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Me and my buddy are doing a kill team campaign on an Eldar Craftworld but have no alien looking terrain. Would appreciate advice or links on how to make our own or buy some good eldar looking terrain.

http://www.miniaturescenery.com/CategoryPage.asp?CODE=CAT_ELV

Thanks gealgain!

Those are nice pieces of terrain! Kind of expensive if you live in the US, though.

As for making your own terrain, make sure you follow their design aesthetic. You want smooth curves and a very organic flow to the whole pieces. Keep on the look out for 'junk' around the house, hardware, and craftstores that you could use and throw together. There are so many different items it would be hard to list them lol. If you do a google search I'm sure you could find some project logs and blogs out there that will show you how to build stuff. No matter what type of terrain you're building, pink or blue insulation foam is awesome. Get a wire foam cutter and cut to the shape you want, then sand it to smooth it out.

Just a few ideas.

Thanks StormBringer328 I actually was searching google all day today, surprisingly the most helpful site was Pintrest (what the heck is that about). I think I'm going to pick up a wire foam cutter and some insulation foam and do it myself... this should be interesting!

gealgain, thanks for that link, I have some of their terrain and I love it, however they changed the name of the Ork buildings to sand buildings so when I searched for them I couldn't find them on-line.

 StormBringer328 wrote:
Those are nice pieces of terrain! Kind of expensive if you live in the US, though.

As for making your own terrain, make sure you follow their design aesthetic. You want smooth curves and a very organic flow to the whole pieces. Keep on the look out for 'junk' around the house, hardware, and craftstores that you could use and throw together. There are so many different items it would be hard to list them lol. If you do a google search I'm sure you could find some project logs and blogs out there that will show you how to build stuff. No matter what type of terrain you're building, pink or blue insulation foam is awesome. Get a wire foam cutter and cut to the shape you want, then sand it to smooth it out.

Just a few ideas.

Here's the stuff That Sean Patten made a few years back
http://www.ironhands.com/alien.htm


And his tips on Eldar terrain.
http://www.ironhands.com/h2_eldar.htm

If all else fails, there is always sculpting insulation pink (or blue foam)

Relatively cheap and easy i think.

Just use a dustmask when sanding.