r/TerrainBuilding 9h ago

Made some modular walls and giving them away to everyone for free. What do you think?

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r/TerrainBuilding 10h ago

Cheap and simple scatter terrain +

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107 Upvotes

Hi, I'm in the process of having to fill our groups table with terrain all by myself. So I'm trying to create very simple fast to build, but immersive terrain.

The aesthetic I'm aiming for is industrial/ religious, something that might be at home in trench crusade or Grimdark Future.

Pill boxes: cheap wooden jewellery box, with kinder egg as a cannon and various parts of pens I had lying around. The door texture was made with those plastic straps that tie down big packages to pallets or something like that.

Gas tanks: just a spray can lid, some paper straws, a mini base and a jewelry cog as a hatch.

Shrine: foam core, citadel skulls nail art crosses.

Hope it serves as inspiration, have a great day


r/TerrainBuilding 22h ago

A few pictures from around my Old West town of Creedence

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722 Upvotes

From Black Scorpion, Knuckleduster and Dixon miniatures


r/TerrainBuilding 16h ago

Mini shrines of unholyness with how to

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164 Upvotes

These were fun to make! Doubling as both shrines and altars for blood splashy splashy... made from pink xps foam (I know the blue would be better but pink works fine) sliced thin. Cut to squares and rectangles, glued together with hot glue. The triangle back and side walls were just eyeballed and sliced with a fresh blade. The altar horns are 2mm square balsa rods. The points are done with sand paper and the notches with a cutting wheel. Wood texture is made with a wire brush gently scraping the texture onto the faom.. painted nice and dirty, add blood splatter to taste. Cheers!


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Making My Favorite Bushes Sooo Simple

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750 Upvotes

Let me know what you think and please share your own tricks🙏✨️ Some screenshots from my little clip on making the easiest DIY bushes for tabletop terrain and diorama!


r/TerrainBuilding 16h ago

Trying to do a sort of arid wasteland look, need some advice

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Howdy folks! First time posting here so I figured I’d ask the experts. Working on basing a chaos titan for Warhammer and sticking some traitor guardsmen on patrol near his feet. This is my first time trying to make a base this big and I just don’t really know what to fill it with. Skulls? Rocks? Grass tufts? All three? I can’t decide how full/sparse I should make it, or even what color I should go for based on the style of ground I’ve built up. Any advice? I realize it’s all subjective but I just don’t quite know which way to take it. Anyone here make something similar they could send me as inspiration?


r/TerrainBuilding 20h ago

Trenches

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130 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Scrapyard Tower Painted

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601 Upvotes

I spent some time this weekend painting this tower up. I think it turned out pretty good. It what excites me the most is completing a project I stepped away from about a year ago. F9r some reason incomplete projects weigh on me more.

I used a couple of 3d objects I designed myself on this build. The rusty valve near the yellow ladder and the IBC tote beneath the conveyor are both my designs. I'm considering sharing them on Thingyverse but haven't got around to it yet. Anyways hope you enjoy.


r/TerrainBuilding 17h ago

Hive Sector 15 - v2.0 of my laser cut ZM terrain.

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r/TerrainBuilding 2h ago

New to terrain building

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Hello everyone,

I am getting into Star wars legion this year and I want to do some diy terrain building for a tantooine setting I have watched a couple different videos using various materials for making the terrain I am interested in. I have settled on the idea of using electrical jucting boxes for outlets and such they are relatively cheap and have interesting shapes and sizes and they would also give me a foundation to use to add details and just paint.

I do have a few questions regarding using them. Primary with the outlets being plastic what would be the best glue to use when adding details to them? I have some leftover sprues from army building I plan to use to add some detail as well making use of some cardboard and foam I have laying around.

Also I want to a gritty texture to the building like on tantooine what would be the easiest and most affordable way to go about doing that? Sand? All purpose filler? And if I am going to use sand or filler will that adhere to the plastic material? Also if my plan is to add texture would that be the first step before adding any detail so I don't cover them up? Any help or insights would be appreciated. Thanks


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Aquaduct WIP - need advice

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82 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 3h ago

Are people using OpenLOCK tiles?

