Anyone know how to make easy, really good looking terrain?

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**Capitansolstice**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60292695@N04/5501983097/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Kind of like this?

**Commisar Von Humps**

Well, what i ussually do is get some insulation foam from home depo and cut it up for a rock or two, maybe even a building if i feel patient. If not, i take a box, cut them up, use one for the base and make a crappy ruin.

**Capitansolstice**

ok

**kronk**

Mini War Gaming Has a lot of Youtube videos of how to make cheap but decent looking terrain of all types.

Just search them on youtube.

**Kilkrazy**

Moving thread to Painting & Modelling.

**Sentinel**

The picture you posted looks to me to be simply carved insulation foam, painted with a mixture of brown paint+sand, then drybrushed up to a greyish tan color. Add a little static grass and you're golden.

**Capitansolstice**

really? wow that simple?!

**tilarium**

Yeah, if you're making rock or hill formations, cutting foam and then painting it is usally the easiest way.

**SauceCaptain**

Yeah use rocks! ... Real rocks! Lol if you find something really good looking about the size of a fist it adds realismn to your terrain. My grandpa was a high school geology teacher for years and gave us some chunks of dinosaur bone fossils ... they look amazing and really fit with our terrain. Fossils may be hard to come by, but a good looking rocks are easy, and you only need to go outside to find them. Remember that something fist size will be a giant boulder that troops can hide behind. If you really want to get fancy you can spray then dry-brush them to look even better.

**Capitansolstice**

ok