Category: Terrain Tricks

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Trying to paint soft plastic can be very frustrating since it so often has disappointing results. However, the problem isn’t that the plastic is unpaintable, rather that people usually use the wrong type of paint. …

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 …

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. …

Playing games in a jungle environment offers several challenges. How do you get terrain to look like it’s a jungle and still be able to play on it? Finding where that proper balance is between …

A hedge is actually just a series of trees that have been planted closely together in a line. Why not take this same approach when modeling a hedge in miniature? The real advantage of doing …

  Continue the zigzag pattern down the outside edge all the way to the ends.   Once you have reached the last post then extent the post line further and continue connecting the last of the zigzag lines …