Category: Historical terrain
Trenches (part three)
Adding bunkers and other improved fighting positions to your trenches can greatly improve the look of them! A plain trench is great for infantry, but you can’t really fit anything bigger into it. If you want …
Freshly Plowed Fields
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 Base Layer (Modular Mountains Part Two)
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 …
Bamboo Groves in 15mm
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, …
Bridge Modifications
Most bridges used in gaming are fairly small with only enough width to handle one or two vehicles side by side. This is usually all that is needed, but sometimes when the scenario requires it …
Trenches (part two)
Now that you have decided what type of trenches to make, it’s time to start making them. The first step is to wash the oil residue off the resin pieces. Because we will be using …
Trenches (part one)
Selecting the style of trench you want. Trenches have been around almost as long as siege warfare has! They are a great addition to your force and can be a lot of fun to play games …
Concept sketches of a 15mm Trench System.
Many companies already make a trench system, so why are we planning on making another one? Trenches intended to be used in miniature games are really an artistic representation, and it is very difficult to …
Building a Sandbag Bunker
The most common bunkers on gaming tables are concrete ones. While it is true that concrete is the most preferred material to construct a bunker with, it wasn’t the most common material used. The vast …
Hay Features
Hay is always a useful feature to add to a rural battlefield collection of terrain. Depending on time period and location the style can vary a lot, but hay stacks are almost always present in some form. …