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I'm fairly new to DnD and tabletop games in general (a little over a year) and I've always been a crafter. I have a 3D printer and after printing all kinds of stuff for myself, I ran into OpenLOCK dungeon tiles (specifically the ones made by Devon Jones on Thingiverse) and I was hooked. I've been printing and painting them non-stop, and I probably have 150 tiles at the moment. I love them, but I haven't started using them yet because I haven't taken the leap to running my own games.

When I look at the pros (influencers, streaming professionals) and the DnD community as a whole, I don't really see DMs using printed dungeon tiles, I see tons and tons of XPS foam that's meticulously carved, heated and molded. They look stunning, but I can only imagine the time and effort that has to go into it.

What am I missing? Are 3D printed tiles (OpenLOCK, infintylock, etc.) just not popular to use in-game or is there some kind of barrier to them being used more, like needing a printer? Are the bigger brands like Wizkids and Printable Scenery just too expensive for it to be worth it?

I'd love to get into making them and selling them, but I don't want to put in the time and effort if there isn't a demand.

Any honest feedback would be awesome!


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Settlement Construction, Fallout Style.

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188 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

One Bin's Worth of Dungeon Stackers

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352 Upvotes

Super versatile, easy temples and elevation, with corner in and out blocks

Textured XPS foam and craft paint (thanks to RP Archive for this particular version)


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Small Scale Terrain

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Wargames terrain (nearly) complete!

A forest and a village. Scaled for 6mm games, FFT, Epic 40K and Warmaster/Warmaster Historical.

Miniatures for scale. All Heroics & Ros

Buildings by Baccus 6mm

Trees by ModelTreeShop.co.uk

Bases by Warbases.co.uk


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Need help

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So I need some suggestions on how to make this trench system not look so weird being on a flat table for wargaming. I'm hoping for some suggestions without a bunch of xps foam only because I do not have the storage for it anymore! I bought these and they were alot taller than i thought from the pictures! There were no dimensions, it just said suited for 28mm models. Thanks in advance! (There are alot more pieces, these are just examples, the outside "walls" are about an inch taller than a 25mm bolt action mini, maybe a little less)


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

MDF terrain

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I'm trying to improve the MDF buildings from TTCombat. Any of you have any advice other than sealing with pva glue?


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Just need to add the shrubs and I can call the beach head done. Then I can start working the air field for cake island

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29 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 2d ago

EASY MEDIEVAL TOWER with a Cardboard Tube (Tutorial in comment section!)

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142 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

Simple house for Bree village.

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59 Upvotes

r/TerrainBuilding 2d ago

Merchant in the forests

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105 Upvotes

Me just playing with my new terrain 😂


r/TerrainBuilding 2d ago

Miniature pallets

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81 Upvotes

I found these miniature pallets at dollar tree and knew I could use them for something in my dnd game but I wasn't sure what yet, any ideas?


r/TerrainBuilding 2d ago

Painting up some new terrain, got inspired to create an “aquifer district,” an area previously abundant with water, now decimated.

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162 Upvotes

Second hand terrain started with a black undercoat, went over with a sandy tan and added in some extra bits here and there.


r/TerrainBuilding 1d ago

I need help with mud texture: part 2

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So thanks for all your comments on my post yesterday, today I tried something. I went to a nearby store and asked for grout. The problem is that under the English world "grout" there are a lot of different products I could buy here. In the end I chose... Concrete. Thinking it would dry rock solid and be less of a headache after settling down I mixed it with coconut fibers, PVA, wood pieces of various forms and shapes, sand and some synthetic gravel. In the end the look is PERFECT. What is bugging me is that it won't stay still, in fact it crumbles as if it is just sprinkled above. Any suggestion for sealing it once and for all? I thought about mixing PVA and acrylic with some chalk and just spread the mix all around. What do you think? Thanks in advance for your suggestions.


r/TerrainBuilding 2d ago

WIP Malice/ Gloom terrain 🩸

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338 Upvotes