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I'm new to terrain making and was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions, tips, or resources?

I bought a FAT Mat front Frontline Gaming a while back http://store.frontlinegaming.org/fat-mat%3A-urban-combat-2-6x4/dp/849 and I don't know quite what to furnish it with. I'm thinking industrial yard? Grimy Tau outpost? Any suggestions?

Go get yourself the GW imperial city terrain to build ruin buildings; then whatever you fancy.

This is fairly cheap and good quality:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/horizoncreation3d/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

If you want to go Imperial gothic, Pegasus makes some good, cheap, modular, gothic-style buildings and ruins:

http://pegasushobbies.net/catalog/Models-Peg.-Gaming-Accessories/c107_2/index.html

Precision also makes some cool looking blown-out, stackable ruins:

https://www.battlemart.com/index.php?search%5Bkeywords%5D=Precision+ruined+city&_a=category

FYI, I contacted Battlemart and they will get Precision to cast-on-recast if they are out of stock.

http://www.warmill.co.uk/

Do some insane stuff but rather pricey Im afraid.

Here are some Tau ideas from my own collection.




The rectangular tanks are 1 litre yoghurt pots stuck on to mouse mat holders that were being thrown away at work.

The silos in the middle are Marks & Spencer prawn dim sum packagings.






The leaf shaped tower in the left foreground is a shampoo container.

The domes are a Japanese plastic miso soup bowl. I got a dozen of them in a sale for about £1 each.



The soup bowls are blinged up with tops off various spray cans, and detail parts from Antenociti's Workshop.

The oval tank in the middle is the lid from a pump dispenser soap bottle, mounted on a CD. Poster made by me using ink jet printed transfer paper.

Loads of cheap or free household items can be converted into futuristic Tau terrain with the help of a few detailing parts, plastic card, and some spray paint. I use a textured spray that gives a variable colour and a rough surface in the same spray.

The toileteries section of your local supermarket is a great place to find weird shaped bottles that can make alien towers and fuel tanks.

The terrain tutor on YouTube is a boss, as is DM Scotty. Their tutorials will have your tabletop looking good in no time!