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A ruined building I made a few years ago.

Pretty cool dude, I like the broken wooden pieces inside it, as if the floor scaffolding has collapsed.

I like the overall look of it, but in terms of gaming, it's just an overly tall line of sight blocker.
A few remaining pieces of floor inside are needed to give varying levels/dimensions to game on, in my opinion anyway.

Well, yeah, that was the point of this piece, to block line of sight. If you look at any pictures of world war 1 or 2 battlefields, especially in urban areas, most of the damage is done by fire. This fire just burns out the core of the building leaving a towering shell, a husk. On modern battlefields, dependent upon whether an area has been bombed, or subjected to concentrated conventional attack (i.e. tanks, artillery, infantry) will determine what sort of damage has been inflicted on structures.

If it's been bombed the streets will be littered with debris and the top floors will be obliterated, often pancaking on top of each other. Everything gets coated in this dull gray dust which is the ash and concrete resultant of the blasts.
Like this one:



or this one:


Or the one in my first post.

If it's been attacked conventionally, or if a protracted engagement has occurred there, the buildings will be mostly intact, but will large holes in their sides, bullet impact craters on the walls - mostly around the ground floor corners or doors and all the building's windows - and occasional partial collapses that open an entrance into the building, but leave most of the rest of it intact.

As this one illustrates:



Or this one:

Bunch more completed stuff:

This one is the most ruined and realistic looking ruin (by comparison to the thousands of photos of actual destroyed buildings I've seen) I've ever made. It works great as area impassable terrain or if you are playing killteam or have an assassin.













Here's a few more views of another piece I put up in another post:








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This piece is actually my favorite terrain piece I've done so far. I like the tiles on the second floor and the angled display on the base itself. I try to change things up a bit when I make terrain. This was my effort to suggest the building was constructed at an angle to the street it faces.

I also like the buttresses on the first floor. I imagine my orks taking cover from bolter and las-fire behind them, before storming out ta crump any fool what's close enough!













Thanks for looking! Feedback appreciated.

These are all super awesome, what are they made of?

 Tyranidcrusher wrote:
These are all super awesome, what are they made of?

Thanks! The walls are made of foamcore, sometimes called "display board". They sit on Masonite bases that I carved from a much larger piece. Masonite is sometimes called "MDF" board or Medium Density Fiberboard. You can purchase sheets of it from home depot at around $5 USD for a 2' by 3' and 1/8" thickness. It cuts with a saw and sometimes Home Depot will do cuts for you at 50 cents a cut. They might look at you kind of weird if you want them to cut it into tiny squares like me. I know they give me a crazy look.

The details are done with a variety of things - coffee stirrer sticks, textured gel, aquarium gravel, heavy cardstock, insulation foam, etc. I know at least one has the rigging grid from a one dollar wooden boat kit on it. I'll have to do a tutorial on these over in my work in Progress thread. It's the "terrain I'm making" link down in my signature.

Thanks for the feedback!

Really nice and interesting paint job

What are you using for the bases?

I like 1/8" MDF wood.

Have you tried it?

Really impressed by all of these!

I'm now off to gander through your w.i.p thread!

Looks cool, but I have a question...

Why would the word 'Exit' be on the outside of the building? Shouldn't that be entrance?

 FarseerAndyMan wrote:
What are you using for the bases?

I like 1/8" MDF wood.

Have you tried it?

This is exactly what I use. Sometimes I buy it and sometimes I get lucky and find it on construction sites when they are cleaning up. I find if you ask a guy in a hardhat that's hauling what he thinks is trash politely to take a whole bunch of his "trash" off his hands, he'll just give it to you. I've had guys ask me what I'm using it for and my answers only make them more eager to give. Usually followed by a "Cool!" response.


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@pretre: That was too many letters and at the time I had only 1 size. The sign would've been comically huge. Next time, though...

Here are some jungle trees I just recently finished. These are all up on my ebay page.

Don't mind my Barry Ork. There's a tutorial for making these over in one of my other threads.

I really like the look of your buildings there. They are very gritty and realistic looking, I like.

more buildings












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Feedback always welcome! Thanks for looking!

A few years ago I set out to make themed, alien terrain. I wanted a planet far from its parent star. I named this place Zleko. It is a cold jungle world with many sinister plants. The land is bathed in a guttering bale-light, as much reflected starlight from its principle moons as the waning rays of the tiny, red sun in Zleko's grim twilit skies.

At some point in time I had the ambition to run a campaign for this world, but I never found interested players so the terrain went unused.

