I recently discovered that several of my brothers-in-arms are wargaming fanatics just like myself. I was invited to their private wargame fest at a local hotel, where eight of them were holed up during a weekend pass. As they were occupied trying to glue their new figures together, I decided to run out and pick up some basic supplies to make them some terrain. Here you can see three different types of brush I found at a local hobby store, and the best part is that all of it was on sale for cheap!
![Cheap plastic plants Cheap plastic plants](workbench/pics/gen/2009/920709a.jpg)
I also purchased an inexpensive pair of clippers to cut the vegetation down, and they would also be useful for trimming figures from their sprue.
![Clippers Clippers](workbench/pics/gen/2009/920709b.jpg)
Next, I picked up a small brick of air-dry clay, and worked it until I had some nice globs into which I could stick the pieces of recently trimmed brush. I then squashed the clay so as to make a nice solid base for the vegetation, which could later be sand-coated and painted over with the three-color drybrush technique.
![Basing the plants Basing the plants](workbench/pics/gen/2009/920709c.jpg)
I also found some of those nice, large and dark corkboard tiles for a low price as well. So I picked up a package and broke them off into pieces, gluing them onto each other in order to make some ruins.
![Cork pieces Cork pieces](workbench/pics/gen/2009/920709d.jpg)
As you can see, the various pieces start to make the bare tabletop less so with very little effort.
![Rocks! Rocks!](workbench/pics/gen/2009/920709e.jpg)
Finally, I showed them my technique for churning out cheap razor wire. The bottom line is you can easily produce a massive amount of nice terrain on short notice, as long as you have a craft store nearby!
![Razor wire in the wilderness Razor wire in the wilderness](workbench/pics/gen/2009/920709f.jpg)