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Terrain inspiration - Deus Ex Mankind divided edition

Good time of the day everyone

I love terrain, Im always on the look out for inspiration for my next piece of terrain (and the time to make it but thats a different story)

Video games are a great place to get terrain ideas.

Triple A game titles have millions spent designing them and a lot of that is world building, so games designers build terrain too they just use a PC instead of cardboard, Foamboard and PVA (same as digital sculpts vs traditional i guess ).

While i often see some great terrain ideas in games i then cant find them again or cant be bothered booting up the game just to find the paint scheme they used on that random crate. This thread might solve that.

I’ve recently started playing Deus Ex: mankind divided and its rife with terrain ideas, in this thread ill post images of things i think are good inspiration for terrain as i come across them in the game. From whole buildings to street scatter or just textures and colours.

For those of you reading who don't know,



Deux Ex is a 1st person shooter/stelther set in the year is 2029, two years after the events of Human Revolution and the "Aug Incident"—an event in which mechanically augmented humans became uncontrollable and lethally violent. Unbeknownst to the public, the affected augmented received implanted technology designed to control them by the shadowy Illuminati, which is abused by a rogue member of the group to discredit augmentations completely. The Illuminati successfully conceal the truth behind rumors and disinformation, while the augmented are now outcasts from normal humans in an era of "mechanical apartheid”. (from wikipedia)

Most of the things in the game will be directly applicable to Infinity but some things could fit other SciFi settings too.

Heres some pics to get a feel of future Prague



Some of the stuff I've seen so far

A Block Tree

This is from a public garden outside a bank, its the Tree thats really striking to me (if you play minecraft a block tree probably isn't that striking but i don't so it is)
While it looks Great in a garden or as modern art like this it could all work as an alien tree.

Memorial Signs

These signs are dotted around Prague, so i was going to take a picture of one for this but i couldn't resist taking a picture of an NPC taking a Picture of the thing i was taking a picture of.
Tiny bits of detail like this add a lot of character and history.
What about something like this on the side of a 40K ruin?


A Funky Landing Pad

Its the flood lights and maintenance pad that set this apart from the normal landing pads we see on the tabletop.
Ill definitely be adding flood lights to the landing pad scenery I'm going to make.

Water Fountain

Lastly, a water fountain with added racism.
While its a really simple design it works really well and would make a good bit of scatter scenery to add more of a lived in feel to your table. (and add some over to an open space)
Also with just 2 arrows and 2 words you get loads of character. 40k could be human and mutant/xeno, Infinity could be well just as is or maybe a reference to the combined.

Only the tip of the iceberg ill have more up soon

If you like the concept or want to discuss any of the ideas please drop a reply, it will motivate me to post more

Continuing our journey through Deus ex

Rose’s Garden




Love this building (even if i disagree with a food place that doesn’t sell meat :( ) The facade is rustic and interesting in a hypermodern setting
The bright green really pops. you could potentially use a bright green building like this to add that pop on your urban table that trees or other vegetation give you. (if you wanted to do a post apocalyptic game or city ruin where thematically green trees wouldn't work)

The interior also some nice ideas for small details if you were to build a deli/restaurant building with a detailed interior, while its detailed theres still a lot of free space you could use to position models.

Burger Vending Machine



To balance out the Veggie place we have a Building sized burger vending machine.

This would be quite an easy build ..its just a box for the most part but it adds another bit of character to what could otherwise be a pretty straight laces grey cityscape.

The difficult part would be the signage. My thoughts would be to get the black done then print out some images and stick them where needed then it would be a case of adding enough gloss to form a smooth surface again.


News Stand

I really like the elegant design on this, like the water fountain in the other post it would make some great scatter terrain.

At its most basic its just a tube, with the bottom opened up and some extra gubbins added on.



Mood Stabiliser advertisements



Nice tongue in cheek advertisements.

Particularly like the one that looks like he's jumping from a building.


Thanks again for looking next time ill go through “Golem city” and how I've had loads of ideas for Necromunda terrain from it.

Cool stuff

would look cool for infinity type terrain.

ta dude

Útulek Station aka Golem City is a shipping container city that has become a ghetto.



pic from the deus ex wiki

Given its run down nature it has loads of colour and texture ideas for post apocalyptic and 40k hive terrain.







Litter
No run ghetto is complete without litter

Im thinking the crisp packets would be easy to do if you printed them out.


Water purifier

Really like the design of this water pump, especially the don't waste water sign to the left and the empty water jug lights.

Market

The biggest pice of inspiration for me is the Market in golem city






They look dirty, ramshackle but functional, great again for post apocalyptic or 40k terrain.
the problem with shops like these would be finding/making enough bits to fill the shops.
boxes are easy and crisp packets could be done as above but where can you buy 28mm scale water bottles and jugs?(or how do you make them?


Thanks for looking

Future Prague’s Red light district is next, I'm also going to get started make a water purifier inspired by the one above.