Here are the pieces I made and the descriptions that go with them. These will be going up on my ebay page over the course of the next few days. Get them while they're cold.

The Bladder Bush is the double edged sword of cover, blocking line of site and concealing your troops, but their dangerously volatile contents detonate at the slightest provocation. Infantry beware!








The Mumbler Bush emits a low vibration thought to dissuade parasites from infecting the plant. This "mumbling" is what gives the bush its namesake.



Star Spawned are a category of flowering plants found on cold starlight worlds. Active primarily at night, these plants leech the lifeforce of the hapless who wander near. Never draining enough to kill their victims, the creatures inhabiting the lair of the Star Spawned exhibit lethargy and sallow complexions. They are enslaved by the vampiric touch of these dread plants.












The Infernal plants of Zleko are characterized by their red hues and ambient heat. Clustered together, these plants can give off enough heat to ignite parchment and clothe. Venture near at thine own cost.







Ghoul Trees have a symbiotic relationship with the ghost grass that grows in their midst. The Ghost grass gives off enticing soporific spores that lure the weak into the grove with the promise of comfort and fulfillment, but once in the grove's grasp the Ghoul trees shower their enchanted victims with dissolving enzimes. The mewling sludge is then absorbed over the course of weeks through the plants' root system. Ghoul Tree Groves are inexplicably always full of the half-rotted foolish. The weak are ever driven to their doom by the temptations of the poisonous.

Looking back on what I've designed I realized I've made a deathworld without knowing. Go figure. Here's more pics of the flora of this apparently terrifying world.

Lash Trees are massive, ropey appendages of the earth. Possessed of a cunning instinct and infinite parience these muscled tentacles play the part of stationary tree until their prey are lulled into blind ignorance. Then, as if from the sky, comes the crashing, crushing doom as the Lash Tree bashes its victim into a broken mess before carrying it bodily into the depths of its burrow to feast.








Strangle Grass grows in clusters, ensnaring those who wander close. While the tendrils constict they seem to instinctively squirm towards the victim's neck. Fight! Fight you must to escape or these insidious tentacles will squeeze the life from you. Beware the bodies and heed the black mob of fly-things that swarm to obscure the ever-searching grasp of the Grass that strangles.






The Skek Tree is believed to form a tenous connection to the Warp which it projects as an aura of dread. Loyalists beware, taking cover in the shadowy depths of Skek groves eats away at the sanity and slowly whittles away faith. Seek sanctuary here at thy peril.






Seuss Trees are similar in nature to the Skek trees save that the Seuss tree projects an aura of silliness that belittles the true task of the Righteous.








The origination of the insidiously alluring Ghost Grass.




A Ghost Grass infested Infernal Forest.




Another Mumbler.



Star Spawned bushes.





And Star Spawned tree.


As always feedback welcome! Thanks for looking.

Wow. Reminds me of the planet in Star Wars Episode III where the plants looked florecent.

I like what you did there, great job. Very alien looking.

Thanks. Just FYI these alien plants are all for sale on my ebay page linked in my signature.

These new jungle bases are up for sale on ebay.
















As always, feedback welcomed!

More new ebay stuff. The first three are Autumn-themed trees. The fourth is a piney paradise and the last lot is more jungle bases.




































Thanks for looking!

Beautiful stuff very different

Thanks for the feedback! Here's another set I just put up on eBay:

Here are some more pieces I just put up on ebay. The first are kind of like trees on my icy Jungle-deathworld Zleko. The settlers called these spindly growths The Bones of Cold Night. Men in the presence of these strange plants complain of aching joints and stiff muscles. Spending a protracted amount of time adjacent to them eventually weakens both bone and flesh to the point of spontaneous fracture and emaciation. Men have literally crumbled to dust in their beds whilst camped next to these vile "trees".





These are more tame jungle bases for use in recreating worlds like verdant Soross, seismic Khskaya, or arboreal Chiaktur.





More pictures in my gallery.

Thanks for looking! C&C always welcome.

Excellent work warboss!

Thanks for the high praise, StyleXHobby!


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Just fyi, you can see these and many other auctions by following the bottom most link in my signature.

Some alien jungles I just recently completed and put up on ebay.












And I call these my "Tall Bushes".





Thanks for looking. QCC always welcome!

Arise my thread!

Here's some shots of an Objective marker I've made from a model of the MIR space station.







Thanks for looking. Comments, critiques, or questions always welcome!

I like the Suess trees the best.
What do you use for the rock/ground on your bases? I like the look.

Sand textured acrylic gel and coarse sand, kestral. Thanks for the compliments. There's tutorials on my P&M blog (waaazag's terrain).