Terrain tutorials are a fantastic thing. There are many excellent written tutorials and youtube tutorials for any subject, such as those made by The Terrain Tutor or Luke's APS. These guys put out some incredible content covering a wide range of skills and they make some excellent terrain. I find the problem with terrain tutorials in general is … Continue reading Introduction
Category: Fantasy Terrain tutorial
Ponds & swamps
Let's dive straight in. You will need MDF, polyfilla and sandpaper. I'm making 3 water features - 2 ponds and 1 swamp. 1. Make bases You know what to do. What I didn't do is take a photo of all three bases together, but you'll see them in a second. Each of them measures 4-6" … Continue reading Ponds & swamps
Modular hill
Next up we have a modular hill - one that can be split in half, so that it butt up against the edge of the table. You of course don't have to make the hill modular if you don't want and could simply make a second non-modular hill for this set. 1. Make a hill … Continue reading Modular hill
Flat hill
There are two basic types of hills in wargaming, flat or stepped hills and tapered hills. Flat hills are simply flat raised areas while tapered hills are sloped. There are positives and negatives to both varieties. Flat hills clearly mark where a hill starts and stops in-game and models on top aren't in danger of … Continue reading Flat hill
Forests
This is going to be another very quick build. Like with the previous rocky terrain, these forests each consist of two parts - a reference base and a decorative base. The reference base is entirely flat and marks the actual in-game location of the terrain piece, while the decorative base sits on top. If a … Continue reading Forests
Rocky patches
We're going to be making a simple piece of difficult terrain; a rocky patch. This is easy to make but gives you a good foundation in the core skills. All we're going to be using is some 25mm styrofoam, MDF for the base and your basing texture. Let's get started! 1. The initial base Make … Continue reading Rocky patches
Materials
Well at the start of any major project, you need a shopping list. Here's a view of all the materials we're going to be using, minus paints (click for big):
Texturing terrain bases
Adding texture to a miniatures base is pretty simple - coat the base with PVA, dip it in some sand, done. This is fine for such a small surface area, but the larger the surface you want to texture, the more bland this becomes. This is especially a problem with terrain where you can often … Continue reading Texturing terrain bases
Making a terrain base
Making a base for your terrain is the single most important thing to do. I keep banging on about the durability of terrain and I think generally people undervalue this, or take it for granted with plastic kits. Your terrain has to survive being dropped. It has to survive being thrown in a crate at … Continue reading Making a terrain base
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