Cities of Death

[JD_Jess]

Hopefully this is the right section but what does everyone use when building terrain. I've got plenty of builing sections and I've collected a junkyard of rubble but what kind of base do you use?

[paintner]

my friend who got some of these don't use anything for some of the larger 'corner' things he put together.

otherwise it's everything from thick plasticcard to thin MDF or plywood.

[JD_Jess]

Thanks, I'm looking at a 1/4 inch hard board, it should be light enough, sturdy and easy to shape. The foam seems a bit to flimsy and a bit hard to round and work the edges.

[Gurth]

I'd go for thinner hardboard than that. 3 mm is sturdy enough but doesn't create such a visible "step" around each building — unless, of course, you want to use that to represent the pavement (sidewalk).

[JD_Jess]

Thanks Gurth, thats exactly what I'm looking for. I'll check my local hardware store and see what I can dig up!

[Gurth]

You can very likely have them saw it to size for you, which is especially handy if you want tiles of all the same size. I've got a Miniature Scenery Battle Grounds set, for example, and once bought MDF at my local hardware store that I had them saw to the same size as the tiles from that (now all I need to do someday is actually build some terrain on those MDF squares I have lying around B)).

[chromedog]

I use 3mm mdf sheet.

Cut to shape with a jigsaw.

 

It's the same thickness as a GW slottabase and holds the pieces together and prolongs their useful life.

 

It's also cheap and takes paint easily.