Flour Snowflakes
For fake snow I have developed a method of using regular bread flour, or baking flour, mixed with white glue. First I mound up the area where I want snow with the flour/glue mixture or putty.
Scenery Tutorials
How to: Clump Trees for Gaming
You will need to find some sedums - a fairly common backyard flower that grows with little canopies of buds that will very realistically simulate branches for your trees (the flower "Queen Anne's Lace" works admirably well too).
Trees - a staple of terrain making
Trees are vital to an aesthetically pleasing and tactically challenging wargaming table. Here I show how I made some trees.
Temples
Temples, pyramids, ziggurats, you name it. They all make great terrain. Here I show how I made some temple structures from some simple and cheap (mostly free) materials.
Obstacles - Concertina wire & tank traps
Razorwire (a.k.a. Constantine wire), tank traps, and mine fields are useful pieces of terrain for any modern or sci-fi miniatures war game.
Missile Silo
Here I show how I made a missile silo from some simple and cheap (mostly free materials) for use with Games Workshop's Sci-Fi minis game, Warhammer 40,000
Hills - a staple of terrain making
Hills, the ubiquitous terrain of miniatures wargaming. Here I show how I made some hills from some simple and cheap (mostly free) materials.
Fuel depot - An Ipaq packing material turned to good use
Here I show how I made a fuel depot from some simple and cheap (mostly free materials) for use with Games Workshop's Sci-Fi minis game, Warhammer 40,000
Farms
People gotta eat. Farms make food. Occasionally a battle is going to happen in a rural area. So let's build some farm stuff!
Car Wars - a simple elevated roadway for an arena
Car Wars is an autoduelling game of a dark, post-apocalytpic future. The basic premise is similar to that of the Road Warrior, with perhaps a smattering more of civilization.
Random Tutorials In This Section
Power Generator
Now terrain builders everywhere will be heard to say 'Hurrah! The VCR has broken...'
Bushes & Grasses
I tend to use natural materials for my bushes and grasses.
Ponds
There are lots of ways of making ponds and water effects, and this little project describes just one.
Skaven Terrain
Skaven Terrain
Skull Fortress
I don't know if techno-gothic is a real genre or not...
