A sloping mountain pass that has been sculpted out of plaster and painted.

A sloping mountain pass that has been sculpted out of plaster and painted. Some tissue paper has been added to begin constructing level steps, with a plastic base being used to test sizing.

The mountain pass has been remodelled, with the slope replaced with several level steps constructed with plaster.

A stepped mountain pass. While the surrounding features are painted, the new features are only undercoated in black.

This actually happened a few weeks ago, only finally got around to posting it.

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During the first playtest with my new hill terrain piece, it quickly became apparent that while the sloped hills looked […]

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Group shot, and why you shouldn't use cardboard as basing material (it bends, aka "warps" a lot as glue and paint dries and contracts).

But hey, I tried, and it sorta almost... Nah. Okay.

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This works, I think. I might try and sponge the base edges with green a bit so it blends a bit more with a grassy surrounding, but yeah.

Obviously this is mostly for historical wargaming, but it might be pretty versatile.

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Whatever this is, I'm getting somewhere?

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A cardboard circle covered in sand, filler, and the separator from egg cartons pointing out diagonally upwards in a semi circle around the edge.

Another angle of the previous construction.

And now for something completely different!

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Two pictures of a partial miniature castle made of XPS foam bricks, coffee stirrers, skewers and bits of cardboard. There's a tower with a collapsed side and another of a partial pringles can (flavour cream and onion) with not a single brick stuck to it.

Partial pringles can (still sour cream and onion flavour) with a little arched doorway cut into it and the top cut off diagonally and rather randomly. It's got a small doorstep of XPS blocks and up to the arching the tower has XPS bricks along its side. Because I'm all for convenience I've stuck a wood glue bottle that's nearly empty upside down in the tower can

Pringle Castle is developing! Another tower has been started and this one is going to be a complete PITA for cladding with bricks on the inside, so I'm already thinking of shortcuts for that 😂

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A rectangular strip of cardboard with smaller rectangular pieces of card glued onto it, running not entirely parallel to one another, in an attempt to mimic a worn brick road.

I've been sort of fixated on the idea of making stone "streets" for my stone buildings, so tried this as a proof of concept. Not the most labor intensive, but the results are maybe not great either?

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A 3’x3’ wargaming board with several trench wall sections and a large cross in the middle.

Closeup of two sections of trench walls with mines on them

A closeup of the giant cross, with platform and speakers

A heretic shrine with half of a hanging body on it.

I’ve made significant progress on my Trench Crusade board the last two days and I’m really happy with how it’s turning out. I’ve used one piece of foam so far and have a whole second piece to cut and build yet, however.

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Three angles of a castle wall with gates and modest gatehouse or suitably parapeted up. The back corner of the gatehouse has apparently been struck by some low flying debris.

So not only in this place I found an incredible unanimity among nerds over how High the parapet should be. I shared it in two other places and got a total of over 50 responses and only one person was and still is adamant about the parapet having to be higher […]

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A messy gaming table with a bunch of pink foam, glue, and wooden sticks for making trench walls, in various stages of completion.

No painting today but I’ve been working on my trench board for #HobbyStreak Day 35

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A cardboard circle with a broken stick sticking up in the middle and some L-shaped pieces of cardboard sticking up at the edges. This was to give a sort of structure for the next step, although I eventually added parts of toilet paper roll cut up (rounded cardboard) inside for extra structure. I didn't measure anything properly and went entirely by feel because a) that was more fun for me, and b) it felt more like an orc or goblin way to do it, and I was going for crude.

The circle structure covered in kitchen towel making some sort of cave or hut like structure. I soaked a kitchen towel in probably too watered down wood glue (apparently my kids used up the PVA glue for... Nothing, really?) and tried to drape it over. Not fancy, probably not great. I realized I wanted more structure, so I put in quickly cut bits of toilet paper roll in this stage, doing some damage in the process.

"Hut" from the back. It's a mess. Commentary: Yeah, see previous.

Hut slightly finagled to look a bit more like a hut. I did this by taking some cut offs and another towel and trying to patch things up.

Making an experimental and very crude attempt at making some sort of hut. Figured I'd document my process for posterity/inspiration/cautionary tale.
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Last drybrush and I'm finished. The process works!

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A dark grey wash to help bring everything together a little more.

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Phew. The drybrushing really helps toning the garishness down a lot. Once again trusting the process has prevailed.

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The ugly paint stage.

Trust the process.
Trust the process.
Trust the process.

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All six caves now primed with my paint, plaster and glue mix. It worked pretty well.

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Session Zero - Lua Bay, Brazoria #terrainbuilding #dnd #dndbattlemaps

Session One - Dr. Alcantara's Mansion. Cora'tos, Brazoria #dnd #terrainbuilding #Battlemaps

After ending a campaign a few months ago I am starting off with a new group of players in a new campaign "RipCord" In a story where Events end without question or answers. Session 0 has already played out now session one begins tomorrow #DungeonsandDragons #DND #DungeonMaster #TerrainBuilding

Threw on some color, thinking I'll make the windows glossy black and maybe add some wood stainer for wear on the building. Also some sand and leaves on the ground.

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I added sand and little stones for extra texture. They are now at the same point as where I was with the original prototype.

Next step I plan to add a paint and plaster mix as a primer.

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Caves all covered in toilet paper and glue. I like how it's all progressing.

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Worked on the last cave and then added some small details to all five to break up the flat surfaces a bit more.

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Cheer camp! Or something.

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A metal can cut into a bit more than a semicircle, hot glued to MDF.

Another angle of the can on MDF.

I'm trying to build some sort of Nissen hut. Not sure why, it's too "new" to fit fantasy models and too old to fit sci-fi models, but it might look cool anyway.

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Getting some fun shapes. The process is kind of hypnotic, too.

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The caves are starting to get all lumpy.

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Several platforms made to look like wood, stacked atop one another to form a rickety tower. They're made of XPS foam.

Today's #terrain Thursday project, some platforms. They stack!

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A little extra work on the booties of my caves to help sell the effect.

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I've been casually noodling about making a piece of cave terrain.

And then I decided to make five more!

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Based tree armature with the roots and trunk painted a mottled grey and dark brown

Tree armature with the roots and trunk painted a mottled grey and dark brown. There's a gap under one of the roots.

Tree armature with the roots and trunk painted a mottled grey and dark brown.

Dry bushing and washing the trunk and roots. The texture is from scratching the epoxy putty with a life while it was still soft plus the twisted florist wire showing through. I'll put some sort of detail in the hole under the roots but haven't decided what […]

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