Budget Wargaming Terrain

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

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.

>citadel how to make Wargames terrain
You mean this?
mork.synology.me/side/warhammer/How to make wargames terrain 2nd Edition.pdf

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Check out this kit 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.

>Foamcore
Can you hotglue this stuff?

Yeah, works realy well.

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.

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

>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.

youtube.com/watch?v=bHc_qsvP9oY

This is a cool fucking thread

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Towels.
Everyone is fond of towels.

ravioli ravioli give me the terrainioli

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.

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

>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.

>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.

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.

Bump.

I wish I had still some of these laying around

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.

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

Some posters for your buildings.

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

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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.

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.

What do people use for the bases for these?

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

Found this here:
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?

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.

Sell it or give it away to your FLGS.

Cardboard is my best guess?
You should check Commissar Gamzas Channel, as 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:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJitBl78vLOY2bf28uxqnpIb-WLacCBX

Pics?

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.

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

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.

>ultraclicks

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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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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.

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

I don't get to post these enough.

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Classic 'Deathworld' terrain.

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

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Theres a bunch of forums dedicated to sprue terrain

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And that's all folks!

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

Heh, I created that!

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>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.

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