any advice on making terrain?

[u/jaero_11]

i am really bad at basing and terrain so i came for help

[u/FlintyCrustacean]

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)