Category: Making Scenery & Terrain
Making Scenery & Terrain For 10mm Wargaming. Decently modelled wargames terrain can make a huge difference in the look and feel of your tabletop wargames. It can also play a large factor in strategic decisions and the outcome of the game. The type of terrain you decide to build depends on the era of the wargames you are playing. These guides will help you build a basic mix of terrain pieces that can be swapped around for different games. Below is a list of projects already completed.
Making Scenery & Terrain Guides
- Wargaming Tools
- Wargaming Materials
- Paper Modeling Guide
- Gluing Reference Chart
- Techniques & Tips for Card Stock & Foam Board Modeling
- Making Barb Wire Fences
- Making Cornfields
- Making Diorama Bases
- Making Fences
- Making Hedges
- Making Hills
- Making Moulds
- Making Mountains
- Making Ploughed Fields
- Making Ponds & Swamps
- Making Rivers
- Making Roads
- Making Smoke Markers & Damage Markers
- Making Snake Fencing
- Making Trees & Woods
- Making Walls
- Mat-O-War Wargaming Mat
- Making Soviet Villages
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Making Hedges
This tutorial will walk you through the process of making hedges for your 10mm wargaming table out of common scouring pads which can be bought from your local supermarket. Making Hedges 2. Cut the scouring pads to the desired height and length. 3. The next step is to texture your base. I have done tutorial…
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Making Cornfields
Making Cornfields is an easy guide to follow on how to make cornfields for 10mm wargaming terrain has been a long time in the planning. However when I finally started the project making cornfields proved very easy indeed. Anyway here’s my guide for making your own fields for 10mm wargaming. Making Cornfields 2. The next…
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Making Trees & Woods
Making Trees & Woods an easy guide to follow. Probably one of the most important features of any wargames table is trees and woods not only do they improve the look of your table but they also have an important effect on the game too. Trees block line of sight and hamper movement, and can…
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Making Diorama Bases
Making Diorama Bases is an easy guide to follow. 1. When making diorama bases I genuinely cut the bases into irregular shapes as I find that it looks far better once on the wargaming table. 2. I normally use hardboard from my local DIY store however you could use plywood or MDF plastic card, foam…
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Making Hills
Making Hills is an easy guide to follow. Throughout history generals have pored over maps and picked their fields of battle with extreme care. While formulating their battle plans they’d think carefully about the lie of the land, because this would determine how they’d deploy their forces. Hills became a major factor in considering deployment…
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Making Mountains
It’s always a bit of a compromise when you’re Making Mountains for wargaming. On the one hand you want them to look like the real McCoy, but on the other they need to be suitable for placing figures. This means having somewhat unnaturally flat levels. Mountains enhance the scenery of your wargaming table. You can…
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Making Hadleys Hope
Making Hadleys Hope (LV-426) is still in the collection process however I think it will be a load of small MDF boxes made into small rooms using the renders from Aliens Papercraft. Renders from Aliens Papercraft Sources Other blog categories that may be of interest. 10mm ACW Project, 10mm AWI Project, 10mm AZW Project, 10mm…
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Making Ponds & Swamps
Making ponds & Swamps are a really nice feature to add to your wargames table. And of course they can also represent natural barriers which either can be crossed or avoided. Ponds can be easily made with the following materials hardboard or MDF using various fillers, brown acrylic mastic. And of course it’s not only…
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Making Ploughed Fields
Making Ploughed Fields, You can buy ploughed fields from various makers of wargaming scenery or make your own. This tutorial is making ploughed fields which are extremely easy to scratch build, and can be made with a variety and materials, including spaghetti, corrugated cardboard, carpet squares, brown corduroy material all have the appearance of ploughed…
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Making Roads
Making Roads is an easy guide to follow. Roads are possibly one of the most important features on a wargames table they allow for rapid troop movements, and are strategically important. Troops in column move at a greatly increased speed along a road. Roads were the primary means of approach to the battlefield. When the…