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I'm looking to dress up some cubes and i was hoping you guys could give me some easy ideas for doors and windows. Stuff to just make it look less cubeish...
Thanks.

This should go in P&M rather than showcase. But in answer, get a hold of the Maelstom's edge terrain/building sprue. Loads of useful gubbins on it.

Its expensive and there are tons of bits out there to buy but Im looking for diy...

I asked to have it moved.

Well platicard and thin card are my materials of choice for detailing building and you can find some good inspiration with a few google searches. The tricky bit sometimes is finding a shape that fits stylisticly if you already have a terrain set be that shop bought or home made.

A design I used to use for 40k with its obsession for arched windows was getting some styrene pipe and I-beams that were around the same width and glueing the pipe into the groove using a form like a coke bottle or something. All you need is some tape to hold it while it dries and a couple of pen marks for the top and bottom of the window on the bottle so you get the same curve each time. Then notch the tops so they meet nicely add an internal frame if you want, then a sill and your good to go.

I did this with the Maelstrom sprue



And the door on this with thin plasticard and a bent wire as door handle



Atenocitis Workshop does scale architectural window frames and doors. Or just do holes in the wall and plate them over with textured plasticard like this

 Flinty wrote:
I did this with the Maelstrom sprue

I was going to mention that, having bought a couple of those sprue, but not used them yet.
I have seen a few around, but it's why I ended up getting a 3d printer. This is just what they are good at. I poked around on Thingiverse, but a 2 minute search came up sparce.

thats funny flinty, something as simple as cut plasticard with a bent wire door handle is pretty awesome.

@sasquatch - id really liek to see what youre talking about. it sounds cool.

It gives just enough texture to the outside to be interesting.

On the vent side of things, TTCombat have an amazing resin vent set.

I did a bit of a quick and dirty guide just to give an idea of what I'm talking about.

very neat, thanks!

Hard to go wrong with the Sedition Wars Terrain Set:
https://www.amazon.com/CMON-CMNSW1002-Sedition-Wars-Terrain/dp/B00JF6OIVC


A set of 70 detailed, hard-plastic pieces.

The Sedition Wars Terrain Set allows you to replace various features and counters on the Battle for Alabaster board with fully sculpted, three-dimensional models, including all Vanguard and Strain strategic points, and four different types of door.

Also within this set you'll find crates and barricades - new blocking features which can be placed on the battlefield as you wish, adding further variation to your skirmishes.

Contents:

2 Life Support Terminals
2 Teleport Controls
2 Security Terminals
2 Auto Docs
2 Havok Guns
6 Airlock Doors
12 Wide Standard Doors
12 Narrow Standard Doors
6 Section Doors
4 Barricades
4 Crates
2 Necrocysts
2 Macrophages
2 Gestation Vents
2 Exocysts
2 Spore Engines
3 Female Corpses
3 Male Corpses