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Hi all,

I’ve recently become interested in Kill Team as a new game for us to play on our monthly games nights. We like strategy games and kill Team interested me so I set out to create a modular board that we could configure into different maps.

The board is made up of 9cm x 9cm squares as seen in the attached picture. So far the construction is going well and Im happy with the progress. The image attached shows half the final board size (will be 7 squares by 9), at varying degrees of completion.

Each module is 3D printed with polystyrene for surfaces with sand/stones for added texture. This will then eventually be covered in mod podge or paper mache.

My question is more around painting it.. Im lookong to create a seamless painting scheme that means what ever configuration of the boxes I do, it flows.. but with enough uniqueness and randomness so that it looos natural.

I’d like to go for a red/yellow desert them. Think Australian outback.


Im looking for any tips on terrain painting to help me pull this off

Hey mate,

That's a great looking board.

If I were looking for something quick and easy (which I always am), I'd spray everything black and sponge it brown (or just spray brown if I could find the right colour for cheap - like Rustoleum at the hardware store).

This'll be your base for both the desert and industrial tiles.

Industrial tiles get a further sponge of gunmetal, a black wash, and a drybrush of silver. Maybe some extra streaks or spots of brown/orange wash for more rust.

Sand tiles then get drybrushed various shades of red/brown/ochre. Varied, natural shades are your friend here - not every tile needs to be the exact same colour. Again, thinned paints/washes can be used to tie things together. You could pick out some of the bigger rocks in a lighter or darker colour, but in my experience they tend to be a similar shade to the dirt around them in real life - see pics of Uluru for an example. Some straw/dead grass tufts would go really well too I think if you feel like splurging.

It's a really interesting board. Looking forward to seeing progress!