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I'm almost done with my army, and starting to shift more in to making high quality terrain and buildings.
Could you guys link me your favorite terrain and structure building tutorials? I'm fairly adept at building the basic stuff already, so I'm looking for a bit more advanced
stuff.
Thanks!

High quality terrain, you say? Doesn't get much better, in my opinion, than Dakka's own Terraformer, of 3T Studios. He/they don't have too many dedicated tutorials up (what's there is absolute gold, though - I highly recommend his hill and crater tutorials), but if you search for his project logs on Dakka (if you haven't seen them, already - you've certainly been around long enough) or pop over to the studio's website, there's quite a bit of insight into the planning process and techniques used contained in the various project logs.

Personally, I think the logs are perhaps more useful than the tutorials, if you've already got the basics covered. Anyone can slap together a foamcore box with a door and it takes little more than patience to add strips and rivets to detail the surface. The advanced stuff takes real planning and vision, and that's what the logs show you, in both word and picture. One of those "give a man a fish/teach him to fish" scenarios.

I'd like to preface my comment with the following.
3T studios makes some of the best looking terrain I have ever laid eyes on. I love all the work he puts out.
I'm looking for more playable terrain styles though. I feel like his stuff is bordering on diorama level, as opposed to play table pieces.
Speaking from experience, when playing horde, I have almost gone crazy trying to stabilize mobs of boyz on terrain with so many steep transitions and/or lots of extra rubble. I have also had just as much, if not more trouble determining how to place models (Vehicles especially) in various locations and measure distances when the terrain is so busy and realistic in construction.
Once again, I love that terrain making style, but I'm leaning more towards ease of play + good looking as opposed to the stuff that T3 produces. Though a lot of their techniques do translate.

Thanks for reminding me they are there.

Anyone else?