Category: Area Terrain

Open spaces, while essential to maneuver warfare, aren’t very visually appealing. Freshly plowed fields are a great addition to most gaming terrain collections, because they can make these open spaces look more interesting. Getting a realistic …

The Detail Pieces are the secret to making the mountains look great. If done correctly they can be placed anywhere on the Base Layer that you want. The key to understand when making these is …

The Base Layer is used to form the bulk of your mountain, and it is crucial they be as uniform as possible in shape and size. This also applies to the contour cross-section of each …

Hills are one of the basic staples of wargaming terrain. Easy and cheap to make, everybody has them! Mountains on the other hand are a different story. They require a lot more work to make, …

Bamboo is one of the most iconic tropical plants and is very useful for gaming in the tropics. Because it has such thin stalks, it can be very difficult to make something to represent it, …

We had some flowers that would make good armatures for some trees. Unfortunately they were very weak and couldn’t support their own weight. Adding some glue and flock to them as-is would have resulted in some …

Having a nice variety of trees can add a lot to your gaming terrain! For this reason we are continuing to expand our tutorials on gaming trees. These latest additions were made from readily available materials and …

Now that you have a large pile of tree tops, it’s time to start the trunks. Palm trees have a very rough surface texture that doesn’t show up at 15mm scale. Up-close these look a little …

If you are doing some gaming in desert, or tropical environments, then you could probably use a few palm trees. This is a simple, and inexpensive way to make a lot of them. We started with a …

There are many ways to make craters. This is a very fast and easy way to make a large number of them. In this example we will be making them to represent a minefield, so they are …