r/TerrainBuilding • • 2h ago

KICKSTARTER My folding, quick-print ruins terrain project is live!

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Hi everyone, just wanted to share a few more pics of my project where my goal is to make terrain as affordable and approachable as possible, by making it possible to print a whole gaming table with a single 1kg reel of PLA and fold it away for easy storage afterwards.

The goal isn't to create perfect realism, but to create something that can be a definite step-up from flat MDF ruins that are all too common in the wargaming world. A ruin can be printed in 1 hour with 20g of filament making it one of the easiest terrain projects to get stuck into for someone starting out with 3d printing.

The project is called "Shardstone City: Shattered Streets" is now live, with lots of stretch goals funded, links are easy to find in my profile if you'd like to check it out!


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2h ago

3D Printed Ruined house for Mordheim/Wyrdcry/Warhammer

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I printed and painted this ruined house from the Forgotten Towns set as I've gotten "Mordheim curious" lately.

The paint job followed steps from norwegian Mordheim terrain builder Boredheim, which follows a super simple recipe using only four paints:

- Liquitex Raw Umber Spray as a base coat on everything

- Mixing Liquitex Basics acrylic black and white to a medium grey to overbrush the stones with

- Dry brushing the wood with Liquitex Basics Raw Sienna

- Mixing Raw Sienna and white, starting with 1:1, and adding more white for successive coats to both dry brush the stone, wood and painting the plaster walls.

- The tiles on the roof are base coated black, then lightly overbrushed with grey and then lightly downward dry brushed with the white and Raw Sienna mix

- Glue on some birch seeds and tufts and it's done!

I've added some zombies I'm painting up for a Mordheim undead warband for scale.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2h ago

Questions for the Community Advice wanted: MDF Terrain

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I added Home made texture paint (polyfilla, acrylic paint, basing sand and gravel) then grey spray paint on MDF terrain should I add more? Dry brush?


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2h ago

Miniature Basing WIP Abandoned Druid Cove

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3 months into the hobby. All my peices are used in my DND campaign. This is a WIP abandoned Druid cove. An Owlbear and its cub...owlet?.... cublet? Has made it their home. What do you think? Obviously as a WIP I have much to add. What do you think would be cool to see? I plan on adding some wet mud spots, leaves, and a few more columns w/ vines.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 3h ago

Scratchbuilt Hand-sculpted medieval bakery with a full interior, brick oven and removable roof

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Here's another build from Dexter, the maker behind the Cat & Fiddle tavern: a hand-sculpted medieval bakery, made for 28mm miniatures. I'm sharing it for him.

It has an outdoor brick oven with loaves cooling beside it, a layered roof, two stone chimneys and a hanging sign. The roof lifts off to show a fully detailed interior with a stone floor, a workbench with a wooden spoon and a bowl of flour, and shelves of pots. Dexter built it in about two weeks and filmed the full process on YouTube, as part 2 of his Crafting a Mediaeval Village series: Crafting a Mediaeval Village Part 2 The Bakery 

The last photos show it in a village scene with miniatures.

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


r/TerrainBuilding • • 4h ago

Valhalla Wolf Rune Stone

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I made this Assassin's Creed Valhalla inspired Wolf Rune Stone out of XPS foam and Sakret. What do you guys think?
Hey guys! I wanted to share my latest creation. It looks like a heavy, carved stone block, but it's actually made from high-density XPS foam, coated with Sakret for that rock-solid texture, and hand-painted with acrylics. It weighs only a few hundred grams, so it's super easy to hang on any game room wall. Hope you like the Viking vibe!


r/TerrainBuilding • • 6h ago

WIP – Handcrafted winter village diorama with a thatched cottage, windmill and Christmas carolers.

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A few new photos of my winter diorama project, Sylvester.

The scene includes a snow-covered cottage with a thatched roof, a traditional well with a wooden crane, a windmill, handmade fences, and Christmas carolers carrying a festive star.

The landscape is built mainly from XPS foam, with handmade textures, miniature vegetation, snow effects, and individually painted details.

I've also added warm LED lighting inside the cottage.

Still working on the smaller details and final finishing touches.

Everything is part of my ongoing project at Three Black Cats Studio.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 9h ago

3D Printed Finished my set of ruined walls from Printable Scenery

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Finished my set of ruined walls from Printable Scenery, printed by Nerd Stuff. Not much more to say, except that it's a super cool set with lots of variety and character. A great, versatile addition to any modern wargaming table.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 12h ago

Catedral gótica Lincoln consejos

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Hola a todos!

Quiero hacerle un regalo sorpresa a mi novio, que es fan de Warhammer, y se me ocurrió construir una maqueta de la catedral de Lincoln, en Inglaterra, inspirada en su arquitectura gótica.

Mi idea es hacerla en MDF cortado con láser, con piezas desmontables para que pueda armarla, desarmarla y transportarla fácilmente.

Pero hay un pequeño problema: ¡yo no sé jugar Warhammer! 😂

Así que quisiera pedirles su opinión antes de empezar a construirla.

