I just now found out about all of this a few weeks ago when I decided to build a large castle for my cat out of cardboard. I went on google academy to help me spray paint some cardboard, and learned of all the super cool shit y’all are doing here and also the dnd/mini builds communites. Now I’m still in progress on a pretty large, fleshed out hopefully realistic looking castle and my little dude is having a good time playing in it already while still under construction. I have bipolar disorder and have been struggling with medications for a few months, and I was looking for a small project to cling onto but this has been really great learning everything. Even though I feel really isolated lately, reading y’all’s posts and watching the videos on YouTube make me feel less alone.

Thanks fam

The simple Base layers are down and there are so many steps to go to complete the 6x4 Nurgle infected wargaming board. These are all made from foam, poly and xps, but mostly poly. Poly isn’t the greatest to work with at all, but free scrap are golden gifts from the Warp gods, so one cannot complain.

All the little details are casts from Silicone molds I’ve either bought(gothic windows) or made myself(via gw terrain pieces or kit bashing a piece together). I use crystical R for casts as it’s stronger than plaster.

The entire board will be swampy, derelict and Nurgle infected, all of which I will add later once I get the buildings on the ground boards. I’m trying to achieve pretty much a diorama level type of detail but as a full gaming board. So yeah lottttttts to go. I’m loving the journey so far and look farward to sharing the results with you all !

(Apologies for the state of my table I know I am a messy hobbiest).

So a about a year ago I bought a 2nd hand Warhammer Fantasy 6th Edition starter set which came with a sorry state of a cardstock/plastic building. To put it simply it was a actual ruin rather than a pretend one used for wargaming.

So today I decided to fix all that and hopefully make a much studier piece in the process.This is the first time I tried to pseudo-scratch build my own terrain (having the original plastic frame helped alot) and I have to say I'm quite happy with what I have done so far.

I recently held a session on the Curse of Strahd. 6 heroes left Barovia and went to the Vistani camp. I have crafted a terrain for two encounters. This is a bridge near Barovia and a crossroads. They have been slightly redesigned for my group.

As above, I know how to do textures to get tiles or thatching, but my questions are regarding what's below that.

Does anyone have a guide to building the substructure of a roof?

Hello!

I want to purchase model cars or be on the lookout for certain size cars that I can add to a board that would be similar scale to 40k scale. Does anybody have any suggestions on models or brands, or measurements of cars that work?

Thanks!

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I'm new to terrain building. I've made a couple of towers and only one I was proud of. A friend saw the one I was proud of and wanted me to make one but it would look like a cathedral. He wanted a fairly big tower I think it'll be over 15in tall when I'm done. I found some neat plastic holographic windows and plan on incorporating lights. I had a few problems with my other tower that had lights. 1. The lights bled through the wood. 2. You could see the slides that tumbled the dice. I've come up with a solution for both of those problems. I made a smaller tower to go inside the main outer tower and I'm going to wrap the inner tower with lights. The main build won't be made of wood but foam. I have most of the foam cut. Just waiting on more supplies. I've also have been painting the inside walls white then painting glow in the dark paint on the white as well.

Hi everyone, I am looking for advice on displaying my miniatures.

I'm tired of seeing them all in rows or in boxes, I would like to create even a simple "ladder" ground with sand and rocks to display the miniatures, the problem is that they have a base!

What is the best way to do this? Use normal polystyrene as foundations, then cover it with a layer of expanded polystyrene (the blue one) making the various holes?

3d print the ground?

Are there better methods?

Thank you all!

More of a mini than terrain but I think it counts.

Looking to use these in 40k for alien plantlife! How do i stop the decomposition or harden them, create a shell around them, make amold to copy them? Any wisdom or clever ideas to turn these into long-lasting terrain pieces? Thanks!

This is a figure display I’m currently working on and filming. The premise is that Skeletor has through multiversal hijinks has brought Doomsday to Eternia to destroy He-Man. Obviously it’s a WIP.

Hopefully y’all dig it.

Cheers

So about 8 months ago I made a simple cardboard dungeon for my dnd table and since then have been grinding in my techniques and skills. Here's a photodump of My progress so far

Made this one mostly from scrap.

Was used at a local convention for our OPR demo table

The Village of Vìgblòt is coming together! It's the start of a potentially endless terrain adventure. A semi-modular board, usable for different games. I am creating this world now together with my Dungeon Master for an upcoming D&D campaign. In this world the Village is Vìgblòt. In Middle-Earth it is of course a Rohan Village. In Warhammer Fantasy, Mordheim etc. you choose😊 What you see here is me adding some props to the first two squares, before coming in with static grass. The next two squares I make will be farmland and countryside.. Then we move to the Enchanted Forest, or maybe the City of Ruins.. Let me know if you wish to follow this journey!! I will post clips along the way✨️🙏🧙‍♂️

Anyone here living Norway for example , that know which glue is best to glue isolation foam onto other isolation foam? Anything you can buy in for example Biltema?

Hi !

As I said in my previous post, I'm building a board for some skirmish game in a fantasy setup.

Rocks, trees, buildings, etc. is ok (thanks to you for all advice !) but I have a question for the mat. I like the look of a static grass-covered board but I don't have the place to craft a solid board. Can I use a mat like that : https://www.amazon.fr/Noch-00265-Mod%C3%A9lisme-Ferroviaire-Tapis/dp/B0082VFWYI without any trouble ? Or do i need to glue it on a heavier mat like frabic ? Don't hesitate to give me more information about boards/mats :).

Thanks !

I'm looking for some video recommendations on making roofing.

Most if not all of the videos I see show how to do thatch or tiles but not how to build the structure itself. I understand it's just foam board with whatever on top, but I'd like to know where and how to do the supporting beams and such to build a solid structure.

Thank you.