Back when my brothers were heavily into Fantasy and 40k, our mum liked doing craft and used terrain making as a way to be involved in their lives. That was a particularly good time for us and the local Wargame community as we shared our stuff (her river segments in particular were great).

Terrain is also something you'll need to occasionally consider when choosing an army. When I started playing Warhammer Fantasy in the 90's I fell in love with the fluff and visuals of the Wood Elves; later I realized I was the only one in our group that had to lug around a box of terrain (trees), in addition to my army because so many of their special rules relied on having forests. It was so important to their strategies that I couldn't just hope that the place we were going would have forest terrain. 40K Kroot and Catachans used to have similar issues as well.

I'm pretty new to Warhammer, decided it was a good time to get into it with 8th edition and all, and honestly watching videos of people making terrain is what got me into the hobby in the first place.

Every 'Movie' needs a set

You should look at a shop for Aquariums, many great terrains can be found there ^^ many walls and ruins

My one tip for terrain, pet stores. Gold fish tank accessories with a little touch up with dry brushing or flocking can be cheap and amazing. Also, a company called Angry Mojo Games does some cool MDF laser cut stuff as well that's good and pretty cheap.

I love your videos and advice. Your sensible, almost understated, approach is refreshing.

I play X-wing. I got the black starfield. Mission accomplished. lol

Great video. But I have to say I imagined you went on a cursing tirade when I heard the beep. Laughed so hard.

You're forgetting about the planet known as TheDormRoom. This planet is known to have houses that look like books, and trees that look like pop cans. Also, trees that look like beer cans, too. Hazardous terrain is said to resemble pretzels, as well.

Just a quick connect with your previous video - terrain available at your FLGS (Friendly Local Gaming Store); also, you could check out other hobbies that use terrain e.g. scale trains, car racing, etc.

I recently made some cement road blocks with broken rebar sticking out, out of some left over plastic frames from my spiritseer and used some of them on the base and the rest I scatter on my battlefield. Making terrain and base additions gives me more to work on when telling a story with my miniatures and I hope to make some more in the future.

I use foam hills and set pieces made of foam, a cushiony foam stuff. I love it because its super light and easy to make.

I have a storage crate full of Geo-Hex terrain from the 1990s - still gorgeous.

I think I enjoy the terrain aspect of the hobby as much - if not more - than the army building. Your location is always important - what is the significance of this place? Why are the armies fighting over it? As someone who really gets into the narrative aspect, a good battlefield goes a long way into turning a game into a battle, and something you think of in more than just terms of winning and losing a game. Also, anyone remember the old (very old) Necromunda card scenery with the plastic bulkheads? They were a real game changer in the 90's.

I don't even like miniature stuff, but I like your style and the way you talk, makes it interesting. Good job keep up the good work

Do you happen to know who was selling those concrete rubble scatter pieces? They look amazing!

I was wondering why there were no new content added...welcome back, we like your videos.

Great video! Subscribed because I couldn't agree more on how much quality terrain adds to your games. Also, you're the only person I know that gets this excited about a well crafted bocage, and for that Sir, you have my respect.

Oh man I'm happy I've found this video. The sites I've visited were somehow significantly more expensive then the one you linked. My Chaos world tabletop wil be a reality!

Hey there. I just wanted to say that you have very natural comedic talent! You're funny with out even knowing it.

As a Death Guard player, I personally use the GW crater piece, filled with Nurgles rot.

Your videos are awesome, informational, and helpful.👍

Love your videos and calmness about it and very straight to the point.

Really interested in that expanding foam landing pad...gotta' link?

as a Bolt Action player i feel that terrain hits home harder in this setting then in any other as you really do need to take time out and work on your board ( granted not great deal of time but time nun the less ) and dress it up a bit.

Terrain always brings the tabletop to life!

all ways love your videos, found this very helpful as planning my own board at the moment.

I'd like to have my own table but I don't have the space for one.

You know what my pipe dream is? A dwarven castle -- an outer wall surrounding a courtyard, and then an inner keep, within which my army would stand siege against another, much larger but worse-organized horde until reinforcements arrived. And of course I would build the whole thing myself (despite having no artistic skills).

This is my first real foray into these sort of videos and I've more recently looked into getting into the Miniatures Games; more specifically Warhammer 40k. But, anyway, I actually got a bit sad when the sound died, haha, even IF you were done. It was really interesting.

There's a place in the UK called "Wargames tournaments" that sell MDF laser cut structures and they are the most incredible designs for a "cities of death" type board. They do a huge set for £250 that can easly cover every square inch of a 6x4' table, or if you used it like 40k terrain it would do for 2 or 3 tables. I picked that and a few other things from them a while back. Most of their other stuff is a lot less expensive but there was a freaking tonne of stuff in the box.

look into some of the mega blocks buildings for quick easy terrain

Love the vids, noob here but I've always wanted to have my own Tau, these vids feel in alot of the gaps

scratch building your own can also be a fun sometimes too and be a useful change of pace when your procrastinating on a model or unit

The problem is that some games have it difficult to have terrain. I am playing Airwar C21 lately and I have ideas for terrain and stuff but the problem is that in airwar you need very specific positions of minis so its hard to make usable terrain (even more when its a game about planes and you have to make forced perspective terrain to adapt to the look of the minis and the terrain scale). But I really do love making terrain, you can do anything with stupid stuff that's laying around I made a lot of terrain for Battletech and FoF.

