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After building two 40k armies for my brother and I, I went to get some terrain but the prices of the GW scenery gave me a mini heart attack. Weeks later, I still suffer heart palpitations associated with thoughts of that particular visit to the interwebs.

So, I went to Lowes and acquired 16 sq Ft of blue foam, and stopped at my FLGS to get some model train gravel and some other stuff. I made a few ruined buildings and couple rock formation looking things, but after building essentially the same ruined building with one or two corners left standing and a couple of walls a few times, it all feels really uninspired. So I have 2 questions:

1) does anyone have interesting ideas for ruins that aren't just walls? Or, perhaps, an interesting take on that paradigm?

2)How much terrain is too much? I don't know the dimensions of my table off the top of my head, but its about half as wide as the standard presented in the BRB, but significantly longer.

Go to home depot > go look at electrical junctions > have a nice day


Personally i prefer solid ruins that are only usable as LOS blockers rather than Area terrain for people to camp on forever (though il admit i have done so my self)

There isnt such a thing as tooo much terrain but generally when you play you want to be able to see the table top

I think the basic each 2x2 should have up to 3 pcs in it at minimum is nice.