I've built enough custom terrain pieces now that I wanted to put up a display thread. Some of the items will have tutorials because I generally take pictures as I make them. I'll post these in reverse chronological order so you can see that as I learned and gained experience doing it, I gradually attempted more and more complex items. Browsing this forum for ideas and inspiration helped me a lot, as did looking at other sites. I also take ideas from actual objects I've seen.
I started on these fences a loooong time ago...I had to get sick to be able to finish them off today! I used the Grishnakh hex templates for the bases, which are cut out of matte board. Then I mashed some air dry clay on top with bits of sand and gravel, along with the dowels, which are from BBQ skewers. Next paint brown, wash dark brown, drybrush with brown mixed with yellow and finally drybrush again with ivory. Lastly I attached the screen (from an old window screen) with short pieces of the wire from a twisty tie and glued on the foliage.
I finally completed the Baxter Building by Grishnakh as a store-flat building. Here are some crummy pictures taken at night in a too dark room:
I've made several Grishnakh buildings. Here are some pictures of them in play:
The only problem with these buildings is that they take up so much storage space. So I built the tallest building in the back of the picture as a stackable, store-flat building.
Tutorial
Vydar's Cloning Chamber. My entry into Lamaclown's
first Trash-to-Treasure Custom Terrain contest.
Tutorial.
Kingman, AZ Petro tank
tutorial
Tucson I-10 water tank
tutorial
Star Wars Rebel Power Generator from the planet Hoth (
tutorial):
Dice Tower
tutorial:
Lava Terrain
tutorial:
Simple fish tank trees. These were my first customs, made shortly after I got my first Heroscape set. Just stick 'em on with hot glue. One even has some rocks added in for the roots to climb over. Despite being so simple, they do add a lot to the battlefield, particularly if you don't have any jungle terrain.