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hey people whats up look heres the thing... i need something to do on my spare time and im planning on working on my terrain so i need some ideas for what i can build terrain peices out of ,from house hold items im going for a sewerage plant/swamp type of thing so i was wondering if you might have some ideas so i can pass up my time...thanx

Spare or old plumbing supplies can be a good start to make ruined pipes, ducts etc.

Cut up sprues and gravel or coarse sand make decent rubble piles.

Aerosol lids can bu used as ther base of storage tanks & vessels.

Wood offcuts can be used to make all manner of walls, fences & bases.

Polystyrene foam can be used to make weird & wonderful rock formations, hills or even walls.


I suggest you browse to the terrain section of the Dakka gallery for inspiration.

There's a couple of great tutorials on this board - how to build a lava field board is superbly easy to follow and build and end up with something good. There's a few others that look great too...

Here's the lava board - thread is still active and I really can't stress how well it turns out, even for a novice.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/243963.page

This thread is a bit older but it's so gorgeous I almost want to cry every time I see it. Uses a lot of woodland scenics so it's probably a bit pricey to put together.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/216664.page#358954

Here's a nice Necron Tomb-World. I guess the guy that built it had access to a somewhat serious shop of tools, but I have it bookmarked for inspiration when I want to do something different.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188236

Autumn Foothills - I have a LOAD of pine trees I picked up on clearance (Literally 100 or so of the Christmas Village trees - paid something like $3 for a package of 21 and bought maybe 6 packages) and was thinking of doing a mountainous terrain to showcase them - this board seems pretty close to what I want, just have to think on it a bit more before committing.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113351

Here's a smaller piece for a temple of one sort or another. It looks easy enough to throw together and my buddy keeps pestering me to make some Chaos stuff because it's the faction I play.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=210283

The big two things you need to buy is foam and MDF board (Arguably - Cardboard works but a sheet of MDF lasts so long it's gross).

Everything else I use for terrain tends to be from trash/packaging/broken junk.

I'm working on a small space station now - I'll get some pics up once I'm a bit further along. Biggest holdup is waiting for glue to dry : /

thanks there all awsome ideas ima try to make one so you all can add to your lists hahahaha thanks guys

1-UP wrote:There's a couple of great tutorials on this board - how to build a lava field board is superbly easy to follow and build and end up with something good. There's a few others that look great too...

Here's the lava board - thread is still active and I really can't stress how well it turns out, even for a novice.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/243963.page

That's extremely nice looking and the detailed directions are great... I just might have to make one of those.

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