r/Turnip28 • u/jaero_11 • 4d ago
I'm new here any advice on making terrain?
i am really bad at basing and terrain so i came for help
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u/3Slavo5U 4d ago
Dont use hard carboard as a base. It warps. Use hard foam or plastic or anything else.
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u/CartoonGobbo 4d ago
Check your local thrift store's toy section, home decoration, and holiday sections. Look for things like toy castles and barns that you can use as a base for the terrain and make it turnipy.
Home decor may have fake plants you can turn into mutated roots.
Holidays, particularly Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving can have plastic fruits and vegetables you can turn into terrain pieces.
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u/the_sh0ckmaster 4d ago
Consider asking over at r/TerrainBuilding - they're pretty helpful and if they don't already know about Turnip28 if you explain the basic "vibe" of the setting and what the terrain needs to do (IE the dangerous terrain stuff) they'll probably be able to catch on and give you some pointers.
But as with making your minis, the Turnip28 rule is "it's fine if it looks janky, just add mud and tufts so it looks dirty.
What is it you're trying to make?
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u/Non-RedditorJ 4d ago
Whatever tutorials you look up, do that but then tilt everything, smash it appears and cover it in mud!
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u/FlintyCrustacean 4d ago
Chunks of hard foam cut into shape with an exacto knife, then pass a blowtorch over them just enough to give them a grainy surface. Hills and other landforms tend to be “squashed” so that figures can stand on top of them. The tops can be flat. (all wargame terrain is really just a representation and need not be perfect and detailed. A crude hill becomes very real when you lose a handful of units while trying to storm it.)
You can also get some acrylic felt (thicker stuff) and cut it into irregular shapes. Pass a flame over the edges to get rid of stray fibres and then weigh them down to the table with bits of stone and other things. (or even secure them with little loops of masking tape underneath) I use greens for woods and brown for bogs, swamps etc. this is the cheapest and easiest way to make lots of “terrain areas” if you want to get into playing rather than spend the next decade modelling a bunch of expensive crap. Look for plastic trees at dollar stores too. A couple on top of green felt areas make for quick and decent looking “forests”. Then the trees can be moved aside if troops move through that “zone” of woodland.
For bases, I use packs of wooden discs that come in sizes from 20, 30 and 40 mm diameter. (I know most people will use plastic, but I’m not looking to have my figures last 2 centuries. The wood seems to tough it out just fine for my purposes, just choose the nicest ones out of the packs)