Fantastic channel - love your videos, very well done :)

Maybe it's an idea to put a little annotation for you terrain materials video, that way viewers can easily watch that video as well.

My mom is working in a foam cut company. I can go there and design some really cool stuff :)

I love your videos and I've never even played a miniatures tabletop game.

Great video, thanks for posting it!

In the beginning there was NO terrain whatsoever that you could buy; now you can even buy a PORTABLE BATTLE-TABLE in 6 or 8 square pieces from GAMES-WORKSHOP which is great if you got the room and don't wanna start making your own large battle-table, wich IS (no kidding) a very time-consuming undertaking... The advantage of the GW-table pieces is that it has four pieces with elevated terrain that if you put these together, you have a flat hill in the middle of your table, but you can also put two of them on each edge of your table so that the edges are elevated and in the middle is a lot of room to "rumble"... The only thing you have to do is to prime and spray-paint it, even do a finishing touch with some dry-brushing and you"re all set! The table is of course very useful to put trees, bushes or ruins, walls, flat rivers and buildings on it... I am not sure if another brand has this sort of table, but it sure saves you a lot of time

when i play i'm gonna set up some cool shots (pictures) of like space marines vs tau and i'm gonna make like cinematic scenes and stuff like that

You are a classy dude and I am really enjoying these videos. Do you have any experience/interest with Robotech RPG Tactics?

I've got some terrain by Armorcast. They're pretty inexpensive too. Some of the stuff you've got to assemble and you've got to paint it too

Great video, man!!

Couldn't agree more, great vid!

Awesome vid

check out Mel on The Terrain Tutor on youtube, teaches you to build cheap, easy and good looking terrain.

ok, I gotta ROFL. That was the worst letter fr your audio to blurb out at lol. Totally love and agree with everything you were saying though.

Etsy is great for finding both kits and finished pieces.

I have a question: What do you think about the roleplaying aspect of wargaming? How important is it for you?

Great video

the FOW ready made stuff looks so sick but i dont have the $ to do it, so i have to spend hours on end making houses, but i wish i could buy the dang houses! You wouldn't believe how long it takes to do even a crappy job on them, otherwise I enjoy making terrain

I need Terrain!

I thought you'd sworn really badly at the end of the video. :D

Hey there! I'm really hoping to get into some wargaming, and I was wondering what a good wargame for beginners is? Moreso, what's not too expensive, and yet has a fairly lively community? I love WH40K, but it seems a bit overbudget just for entry.

The audio recorder going out sucks but that was funny

How about the old Plasticville buildings??

Where did you get that Wh40k building set? I've seen the huge expensive version of it but not as a smaller kit. I don't even know what it's called, it looks like Cities of Death but with bigger wall panels.

Am I the only one that likes using paper printed terrains? If you use the thicker printer paper there sturdy enough for you to put some minis on there and it's not too hard carrying them.

Me and my brother 3d print our terrain

Just play Infinity. You literally *need* terrain for the game itself to function, so you'll just get into good habits for having it by default :P

What are the features of GOOD terrain, what makes the terrain fun to play on?

I've done the old take a pile of books of the shelf and a few cut out shapes of newspaper as area terrain. your rigt it's not as inspiring. Don't care for gw terrain though. currently doing the lots of woods and rocky outcrops. trees cost a few pounds for 10-20 for model train stuff. and a bit of polystyrene for small mounds/rocky outcrops working on a long barrow next whole table worth of terrain less than £20.

My reason for using lots of terrain: my asshole of a friend plays t'au

Etsy has a strong number of people selling terrain now.

My very first game, back in 4th ed 40k, was played on my bed (big one, 2,2*2 meters) with cushions and padded sheegs covered with a big sheet. We scattered insulation pieces on the surface and other junk. We played with bottle caps fitted with paper pieces with unit markings instead of miniatures. Only I had one miniature, one I carved out of gypsum. The most memorable game of my life. We saw alien landscapes, rockets zooming, squiggoth roaring, demons teleporting, marines dying, tau suit jetpacks blazing. We saw a great battle. Nostalgia might color this memory for me, but thing is, you don't need much fancy stuff to have a blast. Good to have, but that game told me: imagination is the key. I lost something to the rules and the WYSIWYG, the constant vying of GW for supremacy over the market, but I am relearning to just enjoy the game and wonder. Imagine. No need for terrain or fancy miniatures or superb paintjobs or whatever for that. My herald of Tzeentch will screetch in my head while blasting with purple lightning, my unmoving rhino will roar its engines and blast over rubble as it was nothing, and my knight will constantly emit whirring sounds while monitoring the battlefield and releasing a hail of bullets into my enemy's terminators while they advance without fear, coldly calculating how much their power fields can take before they collapse and reach melee distance. It is always in your head. The rest is just things you enjoy putting together and painting up.

MDF - medium density fiberboard

Wheres that landing pad from buddy?

Medium Density Fibreboard :)

unobtanium!

8:18 Where did you find that piece?

unobtainuim lol!

tt combat make great imperial terrain for warhammer. its also really cheap.

Go to the hobby store for trains good cheap stuff there

Dust Tactics also has really nice cheap ass terrain

I know this might sounds like an advert for the guy but its not, I buy my 40k terrain from here facebook.com/atlantisdesignsstudio He also has a ebay page, the terrain buildings are really cool and he will build anything you want.

How much would some scenery cost

Haha, what a funny end...

+1 for eBay terrain, there's good stuff on there

Short answer: yes Long answer: this video

you want to just go out and "........" :P