"Scatter Terrain - Boxes and Crates " Topic

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

Nice

I just might borrow that idea

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.

Get the soft pine wood ones and you can etch lines into them and make it look like real boards.

I have thought about painting on some labels, but am not sure I want to spend the time doing it. Good thought though.

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).

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.

With a bit of extra detailing, they could also become sci-fi Hesco barriers: theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=402252

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.

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.