WorldWorksGames’ Street of Mayhem Papercraft terrain! At 11$ for the PDF.you cant go wrong! Here are some pics—wish they made an OCEAN with islands for our Pirates CSG.

Since I am not currently running a game, I have been thinking about the next campaign that I will run. While I am still at the beginning phase of planning (as in I am still deciding the genre: fantasy, sci-fi, superhero, horror, or pulp), I do know that I want to include some fantastic scenery and terrain. Thus, I have reconnoitered the internet in pursuit of the finest terrain, scenery, structures, and tutorials that the web has to offer. I thought I would share my list of resources (just like my previous lists) with the community. Some of the best scenery is sourced from companies that cater to the wargaming crowd, while I find most of the cardstock is marketed to the roleplayers. If any readers know of some cool places I missed, pipe up in the comments! Kobblestone Miniatures Cast Scenery & Terrain I am not for sure there is a standard definition for these terms, but I distinguish terrain as the actual landforms carved or molded from/into the base material.

These would include the major and minor terrain features, from a military perspective. Major features include: Hill, Ridge, Valley, Saddle, and Depression. While minor features include: Draw, Spur and Cliff.

Terrain also includes bodies of water. Roads are also usually incorporated into the terrain. I view scenery as any structures, debris, vegetation, or man-mad/free-standing objects. Boot windows from syslinux package. This section covers retailers that sell cast or carved items. – I previously credited the above awesome diorama to another company, well I want to set the record straight.

The oriental village above was created by Kobblestone Miniatures from Canada. Their website is packed with stuff of the same caliber work; I urge everyone to check out their gallery!

– There is always a crowd around the Dwarven Forge booth at GenCon, at the awe is well deserved. Dwarven Forge makes some of the best dungeon sets on the market. They are all hand painted and very detailed.

I’d give some body parts for some of these sets (I don’t need them anymore anyways). – I drool over their cast-your-own molds at GenCon every year, and every year I kick myself in the ass for not purchasing a bunch of molds. Probably the most cost efficient cast/carved scenery, since you can make as much as you want (and if you use plaster of paris, it is cheap). Well, the molds do wear out after prolonged use but still. – Rob uses the high quality molds from Hirst Arts to create buildings for his custom scenic terrains. So if you like Hirst Arts but cringe at the idea of having to cast hundreds of bricks and pieces and then assemble them, then Red Dragon Terrain is for you.

– These guys mass produce a lot of battlefield scenery, many terrain retailers re-sell their products. Armorcast makes high quality scenery and terrain for various genres (fantasy, historical, and sci-fi). – These guys make fantastic scenery to decorate the field for their Warhammer wargames. – This German company has a line called Dunkelstadt (which I believe translates to Dark City) that just looks freakin’ superb. – An Italian workshop that built the intense dual-layered scene pictured below. I don’t know how practical it is, but it reeks of cool and detail work.