Category: Area Terrain

Plastic beads are a great source for building materials when making alien looking plants. They come in a very wide variety of sizes and shapes and can be used in many different ways. Some beads …

Alien looking plants can be easily made out of old soda bottles. These are simple plants to make and can be made out of recycled materials. All you need are used plastic bottles, scissors (preferably decorative …

Step 1: Find a mold There are several sources for these molds readably available if you know where to look for them. We have only tried this with soft silicone molds so far, but other types …

This is a simple technique to make tree trunks using rope. This tutorial is intended to give you some ideas and get you started on making your own tree trunks. Start by selecting your rope; …

If you are tired of playing on tables that look like Earth, one of the easiest ways to get an alien appearance is to use silk flowers to make this vegetation. It also has the …

Foliage clumps are a very useful item to have when making vegetation. They can be used in many different ways to make many different plants. We used decorative plastic pebbles to make these. They were …

This technique is very similar to the foliage clump one. This time instead of making randomly shaped clumps we have intentionally rolled the plastic beads into cigar shaped roles. The first step in making these is …

Making random objects look like crystals is actually a little easier than it sounds. There are lots of ordinary clear or tinted items that require almost no effort to repurpose as crystal terrain. These were made …

Paper punches are great tools to use when making plants. Several companies makes them and if you shop around you can get a wide variety of different ones that would be useful for making terrain. …

The first material we will talk about is cheap plastic utensils. They can be used to make a wide variety of alien looking plants if you use these very simple heating and shaping techniques. We …