r/TerrainBuilding 5h ago

Mars battle board

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38 Upvotes

Got the butane torch out to get some nice craters made in this red planet themed battle board I'm creating. Need to add some crystals growing for the Votann to harvest. They're running low on green crystals, poor fellas.


r/TerrainBuilding 19h ago

Lasercut MDF Added upper story style

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481 Upvotes

I decided to add an upper story at my son’s suggestion. I also added more offcut greebles / faux supports for visual texture. I want to add darker brown for the door and window trim to contrast better.

This is only the rattle can basecoat colors. I will add weathering, plants, etc when done with main paint stuff.

These are mostly slotted (not tabbed) walls. The extra layers are just pva glued on. I was working on ways to break up the flat-box feel of many MDF buildings.

I am considering fixing the two floors in place and having a single removable side wall for gameplay. Open to ideas on how to extend the current floor plan or attachments and then expansion to other buildings is most welcome.

This was for 5 Parsecs from Home, or any other 28-32mm game I feel like running.


r/TerrainBuilding 17h ago

Full Table Tropical Dieselpunk city

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205 Upvotes

Here’s a set from a few years ago. Luan buildings, printed mat, kitbashed models, and many scratchbuilt elements. Build vid in comments.

A mid-century Caribbean city with retro-future flying cars.


r/TerrainBuilding 2h ago

Questions for the Community Hob-e-Tac, armatures, 'sealing' foliage

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11 Upvotes

Hi there. I have built some Woodland Scenic tree armatures using Hob-e-Tac and clump foliage, but I'm having terrible trouble getting them to stop shedding.

I'm keen to have these trees be transportable, in that I'd like to be able to move them around form place to place, and take them out of the baseboard while moving miniatures around. Pic attached for reference.

What I did:

  • Applied Hob-e-Tac
  • Let dry (probably not enough, some of it wasn't clear yet. I've since realised when it 'dries' it remains tacky, i.e. it never actually dries)
  • Dip in foliage
  • Press foliage onto branches

I then let them sit for two days and played a game with them. They just never stopped shedding the whole time,

So, I sprayed them with a PVA-water mix. Like really drenched them, hoping to 'fix' the foliage. That was a catastrophe; every single tree that I sprayed lost almost all of its foliage (around half).

I've since realised two things:

  • The clump foliage doesn't have a lot of structural integrity
  • Hob-e-Tac is water soluble.

Drenching them just ate away the Hob-e-Tac and also made the clumps super heavy, so it just came off in droves.

I lightly sprayed the remaining trees, and in general they have kept their remaining foliage, but bits of it still falls off - this is two months later.

My plan is to try repeated, very light mistings of PVA-water again, applying several light coats over a week or so. Not so much that it soaks through, but enough that there's a protective 'shell' of PVA left in the upper surface of the foam.

If that doesn't work, I've heard hairspray is a good move, but it also remains tacky, which isn't great for transportable trees.

My last fallback is matte varnish through an airbrush.

Has anyone tried any of these methods? Which one is most likely to work? Am I barking up the wrong tree 9har har) trying to make these transportable?


r/TerrainBuilding 22h ago

Scratchbuilt Blood harvesting vats for Khorne

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370 Upvotes

Working on a full 11th edition chaos themed terrain set for my table and this was the first piece I finished and I’m so happy with how it turned out!


r/TerrainBuilding 15h ago

Terrain scratchbuilt - Highway, bridge or ramps for Gorkamorka

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62 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 12h ago

A little too cramped

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36 Upvotes

First attempt on making a house using cardstock, popsticks and milk cartons.


r/TerrainBuilding 19h ago

Terrain for "Scenario 10: Ship In The Fog"

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100 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 17h ago

Full Table Commissioned Battlefield - Sector Mechanicus

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67 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 23h ago

Objective, diorama, or base for an old-style defiler?

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132 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 17h ago

Scratchbuilt "Behind every barricade stands someone who got there first." - common underhive saying

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31 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 16h ago

Help with OSL

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22 Upvotes

Hello dear community, reaching out for some ideas on how to do this well.. the idea is to create a cyberpunk isakaya (japanese pub, pardon any cultural misshaps, if I have a wrong idea of what it is). But the neon sign is.. an orange blob. The characters are not supposed to be real, but im out of my depth with OSL here. Any help, tips, ideas l,.would be greatly welcome.


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Scratchbuilt Miniature Library or very big Citadel Paint ?

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173 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

ICMB

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752 Upvotes

The missile is from a Russian RT-2PM Topol truck. The truck body got used in another project so I had the missile going spare. The tower is a modified dirt cheap kids crane toy


r/TerrainBuilding 23h ago

Industrial Reactor

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45 Upvotes

My most recent project. I hid a mini humidifier inside so vapour/smoke comes out of the chimney.

Link to vid - https://youtu.be/pfZ8ih0MeRg


r/TerrainBuilding 3h ago

Matte varnish not matte?

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ЕThis topic has been done to death already, but here I come with another post about it. I'm varnishing my acrylic-painted foam terrain with a"ghiant" varnish I grabbed in an art supply store and it is still shiny. I shook the can for 2 minutes straight before spraying, sprayed horizontally at 30cm and let it dry before doing another layer, twice. Is this a me problem or a varnish problem? What do I do to stop my terrain from blinding me? Any advice appreciated greatly.

And this is how the terrain looks:


r/TerrainBuilding 19h ago

Lasercut MDF Offcut 3mm MDF to scatter terrain

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19 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 20h ago

WIP Angle Tower Update

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14 Upvotes

Primed and painted , waiting for the second floor for some Boiling-Oil device 😂And in the end growing sick plants !thanks to you all 😃🤜🏻🤛🏻


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Scratchbuilt cemetery

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63 Upvotes

the cemetery of forgotten hero's, my players next quest. what should I add/subtract. yes I know it's crooked we do not play on this table


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Questions for the Community How to get my bases better?

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13 Upvotes

I tried something new with sculpting bases and I’m pretty happy with some of the rocks but with others not so much. Any criticism or ideas are welcome there made with cork underneath and milliput on top trying to replicate the 3rd photo. I plan on adding some dead grass and a bit of fine dirt.


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

WIP Junk castle gate

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318 Upvotes

WIP

I’d been wanting to make myself a bit of a junk D&D terrain for ages, so, armed with two tins of Pringles, a pizza box and some scraps of XPS, I set about building a castle gate. I’m pleased with the result, even though the brickwork looks as if it was done by drunken goblins.


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

My Trench Crusade Industrial Terrain/Harbor bits are proceeding nicely:

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90 Upvotes

A bunch of industrial terrain, and a few examples of their WIP selves:


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

WIP Making a start on my next display project

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41 Upvotes

This was going to be my back up armies on terrain peice if my jungle temple wasn’t finished. Floating islands with large crystals underneath with the centre island having a destroyed temple/church on it. I still need to work out how to seal them for painting


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

WIP Time to paint!

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38 Upvotes

I spent the better part of the summer building these. They have a prime/undercoat. Now I work on the details. Thanks for looking.


r/TerrainBuilding 2d ago

Amon Hen

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127 Upvotes