shitty stock cooler, so not to worry

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>>53075210
Look at YouTube Channels. Aber good Start would bei Terrain Tutor. Others are DMScotty DMG Black Magic Craft, and Wyrelok

Just Made Dungeon Walls for DnD. Took me 1 day and about 15 bucks for the Foam. Paint obviously Costs extra.

>>53108283
This guy's pretty adorable really.

>>53079973
Except for mice and shrews...

>>53108682
>>53075210
Would also recommend Drunkens & Dragons, has some really great low budget crafting vids.

>>53075210
I used to give my old cigar tubes to a local guy, who's use them for building terrain.

They'd probably be really useful for Armageddon terrain, being used as big pipes and stuff.

>>53101911
Holly hell I want those marines

>>53075578
Remember when White Dwarf showed you how to make an Orc village from Pringles tubes?


Good times man, and they weren't all covered in SKULLZ SKULLZ EVERYWHERE, THE GROUND IS COVERED IN SKULLZ AND YOUR FIGHTING ON TOP OF A GIANT SKULL!


>ahem

Sorry, had a moment there.

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>>53112703
>SKULLZ SKULLZ EVERYWHERE, THE GROUND IS COVERED IN SKULLZ AND YOUR FIGHTING ON TOP OF A GIANT SKULL!

Heh!

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>>53112929
Carved Pop-sickle sticks for the win.

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>>53112703
>Remember when White Dwarf showed you how to make an Orc village from Pringles tubes?

Sorry the images are small - some of this stuff is from the 90's when everyone was posting on Geo-cities and Angelfire and putting up dinky-ass pics.

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>>53113084

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>>53113115

>>53113101
>>53113115
>>53113125
Ooh I like those, if I had room I'd make one.

Always loved doing the scenery, once made half of Mordheim out of cereal boxes. Old style cottages and terraced housing modelled on the ones in the box.

I was only about 14 so sadly no pictures.

>>53112946
>someone more autistic than me at carving individual popsicle sticks

>>53099467
where did you buy the teddybear fur

>>53113115
>>53113125
that's real spartan, you should add more details

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>>53114293
Those aren't mine - and are years old images. These might be more to your liking. ;)

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>>53114565

>>53114551
>>53114623
That's some top-notch rust and weathering.

>>53114266
A fabric store locally, it's pretty widely available stuff.

>>53114535
the terrain is nice but the "random static grass" is shit tier

the monopose demo marine is shit as well

>>53114774
I've been trying to track some down, I found like "luxury faux fur" but it's hella expensive

>>53116087
ebay

>>53116059
Not to point out the obvious - but this NOT a thread about diorama quality terrain. Frankly, your nit-picking comes across as seriously retarded.

>>53116150
>wanting quality terrain is seriously retarded

you sound like you play on books and unpainted cardboard boxes

>>53116180
You do know you're in a thread about terrain made out of pringles tubes and bean tins, right?

>>53116150
it takes very little effort to make flocking more than just semi-random patches of static grass over monotone dirt, i'm sorry you're too retarded to figure that out

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>>53116204
you know that if you spend effort it will look incredible right?

>>53116180
>green mat with other codex books under it makes a hill

the good ol' days

>>53101598
Also British and never had that problem however I DO have the friend who's dad is a pro at terrain and painting and makes all this top quality terrain for the fun of it

It's been years since I wargamed, but I just made whatever out of extracted polystyrene. That shit you use to insulate pipes. It's much cheaper than the foam blocks and just requires a bit of sanding and some spackle to make look good.

Well, and paint and the usual grit & polish.

But like...maybe $9 for natural terrain pieces instead of $45. And it really only takes a few hours.

>>53116268
>Yeah, I really like how the natural astroturf reclaimed that old machinery.

>>53075210
You can use really just use anything, OP. Just remember to texture it otherwise you're just playing with trash.

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>>53087935
the base of that is one of these

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>>53116059
>>53116180
We're all waiting tensely for those fantastic photos of DIY low budget terrain with 'God-Tier' flocking / basing. (And don't forget that Golden-Demon quality Space Marine minis to include for scale...)

