Reply To: Creating terrain for 6mm world war II

[madman]

Welcome. There are quite a few videos on youtube with ideas on creating terrain.

 

I have a couple ideas for buildings. If you like them paper terrain (some name like that) makes good buildings with coloured outer shell and an inner which is the destroyed version of the same building. Price is good. You could search for paper buildings on the web. Print them at a scale which would give you a single story height of about 1 cm.

For woods just place handfuls of lichen on the table. Tape for roads or streams. Pipe cleaners (coloured or white coloured with paint or markers) for walls, fences, tree lines or crests of small rises in the ground. I also saw a guy using sand on a drop cloth for dirt roads. A the end of the day he used a car vacuum to pick up the sand. Emptied it back into his jar.

Personally I like hex terrain. Some don’t. I find the regulation of the terrain keeps players honest and rules make good use of the easy range measurement. RAFM makes iron on hexes which you can mark a drop cloth with. I use an old sheet of green fabric (cheapo fabric store) which I painted blotches of various spray paint on to break up the visual blankness. I like 2″ hexes and use ASL scale on the hexes (40 yards to 50 meters across).

I also use felt for roads, lakes, undergrowth. I use corduroy for plowed fields and dry brush it with green to make cultivated fields.

The fabric I have for a game field is flexible and stretchy so books placed under it don’t leave lines and ridges.

So some ideas for low cost (not free or hideously pricey) ideas to get you started. Good luck.