30 Aug 2026
28 Aug 2026
Dead Trees

Cheap 3d prints from Temu again.
They needed a wash to remove oils, and I drilled them from underneath and glued into the holes some old lead fishing shot. This gave them some weight to stop them moving around on the tabletop.
Simple prime, basecoat and several different dry brushes gave a decent enough result.
Will be good for lots if different games.
27 Aug 2026
Ruins
Found these on the Chinese website Temu. 3d printed, quality is 'ok', but not amazing. However they were just a few quid, and came out rather nicely.
Primed white. Heavy wash with DIY black wash. Lots of moss and plants. Done :-)
26 Aug 2026
Cactus
Paint was white primer, Citadel dark green Contrast paint, then a good drybrush with a sandy tone. A sandy base finished them off with a little diluted brown wash here and there to break up the sand colour. A medium sand colour did for the foam rock.
I'm really pleased with how they came out.
24 Aug 2026
Mine Entrance
A light brown then light grey to try and get that old silvered wood effect on the supports.
A little rust effect on the bolt plates.
23 Aug 2026
Castle Ruins
Another cheap buy from Temu. 3d Print is 'good enough'.
Another wash with my DIY 'Nuln oil' and lots of careful plants added. Looks far better than it has any right to !
22 Aug 2026
Well well well.
Well, its only one well, actually.
A little 3d print I made myself in a 3d design program. Fun to do but very time consuming. New respect for designers.
Paint job came out 'well' enough for the table...(sorry).
21 Aug 2026
Cart
A great model cart. I liked the wood tones from the laser cutting so much, I skipped wet painting it, and simply added a careful heavy drybrush of grey then brown, and based it on sand. Love how this came out.
20 Aug 2026
Campfire
Great fun attempting this. Small stones, tiny twigs, just glued into place on a 25mm base.
The fun part was looking at images of fire and trying to get the black wood, inner glow, reflected light, and flames all correct.
I think it came out ok.
4 Jun 2025
3d Printed Rocks
Got some 3d prints of more rock formations. Primarily for "What a Cowboy" games, but again can be for anything.
The low res printing meant some obvious striation lines, but a 50/50 mix of Modge Podge and Black paint heavily painted took out the worst of them.
Once dried, a heavy grey drybrush finished them off for some quick and easy rocks :-)
3 Jun 2025
Shingle Berms
At Omaha Beach, the troops managed to get a small amount of cover from the "Shingle Berms" that occured naturally on the beach.
I belive there was a main one just below the main German defence bunkers.
I made x8 to represent this on beach assault tables. Its mainly just representative, so could work for 15 or 28mm I guess.
Made these with a rough carboard 'mold' of sorts. Took a while to dry but are very solid.
1 Jun 2025
Hedges
Some more hedges I made a while back. Made x4 of these. Came out nice.
Scouring pads on large lolly sticks with flock :-)
27 May 2025
Rocks
I wanted to make some rocks for ages.
Playing What a Cowboy finally pushed me to do it, but rather than the pale khaki desert colours, I plan to do them light greys, so I can use them for more varied games.
The process...
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| Cutting and shaping the foam scraps |
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| Getting them glued up and based. |
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| Stone circle for RPGs perhaps? |
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| Sealed with ModgePodge then gravel based |
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| Heavy coat all over with 50/50 mix of ModgePodge and black paint. |
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| Half way through Dry Brushing. Nice to see the difference. |
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| Drybrushing all finished. Just going to add some dead grass tufts. |
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| All done. Happy with these. Made more than shown here (13 in total). |
26 May 2025
Ruins
Made a couple of these Ruins for 40k and modern games. Cut from thin plywood and sprayed up with a little gravel added, they are simple but effective.
25 May 2025
Hedges
Made some basic 2d hedges from mdf sheet. The idea was to have some more 'soft' cover for games like Asymmetric Warfare.
Quite basic but fun to make and great to throw down some fast extras.
27 Sept 2021
FoW - Trenches
Trenches for flames of War.
I made these a long time ago, but sadly now the new version of Flames (v4) doesn't use them I think.
Still, they were as cool build, and I'm sure they'll be usable for other things :-)
Fow - Walls
Some walls I made myself for Flames of War.
One of my gaming buddies Cilla, suggested using cheap small Jenga game blocks for walls, so I bought a couple packs for just a couple quid.
Glued x3 to wide lolly stick. Attacked top edge with a sander. Based. Painted. Done.
Easily used for both 15mm Flames of War, up to 28mm wargames.


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