| sean68333 | 08 Feb 2016 9:14 a.m. PST |
I've not seem many miniature games that couldn't use a little more scatter terrain. All your troopers want to have a place to hide from enemy fire. In the real world, most of the time, there are lots of places around us to duck and hide. So I decided to add some scatter terrain to my collection. I wanted to do this on the cheap so hit up my local craft store and found a nice selection of small wooden cubes. A little glue, paint, and wash latter and… Ta! Da!
These will work for both 15mm and 28mm. I went with some pretty bright colors, but it would be easy enough to tone them down with a different selection of paints. More details on my blog. link |
| Twoball Cane | 08 Feb 2016 10:39 a.m. PST |
Nice I just might borrow that idea |
robert piepenbrink  | 08 Feb 2016 11:12 a.m. PST |
Simple, cheap, quick. I like. Note potential for finicky upgrade later. Decals or stencils with unit or corporate logos, for instance. Anyway, something else to add to my list of things I really ought to get around to. |
| GROSSMAN | 08 Feb 2016 11:14 a.m. PST |
Get the soft pine wood ones and you can etch lines into them and make it look like real boards. |
| sean68333 | 08 Feb 2016 11:51 a.m. PST |
I have thought about painting on some labels, but am not sure I want to spend the time doing it. Good thought though. |
| tshryock | 08 Feb 2016 4:03 p.m. PST |
Shrink some real labels down and clone a bunch of them onto one sheet then print out on adhesive paper and stick on (after cutting them out of course). |
| zoneofcontrol | 08 Feb 2016 6:07 p.m. PST |
I did a similar thing for a zombie game. Used 1/2" square blocks and painted them florescent orange. Did a simulated air resupply drop then the survivors went out and scavenged for these parcels. They didn't know what was inside until they spotted, collected and opened each one. I had a separate list of contents that they rolled against to get a random result. I have since bought a bunch of the old Musket Miniatures boxes and crates plus got some model Railroad stuff to use. |
| Canuckinator | 08 Feb 2016 6:27 p.m. PST |
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| War Monkey | 08 Feb 2016 8:12 p.m. PST |
That's great!  I did that same thing some time ago.
Home Depot has a very small section of hobby woods that has smaller square wood dowels for stacks of smaller crates as well. |
| Mako11 | 10 Feb 2016 12:37 p.m. PST |
That is a really great idea. Thanks for sharing. Adding some additional paintwork, decals, or logos would really make them pop. Must get some myself, for my troops. |