And speaking of Gold Demon entries - have a pick for a unit that won silver. Note the basing that looks a lot like the basing done on the terrain you were whinging about...

>>53116268
>you know that if you spend effort it will look incredible right?

True - but your pic is NOT an example of 'incredible' basing. And frankly it looks far worse than the basing here >>53114565

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>>53117348
And here's another example of 'shit tier' basing. (On yet another Golden Demon item.) I'm sure we'll all be overwhelmed by your far superior images. And this *IS* diorama quality terrain.

>>53117394
>>53117348
>strawmen arguments
>not even remotely simmilar

lmao what crawled up your ass

>>53116059
What's wrong with static grass?

>>53116226
>incredible

>>53078565
Coming from the drawthread I can confirm

>>53116180
This entire thread is literally about playing on cardboard boxes and tin cans famalam

>>53117755
Loose static grass is for gays, patricians use scenic scatter and grass tufts

>>53117814
Scatter looks like green sand, and tufts are pretty high effort. Quick and dirty is also a theme on this thread.

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>>53117861
>>53117861
Foam scatter not sawdust scatter, woodland scenics etc. Not that expensive and it looks great, plus it goes hard as shit with proper wetworking and never sheds

>>53116268
that grass looks way worse then the static grass

yeah terrain that looks like it was built on a mini golf putt is so realistic.

Dont have a picture of mine, but you can make some pretty neat leaking biohazard/nuclear waste towers for cheap.

Take some empty coke cans and get some air drying clay, hot glue, and sand. With your hobby knife (or an old one, the aluminum can dull your blade), cut a little slit by the upper rim, just enough for the can to be able to tilt if you want the towers to tile. Straight towers work too.

Remove the tab and stick the can upside down. Bunch up some air dry clay to build a base and give the can support to stand. Bond the two pieces together underneath with hot glue/super glue to make the base level and secure. Put a small bit of clay to glaze the dome in the top of the can. Just enough to level it out.

Now you can give it dimples and pockets while it dries, adding in some dripping lines down the side/spilling out over the sides and top. This is the leaking waste.

Cover the clay on the base with sand/ballast/any terrain junk you want.

Paint the base like earth, spray the can biohazard yellow, add some drybrushing of steel and yellow for damage, and make the leaking ooze a nuclear green/purple/whatever, and give it a coat of 'ardcoat or any gloss varnish for effect. Or leave it flat and use an airbrush for some glowing effects.

My tyranid creep and terrain tutorial is up next. A little more involved, but still pretty cheap.

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>>53118347
May take a post or two, but here's my tyranid creep and terrain.

Objective markers are done the same way, but the glowing crystals are just bunches of straight sprue glued together and cut at angles. Works remarkably well.

Base of the ruins is a 1x1 piece of cheap mdf board. Ruins themselves are just foam poster board from Wal-Mart. Cut to the shape you want, then with a hobby knife distress the foam inside so it looks like its crumbling. Added some coarse and fine sand to a can of black primed I had in my garage and textured it up. Alternative is to glue corkboard to the foam/poster board to get a great stone texture.

Get a can of spray insulation foam from a hardware store. I used some brand, can't remember, but it had a red can with a yellow cap. A little goes a long way with this stuff, it really expands. Insert your crystals midway through the hardening process. Too soon and they'll be forced out, too late and the goop will be too rubbery to break. Or you can try starting a hole when it dries with a small drill bit.

Once it dries, cover it with hot glue to make it goopy. Add tendrils, droops, and all sorts of freaky shit here. I ran through countless glue sticks for this, I really had a ball.

Drybrush it up like your favorite goopy or sticky flesh and 'ardcoat the goop. Makes it look slimy when done right.

You can use this method to make spore mines, mucolids, and other crap too out of plastic golf balls and fake grapes.

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>>53118511
And my objective markers.

I got a shit ton of old legos, could those work as terrain?

>>53119317
Absolutely not. The Lego brand does not give you the permission to do what you please with the product that you've purchased. In fact, you should only be using terrain kits from reputable sources.

>>53079986
They look good. Nicely done.