  • ¿Una catedral gótica sería un buen escenario para jugar o sería poco práctica?
  • ¿Qué dimensiones de largo, ancho y alto recomendarían para que realmente sea útil durante una partida?
  • ¿Qué altura deberían tener los pisos y qué espacio necesitan las miniaturas para moverse cómodamente?
  • ¿Sería mejor hacer una catedral completa o dividirla en secciones que puedan utilizarse como ruinas independientes?
  • ¿Qué tan importante es que los techos, muros y torres sean desmontables?
  • ¿Hay algún detalle que deba considerar para que no interfiera con las reglas o la dinámica del juego?

Me gustaría que fuera algo bonito y especial, pero sobre todo que realmente pueda utilizarlo y disfrutarlo durante sus partidas.

¡Les agradecería muchísimo cualquier consejo o recomendaciones


r/TerrainBuilding • • 15h ago

Scratchbuilt Finale for my 5 year campaign and first terrain build!

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This is a terrain build that I am doing for my upcoming finale to the story my friends and I have been crafting for 5 years. This version, this timeline of the Forgotten Realms has been around since I was in college and it’s been quite the joy to play and bring the adventure to life with this group.

The board is made out of XPS foam and a hot knife. Each one hand painted; the altars are 3D printed and purchased, the large tree was imagined and handcrafted. More to come!


r/TerrainBuilding • • 17h ago

3D Printed Clocktower Terrain Piece

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Hi everyone - I printed and painted this piece for our gaming group's collection (for Mordheim, specifically). It's the "Medieval Clocktower" from MiniatureLand available on myminifactory. The only parts not from that file are the clock hands, I just crafted them from the ends of zip ties. Hope you enjoy the photos. Thanks for taking a look! Any feedback/criticisms always welcomed.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 19h ago

Demo table finished.

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r/TerrainBuilding • • 20h ago

Questions for the Community How do you deal with mica flecks in wild-sourced ground cover?

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I just took a hike on my wash-filled desert property looking for some good washed sand deposits to sift for ground cover on my model railroad. My first batch was great but I forgot where I got it, and these two loads have sufficient mica/something shiny that it sparkles obliquely in the sun. My layout won’t have that kind of sun, and since this is going onto ground goop and will be a base under other covers I’m thinking it may not matter. Anyone deal with this? Maybe a shot of flat clear once I’m done (if the diluted matte medium doesn’t kill it)?


r/TerrainBuilding • • 1d ago

Full Table Fallout bunker. "Finished"

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I am going to stop working on this terrain and start with the storry.

I got my vault door, it's modular it has loot spaces a generator and a control room i feel that im good.

I fucked up a lot learned a lot and in the end im glad with my first project.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 1d ago

Modular Kill Team -> 40k board

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Six years ago (!) I made a modular Kill Team board. Now I finally made some more tiles for a smallish 40k board.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 1d ago

3D Printed I finally painted and photographed some new epic scale terrain pieces, pardon my amateur animation. Turntables aren't even expensive...

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r/TerrainBuilding • • 1d ago

Scratchbuilt Speedfreaks Desert Table

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Take a look at how the desert table changed through the successive stages of adding more details, texturing the surface, and painting. Be sure to leave a sign if you'd like to see up close how I created and painted this table..


r/TerrainBuilding • • 1d ago

WIP WIP from previous post

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r/TerrainBuilding • • 1d ago

KICKSTARTER Modular Palisade wall set

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I made a supportless modular palisade wall set using the Openlock clip mechanism. With straight walls, corners, curved walls and a functional gate.

Meaning you can build and rebuild, use and reuse your map in multiple ways again and again.

I'm personally going to use it as a big arena where my players will need to fight of a few waves of monsters with increasing difficulty


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2d ago

working on my modular buildings again

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made a simple building model just to fill space,not sure if i will engrave the green parts or cut and put some clear or black plastic behind,i also want ideas,maybe references for new parts.

these will be free on my cults later today,free as always and can be done withouth the magnet holes


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2d ago

Miniature Basing Does this count as a diorama? (Obvious WIP)

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r/TerrainBuilding • • 2d ago

15mm scale concrete and wire fences

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Made some different concrete and wire fences in 15mm scale for a Tarkov themed board. Made out of balsa wood and guitar strings


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2d ago

Questions for the Community Will wood glue work for gluing mdf board to XPS foam?

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I have volden wood adhesive which I plan on using for my first ever wargaming terrain board, I want to make sure I am using the best glue possible so it will last a long time. Please let me know if this will be suitable or if I should buy a different kind of glue, if so what? Thanks.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2d ago

Full Table Snowy castle village

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A mostly scratch-built village, including refurbished set pieces from earlier tables, with and without spray snow. I’m still organizing the pics, and will post some more later.


r/TerrainBuilding • • 2d ago

Ruined factory

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587 Upvotes

Good ol upside Costco box on piece of cardboard . This was fun to see come to life so I figured share it