"Do you make your own hills?" Topic

Do you make hills for your wargaming table?

* yes, I do
* no, I buy commercial hills
* no, I don't use hills in my games
* not any more
etc.

Yes.

Sometimes. Maybe mostly.

Yes, I do. Mattress foam cut to shape and shoved underneath the cloth.

Yes. Various methods for both on a flat tabletop and under a ground cloth/mat.

* no, I buy commercial hills. Kallistra Hexon

Yes. Easiest scenery for me to make. :-)

No, buy commercial terrain or have a buddy make one for me – he has a bunch of gear that makes it easy to make hills

Yes

Been making my own for about 40 years, and bare or printed cloth DOES Not appear on a table of mine ever!!

Yes.

I bought mine long ago & still use them.

A bit of both: I have some nice hills I purchased, but I have also made some hills.

Grelber

Why yes, I do make my own.

Yes, I do. Although I have one set I purchased a while ago, I have many more that I've built myself out of insulation grade foam board.

Jim

Yes. Pretty easy to pull off.

Yes, I do.
I prefer my style of hills to the commercial ones. Any commercial hill that came close to those that I crafted, are very expensive

I've made my own, including custom sets for Eylau and Wagram, and I've bought a number of commercial ones. No regrets about any of them; thay all get used!

Have bought in past. Lately make my own, simple stepped hills.

Yes. Something about homemade hills that makes wargaming have the right feel

You know, the more I think about it, the worse (or at least the more complicated) it gets.
I've built my own.
I've purchased commercial hills new.
I've purchased commercial hills used in flea markets.
I've purchased other people's hand-made hills in flea markets.

Lots of them have been repaired after games or because I bought them damaged, and a fair percentage have been modified--repainted, reflocked, or had felt added to the base.

Best I can say for myself is that the set for any specified scale and climate usually blend pretty well.

Yes

Yes

Yes.

I have made my own hills but I also have Geo-Hex which I use quite a bit.

Yes.

Yes

I have more hills and ridges then any other terrain items. Most of them have been made by me, although a few (definitely not many) have been purchased along the way.

So … Yes, and I also buy.

And a digression …

Made a custom set for the hills and ridges for west of Gettysburg.

Have made a custom set for the Merida area/table of a Snappy Nappy Campaign-in-a-Day done on the Talavera campaign in Spain (plus a pair of half ridges for the Alcazar de San Juan area/table).

Another set has been accumulating, and still in progress, for various battlefields of the 1812 Russian Campaign.

Made a full set of all the hills/ridges to match all the scenarios provided in the Lasalle 2nd Edition rules.

Have a smattering of various other hills and ridges thta have been made as well.

I have made some but bought more. If I see a hill I like I will get it. If I can't find what I need, then I make it.

Yes.

yes

I bought some really nice hills from "The Scene". They have outcrops of little rocks. Very nice. They made a lot of custom ones/sizes for me. They also made some with holes for trees in them too. Very good hills.
Excellent for travelling as they are tough and easy to stack.

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martin

I Buy and make.

For 1/144 I use Kalistra hex hills 2 high standard. These are ideal for 1/144 as there volume use is not excessive.

For 1/72 I use Fold Flat hills simply as the space needed even for a small hill it beyond my storage capability. In addition I am more than happy to compromise artistry for a modular system so I get closer to what I want and not limited be by what I have. Plus the sharp crest lime makes it easy to define for both sides, what is on the edge and what is set back. Same as for Kalistra hex at the smaller scale. And of course you get a storage volume to hill ratio, at least 30 times less storage space for each hill. But not for Warpainters, its for playing not ogling at the models.

I don't have lots of photos I'm not into that but this shows the hills.

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Old school so of course I make my own.

Yes I do.

I used to do them Grant style, like contour lines.

Now they are shallower with sloped sides but a flat top. I do pot some thing to denote the crest.

Yes, mostly out of soft foam.

Yes. Never bought a hill terrain piece in my life.

Yes. My hills are part of my GHQ Terrain Maker.

Yes. The ones I've bought never fit in my storage solutions. The ones I make fit whatever size constraint I plan them for.

Yes, using my modular system here:

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Rod

Make, buy, and improvise.