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http://privateerpress.com/hobby/hobby-blog/industrial-smoke-stacks
http://privateerpress.com/hobby/hobby-blog/cryxian-bile-reservoir

>>53107100
Because the bumps are too thick, the paper almost never looks like the right texture, and has way less structural integrity.

Almost all terraij looks like crap because nerds want to save fifty cents

>>53116059
Where are the amazing photos of your own work, bro?

>>53116268
Bro that is garbage lol

>>53118210
Agreed

>>53075210
Grab the How To Make Wargames Terrain 1996 PDF from the mega in the 40k general. It's before geedubs made their own terrain and is chock full of exactly what you're looking for. Plus you'll get to look at a whackton of old models.

Anyone have any examples of a board constructed entirely of 1'x1 MDF terrain features? Seems like an interesting way to get an entirely modular board brimming with terrain (each MDF board being a terrain feature).

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>>53118511
>>53118527
I like the expanding foam insulation. A lot of it is by 3M. You can go in later with green stuff to make more fine veins on stuff if you so desire. The hot glue is a bit more difficult to control.

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>>53121136
Here's an example. Hopefully someone else has some better examples.

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>>53119377
food and water-based paint is not a good idea
prepare for getting rotting bases in a few weeks

>>53122080
I'll take "What is varnish / sealer?" for $1000 Alex Trebeck. Hell, even sealing the pasta with PVA glue before painting would likely do the trick. I've seen Shellacked bread loaves used as center pieces and they lasted for years.

(Not to mention that the terrain in question isn't actually made of pasta.)

>>53075210
OP - take a look at:

http://www.terrainosaur.com/

>>53103322
I want to see this

>>53121748
Interesting. I assume those roads are 6" in length--smart. Solves the issue I was having with vehicles easily.

Thanks a ton, Anon.

>>53123548
Yeah, the roads are probably 6" wide and 12" long if their standard terrain tiles are 12" x 12". That would make it very simple to lay out different setups and still have everything line up correctly.

>>53112946
I need to buy more popsicles for my exodites terrain

>>53118031
Got an example on a model?

>>53116059

>random autist who insults various things about other's work in non-/wip/ threads

I swear I've seen you several times, are you actually okay?

>>53095756
>They will also probably have lots of failed projects, lumps and plates of plastic that you can take off their hands.
not anymore. most places and people recycle their plastic filament now.

>>53108682
runishinrubishout is another good youtube channel for terrain.

he has a guide for making mass amounts of flock cheap from sawdust and paint.

https://youtu.be/s8mz1kkCnxQ

cheap and easy walls for zone mortalis.

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Bags of cheap foam bricks are easy to come by, use ebay if you're really not sure where to get any.

Cakeboard is an amazing hard and durable base for light terrain.

Pic related is an early attempt at a ruined building. I later cleaned up the PVA and when it dried it dried cleanly with no dollops of glue anywhere. After, I put a couple of light PVA coats over it for protection, and it's ready to be sprayed now.

>>53119533
Man, I wish they kept doing these. Some great stuff in there.

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>>53121808
What models are those?

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>>53075210
Speaking of DIY wargaming terrain - what are other generic pieces would you reccomend to do?

You know, the ones that are damn easy to do and can be used in every game?

I'm thinking like the:
> crates
> styrofom fences
> wooden stick fences
> ruins of any kind

I would put othe obvious trees on the list but IMHO they are not an easy piece of terrain if we want them to look half way decent.

>>53131782
>they are not an easy piece of terrain if we want them to look half way decent.

But they can be. https://youtu.be/ntmEP46g40Q

Also:

Hills
Linear obstacles such as hedges and embankments
Plantlife areas such as flower beds, bushes, crops
Roads (should always have roads)
Craters (if appropriate)

>>53131782
Corrugated plasticard, cut to about credit card size and paint metalic to make rough fences.

Can also be used to make shanties and patch up more intact buildings

>>53131583
I think they're EM4 minis...

http://www.em4miniatures.com/acatalog/SCAVENGERS.html

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>>53124106
Its probably better for smaller scales like 6 or 15mm, but I really like it because it blends really easily, so you can easily match your terrain to whatever mat you're using, and its durable as fuck, you can also get much thicker coverage with it than you can with static grass.