Idiots guide to making terrain #3: Fences
Originally published on TerrainMonster on November 14, 2004 by Rob. As you have seen from my previous articles, there is no right or wrong way to make terrain. While …
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Building Helms Deep
Originally published on TerrainMonster on January 28, 2004 by Rob. This Article is from GeBoom about his Helms Deep project. Im posting it for him as its very heavy …
Read the lab notesIdiots Guide to Making Terrain #2: Trees
Originally published on TerrainMonster on January 26, 2004 by Rob. As I have mentioned in lesson 1 of this series, terrain generally hovers between functional and …
Read the lab notesTerrain Workshop: Ruined Watchtower
Originally published on TerrainMonster on December 15, 2003 by Rob. This is not really an extension of my “idiots guide” series, but the priciples learned in the …
Read the lab notesIdiots Guide to Making Terrain #1: The Basic Hill
Originally published on TerrainMonster on December 1, 2003 by Rob. The hill is a critical terrain feature. Not only does it break up the flat, featurless table, it …
Read the lab notesSpray Foam Terrain
Originally published on TerrainMonster on November 16, 2003 by Rob. While building a desert gaming table specifically for my Warhammer Skaven and Imperial Guard …
Read the lab notesFun with Sprues
Originally published on TerrainMonster on November 9, 2003 by Rob. This article looks at using sprues that accumulate in a seemingly endless supply. The obvious use …
Read the lab notesHidden Door in Hirst Blocks
Originally published on TerrainMonster on November 2, 2003 by Rob. Just a quick write-up on a test for a working hidden door using HirstArts block. I like functional …
Read the lab notesBuilding a Dungeon
Originally published on TerrainMonster on August 4, 2003 by Rob. My first project after building the standard buildings on the Hirstarts Site was to attempt a …
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I’m Rob. I make things, take things apart, and occasionally discover why the instructions were written that way. CraftyManiac is my workshop notebook: part how-to …
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