First time attempting terrain, made a display board for my MESBG army. Just insulation foam for the material. Hotwire cutter was worth the investment, can't wait to build more. Learned a lot on this go around to not do the next time !

A few more shots of my ruined city! There are so many little details scattered throughout this scene, and I had a lot of fun bringing everything together.

Hope you guys like the pics!

It's currently live on Kickstarter if you want to check it out

And there is a free tower STL!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimrotcollective/the-ruins-of-lumenfall-2?ref=3cjs9m

I think I'm nearly done with this. I could keep adding little details all day so got to call it somewhere. Next is the models but enjoy the terrain. Particularly proud of the tree and mushrooms!!

Using Kris (of Crooked Staff) wagons and carts artwork. For a battle coming up in B10 Night's Dark Terror.

This mesa was made from twenty-something layers of cardboard, toilet paper, some sand, and more PVA than I expected to use. I’m not entirely happy with the colors, but Inwanted to save my Army Painter bottles for real minis, so I had to use a much narrower selection of Apple Barrel paints. I don’t typically show WIP, but I’ve got a photo of that too.

C&C welcome, and as always: Zoidberg for scale.

Ive spent about 3 weeks working on this (not including printing time) for a one shot dnd campaign and the Socal Mordheim group in apart of. Still lots of detailing remains. But 4x4, plywood base, carved foam ground work, printed terrain buildings and walkways (from Fabio on Myminifactory) and a gallon of resin

is this good for terrian makeing ?

Painting miniature furniture creates a pretty basic sequencing problem. Painting the separate pieces first gives you better access to edges and tiny surfaces, but every connection point then has to survive handling during assembly. Building first protects the fit, but suddenly the brush can’t reach an inside corner without touching something that was supposed to stay another color. With a kit-based miniature, the safest option probably depends on whether the piece needs adjustment before it sits correctly, which is why painting everything right away can create extra touch-up work. This is less about a specific brand and more about planning around surfaces that will be inaccessible later. If you customize miniature furniture instead of leaving the original finish, what stage do you treat as the point of no return for painting?

this is a project for a friend learning to do stone

Had a 3D print come out wrong and rather than throw this Stug away, I made it a terrain piece.

Hand painted with some grit mixed in to look like aggressive rust. First time painting rust.

I started to redo the stairs (the circles in front). These will lead to a platform as many of you suggested. I added the first archway (a nightmare), and walls to close off the council area. Finally, I added some tables. Everything is being held by small nails and hopes until I'm happy with the product to glue down.

Thanks for everything help and suggestions. More is always appreciated!

A finished miniature can feel perfectly stable during the build and suddenly seem much less secure once it’s moved to a shelf or display surface. Permanently attaching the whole thing to a larger base solves one problem, but makes later rearranging, cleaning, or transport much harder. A removable base or subtle support seems more flexible, but it still has to keep the model from shifting without becoming part of the scene. The useful question isn’t how to make it impossible to move, but how much support a display piece needs during normal handling. The material and footprint obviously affect the answer, so I’m asking more about the general approach than one particular adhesive. What reversible method do you prefer for giving a lightweight miniature display more stability?

My friend Dexter was commissioned by Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park, to build a game table for Blood & Plunder. This is the finished table. I’m sharing it for him.

It’s 4' x 6' table and features a lighthouse, docks, water, a harbor, a tavern, a fortified prison, a market, shipyard cranes, a stone warehouse and a Spanish Mission. Dexter built it by hand over a year, and he filmed the whole process as a 16-part series on YouTube, from the first thoughts to the finished table.

I’d love to know what you’d want on a pirate game table. Anything you’d add or do differently?

Happy to answer questions about the build, and I’ll pass them on to Dexter.

Walk through of the Completed Trey Parker Table

hello, does anyone have any tips to weigh down polystyrene so it isn't so weightless?

i am going to be making some castle walls from polystyrene

thanks!

Had this thing primed black on my shelf for like 7 months, and I FINALLY painted it last night & today. Been in a wildly productive hobby mood the last few weeks and got sick of seeing it sit there unpainted.

This is the first build I’ve ever used pastels for weathering, and I like the effect! I think in hindsight I would’ve used a darker color, but it’s kinda neat in its own way. Also, huge shoutout to Philip Sin’s Miniatures for creating a 3D sculpt that I borrowed inspiration from when crafting this.

We are ready for our family Halloween one shot 🥰
We always do a one shot for our family around holidays. We've had mutating easter bunnies, an angry druid who was against cutting christmas trees so he turned them into evil treants, and now: spider cave halloween adventure! 🥰

I used a hot-wire foam cutter to melt styrofoam (I think polystyrene). I was doing this outside my apartment, but the cutter produced a noticeable amount of white/light-gray smoke with a strong, unpleasant smell, and a lot of the fumes blew toward my face.

I used it for about 15 minutes without a mask or a respirator.

Afterward, I noticed slight throat irritation and dry eyes. I'm otherwise feeling okay at the moment.

I didn't realize the smoke could potentially be harmful until afterward. I’m seeing posts now talking about it being toxic, causing chemical injuries to lungs, respiratory failure, or death. Do I need to be worried??